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Sep 30 The Intellectual courage of George Tyrell and Modernism
Season 9 Episode 30
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George Tyrell, an Irish priest published two letters in the Times criticising the papal encyclical Pascendi, he was expelled from the…
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Sep 29 Leo the Great meets Attila the Hun and Manicheism
Season 9 Episode 29
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The first Pope to be given the title great was Leo. We tell the story why today
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Sep 28 The Witness, the Vatican Obelisk in St Peters Square
Season 9 Episode 28
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The Obelisk outside St Peters in Rome stood in Nero's Circus and witnessed the crucifixion of St Peter. This is the story of how it w…
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Sep 27 The first female doctor of the church - Teresa of Avila
Season 9 Episode 27
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She was a great mystic, practical and effective reformer and one of the most influential authors of the spiritual life. St Teresa of …
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Sep 26 Abraham Lincoln calls for a national day of prayer and fasting
Season 9 Episode 26
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The Civil War had started months earlier because of the right to own slaves and Lincolns election. Today he called for a day of humil…
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Sep 25 Rudolph Otto - the Idea of the Holy
Season 9 Episode 25
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When Otto published the idea of the Holy during World War One it was a sensation, soon translated into multiple languages. He coined…
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Sep 24 Bede the Venerable and the Synod of Hertford
Season 9 Episode 24
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A key moment in English History - the first synod of Bishops which stabilised the church with its diocesan boundaries, unified Englan…
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Sep 23 Khomyakov, Orthodox theologian of community
Season 9 Episode 23
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Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement a…
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Sep 22 Mega-funerals and Brother Baght Singh
Season 9 Episode 22
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Today in 2000 we remember how a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to the evangelist B…
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Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes, the father of statisticians
Season 9 Episode 21
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There is growing appreciation of the impact of the non conformist minister. Thomas Byre lifes work. His theorem which was posthumous…
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