Light Through the Past
Dr. Cyril Jenkins, and Ancient Faith Ministries
This podcast will look at the course and development of the Orthodox Church, its struggles with heresy, the empire, and relations to other Christian bodies.
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The Lord of History
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St. Augustine contra Pagan History
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Let God Arise: the fourth-century fathers on what was happening at Pascha
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St. Augustine and a Resurgent Paganism
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St. Augustine and the Civitatem Aeternam
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St. Augustine and the Angelic Destiny of Man
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St. Augustine and Predestination
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St. Augustine, Pelagius, and the Human Condition
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Tradition! Tradition!
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The Pelagians are Coming! The Pelagians are Coming!
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St. Augustine and the Unity and Purity of the Church
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St. Augustine and the Harmonious Soul
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The Conversions and Conversion of St. Augustine
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St. Augustine's life to his conversion
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St. Augustine: The path to Christ through Cicero, Mani, and Plato
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St. Augustine: An Introduction
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What is History? What is Tradition?
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Episode 100: Almost All the Questions Answered
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St. John Cassian the Roman and Pelagianism
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The Many Faces of the Origenist Controversy
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Evagrius the Apathetic Origenist
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St. Epiphanius and the Origenists
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The Icon of the Invisible God
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An Introduction to the First Origenist Controversy
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The Exile of St. John Chrysostom
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The Synod of the Oak
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St. John and St. Epiphanius
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St. John Chrysostom and the Tall Brothers
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St. John Chrysostom and the Coming Storm
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St. John Chrysostom and the Gothic General
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Saint John Chrysostom and Constantinople
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Dr. Aristeides Papadakis: A Remembrances of a Mentor and Friend
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Statues and Fear: The Lenten Crisis of 387
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St. John Chrysostom's Early Years as Priest & Preacher
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St. John Chrysostom's Diaconal Writings
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St. John Chrysostom and the Decade of Crisis: 371-381
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St. John Chrysostom's Early Life
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St. Ambrose and Sacramental Political Theology, 2
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St. Ambrose and Sacramental Political Theology, part 1
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St. Ambrose and the Sacrament of the Father
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Saint Ambrose and the Arians: Part 2
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Saint Ambrose and the Arians: Part 1
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St. Ambrose and the Confrontation with Paganism
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St. Gregory the Theologian and the Holy Spirit
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The Second Ecumenical Council
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A Q&A Greater Than Which Cannot Be Thought
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St. Basil and the Holy Trinity
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St. Basil the Great and his Chaotic World
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St. Gregory of Nyssa and His Long Refutation of Apollinarius
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St. Gregory of Nyssa Contra Apollinarium
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