Can You Read the Church Fathers & Stay Protestant? Worldview Is Changing How You Read Christianity
About this episode
The episode explores the relationship between reading the Church Fathers and maintaining a Protestant identity in a modern context.
“The Fathers are our history too” sounds nice, but can you read St. Ignatius and stay Protestant? We dig into authority, bishops, Eucharist, and why lived liturgy shapes interpretation. We live in a post-Enlightenment world, so we instinctively read everything through modern assumptions about proof, progress, and “what’s real.” That’s why so many Orthodox Christians, converts and cradle alike, feel a jolt when they open the Church Fathers or hear the services: the Church didn’t go through th...
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