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
