Doth Protest

Conscience Over Councils: A Discussion with River Devereux

River Devereux joins Andrew on this episode of 'Doth Protest' for a helpful conversation about the Reformational understanding of Scripture's authority in relation to Creeds and Councils. River's recent work in the North American Anglican has generated great conversation and some controversy surrounding this topic. River's argument is: "our entire theological system necessitates the validity of private judgement" (from his article "To Follow One's Conscience: A Defense of True Protestantism"), and that church councils cannot claim to bind our conscience. This does not equate to, River says, a type of anarchic individualism nor does it, importantly, subject Scripture to our own reason (as we see in the case of the Enlightenment). 
Here are links to the River's articles that we mentioned:
"To Follow One's Conscience: A Defense of True Protestantism"
"To Reject a Council: An Essay on Scripture, the Church, and the Believer"
"Reformation Anglicanism and Nicaea II"
This is a link to River's YouTube channel New Kingdom Media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9i77qgn4y1yTat-LgjLMg
Additional show notes from Andrew (Disclaimer: the authors of these may or may not be in agreement with every point we made in the episode):
"The Authority of Scripture" by Jack Kilcrease
Heiko A. Oberman's book Dawn of the Reformation

A Damnable Statement About God: Justin Holcomb on What Heresy is and Why Humility Matters

What is heresy? Can it be understood sympathetically without condoning it? James and Stephen of 'Doth Protest' had a great discussion with Justin Holcomb on this topic. You are in for a fascinating and uplifting discussion. Justin is an Episcopal priest and has served as the Canon for Vocations in the Diocese of Central Florida since 2013. He teaches theology and apologetics at Reformed Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. You can visit Justin's website at justinholcomb.com
SHOWNOTES:
Justin’s article “Why You Shouldn’t Call that False Teaching a Heresy?”
Justin’s new devotional: God with Us: 365 Devotions on the Person and Work of Christ
Justin and Lindsey Holcomb’s new children’s’ book: God Made Babies
We also referenced Michael Horton's book Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Our Favorite Hymns (Part #2)

We go further down the list of our favorite hymns in this second of a five part series on sacred music.
We give a huge thanks and shout out to Aaron Shows, James's brother-in-law, who played segments of all of the hymns we discuss on organ or piano. Please do not kill Andrew for mispronouncing your name today! We featured Aaron's music on the episode as we introduced each one. Aaron is a film-composer and also serves as the organist for First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, CA. Listen in to hear what hymns we picked (we give the writing credits on the episode audio).
Without giving too many spoilers, here are some show notes:
James referred to the book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund when he was discussing the theology of his hymn.
Charlie mentioned to hymn 604 out of Lutheran Service Book as a superior version of a hymn (that isn't on any of our lists but it disliked by two of our hosts). He also mentioned hymn 539 out of the same hymnal as his favorite tune setting to his hymn that he discusses.
Here is a link to the German hymn writer Andrew referred to who lived during the 30 Years War.
Charlie mentioned the hymn scholar Jon Vieker out of Concordia Seminary who has written about Catherine Winkworth (who we mentioned on the show). Andrew was unable to find anything exclusively on Catherine Winkworth from him. However, his faculty bio page is here
*We also recommend you search him on https://scholar.csl.edu/

Interpreters from our Past: Stephen Chester on the History of Pauline Interpretation

"For a scholarly generation, students of Paul have confidently treated the sixteenth-century Reformers as Paul's 'misinterpreters-in-chief.' Now Stephen Chester's patient and learned treatment of the Reformers' Pauline exegesis exposes both their thoughtfulness and their potential as wise conversation partners in the present. This is a major contribution to Pauline study." 
These were New Testament scholar Beverly Gaventa's words of praise for Stephen J. Chester's book Reading Paul with the Reformers: Reconciling Old and New Perspectives. James and Andrew were honored to have Stephen Chester on the podcast in this episode to discuss his work and share valuable insights in how we can appreciate interpreters who have gone before us. Tune in for a great discussion. 

The Evangelicals of Anglicanism (with Rev. Zac Neubauer of EFAC)

Zac Neubauer, President of Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion-USA, joins the podcast again, this time with Andrew and James to talk about some of the leading Evangelicals from Anglicanism's recent past including Charles Simeon, Charles McIlvaine, and John Stott. We also catch up about EFAC-USA in recent years. 
Zac has been president of EFAC-USA since 2018. He earned his M. Div from Trinity School for Ministry in 2017 and serves as Priest-in-Charge at St. Clement's Episcopal Church in Rancho Cordova, CA. 
Shownotes
*Zac mentioned the following resources in this episode that are good further reading for history of Evangelicalism in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion:
(Book) Standing in the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America by Diana Butler Bass
(Essay) "The Strange Death of Evangelical Episcopalianism" by Gillis Harp in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 74, No. 2 p. 180-206
*Andrew mentioned the book Christ in Conflict by John Stott.
Additionally, we recommend the following books about Charles Simeon:
Charles Simeon by HCG Moule (Methuen, 1892- now published by Christian Focus Publications)
Charles Simeon of Cambridge by Hugh Evan Hopkins (Hodder, 1977- now published by Wipf & Stock, USA)

Two-Kingdoms Theology: An Interview with Dr. Brad Littlejohn

What does it mean for a Christian to live under both God and an earthly ruler? What are Christians supposed to do in everyday life situations that the Bible doesn't speak to or prescribe something directly for? These are just some of the questions that we explored in our latest episode.
Dr. Littlejohn joins Stephen and Andrew on the podcast today to discuss his book The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed as well as his work as President of the Davenant Institute which seeks to "retrieve the riches of classical Protestantism to renew and build up the contemporary Church."
Dr. Littlejohn holds a PhD from New College, University of Edinburgh. His areas of expertise include the Anglican theologian Richard Hooker, the Reformation (both English and continental), Reformed theology and history, and political and ethical thought of the Reformation. 
Shownotes: 
Link to Dr. Littlejohn's book
The book that Dr. Littlejohn mentioned toward the end is Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview by Albert M. Wolters

God’s Gift of Music: Our Favorite Hymns (Part 1)

Stephen, Charlie, James, and Andrew go through their favorite hymns in this first of a five part series on sacred music. 
We give a huge thanks and shout out to Aaron Shows, James's brother-in-law, who played segments of all of the hymns we discuss on organ or piano. We featured these segments on the episode as we introduced each one. Aaron is a film-composer and also serves as the organist for First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, CA. Listen in to hear what hymns we picked (we give the writing credits on the episode audio).
Shownotes:
A link to the devotional book by Caroline Maria Noel:
A link to the book by Gustaf Aulen that James mentioned:
A link to the documentary on Ralph Vaughan Williams mentioned by Andrew

Of Thy Tender Love Towards Man

Rev. Andrew's friend Jacob Bouma-Sims joins the podcast to discuss the most recent EFAC-USA (Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion-USA) conference that he attended. He also shares his personal story and how God brought him out of atheism. He also talks about his own true-crime and history fusion podcast titled "Mead and Murder". 
Some of the conference speakers Jacob talked about were Zac Hicks, Glen Scrivener, and President of EFAC- Zac Neubauer.
Check out Zac Hicks' website here.
This is a link to Glen Scrivener's blog and website.
Visit EFAC-USA's website here.
(The book referred to by Rev. Andrew is Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification- What the Reformers Thought and Why It Still Matters by Thomas Schreiner)
Follow Jacob's podcast "Mead and Murder" on Facebook
On YouTube
On Apple Podcasts

A Discussion with the Rev. Dr. Robert Prichard on the 19th Century Episcopal Church

What an honor it was to have the esteemed historian of the Episcopal Church Robert Prichard join Drew and James for the podcast today.
Dr. Prichard is a Professor Emeritus of Virginia Theological Seminary (a seminary in the Episcopal Church) where served as the Arthur Lee Kinsolving Professor of Christianity in America and Instructor in Liturgy, and was on full-time faculty from 1983 to 2019. He is an authority on Episcopal Church history and has written numerous books, publications, and articles, including the widely-read A History of the Episcopal ChurchDr. Prichard is joining us today to touch on a few different interesting aspects of Episcopal history, about controversy and consensus within the church during the 19th century, as well as some American Prayer Book history, and recent General Conventions.
God Bless!
This is a link to read a work we reference throughout the podcast, his book The Nature of Salvation: Theological Consensus in the Episcopal Church (1801-1873)

Freedom Entailing Necessity? An Interview with Daniel Pedersen on Divine Simplicity

Dr. Daniel Pedersen is back on the podcast to discuss his recent work on divine simplicity, divine freedom, and the "modal collapse" argument. He recently co-authored an article on this subject with Christopher Lilley out of Marquette University titled "Divine Simplicity, God's Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse" for the Journal of Reformed Theology.
This is an open-access link to read it: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrt/16/1-2/article-p127_8.xml?ebody=abstract%2Fexcerpt
Daniel Pedersen is a research fellow at University of Aberdeen's department of Divinity. He holds a PhD from Princeton Seminary. Pedersen discusses content from this article on this episode as well as the work of the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology which he is affiliated with. He also discusses some upcoming work on the relation of theology and the natural sciences.
The Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology's website can be accessed here.
Here are links to past work from both Daniel Pedersen and Christopher Lilley respectively.
Daniel makes reference to the book Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God by John Calvin