In this episode, we interview Dr. David Anders, who played a profound role in Joshua Charles’s conversion. After attending the famed evangelical Wheaton College, and pursuing a doctorate in order to disprove the Catholic Faith, he came out Catholic. The reason: he saw that the “Reformation” was not recovering ancient Christianity, but radically departing from it.
CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro: Dr. David Anders and His Conversion Story
05:02 – Evangelical Roots, Wheaton, Seminary, and the Search for Truth
30:02 – Catholic Coherence, Love of Christ, and the Limits of Protestantism
39:12 – Studying Reformation History and Losing Confidence in Calvinism
51:03 – Reading the Fathers: Seminary, Original Sources, and Historical Reality
1:09:16 – Salvation, Assurance, and the Problem of “Once Saved, Always Saved”
1:18:25 – The Early Church, Mortal Sin, Relics, and Catholic Continuity
1:53:37 – Evangelicalism, Gnosticism, and Sola Scriptura
2:33:03 – Scripture, Deification, Fasting, and Final Reflections on the Church
