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Understanding Free Will and Predestination | Ep. #32
Episode 3226th November 2025 • Lively Faith • The Rev. Nathan Stomberg
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In this episode, we discuss the relationship between free will and predestination, and explore how these concepts are understood in Anglicanism in light of the 39 Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer.

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// CHAPTERS //

00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Man’s fall in the garden

05:57 – Deprived, not depraved

09:30 – O Happy Fault!

12:40 – Modern Protestant and Evangelical views of free will

17:30 – Sacraments, grace, love, and free will

20:50 – Anglican tension between Reformed and Catholic

25:31 – Were the 39 Articles of Religion Calvinistic?

29:30 – The concept of mystery

31:15 – The 39 Articles, the Book of Common Prayer, and Anglican history

36:15 – Article XVII, on Predestination and Election

39:29 – The role of the 39 Articles in American Anglicanism

44:29 – Reconciling predestination and evangelism

50:47 – The two creation narratives in Genesis

54:20 – Why Anglicanism is irenic

55:53 – “Apostolic Succession” vs. “Historic Episcopate”

01:03:05 – First conclusion

01:06:47 – The collapse of the Episcopal Church

01:08:33 – Final conclusion

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