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Episode 61: Bradford Littlejohn on Richard Hooker

Heaven & Earth - December 15, 2022 21:07 - 45 minutes
In this episode, Wyatt Graham speaks with Bradford Littlejohn about the life and work of Richard Hooker. We also took about political theology more broadly, ecclesiology, and about John Davenant. Bradford is the president of the Davenant Institute, which retrieves the wisdoms of the Protestant t...

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Episode 60: Alastair Roberts on Biblical Interpretation and James Jordan

Heaven & Earth - October 31, 2022 19:26 - 51 minutes
In this episode, I talk with Alastair Roberts about the importance of careful study of the Bible to understand its typological and symbolic structure. We also discuss why he recommended "Through New Eyes" by James Jordan online (which I then bought and read!). Check out his website where you can...

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Episode 59: Why we Should read Irenaeus of Lyon

Heaven & Earth - October 27, 2022 19:27 - 50 minutes
In this episode, Drs. Wyatt Graham and Jim Payton talk about Irenaeus of Lyon as well Philip Melanchthon and Martin Bucer. Make sure to buy Dr. Payton's book where he condenses Irenaeus's great work "Against Heresies" into one volume here: https://www.amazon.ca/Irenaeus-Christian-Faith-Condensat...

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Episode 58: Alex Tseng on What Carl Henry got Wrong

Heaven & Earth - October 20, 2022 14:52 - 50 minutes
In this episode, I speak with Professor Alex Tseng (PhD Oxford) about Carl F. H. Henry. Professor Tseng currently serves as research professor in the Department of Philosophy at Zhejiang University in China. In particular, we talk about how Carl Henry diverged from earlier classically Protestant...

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Episode 57: Alan Hayes on Indigenous History in Canada

Heaven & Earth - December 07, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes
In this discussion, Alan Hayes and I discuss Indigenous people in Canada. We cover, broadly speaking, the stages of European and Indigenous relations in Canada.

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Episode 56: Archbishop Mark MacDonald on Indigenous Persons in Canada

Heaven & Earth - November 30, 2021 09:25 - 44 minutes
In this episode, I talk The Most Rev. Mark MacDonald who "became the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop in 2007." We discuss indigenous persons in Canada as well as the Christian faith among indigenous persons in Canada.

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Episode 55: Ephraim Radner on Scripture

Heaven & Earth - November 16, 2021 09:25 - 42 minutes
In this episode, professor Ephraim Radner and I discuss the nature of Scripture. You won't want to miss this conversation. Make sure to listen right to the end. We develop an idea right to that the end of the conversation. So it might just be worth the wait. 

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Episode 54: Don Hutchison on Religious Freedom in Canada

Heaven & Earth - November 09, 2021 10:24 - 47 minutes
In this episode, author Don Hutchison and I talk about religious freedom in Canada. Don has published on the topic of religious freedom in Canada. To learn more and to find his books, check out his website: http://www.donhutchinson.ca/

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Episode 53: Ron Dart on High Toryism and Jordan Peterson

Heaven & Earth - November 03, 2021 13:53 - 55 minutes
In this episode, professor Dart discusses the conservative tradition of High Toryism as well as Jordan Peterson. I hope you enjoy this episode! Click here to see Dart's The North American High Tory Tradition and here for the work on Jordan Peterson.

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Podcast: New Episodes Soon!

Heaven & Earth - October 29, 2021 01:26 - 23 seconds
I have been recording new episodes for this Fall! We'll branch out into politics and philosophy. I didn't mention it. But there will be also historical and cultural conversations, especially on indigenous people in Canada.    Subscribe to Heaven & Earth on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen.

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Episode 52: Ben Wheaton on Merovingian Gaul

Heaven & Earth - August 10, 2021 15:10 - 49 minutes
In this episode, Ben Wheaton exposes my ignorance about Gaul (basically France) in the sixth century. So I learned a lot. And I hope you do too! After all, Christianity did not disappear after Nicaea and restart at the Reformation. Ben leads us through a particularly unstudied time period of Chr...

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Episode 51: Michael Lynch on John Davenant's Hypothetical Universalism.

Heaven & Earth - August 02, 2021 14:59 - 59 minutes
In this episode, Michael Lynch and I talk about John Davenant and his hypothetical universalism. To learn more, see Lynch's new book with OUP press: https://www.amazon.ca/John-Davenants-Hypothetical-Universalism-Orthodoxy/dp/0197555144/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=michael+lynch+davenant&qid=1626...

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Episode 50: Crawford Gribben on Christian Reconstruction

Heaven & Earth - July 20, 2021 19:01 - 43 minutes
In this episode, historian Crawford Gribben discusses his research into the Christian Reconstruction movement in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. If that movement seems obscure, then it might be helpful to know that Douglas Wilson would fall into that broad movement. To read...

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Episode 49: Timon Cline on Divine Law & Theonomy

Heaven & Earth - July 15, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes
In this episode, Timon and I have a conversation about divine law and theonomy. To learn more, see wyattgraham.com. Follow me: @wagraham.

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Episode 48: Benjamin Fischer on John Wycliffe

Heaven & Earth - June 08, 2021 12:20 - 48 minutes
In this conversation, Benjamin and I talk about John Wycliffe (d. 1384). Wycliffe translated the Bible into English, wrote pastoral treatises, and played a significant role in the life of the English church. His followers survived up to and participated in the English Reformation (16 ce.). To re...

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Episode 47: Mark Jones on Stephen Charnock and the Puritans

Heaven & Earth - June 01, 2021 12:50 - 41 minutes
In this episode, I talk with Pastor Mark Jones about the puritans as well as Stephen Charnock. Jones is publishing a new edition of Charnock's The Existence and Attributes of God with Crossway. So it was great to be able to talk to him about that project and Charnock himself! But the conversatio...

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Episode 46: Craig Carter on Classical Theism

Heaven & Earth - May 26, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes
In this conversation, Craig Carter and I talk about classical theism and angels! We cover a lot of ground. I hope you enjoy the conversation. Here is a link to Dr. Carter's new book.

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Episode 45: Adonis Vidu on Inseparable Operations

Heaven & Earth - May 18, 2021 13:50 - 54 minutes
In this conversation, I speak with Adonis Vidu on his new book on inseparable operations. This key doctrine describes how the Father, Son, and Spirit work inseparably in their external works. It is partly on this basis that Christians confess the Holy Trinity. Here is a link to Dr. Vidu's book o...

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Episode 44: Jerry Shepherd on the Book of Leviticus

Heaven & Earth - May 14, 2021 13:42 - 1 hour
In this episode, I speak with Leviticus scholar Jerry Shepherd about the meaning of that biblical book. Here is the link to the book.

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Episode 43: Hans Boersma on Sacramental Ontology and Scripture

Heaven & Earth - May 05, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes
In this episode, I talk with Hans Boersma on sacramental ontology and Scripture. Basically, we talk about how creation exists sacramentally in relationship with God and how Christians have and can approach Scripture.    Here is his Amazon (.ca) page with books: https://www.amazon.ca/Hans-Boersm...

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Episode 42: James Wood on Henri de Lubac

Heaven & Earth - April 28, 2021 12:18 - 52 minutes
In this episode, James Wood and I talk about Henri de Lubac. My major interest in de Lubac is his work to retrieval the writings and theology of early Christians. But we talk about more than that in this episode!    Learn more: http://wyattgraham.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wagraham

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Episode 41: Ronni Kurtz on Divine Immutability

Heaven & Earth - April 20, 2021 14:55 - 41 minutes
In this episode, an exhausted and possibly sick Wyatt attempts to use words to communicate with a highly intelligent theologian. We talk about divine immutability, an important doctrine that does not get as much air time as it ought.

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Episode 40: Matthew Barrett on the Trinity

Heaven & Earth - April 13, 2021 12:23 - 42 minutes
In this episode, Wyatt Graham and Matthew Barrett talk about the Trinity. To find Dr. Barrett's new book "Simply Trinity," see: https://amzn.to/3g7n7r9.

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Episode 39: Matthew LaPine on the Logic of the Body and Theological Psychology

Heaven & Earth - April 06, 2021 06:00 - 52 minutes
In this episode, Matthew LaPine and I discuss the theological psychology of Thomas Aquinas as well as deal with the question of how our body and soul correlate in the process of sanctification. In particular, we talk about anxiety and how to deal with it. To read his new book, see here.

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Episode 38: Herman Selderhuis on the Reformers (Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Martin Bucer)

Heaven & Earth - March 31, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes
In this episode, Herman Selderhuis and I talk about the reformers, and in particular John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Martin Bucer. For his book on Calvin, see here. And for his work on Luther, see here.

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Episode 37: Christopher Cleveland on Thomism in John Owen

Heaven & Earth - March 23, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes
Among other things, we talk about John Webster, John Owen, and Thomas Aquinas. We even tackle the interesting question of whether or not John Owen is a social trinitarian. Listen in to find out!   Christopher has written a book called Thomism in John Owen published by Ruttledge.  Do check the b...

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Episode 36: Dan Gurtner on the Pseudepigrapha

Heaven & Earth - March 16, 2021 16:15 - 40 minutes
In this episode, Dan Gurtner discusses the pseudepigrapha. I hope you enjoy the conversation. Here is a link to his new book Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism.

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Episode 35: Malcolm Yarnell on Confessionalism, Anabaptists, and Being Baptist

Heaven & Earth - March 09, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes
In this episode, Malcolm Yarnell and I discuss confessionalism, anabaptists, and being baptist. I hope you enjoy this episode!

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Episode 34: Wyatt Graham on Two-Kingdoms Teaching

Heaven & Earth - March 05, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes
In this episode, I talk about two-kingdoms teaching as presented in the early to mid 16th century. I try to show how such a teaching can help us a sort of political theology to make sense of how we relate to governing authorities. Afterwards, two lawyers (Chad Graham and Kristopher Kinsinger) di...

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Episode 33: Kristopher Kinsinger on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Heaven & Earth - March 02, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes
In this episode, Kristopher Kinsinger talks about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Afterwards, he, myself and Chad Graham discuss the topic. 

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