A podcast exploring Socinianism – a 16th-century theological and philosophical movement founded by Fausto Sozzini that critically examines core doctrines such as the Trinity, original sin, and predestination.
#43 - "When the Holy Spirit 'Said': Acts 13:2 and the Voice That Guides
Acts 13:2 — "The Holy Spirit said..." — has been a touchstone in debates about the personhood of the Holy Spirit and the nature of divine speech. This episode begins a close reading of that verse and its history: how early Christians, medieval scholastics, and Reformers heard a voice directing mission, and how that voice later became the battleground between Trinitarians and the Polish Brethren. Expect textual detail, patristic and Reformation witnesses, and the precise lines of argument that made Acts 13:2 so central to questions about agency, personhood, and how God speaks.
3 May 2026
#42 - Luke 2:52 — Why Socini Emphasised Jesus' Human Growth, Not Divine Pre‑existence
Luke 2:52 says simply that Jesus "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." For orthodox theology that phrase sits easily beside the doctrine of the Son's eternal pre‑existence; for the Socinians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it became a hinge. This episode begins by reading that verse and tracing how both classical orthodoxy and the Socinian school understood its force—showing the historical debate, the theological stakes, and why the Racovian circle put human growth at the centre of its Christology.
2 May 2026
#41 - "Call No Man Father": Socinus, Clerical Titles, and the Fight Over Religious Authority
A close reading of Matthew 23:9 that changed how one early modern movement thought about clergy, titles, and power. We trace the Jewish and patristic background of the phrase, the rise of clerical honorifics in medieval Europe, and the particular concerns of the Polish Brethren and Fausto Socinus. This episode sets the historical stage for Socinian exegesis of "Call no man father" and explains why a single line from Jesus came to threaten centuries of ecclesiastical practice.
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