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b"Last week, the radio personality many Christians know as \\u201cThe Bible Answer Man\\u201d announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy. From CT\\u2019s report: Last Sunday, 67-year-old Hank Hanegraaff and his wife entered into Orthodox Christianity at St. Niktarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The former Protestant is well known among evangelicals as The Bible Answer Man. Since 1989, Hanegraaff has been answering questions on Christianity, denominations, and the Bible on a nationally syndicated radio broadcast. A champion of evangelical Christianity, he\\u2019s best known for arguing against cults, heresies, and non-Christian religions. Hankegraaff\\u2019s conversion didn\\u2019t surprise James Stamoolis, the author of Eastern Orthodox Mission Theology Today, who has previously written on why evangelicals are attracted to this older iteration of Christianity. Stamloois points to Orthodoxy\\u2019s highly sensory services which include both incense and icons, as well as \\u201cthe whole idea of authority.\\u201d \\u201cI know a lot of people who have converted from Protestantism to Catholicism and Orthodoxy because it\\u2019s fixed. It\\u2019s settled. 'We don\\u2019t have women priests. We\\u2019re never going to have women priests,'\\u201d said Stamoolis, who grew up in the Orthodox tradition but now identifies as a \\u201ccard-carrying evangelical.\\u201d Ironically, Orthodoxy\\u2019s association with tradition came after the church proved to be highly successful at contextualizing across different cultures, says Stamoolis. \\u201cA lot of it has to do with their theological methodology,\\u201d he said. \\u201c[They] were successful and imbued so much in the culture.\\u201d Stamoolis joined Morgan and Mark on Quick to Listen this week to discuss why there are so many different Orthodox traditions, the theological underpinnings of theosis, and what Christianity is like without the theological ideas of Aquinas and Augustine.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"