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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St. Gregory the Theologian & the Apollinarian Heresy
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The Calamities of St. Gregory the Theologian
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The Trail of the Heretic: Apollinaris & His Background
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The Once & Future Heretic: Apollinaris of Laodicea
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A Detour to What is Necessary with Saints Sophronius, Zosima, Antony, and Mary o...
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The Confrontation of Church and Empire
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Saint Antony & His Life
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St. Athanasius and His Last Years
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St. Athanasius & The Defense of Nicaean Orthodoxy
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St. Athanasius, Punch and Counter-Punch
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The Trials and Travails of St. Athanasius
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St. Athanasios: An Introduction
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The World Groaned to Find Itself Arian
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Saint Constantine the Great
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The Council of Nicaea 2
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The Nicaean Crisis, Part 1
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Dipping into the Mailbag
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An Heresiarch Like None Other: Arius of Alexandria
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Arianism from Newman to Vaggione
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The Problem of Constantine's Conversion
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Who Converted Whom?
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The Great Persecution Begins in Earnest
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The Theban Legion and Its Despisers and Detractors
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The Dawn of the Great Persecution
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St. Dionysius of Alexandria and the Continued Ambiguity of Language
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Novatian, A Trinitarian Ahead of His Time
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St. Hippolytus and the Trinitarian Controversy in Rome
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Tradition, the Deposit of Faith, and the Development of Doctrine
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Tertullian, the Trinity, and Monarchianism in Rome
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St. Irenaeus, and the Trinitarian Economy of Redemption
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Saint Justin Martyr and the Word of the Ineffable God
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The Long Road to Homoousios: The Historical Path of the Church's Trinitarian Fai...
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World Without End! Origen and His System Part 2
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Angels in Camel Skins: Origen on Angels and St. John the Baptist
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How Much Platonism Can You Take? Origen and His System Part 1
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Moses My Servant is Dead: Origen and Reading the Scriptures
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Origen and the Science of Reading the Bible #1
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The Life & Times of Origen of Alexandria
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Finding Gold in the Mud: Origen of Alexandria
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Filling up the Martyrology, The Decian Persecution
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The Imperial Persecutions Begin
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The Intellectual Attacks on Second-Century Christians
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The Slave Girl Who Revealed Christ: The Martyrs of Lyons
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A Brutal but Glorious Martyrdom: After Peace, Persecution Begins in Earnest
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Life in Death: The Theology of Martyrdom
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The Heresiarch Unlike All Others: The Strange and Legendary History of Simon Mag...
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Did St. Paul Betray Jesus: Hellenization You Say?
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Clement of Alexandria: Recovering Platonist, Christian Humanist, or Learned Puri...
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What Hath Plato (& Philo) to do with Athanasius? Alexandria as the Heart of the...
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The Montanists Athwart the Church's First 170 Years
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