Mickey Mattox joins Andrew and Stephen on today’s podcast to discuss Roman Catholic scholars who have contributed to the study of Martin Luther.

Dr. Mattox, a Roman Catholic theologian himself, is the Flack Family Foundation Chair and Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College. He has been lecturing and writing about Martin Luther for decades.

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Some of Dr. Mattox’s books:

The Substance of the Faith: Luther’s Doctrinal Theology for Today (with Dennis Bielfeldt and Mark Mattes) Luther at Leipzig (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) Changing Churches: An Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran Theological Conversation (with A.G. Roeber)

Works referenced in this episode: -Heiko Oberman's classic Luther: Man Between God and the Devil

-Volker Leppin's book Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life -Jared Wicks pro ecclesia article "Half a Lifetime with Luther in Theology and Living" -Dr. Mattox’s article “The Catholic Luther, Then and Now” from Lutheran Education Journal, Fall 2017

-the 1983 book Catholic Scholars Dialogue with Luther (by various Roman Catholic scholars of Luther discussed in this episode)

Andrew and James were blessed to be joined by church historian Gerald Bray. In this episode, Dr. Bray discusses his studies of the early church father Tertullian, how we got the Christian Bible, and how people in the early church read, received, and interpreted the Bible. Tune in for a fascinating conversation. Dr. Gerald Bray is research professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School and distinguished professor of historical theology at Knox Theological Seminary. He is the author of many works, two of which we especially discuss in this episode: -Holiness and the Will of God: Perspectives on the Theology of Tertullian -How the Church Fathers Read the Bible: A Short Introduction Shownotes: -- The term from C.S. Lewis that Andrew could not think of in the moment was Chronological Snobbery -- The exact quote from JC Ryle (that Andrew also could not think of in the moment): "Let us never be surprised at the wickedness there is in the world. Let us mourn over it, and labor to make it less so, but let us never be surprised at its extent." from JC Ryle's commentary on Matthew.

Doth Protest hosts Andrew and James along with friend of the show Connor Longaphie of Transcendent Truth Media attempt to answer some of the questions that popular Roman Catholic apologist says are questions that "Protestants can't answer" in his book A Blue Collar Answer to Protestantism: Catholic Questions Protestants Can't Answer. But more importantly, we address why cheap polemics and logical fallacies, be they Catholic, Protestant, or whatever, never make for good theology.