Divorce & Remarriage in the Church Fathers | Erick Ybarra & Called to Communion Rebutted FULL VIDEO

Catholic apologists have repeatedly made the accusation that the Orthodox Church, despite its staunch conservatism in regard to liturgy, fasting, and social issues, has caved on the topic of remarriage after divorce. They argue that the Church Fathers have always, or at least almost always taught that remarriage after a divorce, even in a narrow range of cases, is forbidden so long as the first spouse is living. Those Catholic apologists come armed with quote mines meant to defend that view and such quote mines are ubiquitous on the internet. Yet, these collections typically contain the same core quotations with little meaningful analysis.

In this video, we will respond to two of these quote mines. The first is by Erick Ybarra and can be found on his blog. The second, which is more comprehensive than Mr. Ybarra's, is from the blog "Called to Communion," a website founded by Brian Cross (both quote mines are linked below in the form we found them while making this video). We will not necessarily be following the order that either of these blog posts use in presenting the quotations, but, throughout our video, we will dispute their interpretations of specific passages they quote in their collections.

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The two quote mines we are responding to appear, in their current form here
(1) https://web.archive.org/web/202201160...
(2) https://web.archive.org/web/202201110...

00:00 Introduction
02:41 The Matthean Exceptive Clause
10:36 Were the Church Fathers against Remarriage after Divorce?
19:11 Lactantius
23:35 St. Augustine
27:10 Ambrosiaster
30:45 St. Chromatius of Aquilea
32:04 Synod of Arles 314 AD
35:46 St. Patrick of Ireland
37:24 Synod of Elvira 305 AD
42:00 Synod of Vannes 465 AD
43:06 Synod of Agde 506 AD
45:07 Synod of Compiegne 757 AD
47:00 Synod of Rome 826 AD & Pope Gregory II
49:51 Synod of Verberie 735 AD
52:12 Synod of Worms 1006 AD & Synod of Bourges-Limoges 1031
53:37 St. Theodore of Canterbury
57:43 Archbishop Ecbert of York
1:00:04 Origen
1:05:12 Synod of Laodicea 365 AD
1:06:21 St. Basil the Great
1:23:31 St. Gregory Nazianzen
1:29:01 St. Epiphanius of Salamis
1:31:05 St. Asterius of Amasea & St. Cyril of Alexandria
1:33:36 Theodoret of Cyrus & Apostolic Constitutions
1:38:50 St. Emperor Justinian the Great
1:45:02 Quinisext Council 692 AD
1:48:26 Patriarch Alexius Studite
1:49:27 The Tome of Union 920 AD & the Tetragamy Controversy
2:00:12 Council of Nicea 325 AD
2:10:44 End & Trailer

--BIBLIOGRAPHY--

"Can a Man Commit πορνεία with His Wife?" David Wheeler-Reed, Jennifer W. Knust and Dale B. Martin Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 137, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 383-398 (16 pages)

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