Reformed Forum

Jim Cassidy joins Camden Bucey to discuss the Gospel of Mark and a newly recorded Reformed Academy course, The Gospel of Mark: A Study in the Kingdom. They consider how Mark identifies Jesus as the divine King and teaches the nature of his kingdom through a fast-moving account of Christ’s ministry.
The conversation explores faith and union with Christ, Mark’s high Christology, exorcisms as signs of Christ’s conquest over Satan, Jesus’s cleansing of the unclean, the covenantal transition signaled in Mark 7, and the two-stage healing of the blind man as a mirror of the disciples’ partial understanding. They also discuss why the kingdom advances through the cross and resurrection rather than worldly power—and how that hope steadies an anxious church.
Resources
Reformed Academy
Christ the Center 1000 Summit
Reformed Forum newsletter

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:57 Reformed Academy courses with Jim Cassidy
04:03 Christ the Center episode 1000 summit
10:00 The Gospel of Mark as a study in the kingdom
15:14 Mark’s rapid narrative and distinctive emphasis
18:31 Faith, healing, and union with Christ
21:13 Mark’s high Christology
26:30 Exorcism and the conquest of Satan’s kingdom
32:58 Jesus, purity, and the covenantal transition
37:40 Scripture and tradition in Mark 7
42:35 The two-stage healing of the blind man
47:45 Victory through the cross and suffering
50:52 Rendering to Caesar and to God
55:45 Resurrection hope for an anxious church
59:57 Peter’s confession and the structure of Mark
62:14 Conclusion
Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX
Christ the Center 1000 Summit
Christ the Center 1000
Christ the Center 1000 Summit

This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 74–114 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:
00:00 Introduction and Overview
06:44 First Corinthians 15:42–49: Natural and Spiritual Bodies
09:01 The Corinthian Objection and Greek Dualism
15:54 Continuity and Transformation of the Body
19:56 Adam’s Original Body and Eschatological Life
28:52 The Two Adams and Two Modes of Existence
34:06 The Last Adam as Life-Giving Spirit
39:53 The Functional Unity of Christ and the Spirit
44:32 Romans 1: Son of God in Power
55:01 Resurrection as Royal Enthronement
58:19 The Gospel’s Two Historical Foci
65:05 Conclusion and Preview

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide
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Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000
Christ the Center 1000

Bradley G. Green joins Camden Bucey to discuss What Is Critical Theory?: A Concise Christian Analysis. They trace the Frankfurt School’s Marxist roots and explain why thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse turned from a narrowly economic account of oppression toward culture, institutions, authority, family, and religion.
The conversation evaluates critical theory as a counterfeit religious vision with its own accounts of creation, sin, redemption, and eschatology. Drawing on Cornelius Van Til, Green shows how unbelieving thought oscillates between rationalism and irrationalism; drawing on Henry Van Til, he explains why culture is “religion externalized.”
Resources
What Is Critical Theory?: A Concise Christian Analysis
Bradley G. Green at Southern Seminary
Christ Overall

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
04:30 Introducing What Is Critical Theory?
08:14 Marxism after the failed German revolution
10:43 The major Frankfurt School thinkers
12:35 Culture, oppression, and the long march through the institutions
15:54 Critical theory as a counterfeit religion
19:06 What the critical theorists see—and miss
21:56 Creation, givenness, and the autonomous individual
24:05 Sin relocated from the heart to the system
25:18 Marcuse’s vision of sexual liberation
29:42 Utopian hope and Adorno’s “Grand Hotel Abyss”
33:11 Walter Benjamin and a “messianic rupture”
36:45 Repressive tolerance and the authoritarian personality
42:35 Van Til on rationalism and irrationalism
46:31 Culture as religion externalized
49:22 Pastoral and educational applications
53:55 Using the book for personal and group study
56:20 Conclusion
Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000
Christ the Center 1000 Summit
Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX
Christ the Center 1000 Summit

This is the fourth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 62–74 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:
00:00 Introduction and Overview
04:52 The Father’s Activity and the Son’s Passivity
13:33 Paul and John on Christ’s Resurrection Agency
20:47 The Agency of the Holy Spirit
31:22 Spiritual and Physical Resurrection
39:40 Spirit, Power, Glory, and Life
47:13 The Personhood of the Holy Spirit
55:14 Summary and Theological Significance

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide
Your donations help us to provide free Reformed resources for students like you worldwide: https://reformedforum.org/donate/
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Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000
Christ the Center 1000

Kevin DeYoung joins Camden Bucey to discuss Church History for Everyone, Volume 1: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation. They consider why Christianity is inseparable from history and how the story of the church testifies to Christ’s promise to build and preserve his people by his Word and Spirit.
The conversation explores how Christians can remember faithful men and women without lapsing into hagiography—or reducing the past to a catalogue of failures. Camden and Kevin also discuss monasticism, the preservation of learning and liturgy, Protestant retrieval of medieval theologians such as Bernard of Clairvaux, and the figures who will appear in the forthcoming second volume.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Christ the Center 1000 summit update
12:55 Introducing Church History for Everyone
15:51 Conversation with Kevin DeYoung
17:30 From Sunday school lectures to a two-volume history
20:58 Why Christianity is inseparable from history
23:48 Church history as family history
26:38 Beyond hagiography and “warts only” history
30:57 Choosing characters and telling the church’s story
35:30 What Protestants can learn from monasticism
39:53 Recovering the medieval church
43:59 Previewing volume 2
46:53 Conclusion
Resources
Church History for Everyone, Volume 1
Clearly Reformed
Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX
Christ the Center 1000 Summit
Christ the Center 1000
Christ the Center 1000 Summit