Author: Rev. Christopher Gillespie

Rev. Christopher Gillespie is a strange brew of husband & father; Lutheran pastor (St. John Ev. Lutheran Church - Sherman Center, Random Lake WI); media producer (gillespie.media); specialty coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee).

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23: “The One who alone is the selfless man…” with Albrecht Peters

Text: Albrecht Peters, Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Ten Commandments, p.83ff

Show Notes:

Stephen R Lawhead, Avalon: The Return of King Arthur

The Evil Dead

The Ten Commandments

The History of the World: Part I

95 Theses

The Heidelberg Disputations

“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.” Johnny Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMgbul-bq3Q

Mark Zuckerberg Explains the Internet (to Old People)!

Troy McClure – Simpsons
https://youtu.be/3SzXM019pbs

M (1931) – Fritz Lange

Bayer – Heroin

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk

Anonymous 4

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22: The Church by the Spirit and in the World with F. Edward Cranz

The church is invisible and visible, of the Spirit but in the world. The nuances of this distinction have many implications for how you understand the church. Join Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie for a free-wheeling journey through F. Edward Cranz’s essay.

Our text: An Essay on the Development of Luther’s Thought on Justice, Law, and Society – F. Edward Cranz

Show References:

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21: Luther’s Use of Satire with H.G. Haile

The Dangerous Duo dig deep into a brilliant biography of Luther, enjoying a tasty bit of sharp satire from Luther. Join in the conversation and hang on for the ride.

Our text: Luther: An Experiment in Biography – H.G. Haile (1980)

Show References:

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20: Hanging from the Gallows Pole with Thomas Tentler

Do Penance. Now. It’s Lent after all. Or maybe not? Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie dig deep into an exhaustive treatment of Luther’s Christology.

Our Text: Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation by Thomas N. Tentler

Show Notes:

Sam Harris

I can now attest that the experience of grappling with an expert is akin to falling into deep water without knowing how to swim. You will make a furious effort to stay afloat—and you will fail. Once you learn how to swim, however, it becomes difficult to see what the problem is—why can’t a drowning man just relax and tread water? The same inscrutable difference between lethal ignorance and lifesaving knowledge can be found on the mat: To train in BJJ is to continually drown—or, rather, to be drowned, in sudden and ingenious ways—and to be taught, again and again, how to swim.

Whether you are an expert in a striking-based art—boxing, karate, tae kwon do, etc.—or just naturally tough, a return to childlike humility awaits you: Simply step onto the mat with a BJJ black belt. There are few experiences as startling as being effortlessly controlled by someone your size or smaller and, despite your full resistance, placed in a choke hold, an arm lock, or some other “submission.” A few minutes of this and, whatever your previous training, your incompetence will become so glaring and intolerable that you will want to learn whatever this person has to teach. Empowerment begins only moments later, when you are shown how to escape the various traps that were set for you—and to set them yourself. Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying—and one’s ignorance at every stage so consequential—that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it. – from The Pleasures of Drowning

Luther’s Attack on Gallow’s Sorrow

Peter Lombard – Sentences

Duns Scotus and the Scotists

Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

OODA Loop – Top Gun

Ken Korby – Beichtspiegel / Confessional Mirror

iTunes Reviews:  

Batman – The Long Halloween

Awaken with JP – The Tony Robbins Experience

The Crazy Russian Hacker

Man in the High Castle – Amazon Prime

Electric Dreams – Amazon Prime

Jordan Peterson – 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Stephen Lawhead – Pendragon Cycle

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Wrinkle in Time – Le Guin

Fantastic Voyage – Asimov

Elfstones of Shannara – Terry Brooks

The Frankenstein Chronicles (BBC)

Alice in Chains – Dirt

Mad Season – Above

Help – The Beatles

Rick and Morty – Young Rick

Queen and David Bowie – Under Pressure

Headbanger’s Ball Documentary

Whose Line is It Anyway?

Reno 911

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19: Christ and the Word with Marc Lienhard

Not every Lutheran writer worth reading is well known, especially a French Lutheran (no offense). Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie dig deep into an exhaustive treatment of Luther’s Christology.

Our Text: Luther: Witness to Jesus Christ (Stages and Themes of the Reformer’s Christology) by Marc Lienhard (1982)

Boston Dynamics Dog video

More Show References:

Firefly TV Series

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Monty Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

Tool – Lateralus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4

Russell Brand – Under the Skin #46 – Kindness vs. Power

Brent Kuhlman’s Blog

Black Pistol Fire

Mos Def – the Eclectic

Tribe Called Quest

Today I Found Out

Russian Comic Book Geek

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18: Faith Lets God Do the “God Stuff” with Drs. Arand and Kolb

Listen to Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie riff off this excellent book from 2008.

Our Text: The Genius of Luther’s Theology by Charles Arand and Robert Kolb

More Show References:

Jordan Peterson – The Marxist Idea of White Privilege

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Demons

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago

Nature’s Wild Side (Instagram)

Nature is Metal (Instagram)

Apple – Here’s to the Crazy Ones

Rick and Morty

Good Bad Flicks

RiffTrax

What Makes a Song Great

End of the Century – Ramones

White Buffalo

Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium (Rick Rubin)

Baroness – Purple (Dave Fridmann)

Moon Knight

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17: Worship is God’s Action in Christ with Ernest Koenker

Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie go for a deep dive into this obscure classic on worship from Concordia Publishing House. You never know what you’ll find on your church library shelves!

Our Text: Worship in Word and Sacrament – 1959
by Ernest Benjamin Koenker

Koenker’s Bio

Other References:

Jordan Peterson: Do You Believe that God Exists?

Oliver’s Retrospectives

Sleater-Kinney (Austin City Limits)

Moon Knight #1

Happy!

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16: We Are Not Masters of our Own Destiny (with Lennart Pinomaa)

2018 is the 500th Anniversary of the Heidelberg Disputations. Never heard of them? You’re not alone! Listen in to Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie as they discuss “free will” (airquotes intentional) and what Luther and Lutherans confess.

Our text: Faith Victorious: An Introduction to Luther’s Theology (Lennart Pinomaa)

Bio: Lennart Pinomaa

Show Notes:

Predestination (Reformed)

Ani Difranco

Air Quotes

Freewill (song)

Gojira (band)

Animals as Leaders

History Buffs

Cinema Sins

Honest Trailers

Benny Hinn – Dark Lord of the Sith

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15: Luther the False Brethren with Mark U. Edwards

By way of introduction we consider why As Lutheran As It Gets exists and why podcasting is an appropriate platform for theological discussion. Or jump in at ~45m and join in on the conversation between Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie as they consider Luther and the radical reformers via Mark Edwards’ classic historic work. As always, we allow the text to lead us to interact with pop culture and other conversation and then find our way back into the text.

Our Text: Luther and the False Brethren (1975)

From 1522 to his death in 1546 Luther clashed with a succession of major evangelical opponents. First there was Karlstadt, then Müntzer, then Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Bucer, and the other sacramentarians, then John Agricola, and finally Kaspar Schwenckfeld and once again the Swiss sacramentarians. For the most part, these opponents accepted the central reformation principles and assumptions that differentiated evangelicals from Catholics.* At the same time, they came to conclusions different from Luther’s on issues such as acceptable ceremonial practice, the real presence in the Lord’s Supper, the separation of secular and spiritual authority, and the relation between law and gospel. As it happened, they were able to convince a large number of evangelicals to accept their positions, and, consequently, they posed a major challenge to Luther’s version of the gospel message and to his authority within the reformation movement.

There are several ways in which controversies between evangelicals and Catholics differed strikingly from controversies among evangelicals. In controversies between evangelicals and Catholics, Luther usually made an effort not to attach his name to the beliefs he espoused when challenged by other evangelicals, he occasionally supplemented his theological arguments with claims about himself and his special role in the reformation movement. In controversies between evangelicals and Catholics, each side accused the other of satanic motivation and exchanged the vilest personal abuse; in controversies among evangelicals, the accusations of demonic possession and the ad hominem abuse tended to come more from Luther than from his opponents. Again and again Luther accused Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Bucer, Agricola, Bullinger, and Schwenckfeld of being false brethren and lying hypocrites, but these men generally acknowledged that Luther was a fellow Christian even though he erred. And although Catholic and evangelical opponents alike attacked Luther’s authority, whereas the Catholics attempted to discredit it entirely, the evangelical opponents rarely asserted that Luther had no legitimate authority, insisting only that Luther, like any other man, could be in error.

Bio on Mark U. Edwards

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14: The Hidden God with Dr. Robert Kolb

In another attempt to try your patience, Pr. Riley and Gillespie discuss the article before actually discussing the article. In our Upside Down, this makes complete sense. Some might call it inductive, others probably chaotic. If you’re so inclined, we’d suggest reading the excerpt first as a sort of secret decoder ring.

Our Text: Bound Choice, Election, And Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther To The Formula Of Concord (Lutheran Quarterly Books), Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.

“Luther took the hidden God seriously for a number of reasons. Without the admission that there is more to God than meets either eye or ear, God could be tamed, measured, managed within the realm of the human ability and possibility to judge. From the human perspective God remains God because human creatures are creatures as well as sinners, and it is not possible for the product of God’s creative words to master knowledge of the Creator.

“…In the Heidelberg Disputation Luther had focused first on the blank wall created by the impossibility of the human creature’s, to say nothing of sinner’s, conceptualizing of God, just to prove that with fallen eyes no one can see God. With fallen human ears no one can return to the Edenic hearing of his Word. Then Luther focused very sharply on God in his revelation of himself (John 1:18): no one has seen God, but Jesus of Nazareth, God in the flesh, has made him known: a God with holes in his hands, feet, and side; the God who has come near to humankind, into the midst of its twisted and ruined existence” – Robert Kolb, Bound Choice, pg 36.

Rev. Dr. Robert A. Kolb Biography

Extraneous References: 

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