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Paradise and Utopia — 128 episodes

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1

From Utopia to Dystopia III: How Atheistic Existentialism Countered Saint Siluoun's "My Brother Is My Life" with Sartre's "Hell Is Other People"

2

From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft

3

From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was

4

Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s

5

Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche

6

Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation

7

Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination

8

Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind

9

Communist World Building III: The Great Terror

10

Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology

11

Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above

12

Dehumanization II: The Great War and Its Cultural Outcome

13

Dehumanization I: Artistic Modernism and the Dismal Sciences

14

Dostoevsky IV: Restoring Christendom's Paradisiacal Culture

15

Dostoevsky III: Repentance Will Save the World

16

Dostoevsky II: Shattering the Illusion of Utopian Rationalism

17

Dostoevsky I: A Believer among Atheists.

18

The Making of an Antichrist IV: "Behold the Man"

19

The Making of an Antichrist III: An Anti-Gospel

20

The Making of an Antichrist II: Unmasking Secular Humanism

21

The Making of an Antichrist I: "Whoever Fears the Tip of My Spear . . ."

22

Introduction to Part Four of the Podcast: Friedrich Nietzsche in Bayreuth

23

Introducing The Age of Nihilism

24

At the Threshold of Nihilism: The Russian Revolution and Its Utopia Project

25

Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem III: The Architects of Nationalist Ideolo

26

Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem II: The Architects of Socialist Ideology.

27

Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem I: The Architects of Liberal Ideology

28

Age of Utopia Released

29

Utopian Christianity

30

The Forest and Its Trees: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part II

31

Monographs and Metanarratives: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part I

32

When the Romantic Agony Became Personal: The Music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

33

Secular Glory and Spiritual Agony in the Music of the Great Romantics

34

Counterfeit Communion

35

A New Vision of Western History during the So-Called Enlightenment

36

Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part II

37

Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part I

38

When Christendom Was Born Again V: From Adam to Prometheus

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When Christendom Was Born Again IV: Petrarch contra Pope Innocent

40

When Christendom Was Born Again III: The Origins of the Saeculum

41

When Christendom Was Born Again II: Petrarch's Despair

42

When Christendom Was Born Again I: The Roman Revolution of Cola di Rienzo

43

Introduction to Part 3

44

Secularizing the State, East and West

45

Replacing Reformational Christianity

46

Subverting a Sacramental Culture

47

The Fall of Paradise VIII: The Wars of Western Religion

48

The Fall of Paradise VII: From Communion to Commonwealth in Puritan England

49

The Fall of Paradise VI: The Reformation of Worship

50

The Fall of Paradise V: The Cosmology of Calvinism

51

The Fall of Paradise IV: The Spirit of Calvinism

52

The Fall of Paradise III: The Case of John Calvin

53

The Fall of Paradise II: The Reformation of Western Christendom

54

The Fall of Paradise I: Reformation Muenster as the New Jerusalem

55

The Crisis of Western Christendom V: The Protestant “Resolution”

56

The Crisis of Western Christendom IV: New Directions in Western Soteriology

57

The Crisis of Western Christendom: The Curse of Anthropological Pessimism

58

The Crisis of Western Christendom II: The Hypertrophic Papacy

59

The Crisis of Western Christendom I: Martin Luther's Reformation Breakthrough

60

The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West VI

61

The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism V

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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism IV

63

The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism III

64

The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West II

65

The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West I

66

The Old Believer Schism and the Decline of Russian Christendom before Peter the Great

67

The Third Rome IV: Muscovite Russia and Western Christendom

68

The Third Rome III: The Possessor Controversy and Its Consequences

69

The Third Rome II: The Rise of Muscovite Russia

70

The Third Rome I: Ivan the Terrible and the Murder of Saint Philip

71

Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom VI: The Muslim Conquest of Constantinople

72

Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom V: Mark of Ephesus and the Council of Florence

73

Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom IV

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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom III: The Second Triumph of Orthodoxy

75

Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom II: Hesychasm

76

Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom I: Byzantium in the Shadow of the Muslim Turks

77

A New Christendom V

78

A New Christendom IV

79

A New Christendom III

80

A New Christendom II

81

A New Christendom I

82

Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways V

83

Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways IV

84

Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways III

85

Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways II

86

Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways I

87

Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: III

88

Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: II

89

Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: I

90

The Rise of Russian Christendom II

91

The Rise of Russian Christendom I

92

Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West IV

93

Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West III

94

Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West II

95

Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West I

96

Introduction to Part Two of the Podcast: The Nicolaitan Schism

97

Paradise in Early Christendom's Hymns of Lent and Pascha

98

Characteristics of Early Christian Hymnography

99

The Flowering of Christian Architecture II

100

The Flowering of Christian Architecture I

101

Summit of Orthodox Iconography

102

The Theme of Paradise in Byzantine Icons

103

The Evangelical Character of Byzantine Iconography

104

The Production of Byzantine Liturgical Art in Contrast to Modern Secular Art

105

The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Triumph of Christian Art

106

The Spiritual Transformation of Society II: Marriage

107

The Spiritual Transformation of Society I: Monasticism

108

Saint Macarius and the Married Women

109

A Pilgrimage to Paradise: Egeria and the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem

110

The Byzantine Liturgy and the Roman Mass as Acts of Cosmic Reorientation

111

Eucharistic Worship as an Experience of Paradise

112

Christian Temples and the Spiritual Transformation of Space

113

Christian Calendars and the Spiritual Transformation of Time

114

The Liturgical Orientation of the World

115

The Holy Empress Pulcheria and the Origin of the Thrice-Holy Hymn

116

The Ecclesio-Political System of Byzantium and Its Shortcomings

117

Symphony and Caesaropapism

118

The Consolidation of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire

119

The Consequences of Emperor Constantine

120

Emperor Constantine and the Christianization of the Roman State

121

Toward Sexual Dignity and the Elevation of Women

122

Beyond Subculture: Toward the Transformation of Roman Society

123

Four Pillars of Traditional Christian Culture

124

The Formation of a Christian Subculture in the Pagan Roman Empire

125

The Origins of Christendom in the Cosmology of Christ's Great Commission

126

Introducing The Age of Paradise

127

An Orthodox Perspective on the History of Christendom

128

The Post-Christian Christendom of Our Time