Magdalen College Lecture Series

Series 1: Old Testament

Lecture 1.1

• Creator, Creation, and Creature (God’s Authority Order)

Lecture 1.2

• Darwin or Design: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Lecture 1.3

• Satan’s Trident: A Weapon of Mass Destruction

Lecture 1.4

• A Tale of Two Families

Lecture 1.5

• Trial By Water, Trial By Fire

Lecture 1.6

• Cutting A Covenant: Treaties with the Great King

Lecture 1.7

• The Name Game: Why is this Man Smiling?

Lecture 1.8

• Redemption and Federalism: Babbling at Babel

Lecture 1.9

• God’s Wrestler: Why God Loves Jacob More Than Esau

Lecture 1.10

• Joseph and the Redemptive Triad

Lecture 1.11

• God Always Wins

Lecture 1.12

• Called!

Lecture 1.13

• The Old Testament Redeemer

Lecture 1.14

• Law: Its Purpose, Principal Uses, and Perversions

Lecture 1.15

• Holiness: The Heart of the Matter

Lecture 1.16

• Spiritual Mediocrity

Lecture 1.17

• God’s Military: Success on the Battlefield

Lecture 1.18

• There You Go Again: Iniquity and Repeated Failure

Lecture 1.19

• Redemption and Romance: How Sweet It Is

Lecture 1.20

• God’s Monarchy

Lecture 1.21

• Sing Unto the Lord: God’s Monopoly of Music

Lecture 1.22

• Love’s Ligaments: The Excitements of Spiritual Desire

Lecture 1.23

• God’s Hedged Garden: Separating Church and Wilderness

Lecture 1.24

• God’s Secret of Success: Daniel in Babylon

Series 2: New Testament

Lecture 2.1

• The Fullness of Time (1st Century Judaism: A Fossilized Faith)

Lecture 2.2

• The Fullness of Time (Preparation of Greek Language and Culture)

Lecture 2.4

• The Kingdom in the Gospel of Matthew

Lecture 2.5

• The Red Stuff in the Pot: Herod the Edomite

Lecture 2.6

• The King’s Anointing: Baptism

Lecture 2.7

• The King’s Assault: Wilderness Temptation

Lecture 2.8

• The King’s Address: Political Platform from Matthew 5-7

Lecture 2.10

• An Abyss on Either Side: The Doctrinal Narrow Way

Lecture 2.11

• A Taxing Discussion: The Christian Obligation to Caesar

Lecture 2.12

• Stoics and Epicureans: Both Right, Both Wrong

Lecture 2.13

• Christ the Teacher

Lecture 2.14

• Christology: The Crux of the Matter

Lecture 2.16

• The Assault on Logos: An Assault on Logic

Lecture 2.17

• The Critics’ Dilemma: The Uncomfortable Claim of Christ

Lecture 2.18

• Peddling, Pandering, and Preaching: The Case for Scriptural Evangelism

Lecture 2.19

• The Road Less Traveled: John and the Christian as a Non-Conformist

Lecture 2.21

• Christ Crucified: The Peripathie of God’s Redemptive Drama

Lecture 2.23

• Old Wine, New Vessels: Jesus and Judaism

Series 3: Church History

Lecture 3.1

• Love That Leaven (A Warning About Sadducees and Pharisees)

Lecture 3.2

• Sola Fide – Solely

Lecture 3.3

• Realism vs Idealism (Avoiding Disillusionment in the Local Church)

Lecture 3.4

• The Cult of Personality

Lecture 3.5

• Church Discipline (Dancing to the Tune of the Hickory Stick)

Lecture 3.6

• Calling, Courtship, and Celibacy

Lecture 3.7

• Ain’t Behavin’? (Christian Liberty and the Weaker Brother)

Lecture 3.8

• Gnostic Bird-Watching (Conspiracies, Confidences, and the Christian Cognoscenti)

Lecture 3.9

• The Great Disappointment

Lecture 3.10

• Carnal Security and Continual Anxiety: (Is Either Blessed or Biblical?)

Lecture 3.11

• The Mystery’s Final Chapter (How Much is the Reader Supposed to Know?)

Lecture 3.12

• Laodicea (A Place, A Paradigm, A Present Reality?)

Lecture 3.13

• The Church, the Canon, and the Cutting Room Floor

Lecture 3.14

• Camels, Committees, and Ecumenical Councils

Lecture 3.15

• Stylin’ and Profilin’: The Church Under Constantine

Lecture 3.16

• Pontifex Maximus (Papal Power and the Roman Imperium)

Lecture 3.17

• Who Turned Off the Lights: The Church’s Descent into Darkness

Lecture 3.18

• I Want To Be Alone: The Moral Mischief of Monkery

Lecture 3.19

• Adept at the Arcane: The Scholastic Tendency

Lecture 3.20

• The Church Resurgent: The Protestant Reformation

Lecture 3.21

• The Voice of the Martyrs: Death Swallowed Up in Victory

Lecture 3.22

• Waking Up Is Hard To Do: Two Great Awakenings

Lecture 3.23

• Go Power: Mission Possible

Lecture 3.24

• Of Puritans and Pilgrims

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