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.
To purchase Rock and Sand you can visit http://store.ancientfaith.com/rock-and-sand/
Listen to the audiobook version of Rock and Sand (read by the author Fr. Josiah Trenham) here:
https://patristicnectar.org/store_audio_books.html
For more information on Patristic Nectar Publications visit our website at http://www.patristicnectar.org
For Part I of this interview, follow the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVdrtgo7Xw
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Yes it was because the Anglican church told me it was okay to participate in my exclusive same sex attractions: that i had to leave. I also came to see a great many other secular beliefs in the church, and how unified she was. I would walk into one Anglican church which would seem like a Calvinistic reformed low church and not recognise those who say their my brothers. Then walk into a high church that was in all but the pope a catholic church, full of Mary adoration. I happened to be in a liberal gay friendly church where scripture was just a guide to people in the past not relevant now.
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Excellent series, loved it. God bless you.
Calvin might have been smart but what arrogance to presume he could defrock somebody. Was he voted in or did he lay his hands on his own head like some do today?
We need more Orthodox Churches in the UK, there are a lot of people fed up with compromised churches and entertainment churches.
what an absolutely phenomenal 2-part video series. It was a blessing to me. Father Trenham certainly knows his church history! He is also an extremely lucid speaker, and an inspiration to Christians.
Interviewer: asks a question.
Fr. Trenham: mm. Yes. What a profound question.
Could you move your videos to Rumble? I’m trying to get away from this tyrannical platform.
Thank you
I tried finding a place to buy this book online, but all three links showed the book as sold out or unavailable. Is there a direct way to purchase your book? Perhaps a phone number or mailing address?
The Orthodox in the west need to stop being Eastern European social clubs. They have such a rich (literally even) tradition, where is the zeal? Half of them vote for baby murderers! They haven’t liberalized like Methodists, many Catholics, some Presbyterians, United etc but the members are going through the motions.
Love the interview!
Visited my first Orthodox Church this weekend. 😍 I’m in love.
JOHN FRAME? Was Fr. Josiah PCA/OPC? That is a name I have not heard in a long time.
Additionally, I'll have to "go here" with the idea of Bishops losing apostolic succession immediately if they change some important belief or another: what happens if your Bishop consecrated your Priest in a moment of doubt? What if your Bishop's consecrator was a closet heretic?
The obvious biggest problem as a subset of Pentecostalism is Oneness. Like Jehova Witness and Mormonism, that takes any such adherents out of the Christian realm entirely.
This is accurate. Though I called myself and was taught that I was trinitarian, I discovered after leaving evangelicalism , that I was infact a modalist.
I was never taught anything in 20 years really.
Anyone know what version of the Bible is quoted for Paul in 1st Corinthians at the "24:30" mark?
I do not appreciate all protestants being lumped together. Come to more churches, we have Christian art too. I am liking this video because it includes things that are important to consider.
I can’t wait to read this book as a lifelong Protestant who is seeking!
Hey guys, if you could, please, tell Father Josiah Trenham, that I was going to completely walk away from God and Christ as a whole because of how screwed up, illogical, and inconsistent the Protestant/Evangelical System is. However, I discovered these interviews, and several others with Father Josiah, and a few others, and it brought me back from a very deep and dark cliff that I was standing at the ledge of with one foot over the edge, and ready to drop.
Tragically, satan and the papacy destroyed the Roman Catholic Church.
Great video but disappointed by Fr. Trenham and Kevin's view on Oriental Orthodox. There are many Eastern Orthodox clergy, academics, and laymen who would believe otherwise.
I seriously want to thank you for these videos. I was baptized under the Greek Orthodox Faith as a baby, and it wasn't until fairly recently that I fully appreciated it. My experience in Christianity has lead me to renounce my faith, attend different church denomination and now back home where I started. The difference this time is how priests like yourself present the Bible very academically. It fills all the gaps of the lingering questions I had in my heart about how we should worship Christ. Had I had the style of your teaching years ago I would have never left my faith by baptism.
Hello. Does someone know what painting that is 37:26?
Very insightful, thanks.
Great interviews evidencing how institutions come first in the thinking of ‘Christianity after Christianity’ as now Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant.
Would love to hear the speakers thoughts on the division/schism between Oriental Orthodoxy and the Church, but understand that’s in focus for his book.
I really appreciate the critique of the Orthodox church in America. I have often said to many friends, If the church was doing it's job, we wouldn't need welfare programs. Much like the rebellion of the prophet Jonah caused the storm out at sea, the failure of the church has caused the storm of militant secularism in America. We must repent and care for our neighbors as Christ taught and demonstrated with His life and death.
So thankful for Fr. Trenham and Patristic Nectar.
This was an educational interview (both parts). I grew up Lutheran but as an adult I left that church because I started studying my Bible and realized that the Lutheran tradition was still too catholic and added too much man-made tradition to Scripture.
In recent years I have been learning more about the Hebrew language and culture of the Bible, and I'm realizing that if we are in Christ then we are Abraham's children and grafted into the olive tree of Israel. God divorced Israel for their idolatry, but through the death of Christ we all, both Jew and Gentile, can be remarried, which is what the marriage supper of the Lamb is all about. The new Jerusalem has twelve gates for the twelve tribes of Israel. If we are children of our heavenly Father then we are Israel, His people.
Jesus didn't start a new religion called Christianity, He made a new covenant with Israel, and in Him we are joined to the Hebrew people, His assembly. This is what the Church is. Those who keep the commandments of God (Torah) and have the testimony of Christ (the Gospel). Read the Bible for yourself and it's all in there.
In the end of the age there will be many false teachers. That's why so many protestant missionaries!
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