The Rule of Faith

Episode 27 - The Word Became Flesh & Dwelt Among Us

In this twenty-seventh episode, we begin our meditation upon the Lord's coming in the flesh, the long-awaited Incarnation, and set out eight essential points to consider over the next several episodes. Length: 12 minutes, 50 seconds

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Episode 26 - So Where Is Heaven Anyway?

In this twenty-sixth episode, we discuss what it means that Jesus Christ comes down from heaven, remembering that in this case, and many others, the heights of heaven refer to the Eternal Divinity of God Himself, and not to the geography or altitude of heaven. Length: 10 minutes, 16 seconds

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Episode 25 - Behold What Manner of Love

In this twenty-fifth episode, we marvel at the God's entrance into His Creation, and consider the wondrous truth that He has come to live in our midst because He loves us and desires to reconcile us to Himself. Length: 9 minutes, 23 seconds

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Episode 24 - Tidings of Great Joy

In this twenty-fourth episode, we pivot from the Divinity of the Lord which we have been discussing to the marvelous matter of His Humanity, His presence in our midst. Length: 9 minutes, 56 seconds

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Episode 23 - Interlude - Defining Terms

In this twenty-third episode, we pause to review some of the theological terminology we have been using, and to emphasize the centrality of the Person of Jesus Christ to the Christian Rule of Faith. Length: 22 minutes, 52 seconds

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Episode 22 - A Picture Worth Far More Than Words

In this twenty-second episode, we examine the Iconoclastic controversy, and the final resolution of the controversies of the first 800 years of Christian history, as the restoration of the Icons balanced the intellectual emphasis of the first six Ecumenical Councils with a final affirmation of the tangibility and immanent presence of the Lord. Length: 12 minutes, 48 seconds

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Episode 21 - Millions of Words, Oceans of Ink

In this twenty-first episode, we summarize the controversies that consumed the Church's attention between A.D. 325 and 681, and the decisions of the first six Ecumenical Councils that resolved the controversies and built an intellectual fence around the Rule of Faith as they did so. Length: 16 minutes, 59 seconds

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Episode 20 - In Whom We Live, and Move, and Have Our Being

In this twentieth episode, we meditate on the mystery that the entrance of the Son of God into the Creation is not contingent on other causes, but is the primary act of Creation, as we continue to reflect on the meaning of the phrase, "through Whom all things were made." Length: 15 minutes, 02 seconds

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Episode 19 - Through Whom All Things Were Made

In this nineteenth episode, we reflect on the separation between Creation and Creator, and the active presence of the Son of God as Creator that is nonetheless the ultimate truth of existence, however distant we feel ourselves to be from Him. Length: 11 minutes, 39 seconds

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Episode 18a Supplemental – Alexandria, Arius, and Nicaea

In this supplemental episode, we look in more detail into the background of the 1st Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, focusing on the philosophical and theological developments in the city of Alexandria prior to the 4th century, the genesis of Arianism in that city, and the deliberations at the Council of Nicaea, as recorded by St. Athanasios the Great. Length: 16 minutes, 37 seconds

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Episode 18 - Of One Essence With The Father

In this eighteenth episode, we consider how the debate over Arianism finally ended, once it was clear that there could be no reconciliation between the proposition that Jesus Christ is Eternal God, and the proposition that he is not. Length: 9 minutes, 7 seconds

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