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Outlaw God
The Outlaw God podcast is about moving from theological speculation to proclamation. Featuring Dr. Steven Paulson and co-hosted by Caleb Keith.
Episodes
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Endurance and Faith
Dr. Steve Paulson discusses what it means to endure evil with faith. He and Caleb Keith address problematic ways that Christians have handled the subjects of…
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Enduring Evil
Dr. Paulson makes a transition into his chapter on evil. He and Caleb discuss the difference between overcoming evil and enduring it. Here, he makes an…
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Moses the Squatter
In this episode, Paulson outlines various ways the Law takes up shop in the conscience. He discusses why the Law must be preached to the conscience but also…
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Christmas With Isaiah
Merry Christmas from the Outlaw God Podcast! Dr. Paulson looks at a Christmas sermon from Luther. Paulson emphasizes how the arrival of Christ in the manager…
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The Difference Between a Good and Bad Conscience
In this episode, Paulson discusses the nature of the human conscience. Paulson address the typical way the conscience is associated with the human striving and…
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Donkey SOS
How can a beast of burden trapped between two masters save his soul? Dr. Paulson takes a closer look at what it means to be a sinner and precisely what it…
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Conscience and the Law
In this episode, Dr. Paulson talks about sin and the conscience. Here we see that evangelical theology pays special attention to original sin and the nature of…
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No Compulsion
On this episode, Dr. Paulson discusses how sin and the devil are not compulsory forces. Paulson follows Luther and Scripture to find that the sinful human is…
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A Royal Ass
In this episode, Paulson continues to talk about Psalm 73 and man's will as a donkey. This time, he talks about what it means to have Christ in the saddle of…
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A Servile Ass
In this episode, Dr. Paulson outlines Luther's assertion that the human creature is a beast of burden. Paulson talks about what it means to be a servile…
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Romans 1:18
Paulson discusses a critical difference in the way Erasmus and many others read Romans 1:18 and Luther. Romans 1:18 and its surrounding context discuss the…
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Theology and Anthropology
Dr. Paulson asks if how we order our theological texts and study matters. Should we begin with God or with human anthropology? Where do anthropology and…
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Painfully Hidden
In this episode, Paulson discusses why God hides the Gospel. If God has put the law into every human heart and reveals it daily in nature, why doesn't he do…
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Making Room for Faith
Paulson continues to address Erasmus and the pattern of making room for human action in God's plan for salvation. Specifically, Paulson addresses how Erasmus…
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Three Rocks of Predestination
In this episode, Paulson addresses the problem of evil and how it creates a stumbling block for how we teach and preach predestination. Paulson works with…
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Gospel Abusers
Erasmus reveals to Luther that he is worried that people will abuse the Gospel and the forgiveness of sin. In this episode, Paulson Paulson explains why…
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Temporal Leprosy
Erasmus wants to know what the church is going to do about institutional and social collapse. Luther attempts to provide a meaningful picture of the problem by…
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A Free Range Donkey
In this episode, Paulson addresses the "what if" scenarios that Erasmus attempts to pin on Luther after the removal of penance. Is the church destroyed after…
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The Church After Penance
Dr. Paulson continues looking at Luther and Erasmus' dialogue on penance. Erasmus positions the church as a house of penance where God is brought near to us by…
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What Happens to Penance
In this episode, Paulson looks at Erasmus' worry that Luther's propositions will destroy the sacrament of penance. In response, Luther confirms this fear and…
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God in the Belly of the Virgin
In this episode, Paulson distinguishes God's presence from God as a sign. He asserts that God is not merely symbolically but is present concretely. Here we…
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The Dung Beetle
Paulson continues the discussion about God in the dung. This week, he goes further with Luther's charge to Erasmus that God pursues sinners even while they…
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God in the Dung
Can God enter somewhere where he should not be? Paulson looks at the assertion that if God gets too dirty or too near to sin, he is no longer God. He goes on…
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The Suppression of Speech
Dr. Paulson talks about Erasmus and the fear of letting ordinary people hear the truth. Specifically, he talks about the idea that we should suppress our…
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The Warm Treatment
Dr. Paulson fully explores the warm treatment. That is, he explains how Christ crucified and risen for you puts an end to predestination sickness. The key to…
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Preparing the Warm Treatment
In this episode, Paulson highlights the difference between a Christless and Christ-filled solution to predestination sickness. He notes that the cold treatment…
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The Cold Treatment
In this episode, Paulson uncovers the "cold treatment" for predestination sickness. He explains that the cold treatment comes in many forms but is always…
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Predestination Sickness
In this episode, Paulson identifies the worry that all religion tries to answer "Am I chosen by God?" Specifically, he identifies problematic answers to this…
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The Long-bowman
In this episode, Paulson helps listeners envision Luther's idea that the preacher is a "long-bowman" taking aim at the heart. How does the preacher get away…
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Erasmus and Sausage Making
In this episode, Paulson identifies Erasmus participating in a futile effort he calls sausage making. Paulson looks at proverbs 16:3, "Commit your work to the…
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The Arrow of Conviction
Dr. Paulson explores another violent metaphor from Luther, the arrow of conviction. Here we find how knowledge of God through the Law convicts the sinner…
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Given Up To Your Desires
Dr. Paulson continues his conversation on the painful awareness. This week Dr. Paulson looks at an important idea from the book of Romans, that is, that God…
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The Painful Awareness
What happens when the knowledge of the Law doesn't bring power? Instead, it brings about a painful awareness. Dr. Paulson talks about Luther's that the Law…
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Knowledge is Power
Dr. Paulson explores Luther's rebuttal of the adage "Knowledge is Power." How does such a phrase deceive us into striving after God and achieving our…
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Thy Will Be Done
Following Augustine's proposition that prayer can lead to a cooperative relationship between God's will and man's, Paulson, the alternative prayer that Luther…
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The First Fruits of Your Resurrection
Due to an episode numbering error, The Outlaw God Podcast is posting its Easter episode late. In this episode, Dr. Paulson proclaims the defeat of sin, death…
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Good Friday
Due to an error in the numbering of our audio files, today's episode is a special recorded for Good Friday. Dr. Paulson takes a deep dive into the death of…
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Hot God
In this episode, Paulson discusses Peter Lombard. Paulson describes Lombard as having and presenting God as cold as ice. In contrast, Paulson asserts that…
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Trying to Love The Law
Dr. Paulson discusses Augustine's turn toward a Law that does not accuse. He explains that the Law without accusation was the prevalent feature of scholastic…
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Give What You Command
Dr. Paulson continues with his examination of Augustine. This time, Paulson focuses on a short prayer from Augustine, "Give what you command and command what…
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What We Pray For
Dr. Paulson addresses Augustine's turn toward prayer. In prayer, Augustine finds a means of avoiding the justification by the works of the Pelagians. Dr…
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Augustine and a Law as Cold as Ice
Dr. Paulson specifies the "Augustinian Imperfection" related to Augustine's propositions concerning the Law. Paulson explains how Augustine attempted to refute…
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The Augustinian Imperfection
For the next several episodes, Dr. Paulson will focus on Augustine. This introductory episode lays the groundwork for understanding Augustine's emphasis on…
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Luther's Offense
In this episode, Dr. Paulson emphasizes Luther's use of the offense of the Law. That is when the Law accuses acts out in offense. This episode jumps between…
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Free To Be
The culmination of our episodes on ontology and time is declaring that you are free to be. That is, time is not your opportunity to become more human but the…
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The Parable of the Talents
Dr. Paulson details the difference between seeing time through the Law and seeing time through the Gospel using the parable of the talents. Paulson's…
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Do You Have Enough Time?
In this episode, Dr. Paulson asks the question why does God give us time? Is time a given opportunity to strive for full humanity? Is time always a commoditiy?…
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You Are Not What You Do
Dr. Paulson continues the conversation regarding ontology. This time he highlights Luther's idea that your being is not determined by what you do but by who…
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You Are What You Do
Dr. Paulson addresses the idea that your personhood is determined by what kind of actions you do. Are the active, courageous, and virtuous achieving a higher…
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Betraying Jesus
In the last episode of Outlaw God, Dr. Paulson gave an overview of Judas and his betrayal of Jesus. Paulson identifies Peter's denial of Christ as a betrayal…
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Judas Iscariot
Dr. Paulson highlights the problem of necessity as it relates to the betrayal of Jesus. Was Judas a free agent, or was his act of betrayal necessary? Support…
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Nominalism
Dr. Paulson and Caleb address the accusation that Luther is merely a nominalist. They discuss the influence of nominalism on Luther and how Luther's reform…
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Fear and Love
This episode deals with the problem of divine threats. What does it mean for God to use his word as a threat? Do threats serve a function to those who have…
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Romans Chapter 9
In this episode, Dr. Paulson examines the Apostle Paul's references to the Old Testament in Romans Chapter 9. Paulson explains how Paul preaches God's sure…
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Fear of the Sausage
Dr. Paulson has one more Christmas story from Luther to share. This time, Paulson recounts a story from Luther as a young Christmas caroler and Luther's…
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Christmas For You
Merry Christmas from the Outlaw God Podcast. In this episode, Paulson reads from Luther's House Postils. This sermon gives us a peek into the Luther household…
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Pure Act
What does it mean for God to be a "pure act?" Paulson describes that God's Word is efficacious. That is when God speaks; he is not just descriptive but…
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Autonomous Doers
In this episode, Paulson explains how Luther continues to reach out to Erasmus with demonstrations from classical antiquity. Luther uses Aristotle to rebuff…
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Can You Mess Up the Promise?
Dr. Paulson discusses the difficulty of waiting on God's promises. He does this by looking at the promise to Abraham and Sarah that they would have a son. Did…
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Swilling Epicurus
Dr. Paulson explains Epicurus's trilemma. Erasmus utilizes Epicurus in order to address the problem of evil and its relationship to God. Luther demonstrates…