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Light Through the Past — 232 episodes
St. Gregory the Dialogist and the Liturgy: Part 1
St. Gregory, Chalcedon, and the Istrian Schism
Gregory the Great and the Active Life
An Introduction to St. Gregory the Dialogist
The Unorthodox Origins of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Risible Excommunicable Offenses
The Little Flock: The Deeds of God in the Epistle to the Romans
Questions 2: Truth, Councils, Authority, and the Corpus Mysticum
Questions Part I: St. Augustine and Origen
Closing Thoughts on the Schism
The Aftermath of Florence 3: The Fall of Constantinople
Put Not Your Trust in Princes: Florence's aftermath 2
The Aftermath of the Council of Florence, Part 1
Florence and the Roman Primacy
Florence and Purgatory. The Debate
Florence and Purgatory. An Introduction
Florence and the Filioque, part 2
Florence and the Filioque
St. Mark of Ephesus and Latin Theology
Making Sense of the Council of Florence
From Constance to Florence
A Eucharistic Divertimento
The Rise of Conciliarism
Blaspheming, Sword-wielding Monks: The Knights Templar and the Council of Florence
Intro to the Council of Florence: A Pope so Important even the Bees Love Him
The Faith of the Orthodox, the Faith of Blachernae
Cleaning Up Michael VIII's Mess: The Council of Blachernae, part 1
The Aftermath of the Council of Lyons
The Political Union of Lyons
Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Byzantine Dilemma
The Consequences of the Sack of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade
A Prelude to the 4th Crusade
The Tension between the Churches in the 12th Century
Anselm of Havelberg and Church Unity
St. Leo the Great, Pope St. Nicholas, and Answering a Philosophical Question
"Lies! All Lies" The Symmachian and Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals in the Formation of Papal Dogma
St. Photios, the Mystagoge, and the Council of 879
St. Photios and the Filioque: An Introduction
Persecuted Monastics and Imperial Factions
Pope St. Leo the Great as Legal Heir of St. Peter
An Episode 1700 Years in the Making 4
An Episode 1700 Years in the Making, Part 3
Nicaea: A Podcast 1700 Years in the Making, Part 2
An Episode 1700 Years in the Making
Pope St. Leo the Great: An Introduction
Pope St. Julius, St. Athanasius, and the Council of Sardica
To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A 3rd Century Test between Saints
Pope St. Victor Again, and a "Touching" Reminiscence
St. Irenaeus and the Bishop of Rome
St. Peter and the First 2 Centuries of the Church
St. Peter in the Book of Acts
St. Peter's Primacy in the Gospels
The Authority of the Pope & the Schism: An Introduction
Anslem of Bec and the Filioque
A Record of Errors
1054 and All That
Revolution in Eleventh-Century Rome
The Dissonant Theology of the Latin West on the Spirit
A Clash of Titans: The confrontation of Pope St. Nicholas and Patriarch St. Photios
Shambolic Theology and Ecclesiastical Mayhem
The 8th-Century Politics of the Filioque
St. Maximos the Confessor and the Filioque
The Council of Toledo
The Filioque between St. Augustine and the Council of Toledo (589)
The Western Origins of the Filioque
Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa and the Filoque
An Introduction to the Schism, Part 2
An Introduction to the Schism
The Trail of the Papacy: Calculating Pascha
The Betrayal of St. Benedict
St. Benedict and the Pursuit of God
St. Benedict's Abbot
St. Benedict and the Work of God
St. Benedict's Monastic World
Pangur Bán the Mousing Monastic Cat
St. Patrick and the Druids
The World & Early Life of St. Patrick
St. Martin of Tours & the Beginning of Latin Monasticism
The Troubled Birth of Asia Minor's Monasticism
The Monastic Communities of Egypt
The Pachomian Shift in Monasticism
St. Antony the Pattern of Monks
Martyrdom and Monasticism
St. Ignatius' Own Words on His Martyrdom
Monasticism: Simplicity on the Path to Flame
The Monastic Pursuit of God: an Introit
Pope Vigilius and the Three Chapters
How Ought We to Think about Ecumenical Councils?
Justinian: Emperor, Theologian, Saint
A Short Thanksgiving Intro to emperor St. Justinian
The Cyrillian Defense of Chalcedon 2: Leontius of Jerusalem
The Cyrillian Defense of Chalcedon
A Land of Confusion: the Strange Byways of the Defenders of Chalcedon
There's Something Happening Here. What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear.
The Undulating Status of Chalcedon before 518
The Henotikon of the Emperor Zeno
Two Decades of Crises Following Chalcedon
Empire and State after Chalcedon
Chalcedon: Where We've Been & Where We're Going
The Latin Fathers on the Matter of Chalcedon
Chalcedon the Cyrillian Council
Chalcedon Begins
The Latrocinium (Robber) Council of 449
The Road to Chalcedon
St. Cyril and the Correct Language at the Correct Time
Let the Heavens Rejoice!; The End of the Nestorian Schism
The Council of Ephesus
The Shambolic Road to the Council of Ephesus
Saint Cyril, Nestorius, and the Mounting Controversy
Union in Christ: The Christology of St. Cyril of Alexandria
The Theology of Archbishop Nestorius
Constantinople on the Even of the Council of Ephesus
What has Alexandria to do with Antioch: Theological Assumptions on the Eve of the Nestorian Controversy
Alexandria as the Logical Place for Heated Theological Disputes
A Division in Type: Allegory and History, Alexandria and Antioch
Origen & Nestorius: A look forward to the Christological Controversies
The Lord of History
St. Augustine contra Pagan History
Let God Arise: the fourth-century fathers on what was happening at Pascha
St. Augustine and a Resurgent Paganism
St. Augustine and the Civitatem Aeternam
St. Augustine and the Angelic Destiny of Man
St. Augustine and Predestination
St. Augustine, Pelagius, and the Human Condition
Tradition! Tradition!
The Pelagians are Coming! The Pelagians are Coming!
St. Augustine and the Unity and Purity of the Church
St. Augustine and the Harmonious Soul
The Conversions and Conversion of St. Augustine
St. Augustine's life to his conversion
St. Augustine: The path to Christ through Cicero, Mani, and Plato
St. Augustine: An Introduction
What is History? What is Tradition?
Episode 100: Almost All the Questions Answered
St. John Cassian the Roman and Pelagianism
The Many Faces of the Origenist Controversy
Evagrius the Apathetic Origenist
St. Epiphanius and the Origenists
The Icon of the Invisible God
An Introduction to the First Origenist Controversy
The Exile of St. John Chrysostom
The Synod of the Oak
St. John and St. Epiphanius
St. John Chrysostom and the Tall Brothers
St. John Chrysostom and the Coming Storm
St. John Chrysostom and the Gothic General
Saint John Chrysostom and Constantinople
Dr. Aristeides Papadakis: A Remembrances of a Mentor and Friend
Statues and Fear: The Lenten Crisis of 387
St. John Chrysostom's Early Years as Priest & Preacher
St. John Chrysostom's Diaconal Writings
St. John Chrysostom and the Decade of Crisis: 371-381
St. John Chrysostom's Early Life
St. Ambrose and Sacramental Political Theology, 2
St. Ambrose and Sacramental Political Theology, part 1
St. Ambrose and the Sacrament of the Father
Saint Ambrose and the Arians: Part 2
Saint Ambrose and the Arians: Part 1
St. Ambrose and the Confrontation with Paganism
St. Gregory the Theologian and the Holy Spirit
The Second Ecumenical Council
A Q&A Greater Than Which Cannot Be Thought
St. Basil and the Holy Trinity
St. Basil the Great and his Chaotic World
St. Gregory of Nyssa and His Long Refutation of Apollinarius
St. Gregory of Nyssa Contra Apollinarium
St. Gregory the Theologian & the Apollinarian Heresy
The Calamities of St. Gregory the Theologian
The Trail of the Heretic: Apollinaris & His Background
The Once & Future Heretic: Apollinaris of Laodicea
A Detour to What is Necessary with Saints Sophronius, Zosima, Antony, and Mary of Egypt.
The Confrontation of Church and Empire
Saint Antony & His Life
St. Athanasius and His Last Years
St. Athanasius & The Defense of Nicaean Orthodoxy
St. Athanasius, Punch and Counter-Punch
The Trials and Travails of St. Athanasius
St. Athanasios: An Introduction
The World Groaned to Find Itself Arian
Saint Constantine the Great
The Council of Nicaea 2
The Nicaean Crisis, Part 1
Dipping into the Mailbag
An Heresiarch Like None Other: Arius of Alexandria
Arianism from Newman to Vaggione
The Problem of Constantine's Conversion
Who Converted Whom?
The Great Persecution Begins in Earnest
The Theban Legion and Its Despisers and Detractors
The Dawn of the Great Persecution
St. Dionysius of Alexandria and the Continued Ambiguity of Language
Novatian, A Trinitarian Ahead of His Time
St. Hippolytus and the Trinitarian Controversy in Rome
Tradition, the Deposit of Faith, and the Development of Doctrine
Tertullian, the Trinity, and Monarchianism in Rome
St. Irenaeus, and the Trinitarian Economy of Redemption
Saint Justin Martyr and the Word of the Ineffable God
The Long Road to Homoousios: The Historical Path of the Church's Trinitarian Faith
World Without End! Origen and His System Part 2
Angels in Camel Skins: Origen on Angels and St. John the Baptist
How Much Platonism Can You Take? Origen and His System Part 1
Moses My Servant is Dead: Origen and Reading the Scriptures
Origen and the Science of Reading the Bible #1
The Life & Times of Origen of Alexandria
Finding Gold in the Mud: Origen of Alexandria
Filling up the Martyrology, The Decian Persecution
The Imperial Persecutions Begin
The Intellectual Attacks on Second-Century Christians
The Slave Girl Who Revealed Christ: The Martyrs of Lyons
A Brutal but Glorious Martyrdom: After Peace, Persecution Begins in Earnest
Life in Death: The Theology of Martyrdom
The Heresiarch Unlike All Others: The Strange and Legendary History of Simon Magus.
Did St. Paul Betray Jesus: Hellenization You Say?
Clement of Alexandria: Recovering Platonist, Christian Humanist, or Learned Puritan?
What Hath Plato (& Philo) to do with Athanasius? Alexandria as the Heart of the Mediterranean World
The Montanists Athwart the Church's First 170 Years
The Apostolic and Eucharistic Ministry of the Church
St. Irenaeus and Bishops as the Repositories of the Apostolic Ministry
The Obscure (and even Messy) History of the Monoepiscopacy prior to A.D. 150
Two Questions Along the Way to Irenaeus and Bishops
St. Irenaeus on the Eucharist Confirming our Faith
Redemption and Recapitulation in St. Irenaeus.
St. Irenaeus, the Incarnation as Foundation of Creation
Four Fell Horsemen: The Chief Targets of St. Irenaeus' Labors
Who Were the Gnostics, and Where and How Did They Arise?
St. Irenaeus
St. Justin Martyr, the Philosopher
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Early Gnostic Sects
Intro to the Roman Empire
Introduction