Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast

Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast

by Sean D. Gates

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21. Article XVII: Predestination and Election in Anglicanism

Few doctrines in Christian theology have provoked as much discussion—and sometimes controversy as predestination. In this episode, we’ll explore 1) what the Thirty-Nine Articles actually say about predestination, 2) how early Anglicans understood that teaching, and 3) why modern Anglicans interpret the doctrine in different ways. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

20. How Anglicans Do Theology

How do Anglicans do theology? Well, one of the defining characteristics of Anglicanism is this very issue. We rely on three main sources: Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. This episode discusses all this and more! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

19. Catholic Anglicans: The Oxford Movement

Here’s a strange experience many people have the first time they encounter Anglicanism. You visit one Anglican church, and it feels almost indistinguishable from an Evangelical Protestant service. There’s preaching, hymns, simple liturgy, and not much ceremony. Then you visit another Anglican parish. Suddenly there are priests in vestments, incense rising during the Eucharist, candles burning on the altar, weekly communion, maybe even Marian feasts on the church calendar. And you find yourself asking a very reasonable question: "How can both of these churches belong to the same tradition?" I discuss all this in this episode. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

18. Make Anglican Monasteries Again

In a world so busy and distracting and in great need of Jesus, I strongly believe that the Church is in desperate need of holy men and women who dedicate their lives to prayer and fasting on behalf of the Church and the World. In this episode, I invite you to dream with me about what it might look like if the Anglican communion had a movement of monastic revival. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

17. An Anglican Mariology: Queen of Heaven (Coronation)

Have you ever wondered, if Jesus is the New Messianic King, son of David, then who is the new Queen? Believe it or not, both the Bible and the early church have a lot to say on the matter. In this episode, the final part of my five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology, we discuss this very topic. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

16. An Anglican Mariology: Bodily Assumption (Dormition)

This episode is Part IV of a five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today's episode will help to introduce us to the Doctrine of Mary’s Bodily Assumption. You may know that as Christians, we believe that after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven, but did you know that ever since the earliest centuries of the Church, Christians have also believed that the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken up into heaven after her death? There are some nuances in the traditions, but this is largely called the Bodily Assumption in the West, and the Dormition in the East. This episode discusses this Marian dogma and offers an Anglican way to view it. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

15. An Anglican Mariology: Mother of God (Theotokos)

This episode is Part III of a five-part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology. It is my hope that this episode will help to introduce us to the doctrine that states that Mary is the Mother of God, distinctly different from saying Mary is the Mother of Christ, and to deny this doctrine may just be heresy! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

14. An Anglican Mariology: Immaculate Conception

This episode will introduce us to the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and demonstrate how this view is not just Roman Catholic, but Reformed Catholic, also! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

13. An Anglican Mariology: Perpetual Virginity

Are you uncomfortable saying that the Virgin Mary remained a virgin her whole life? That she was conceived without sin? That she is the Mother not only of Christ, but of God? That she was assumed bodily into heaven where she is now Queen? This episode begins a new five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today’s episode asks the question, “Was Mary a Perpetual Virgin?" As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

12. Anglican Sacramentology: Baptism

What does baptism actually do? Does it merely symbolize something that has already happened internally? Is it simply a public profession of faith? Is it a covenant marker? Does God actually do something in baptism? In this week’s episode, I attempt to answer this question by presenting an Anglican theology on baptism. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

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