All Episodes

The Road to Nicea...in Book Form!

An Update On What's Next

Episode 44 - The Conclusion

Supplemental - What's Next?

Episode 42 - In the Wake of Controversy: The Children of Nicea

Episode 41 - Let's Get Together: Nicea and the Idea of a Church Council

Episode 40 - Interpreting in the Shadow of the Council: Nicea and the Future of Orthodox Theology

Episode 39 - The Creed and the Sword: Nicea and the Problem of Religious Violence

Episode 38 - The Society of the Divine: Social Trinitarianism and the Modern Legacy of Nicea

Supplemental - The Anguish of a Poet: The Final Years of Gregory of Nazianzus

Episode 37 - Like Father, Like Son: The Filioque Clause

Episode 36 - Oops, I Denied the Homoousios Again: The Afterlives of “Arianism”

Episode 35 - The Trials of the Victors and the Shifting of Power: Theodosius, the Troubles of the West, and the Fate of the “Orthodox”

Episode 34 - The Final Council: Constantinople and the Triumph of Nicea

Supplemental - Barbarians or Rivals: Who are the Ancient Goths?

Episode 33 - God’s Gift to the Nicenes: Theodosius and the Last Great Council

Episode 32 - The Storm Before the Calm: Religion Under Valens, 360 - 379

Episode 31 - The Midwestern Heresy: Eunomius’s Apology for the Apology

Episode 30 - Hater, Heresiarch, and Heteroousian: Who is the Fourth Cappadocian?

Supplemental: An Epistolary Ecclesiarchy - The Letters of Gregory and Basil

Episode 29: Sermons for the Son - The Five Theological Orations

Supplemental: Saint in the City - Gregory's Constantinopolitan Adventures

Episode 28 - The Olympic Orator: Who is Gregory of Nazianzus?

Supplemental - Writing About the Good Book: Athanasius’s Festal Letter of 367

Supplemental: The Christmas Special

Supplemental - The Epic Ecstatic Epektasis: Gregory of Nyssa, Salvation, and the Life of Moses

Episode 27 - The Reclaimed Genius: Gregory of Nyssa’s Legacy

Putting the "Logos" Back in Logic: Professor Ryan Haecker on Origen's Trinitarian Theology

Episode 26 - One Power, One God - Gregory of Nyssa’s Letter to Ablabius

Supplemental - The Suffering God: An Interview with Professor Paul Gavrilyuk

Episode 25 - Nobody Refutes My Brother But Me: Gregory’s Against Eunomius

Supplemental: Nuns, Crosses, and Proto-Feminists, Oh My! - Gregory’s Life of Macrina

Episode 24: The Younger Brilliant Brother - Who is Gregory of Nyssa?

Supplemental - Perfecting the Praises: The Liturgy of St. Basil

Episode 23: The Power of Prepositions - Basil's On the Holy Spirit

Supplemental - The Ordering of Monks: Basil's Long Rule

Episode 22 - What’s in a Name?: Basil Against Eunomius

Supplemental - Ever Since the World Began: Basil’s Hexameron and the Best Worst Sermon Ever Preached

Supplemental - Alms for the Poor: Basil the Great on Social Justice

Episode 21 -Great Saint, Wannabe Monk, and Peer Pressurer Extraordinare: Who is Basil the Great?

Supplemental - The Making of a Monk: Athanasius's The Life of Antony

Episode 20: The Next Generation - Rise of the Cappadocians

Episode 19 - The Nefarious Nerd: Who is Julian the Apostate?

Supplemental - The Senior Convener: Ossius of Cordoba

Episode 18 - The Finger On the Scale: Constantius, the Homoian Triumph, and the Blasphemy of Sirmium

Supplemental - Canon Law and Order: The Crimes of Athanasius

Episode 17 - The Era of Too Many Theologies: Matters of Substance from 350 to 360

Supplemental - The Renowned Rhetor: Lactantius and the Christian-Imperial Narrative

Episode 16 - The Accidental Ruler of It All: Who is Constantius II?

Episode 15 - The Era of Too Many Creeds: Controversy and Conflagration, 341 - 350

Episode 14: Theology is a Riot - Changing Faces and Changing Alliances, 337 - 341

Episode 13 - The Birth of a Movement: Athanasius and the Orations Against the Arians

Episode 12 - Let's Get Down to Theologizing: Athanasius's On the Incarnation

Episode 11 - The Eusebii Strike Back: Confusion and Pushback in the Post-Nicene Empire, 325 - 337

Episode 10 - Let's Get Ready to Rumble: The Council of Nicea

Supplemental - To the Victor Go the Speeches: Eusebius and the Oration in Praise of Constantine

Episode 9 - It's Hip to be Saintly: Constantine and the Bishops

Supplemental - The Godfather God-Father: Constantine and the Murders of Crispin and Fausta

Episode 8 - The 800 Pound Gorilla: Who is Constantine the Great?

Supplemental - The Lost Arian Sea Shanties

Episode 7 - Arch-heretic, Favored Son, Rogue Priest: Who is Arius of Alexandria?

Episode 6 - Maintaining the Martyr’s Faith: Trinitarian Thought at the Dawn of the Fourth Century

Episode 5 - Not a Chill Emperor: Diocletian and the Transformation of the Roman Empire

Supplemental - Interview with Andrew McGowan on Tertullian

Episode 4 - Speaking of the Son: Third Century Attempts at Trinitarian Theology

Supplemental - Orb Bodies for Everyone: The Oddities of Origen

Supplemental - The Ho Ho Haymaker, or, I Saw Heretics Getting Punched by Santa Claus

Episode 3 - Respect My Authority: Alternatives to Episcopal Rule

Supplemental - The Heretics That Never Were: Gnosticism in Early Christianity

Episode 2 - Exclusive and Flourishing: The Church of the Third Century

Episode 1 - Castrati, Chaos, and Cow Sacrifices: The Third-Century Roman Empire

Introduction: The Long Reach of Antiquity