In this special two part series, Kevin Allen (Host of Ancient Faith Today) sits down with Father Josiah Trenham, author of the new book Rock and Sand; An Orthodox Appraisal of the Protestant Reformation and Their Teachings.
This book has been written for three purposes. First, to provide the Orthodox reader with a competent overview of the history of Protestantism and its major traditions, from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present day. This overview relies heavily upon the Reformer s own words as well as the creeds of various Protestant faiths, in order to avoid misrepresentation and caricature. Second, to acquaint Orthodox and non-Orthodox readers with a narrative of the historical relations between the Orthodox East and the Protestant West. Finally, to provide a summary of Ortho- dox theological opinion on the tenets of Protestantism.
ARCHPRIEST JOSIAH TRENHAM was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1993, and was awarded the Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Durham, England, in 2004.
Fr. Josiah serves as an instructor in and on the Board of Advisors of the Ss. Cyril and Athanasius Orthodox Institute in San Francisco. He is an adjunct professor of theology at St. Katherine College in Encinitas, Ca. (2010-present), and was an Adjunct Professor of History at California Baptist University (2003-2010). He is a member of the Orthodox Theological Society of America, and participates in yearly academic forums and symposia. Since 2004 he has served on the Mayoral Environmental Committee (GAP) of the City of Riverside. Fr. Josiah has also served as a member of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in the United States since its inception in May, 2010.
Fr. Josiah s books and articles have been published by St. Herman Press, Zoe Press, St. Vladimir s Orthodox Theological Journal, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, The Journal of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, CIVA: The Journal of Christians in the Visual Arts, Divine Ascent, The Word Magazine, OrthodoxyToday.org, American Orthodox Institute, Sourozh, Pemptousia.com (Vatopaidi Monastery), Eastern Churches Review, and elsewhere.
Listen to the audiobook version of Rock and Sand (read by the author Fr. Josiah Trenham) here:
https://patristicnectar.org/store_audio_books.html
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The new Testes is also hearsay since these letters, 'gospels' and stories were written by the loyal faithful, the camp followers,
not by objective historians at that particular time,
or by any contemporary writers,
and these tales were written many years after the supposed events of this mythical Jesus.
There is essentially very little evidence of a Jesus in real documented history.
A couple of spurious Roman reports, and all the rest anecdotal.
…but more importantly …a jesus' existence is not an issue!
A jesus is irrelevant without a god !
" As this Jesus was not a god, but an ordinary mortal man,
probably gay, anything that has been invented and founded in his name,
no matter how nice it may sound,
has no legitimacy, credibility and truth attached to it.
Take away the fake miracles attributed to Jesus,
take away the church invented fake saints
and their fake invented church miracles,
all the Christian theology comes crumbling down, leaving Christianity and the Church completely naked.
As a protestant I've never understand Sanctification as they call it. I had a theology prof tell me that God Sanctified him from a sharp tongue. He prayed and boom he never cut anyone down verbally again.
And I've always thought if God did that for his biggest problem, why not all?
It just doesn't make any sense to me…
Interesting, John Frame's professor was Cornelius Van Til, who – apart from Leibniz's Cosmological Argument – holds the only brand of apologetics I still appeal to after studying all of them coming out of 15 years of Anti-theism: presuppositional apologetics. We (as Orthodox) could do every well developing our presuppositions and showing their victory in the world.
Conform not to the Spirit of the World, but to the Holy Spirit. We are to be IN the World, but not OF it. God help us!
Memory Eternal, Kevin☦️❤️.
I have been a Presbyterian for 38 years, and lately I've been feeling that Protestantism lost so much on the apostle's teachings. I started looking up written prayers as I don't feel that espontaneous prayer could never lead me to the theosis and I don't have the right words to give God the worship that he deserves. In summ, I am Learning about theosis and ortodox faith, and I feel that I am re-descovering real solid Christian teaching.
Thank you so much, for all that you shared on this video.
Every blessing.
Your sister in Brasil.
Awesome interview!
Still counter-protesting, I see.
Thank You Father for all u do!
The serpent hereby hisses: Hath God really said (clearly)?
13:33
now it starts to make sense…
Помаже Бог браћо и сестре. Such a great interview, i could learn a lot of things from this conversation. I am so thankful to listen to this, especially because i was born in orthodox tradition, but i didn't appreciate it. Blessings from Serbian orthodox. ❤️
Just some thoughts of historians. "Nobody really knows what the English people as a whole thought of the Reformation. There was a strong Protestant movement in London and parts of the south-east; the north and the West Country remained strongly Catholic. But the country in between, where most people lived, is still largely terra incognita. The bulk of the common people probably saw the successive changes imposed from above as just that, changes ordered from above by the ruling classes, who told them what to do and how to think, as they always had. There were so many changes – first to an increasingly radical Protestantism, then back to Catholicism under Mary Tudor and back again to Protestantism under Elizabeth I – that people can hardly have failed to become cynical. They kept quiet, for of course nobody was interested in what they thought, and while Elizabeth may not have wished to make windows into men's souls, her predecessors did, with fire and axe.
Those who benefited most from the Reformation were the 'new men', the emerging capitalist and bureaucratic classes, men of property without birth. There were many Copyngers in mid-Tudor England; the Reformation was about a changing class structure as much as anything. That is an unfashionable view nowadays; it is naughty to mention class when discussing history. But fashions have changed, and will again. " (Dissolution. Written by C. J. Sansom)
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Glory to His Third Day Resurrection …
43:21 "you prove that you believe the same thing through all the times". Worship of Icons (although the orthodox claim they don't), mortalism vs immortalism (state of the dead and veneration of the dead), Sabbath vs Sanday, calling man "father", and so many other false teachings that were not practiced in the scriptures. I can see protestants running away from modern boneless nonbiblical mega-churches, but running away from scripture and calling early church "orthodox" and claiming the canon is simply not Christian. The same do the Catholics because of their bloody persecution. They rewrite history presenting reformers as heretics. ROC at the end of the 14th century burned judyisers for following the teachings of the apostolic church. Although earlier the bishops of the eastern church have defended sabbath keeping. I remain with the impression that the "holy orthodox" church claims the right to change the biblical tradition and claims the canon. I pray you let God interpret the scripture for you through the amount of evidence in it, not the "father".
My ex of four years cheated on me because I was converting to orthodoxy. Once saved always saved is the motto she lives by. Thank you, Jesus for ridding my life of the dead vines. I am now neck deep in orthodox literature.
thank you fr. josiah for your wonderful enlightenment. Let the light of orthodoxy shine over the Philippines…
I have always considered myself a "christian mutt" not feeling like I "fit" 100% into my Baptist church family or when I was attending Methodist churches or as a child going to whichever church my parents took me to.
My son converted to Orthodoxy last summer & in the last 2-3 years he has sent me hundreds of articles, prayers, videos on the Orthodox church. I feel it in my bones & heart that this is THE church. I am struggling with where to go from here. I'm mostly content in filling the seat on the Sunday mornings I can go to my church (I do love my preacher & his sermons) & listening to videos on the orthodox saints (or ANYTHING Fr Josiah Trenham has to say!) for the rest of the week…. But I know that is probably not enough.
I live 50 miles or more from an orthodox church & my husband might not be on board with such a radical change.
If anyone out there is reading this, I am asking for prayers ❤ many thanks
This video was what I needed to make my decision. Father Josiah must be one of the most brilliant minds in the church today.
Rock sand, rock sand
All she wanan do is-
Nvm
Very very important and informative
For a dude from SoCal Trenham has an interesting accent I cant place.
interesting video.
how do i get the book?
Does the apostles that were Jews was also kept the Torah?
I’m going to listen to this again
Eastern church not Slavic? You Western hating wolf! It’s the same
27:26 I have to agree, Satan does hate the dogma of Faith Alone.