Jun 5, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
The Thinking Fellows discuss proclimation, apologetics, and epistemology. What does it mean that the Christian faith is certain? How does certainty of God's word differ from analytic certainty like…
Caleb KeithHost
Scott KeithHost
Bruce HillmanHostAdam FranciscoHost
Yeah, Bruce, why a definitional topic on the list? And why these ones lumped together?
How do you know that the penance system is working or you don't need the penance system? There's a great book, I forget who wrote it, it was a woman years ago called The Sin of Certainty.
And I think that this is, you know, now that we're moving into post-Christendom faster and faster and people are starting to acquire sort of a buffet spirituality and stuff, the question of how, like Scott said, the epistemological question, like how do you know What's real? How do you know what's true? I think the classic Lutheran way of understanding certainty, the way Luther put it, it's the thing that you're willing to die for, you know? The thing that you're willing to die for is the thing that you're certain of.
Even when you do like an object lesson example, it usually has to do with some sort of object lesson lesson.
that pairs the difference between knowing, quote unquote, knowing something is true to being willing to bet your life on it.
There's the whole like, you know, get in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope sort of thing.
Once Scott at a, I guess it was a sort of a faculty kind of gathering to ensure that all faculty, whether they're Lutheran or not, were kind of on the same page.
Yeah, Bruce, why a definitional topic on the list? And why these ones lumped together?
How do you know that the penance system is working or you don't need the penance system? There's a great book, I forget who wrote it, it was a woman years ago called The Sin of Certainty.
And I think that this is, you know, now that we're moving into post-Christendom faster and faster and people are starting to acquire sort of a buffet spirituality and stuff, the question of how, like Scott said, the epistemological question, like how do you know What's real? How do you know what's true? I think the classic Lutheran way of understanding certainty, the way Luther put it, it's the thing that you're willing to die for, you know? The thing that you're willing to die for is the thing that you're certain of.
Even when you do like an object lesson example, it usually has to do with some sort of object lesson lesson.
that pairs the difference between knowing, quote unquote, knowing something is true to being willing to bet your life on it.
There's the whole like, you know, get in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope sort of thing.
Once Scott at a, I guess it was a sort of a faculty kind of gathering to ensure that all faculty, whether they're Lutheran or not, were kind of on the same page.
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