00:00 Introduction
02:25 St Ireneaus, Against Heresies
08:58 Apostolic Succession is about preservation of revelation
11:35 Apostolic Succession is NOT merely genealogy
17:58 Preservation of revelation is about rightly dividing the word of truth
20:39 Bishops reject heresy, not compromise for the appearance of unity
25:26 The Founding Fathers, The 30 Years War & the rise of civil religion
31:34 The Bad Reasons to Enter (or Avoid) Orthodoxy
39:24 Do Not Despise The Tradition Which Raised You
46:12 If You Entered Orthodoxy for Bad Reasons, Stay & Grow & Be Corrected!
51:25 Religion Is Not a Part of Life, It Is a Way of Life
53:49 The French Revolution Was About Displacing Christianity in Society
57:06 To Understand What The Church Is, You Have to Go All the Way Back
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What the Apostolic Fathers Believe About the Church
Apostolic Succession
S8E5
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In this episode, Fr. Symeon Kees & James John Marks discuss the writings of St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the historical claim of the Orthodox Church, and how the theological foundations of the West inform how we think about religion as a whole.
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Reference materials for this episode:


Against Heresies by St Ireneaus
- Book III, chapter 3, section 4 - succession of St Polycarp
- https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103303.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (in English)
- The priest’s prayer for the bishop during The Anaphora
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