The Examined Faith

The Examined Faith is a podcast for those who want to take their faith seriously. Hosted by Tuppy Morrissey, it brings together theologians, historians, and writers to explore the intellectual and spiritual depths of the Christian tradition, the interpretation of Scripture, what it means to believe in the modern world and more.

The Examined Faith is a religion podcast hosted by Faithwave.app, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Faithwave.app hosts The Examined Faith, a religion show with 13 episodes published.

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  Was C.S. Lewis Right About Paganism vs. Atheism?

  Aug 13, 20261h 2m

  Was paganism actually closer to the truth than atheism? C.S. Lewis, one of the 20th century's most influential Christian thinkers, argued that a pagan who worships false gods is nearer to Christian truth than an atheist who worships nothing at all. It's a claim that unsettles modern assumptions about progress, and one that cuts right to the heart of what faith, wonder, and meaning actually require. In this episode, we sit down to unpack Lewis's provocative verdict on paganism versus atheism: why he saw myth and pagan longing as a signpost toward Christ, and why he considered pure materialism a dead end. It's a conversation about desire, disenchantment, and what it means to take the transcendent seriously, even in its most imperfect forms.In this episode, we cover: Grow in faith, understanding, and wonder with FaithWave: https://www.faithwave.app/ #CSLewis #ChristianApologetics #Paganism #Atheism #Christianity #FaithWave #TheExaminedFaith

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  Who Will Go to Heaven? George MacDonald's Consuming Fire

  Aug 13, 20261h 11m

  Who Will Go to Heaven? George MacDonald on Hell, Love and the Consuming Fire Is God's love strong enough to save everyone? Christian universalism has divided theologians for centuries, and this episode digs into why. Tuppy and Eliot read George MacDonald's sermon The Consuming Fire and use it as a way into the oldest and most uncomfortable question in Christian theology: who will be saved? MacDonald was a nineteenth century Scottish novelist, poet and briefly a minister, raised in a firmly Calvinist Aberdeenshire household and best known now for his fairy tales and for the debt C.S. Lewis owed him. Taking his text from Hebrews 12:29, "For our God is a consuming fire", MacDonald argues that the fire is not retribution but love: a fire that burns away everything in us unworthy of God rather than punishing us forever. He never quite claims the title of universalist, but he comes very close, and this conversation asks whether the reading holds up against scripture and against the weight of Christian tradition. In this episode: The Athanasian Creed and the traditional teaching that hell is everlasting The last pagan king of Frisia, who refused baptism rather than abandon his ancestors "Nothing is inexorable but love": MacDonald's theology of God as love first and last Purgation rather than retribution, and sin understood as an alloy to be burned out 1 Corinthians 15:28, Acts 3:21 and the scriptural case for apokatastasis aionios and aidios: what the two Greek adjectives translated "eternal" actually carry Origen, Isaac the Syrian, Julian of Norwich and a long minority tradition Outer darkness as "the fire without light, the darkness visible, the black flame" Freedom, Plato, and whether anyone in his right mind could choose hell forever Annihilationism and the unsettled Old Testament picture of Sheol Does universalism destroy the urgency of evangelism? Hopeful universalism, von Balthasar, and the case for epistemic humility The Examined Faith is a podcast from FaithWave, a prayer and devotional app for Christians who want to think seriously about what they believe. Historic prayers, daily devotionals and guided readings of the classics of Christian spirituality. Download it at faithwave.app Leave your own answer in the comments, and please like and subscribe. Links: FaithWave: https://faithwave.app George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons (free, Project Gutenberg): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9057 Unspoken Sermons, Standard Ebooks edition: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-macdonald/unspoken-sermons David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300258486/that-all-shall-be-saved/ Ilaria Ramelli, A Larger Hope? Volume 1: https://wipfandstock.com/9781610978842/a-larger-hope-volume-1/ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope "That All Men Be Saved"?: https://balthasarspeyr.org/en/work/books/dare-we-hope-that-all-men-be-saved #Christianuniversalism #georgemacdonald #universalism #UniversalSalvation #christiantheology #apoctastasis

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  Should We Abandon the Parish Model?

  Aug 13, 20261h 13m

  The Church of England is closing churches, merging parishes and running out of money. What if the answer is not bigger churches but far more of them, led by people who will never wear a dog collar? In this episode of The Examined Faith, Tuppy Morrissey talks to the Reverend John Lisle, planting curate at St Luke's, Blackburn, whose dissertation asks whether Anglicanism has fused two different callings into one very expensive office. If priesthood and leadership are not the same thing, why do we train, house and pay for them as though they were? What we cover: Why merging parishes can look less like renewal and more like managing decline John McGinley's case for micro churches, and the Laodicea charge he levels at the Church of England Why a thriving city church of a thousand people is still a drop in the ocean The sacramental problem: if only priests can preside, can a house church be a church at all? Splitting priesthood from leadership, with separate training and separate licences What happens to accountability when anyone can gather twenty people around a Bible Whether apostolic succession is being rightly guarded or quietly overcomplicated Why the best ministers of the gospel are mostly in workplaces and schools, not church buildings Books discussed: John McGinley, The Church of Tomorrow. Andrew Davison and Alison Milbank, For the Parish. Alison Milbank, The Once and Future Parish. Discover more at: https://www.faithwave.app/ #churchofengland #parishchurch #churchplanting #anglicanism #LayMinistry

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  Reading the New Testament in the Original Greek | Dr. Philip Towner

  Jun 13, 20261h 1m

  The Examined Faith — Dr. Philip Towner on Why Greek Still Matters Most readers assume a good English Bible is enough. Dr. Philip Towner thinks something quietly disappears in every translation, and that learning biblical Greek — slowly, a page at a time — is how you get it back. In this episode of The Examined Faith, Tuppy Morrissey speaks with biblical scholar Dr. Philip Towner, a New Testament specialist, Episcopal priest, and professor of translation studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. Together they explore why reading the Greek New Testament in koine Greek changes biblical exegesis, why "disorientation" is good for the soul, and how a summer of reading a page a day reshaped his whole approach to hermeneutics. In this episode: Why reading Greek isn't a "silver bullet," but slows you down enough to actually see the text — the real first step in learning biblical Greek The healthy disorientation of close reading, and the day John 1 suddenly opened onto the Jacob story in Genesis The singular-to-plural "you" that quietly pulls the reader into the gospel, and why a footnote can't do that Rhetoric the English drops: the threefold "but" of 1 Corinthians 6 and the relentless repetition of parakaleō in 2 Corinthians 1 — biblical Greek grammar that carries meaning translation flattens Titus 2:13 and Romans 3:22: living ambiguities in the Greek that hermeneutics and tradition, not grammar alone, usually settle Eusebeia, epiphaneia, parousia: borrowed imperial vocabulary and the church's quiet act of engagement with Rome Preaching from the Greek without ever quoting it, and translation as keeping the Word alive David Bentley Hart's foreignizing New Testament, and advice for anyone who wants to start (or restart) Greek: no gain without pain This podcast is part of Faithwave. https://www.faithwave.app/ Chapters 0:00 Title and introduction: meet Dr. Philip Towner 0:29 Why learn Greek when we have good English Bibles? 5:35 How Phil fell in love with Greek: a page a day 13:07 Healthy disorientation: close reading the text 16:09 John 1, Jacob's ladder, and the "you" that includes you 23:39 Why the Pastoral Epistles? 29:56 Romans, ambiguity, and what the Greek leaves open 35:31 Titus 2:13 and the Greek genitive 40:22 Eusebeia, epiphaneia, parousia: engaging Greco-Roman culture 50:37 David Bentley Hart's foreignizing New Testament 55:26 Advice for learning (or restarting) Greek: no gain without pain 61:06 Closing and Faithwave #scripture #biblicalgreek #koinegreek #bibletranslation #newtestament #biblicalexegesis #christianfaith

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  Cancelled for a Tweet: The Cost of Biblical Courage | Dr Aaron Edwards

  May 30, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>Most pastors say they value both truth and compassion. Dr Aaron Edwards thinks that framing is already the problem.<br/>In this episode of The Examined Faith, Tuppy Morrissey speaks with theologian, author, and preacher Dr Aaron Edwards — a man who lost his academic post for a tweet, and hasn't stopped talking since.<br/>In this episode:<br/><br/>Why "pastoral" and "bold" are not opposites — and what shepherds actually do to wolves<br/>The slow drift of evangelical institutions: how churches and colleges get absorbed into the systems they set out to resist<br/>Aaron's firing from Cliff Coll...

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