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Back to SearchEp. 17 - The Long, Strange Trip of Hippolytus of Rome
Season 1 Episode 17
He started as a papal critic, became history's first antipope, and today is honored — with the pope he rejected — as a saint whose feast day is univ…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 16 - Clement of Alexandria: Teacher in a New Kind of School
Season 1 Episode 16
Alexandria, in Egypt, was the intellectual capital of the Greco-Roman world, and as the second century turned to the third it emerged as an influent…
6 years ago
Ep. 15 - Perpetua: A Rare Female Voice from Antiquity
Season 1 Episode 15
Perpetua of Carthage is almost unique in the literature of her time. She is a woman and a writer. Over the course of centuries, traditional Greco-Rom…
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Ep. 14 - Tertullian: He Forged Words and Invented Freedoms
Season 1 Episode 14
Thank Tertullian of Carthage for his role in forming a distinctively western Christianity. He gave us words in our own language to express the inexpr…
6 years, 1 month ago
Ep 13 - Tertullian and the Theology of Sarcasm
Season 1 Episode 13
Sarcastic, bombastic, and brilliant, Tertullian of Carthage may be the most entertaining of the Church Fathers. He also did more than anyone else to…
6 years, 1 month ago
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6 years, 2 months ago
Ep 12 - Minucius Felix and the Great Novel of Antiquity
Season 1 Episode 12
Marcus Minucius Felix is one of the greatest writers you never heard of. His "Octavius," written in the late second century, is a work of fictionaliz…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 11 - Melito and the Parting of the Ways
Season 1 Episode 11
He was a prophet living altogether in the Spirit. He was a second-century apologist, able to elucidate the doctrine of Christ for the understanding o…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 10 - Irenaeus of Lyons: Putting the Smack Down on Heresy
Season 1 Episode 10
In the late second century the Church suffered an infestation of heresies — many of them, and they kept changing their claims. Into the fray God sent…
6 years, 3 months ago