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Paradise and Utopia — 128 episodes
From Utopia to Dystopia III: How Atheistic Existentialism Countered Saint Siluoun's "My Brother Is My Life" with Sartre's "Hell Is Other People"
From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft
From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was
Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s
Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche
Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation
Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination
Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind
Communist World Building III: The Great Terror
Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology
Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above
Dehumanization II: The Great War and Its Cultural Outcome
Dehumanization I: Artistic Modernism and the Dismal Sciences
Dostoevsky IV: Restoring Christendom's Paradisiacal Culture
Dostoevsky III: Repentance Will Save the World
Dostoevsky II: Shattering the Illusion of Utopian Rationalism
Dostoevsky I: A Believer among Atheists.
The Making of an Antichrist IV: "Behold the Man"
The Making of an Antichrist III: An Anti-Gospel
The Making of an Antichrist II: Unmasking Secular Humanism
The Making of an Antichrist I: "Whoever Fears the Tip of My Spear . . ."
Introduction to Part Four of the Podcast: Friedrich Nietzsche in Bayreuth
Introducing The Age of Nihilism
At the Threshold of Nihilism: The Russian Revolution and Its Utopia Project
Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem III: The Architects of Nationalist Ideolo
Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem II: The Architects of Socialist Ideology.
Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem I: The Architects of Liberal Ideology
Age of Utopia Released
Utopian Christianity
The Forest and Its Trees: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part II
Monographs and Metanarratives: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part I
When the Romantic Agony Became Personal: The Music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Secular Glory and Spiritual Agony in the Music of the Great Romantics
Counterfeit Communion
A New Vision of Western History during the So-Called Enlightenment
Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part II
Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part I
When Christendom Was Born Again V: From Adam to Prometheus
When Christendom Was Born Again IV: Petrarch contra Pope Innocent
When Christendom Was Born Again III: The Origins of the Saeculum
When Christendom Was Born Again II: Petrarch's Despair
When Christendom Was Born Again I: The Roman Revolution of Cola di Rienzo
Introduction to Part 3
Secularizing the State, East and West
Replacing Reformational Christianity
Subverting a Sacramental Culture
The Fall of Paradise VIII: The Wars of Western Religion
The Fall of Paradise VII: From Communion to Commonwealth in Puritan England
The Fall of Paradise VI: The Reformation of Worship
The Fall of Paradise V: The Cosmology of Calvinism
The Fall of Paradise IV: The Spirit of Calvinism
The Fall of Paradise III: The Case of John Calvin
The Fall of Paradise II: The Reformation of Western Christendom
The Fall of Paradise I: Reformation Muenster as the New Jerusalem
The Crisis of Western Christendom V: The Protestant “Resolution”
The Crisis of Western Christendom IV: New Directions in Western Soteriology
The Crisis of Western Christendom: The Curse of Anthropological Pessimism
The Crisis of Western Christendom II: The Hypertrophic Papacy
The Crisis of Western Christendom I: Martin Luther's Reformation Breakthrough
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West VI
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism V
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism IV
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism III
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West II
The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West I
The Old Believer Schism and the Decline of Russian Christendom before Peter the Great
The Third Rome IV: Muscovite Russia and Western Christendom
The Third Rome III: The Possessor Controversy and Its Consequences
The Third Rome II: The Rise of Muscovite Russia
The Third Rome I: Ivan the Terrible and the Murder of Saint Philip
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom VI: The Muslim Conquest of Constantinople
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom V: Mark of Ephesus and the Council of Florence
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom IV
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom III: The Second Triumph of Orthodoxy
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom II: Hesychasm
Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom I: Byzantium in the Shadow of the Muslim Turks
A New Christendom V
A New Christendom IV
A New Christendom III
A New Christendom II
A New Christendom I
Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways V
Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways IV
Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways III
Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways II
Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways I
Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: III
Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: II
Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: I
The Rise of Russian Christendom II
The Rise of Russian Christendom I
Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West IV
Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West III
Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West II
Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West I
Introduction to Part Two of the Podcast: The Nicolaitan Schism
Paradise in Early Christendom's Hymns of Lent and Pascha
Characteristics of Early Christian Hymnography
The Flowering of Christian Architecture II
The Flowering of Christian Architecture I
Summit of Orthodox Iconography
The Theme of Paradise in Byzantine Icons
The Evangelical Character of Byzantine Iconography
The Production of Byzantine Liturgical Art in Contrast to Modern Secular Art
The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Triumph of Christian Art
The Spiritual Transformation of Society II: Marriage
The Spiritual Transformation of Society I: Monasticism
Saint Macarius and the Married Women
A Pilgrimage to Paradise: Egeria and the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem
The Byzantine Liturgy and the Roman Mass as Acts of Cosmic Reorientation
Eucharistic Worship as an Experience of Paradise
Christian Temples and the Spiritual Transformation of Space
Christian Calendars and the Spiritual Transformation of Time
The Liturgical Orientation of the World
The Holy Empress Pulcheria and the Origin of the Thrice-Holy Hymn
The Ecclesio-Political System of Byzantium and Its Shortcomings
Symphony and Caesaropapism
The Consolidation of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire
The Consequences of Emperor Constantine
Emperor Constantine and the Christianization of the Roman State
Toward Sexual Dignity and the Elevation of Women
Beyond Subculture: Toward the Transformation of Roman Society
Four Pillars of Traditional Christian Culture
The Formation of a Christian Subculture in the Pagan Roman Empire
The Origins of Christendom in the Cosmology of Christ's Great Commission
Introducing The Age of Paradise
An Orthodox Perspective on the History of Christendom
The Post-Christian Christendom of Our Time