The Ignatian Strawman Extinguished

About this sermon

Though I really wasn't feeling well after I arrived here in Amarillo, I felt it was absolutely necessary to address the amazingly dishonest attacks that have been launched against me about a single cross-examination question from Saturday night's debate. So we did a full dive into Ignatius, his writings, the issues with the transmission of those writings, forgeries, you name it, and then walked through the actual text cited in the debate demonstrating that the actual answer I gave was fully substantiated by the text itself. It is my hope that those who are planning to continue this campaign of misrepresentation will listen to this presentation, realize the foolishness of such an action, repent of their intentions, and cease and desist with their activities. That is up to them. For everyone else, you get to learn a whole lot about issues related to ancient church history! Enjoy! 0:00 - Intro: travelling 4:20 - The controversy begins: Cameron Bertuzzi and Catholic Twitter 7:25 - The problem with forgeries and Ignatian Corpus 19:01 - Modern research on Ignatian Corpus 34:08 - What happened at the debate 46:44 - Consistency: you can’t just assume things 54:54 - Context of anti-Docetism in contentious Ignatius passage 1:14:04 - Medical scare and the next generation of apologists 1:18:38 - 2 Peter 3:16’s untaught and unstable 1:23:09 - Closing exhortation to Dr. White’s critics