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Marcus Grodi is a former Presbyterian pastor, and Msgr Jeffrey Steenson once served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church. In each Deep in History program, they dig into the writings of the Early Church Fathers to see what they had to say about Scripture, liturgy, theology and ecclesiology.
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Marcus Grodi and Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson continue through Book IV of Against Heresies by St. Ireneaus of Lyons with a discussion of the question of sacrifice in Christianity.
Some of the interlocutors of St. Irenaeus believed that Christ did away with the very idea of sacrifices. But as St. Irenaeus points out, those sacrifices were not negated by Christ, but fulfilled in him. And when He gave us His body and blood, saying "do this in remembrance of me," He showed us what all those sacrifices of the old covenant were building toward.
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