A number of folks said they wanted a recording of our very well attended panel discussion called "How the Early Church Read the Bible." You can click on the below link to listen to a digital recording of the panel discussion.
Just one caveat on the recording: I missed the first 5 minutes of the discussion as well as the final 20 minute Q&A section.
For several years, he worked here in our nation’s capital as an assistant to Ed Meese and legal policy analyst in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. He currently serves as Executive Director of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio, an apostolate founded by Dr. Scott Hahn to promote biblical literacy among Catholic laity and biblical fluency for Catholic clergy and teachers. To learn more about the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology you can go to http://www.salvationhistory.com/
Jamie was recently hired to teach theology at Benedictine College in Kansas. Jamie Blosser is a convert to the Catholic faith from a Protestant Evangelical background. He joined the Catholic Church in 1999 while in college after a study of the Fathers of the Church.
Jamie is a doctoral candidate in Historical Theology (a.k.a. Early Church Theology) at The Catholic University of America, where he is writing a thesis on Origen of Alexandria. He currently works for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He lives in Arlington, VA with his wife and two children.
He attended a non-denominational mega-church and then a large evangelical Presbyterian church. At this time he really began to get serious about his faith and to seek Christ. A couple months after moving to the DC area he began attending The Falls Church, an evangelical Episcopal church. He was active there for over a year and is still active in their young adult community, Kairos. Over the last couple years, Andrew began to seriously explore and study the Christian faith. He began studying what different churches taught and church history. After much prayer and study this journey would eventually lead him to the Catholic Church. He credits the writings of Early Church Fathers as being strong influences in his walk of faith.
Vaughn is a former member of the Plymouth Brethren movement where he learned to love Jesus intensely. He earned his bachelors degree in Biblical Studies and Psychology as well as his masters of divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. After serving as an evangelical Protestant minister in several congregations for seven years, Vaughn’s studies led him into the conservative Charismatic Episcopal Church. Vaughn was ordained a priest in the CEC in 1996 and became canon theologian for the eastern and central province of the CEC where he further researched the roots of Christianity.
His prayer and study in the CEC would eventually lead him into the Catholic Church. Vaughn, his wife Norma, and three children became Catholic in Easter of 2000. Vaughn has received permission to be ordained a Catholic priest. He is currently in formation for the priesthood. He is expected to be ordained in 2008.
I wish to thank our four presenters: Jamie Blosser, Rob Corzine, Andrew Maurer, and Vaughn Treco. You guys did an amazing job of discussing the views of the early church. I also want to thank Mary Rose Lombard from the Diocese of Arlington for promoting this last event.