Context Matters

Patristics and the Stories We Tell

Episode Summary

Dr. George Kalantzis joins us to describe growing up as a religious minority in a religious majority country (Greece) and how that influenced his scholarship on the development of early Christian theology. We also discuss why it is dangers to etch the past into stone and not allow it to be elastic.

Episode Notes

The early church theologians were pastors who wrote to address the context of their local congregations. Some of their writings were lost and have been recently rediscovered. What can we know about these early thinkers and how do they impact what we believe now?

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