A Survey of Church History
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Dr. Cyril Jenkins And Ancient Faith Radio Podcasts
This week Dr. Jenkins completes the discussion of the Frankish kingdom's descent into theological error (and the Pope's reprimand of them for it), and transitions to a key moment in Byzantine history which will bring East and West into conflict, and with it the first real disputes about the filioque.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.c…
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In this episode Dr.Jenkins looks at how the politics of the Germanic peoples and their posture towards the Byzantine empire play into not only the question of the filioque, but the Schism itself.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumStill Points: https://tinyurl.com/S…
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Continuing his discussion of the schism, and the filioque's contribution to it, Dr. Jenkins this week looks at St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662). St. Maximos shows that in the 640s the Latins did not confess what would later be their doctrine, that the Spirit's person eternally procedes from the Son as He does also from the Father.https://tinyurl…
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This week Dr. Jenkins examines the council of Toledo of 589, and how the filioque first appeared within the creed, and within the doctrinal standards off the western church.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumNext issue of Rule of Faith: https://tinyurl.com/RuleofFa…
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This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the 5th and 6th centuries, the period after St. Augustine (d. 430), wherein the Latin west nearly unanimously embraced doctrine of the double procession of the Holy Spirit. But this confession came with no real theological explanation about what exactly this meant. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.co…
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This episode Dr. Jenkins begins untangling how the filioque arose in the West. It is a long, strange trip.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantiumTo subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/By Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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As we contiue our look at the question of the Schism, we pick up with the matter of Theology proper, that is, how do we think and speak of God in Himself, as opposed to how God works in Creation and Redemption, and how this impacts the question of the Filioque.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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This episode, beginning our podcast's fourth year, Dr. Jenkins begins our look at monasticism in the Latin west.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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…
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