Building off of last week's episode, Dr. Jenkins continues discussing the preconditions of the schism, the geographical, cultural, historical, and linguistic concerns that fed into the schism, though certainly didn't create it.The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/O…

Prompted by thoughts on the ecclesiology of Pope St. Gregory the Dialogist, this episode begins a long discussion of the history of the schism: what it is, what's involved, and how it happened.The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025…

Dr. Jenkins begins a discussion of the power and prerogative of the bishops of Rome, looking at the second-century Quartodeciman controversy over the date of Pascha. This controversy marks the first interaction of the bishops of Rome with the Churches of the eastern Mediterranean.Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium…

Finishing his look at the Rule of St. Benedict, this week Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Benedict's vision of the monastic life came off the rails and morphed into something he had no intention for in the centuries following his death in the Latin west.Dr. Jenkins on Byzantine Empre: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium…

Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict, this episode focusing on the goal of the monastic life, the attaining of God.For the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict's Rule treating the place of the Abbot, his authority, duties, and obligations, and most importantly, the place he holds in St. Benedict's monastery.For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodoxFor the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StP…

For St. Benedict, that most necessary thing a monk could do was pray, what he called the work of God (Opus Dei), adn this episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks exactly what that looked like in a Benedictine monaster.For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodoxFor the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatr…

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of Latin monasticism by at last turning to the man most responsible for its shape, St. Benedict of Nursia.You can find Dr. Jenkins course at https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of early Irish Christianity but noting some possible links between the the earliest Irish Christians and influences on them that semm peculiar to eastern Mediterranean.For Dr. Jenkins new course on Byzantium: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumFor Connie Marshner's Monastery and High Cross: http…

This week Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the life of St. Patrick speaking, inter alia, about his confrontations with the Druids.On the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of western Monasticism by looking at the life of St. Patrick of Armagh (Ireland). Though a monk, St. Patrick is better known for his missionary work among the Irish, a people who once had been his masters.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode, beginning our podcast's fourth year, Dr. Jenkins begins our look at monasticism in the Latin west.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the beginnings of monasticism in Asia Minor, with whom we rightly associate St. Basil the Great, but who was inspired by the wayward Eustathios of Sebastea.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his survey of the history of early monasticism, looking at the several monastic communities of anchorites and hermits that made up the world of Egyptian monasticism.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

Dr. Jenkins continues he discussion of the history of monasticism. This week Dr. Jenkins looks at the shift in monasticism that the introduction of Pachomius's early fourth-century reforms entailed.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

St. Pachomius called St. Antony a pattern for those who pursued the life in the desert. This episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks what this means.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

"Christian discipleship is one of leaving the world and following Christ. This episode Dr. Jenkins explores how the Church in the shadow of Martyrdom became the Church of monasticism, and why this shift was not as great as it might seem."By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

A cold has seized Dr. Jenkins, and so we have but an abbreviated version of Path to the Academy this week. You should however, read St. Ignatius of Antioch's beautiful Epistle to the Romans, as it will be discussed next week.You can find it here: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/richardson/fathers.vi.ii.iii.iv.html…

Why do we have monks? Why do we have laity? Shouldn't all seek to lay aside all earthly cares all the time? This episode Dr. Jenkins explores the place of "simplicity" in the Christian life, both lay and monastic and how this informs the life of the desert.Fr. Patrick Reardon interview. https://tinyurl.com/FrReardonAre We All Cyborgs discount. http…

This episode Dr. Jenkins begins looking at Orthodox Monasticism and the question of the search and pursuit of God.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

The "Three Chapters" caused real consternation among Latin Christians, and embroiled the duplicitous Pope Vigilius for years in a game of cat and mouse with the ever-exasperated Emperor St. Justinian. This episode Dr. Jenkins details how this issue was resolved in the 5th ecumenical council.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

This episode Dr. Jenkins jumps into the deep, muddy, and at times turbulent waters that comprise the world of the Ecumenical councils, how the Church in the fifth and sixth centuries inchoately seemed to understand them, and how we should think about them.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

Dr. Jenkins dives into the Christology of the Emperor St. Justinian, who, though not an original thinker, full grasped the theological currents of his day, and his writings set down the path the Church would follow in Her understanding of the Union of Christ in the One Hypostasis of the second Person of the All Holy Trinity.…

This episode, abbreviated for the American holiday, Dr. Jenkins begins our look at Emperor St. Justinian.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins

The Cyrillian Defense of Chalcedon 2: Leontius of JerusalemDescription: Leontius of Jerusalem was the foremost of the defenders of Chalcedon in the early sixth century who showed how the council was not only faithful to Cyril, but the only way to understand Cyril.Links:Pelikan, Bach, Tolkien Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdYpFTQc3FM&t=10…