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Back to Search4.5 The Heresies – Gnosticism: Christ as Cosmic Mind
Season 4 Episode 5
The heresy of docetism evolved into a complicated web of schools of mythology, which we lump together under the name of gnosticism. These all still d…
2 years, 4 months ago
4.4 The Heresies – Adoptionism: Christ as Anointed Prophet
Season 4 Episode 4
In the third century, the heresy of the Ebionites evolved into a more general form of adoptionism, still denying the divinity of Christ, and now emph…
2 years, 4 months ago
4.3 The Heresies – Docetics & Marcionites: Denying Christ's Humanity
Season 4 Episode 3
For the second heresy, Dr. Papandrea examines the opposite extreme from the first: these are the Docetics, including the most famous docetic teacher,…
2 years, 5 months ago
4.2 The Heresies – Judaizers and Ebionites: Denying Christ's Divinity
Season 4 Episode 2
Is Jesus Christ God? Is he a man? Is he both? Spoiler alert: the mainstream Church answered with the both/and, but the factions on the fringes tended…
2 years, 5 months ago
4.1 The Heresies - Introduction to the Series
Season 4 Episode 1
I am honored to be picking up the Way of the Fathers podcast where my good friend, Mike Aquilina, left off. In season 4 of The Way of the Fathers, we…
2 years, 6 months ago
The future of Way of the Fathers: Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea in conversation
Season 3
After 99 wonderful episodes by Mike Aquilina, Way of the Fathers is getting a new host! We are sad to see Mike go, but excited about his hand-picked …
2 years, 6 months ago
3.13 Cities of God: Last and Lasting Lessons
Season 3 Episode 13
Christianity conquered cities one by one, not by arms or propaganda, but by the quiet witness of ordinary lives well lived. Worldly power yielded be…
2 years, 7 months ago
3.12 Cities of God: Carthage, African Christian Genesis
Season 3 Episode 12
Western Christianity—Latin Christianity—began in Africa and made its way across the sea to Italy. All the great orthodox Latin writers of the first t…
2 years, 7 months ago
3.11 Cities of God: Ravenna, Capital on the Swamp
Season 3 Episode 11
From Rome to Milan to Ravenna, the Western capital moved—searching for the site least vulnerable to barbarian incursion. And wherever the capital mov…
2 years, 8 months ago
3.10 Cities of God: Constantinople (Not Istanbul)
Season 3 Episode 10
In a short span of time, in the fourth century, Byzantium made the leap from a relatively insignificant harbor city to the de facto capital of the wo…
2 years, 8 months ago