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This week Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of St. Augustine's vision of history, on how the Incarnation is the central fact of history, and the place that the Incarnation plays as the paradigm for all of history.Orthodoxy and Education: ht
We continue our analysis of St. Augustine's monumental work, The City of God, looking at how St. Augustine, in taking on the pagan views of history of his time, lays the groundwork for a Christian theology of history.Orthodoxy and Education: h
This week Dr. Jenkins looks at the question of the "atonement" (an English word from the 16th century) in the minds of our Fathers among the Saints, Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa."
The Church thrived in the Greek East, but not so much in Rome. The old rites were now forbidden, but Rome's educated class of pagans made bold to promote the old Roman ways, and were led by men of real education. This threat in the end moved St
St. Augustine's idea of the Civitas has almost no correspondence to what we moderns mean when we say "city." So what does he (and his world) mean by this phrase, and what exactly is the Civitas Dei (of his De civitate Dei)? That's what this epi
This week we look at St. Augustine's account of the angels, and how his view of the angels affects his theological anthropology and even his doctrines of election and history.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxam
"This week Dr. Jenkins explores St. Augustine's novel doctrine of predestination, how did he come to believe it, and what we should Orthodox should think of it."Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: http
For this episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the debate between St. Augustine and Pelagius on the power of sin in our lives, how extensive is its hold, and how do we 'get' it.Doxamoot tickets: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24Orthodoxy and Education:
This week Dr. Jenkins, after a seeming gratuitous poem from John Donne (but can anything from Donne be gratuitous) looks again at how we should think about Tradition, and why this is so relevant when discussing St. Augustine."Dr. Jenkins' book
This week Dr. Jenkins begins what will be a long and involved discussion of the Pelagian controversy. This touches more than just a British monk, but questions of the soul, freewill, predestination, inherited guilt and corruption, and differenc
This week we continue our look at St. Augustine, and in particular his controversy with the Donatists, whose vision of a pure Church struck at the very foundation of the Church as God's ordinary locus of grace.For Dr. Jenkins new book: http://
This week Dr. Jenkins looks at St. Augustine's use of classical and Platonic motifs in describing the soul's relation to the cosmos through his influential treatise On music.Dr. Jenkins most recent book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints
Continuing with his discussion of St. Augustine, Dr. Jenkins explores the Saint's account of his conversion to Christ as recounted in the Confessions.Orthodoxy and Education: https://orthodoxeducationconference.wordpress.com/Perilous Realm:
This week Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of St. Augustine, looking at his life up to his momentous conversion in Milan.Info on Dr. Jenkins new book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaintsInfo on the Orthodoxy & Education Conference: htt
This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at St. Augustine's intellectual formation, and how he came from rebellious son to intellectual arrogance and at last to a questioning what he thought he believed.Dr. Jenkins new book: http://tinyurl.com/Dragons
This wee Dr. Jenkins begins his discussion of the monumental and monumentally problematic figure of St. Augustine: monk, commentator, preacher, bishop, and writer. You can order Dr. Jenkins recent book at http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaints
In this episode Dr. Jenkins returns to a listener's question about the relationship of history to truth, and the findings of that discipline to our Orthodox understanding of our clearly historical faith. Dr. Jenkins new book can be found here:
This Episode Dr. Jenkins answers your questions almost completely, but....leaves one that could be quite involved until next week (and thus pushes St. Augustine off for another week).Dr. Jenkins' new book: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaint
This week the Podcast shifts towards the west as we look at St. John Cassian. St. John had immense influence on western monasticism through St. Benedict's Rule. But also has been maligned (wrongly) as one of the sources of that dubious theology
This week Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of the Origenist controversy by looking at its several stages, the key components, and why it is actually several smaller controversies which each had more or less to do with Origen.
This episode Dr. Jenkins continues looking at the first Origenistic controversy by looking at the key Origenist, namely the enigmatic Evagrius of Pontus, and his weird and wonderful teachings on the nature of the soul and prayer (sometimes weir
This week we continue our discussion of the first Origenistic controversy by looking closer at the life and teachings of St. Epiphanius, and what it was he found so odious about Origen.
This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the Origenistic controversy by running down the rabbit hole of the Anthropomorphite controversy (AD 399). It is more bizarre than anything Alice encountered.
In this episode Dr. Jenkins begins his look at the first Origenistic controversy, the key players, and some of the messy , bitter, and acrid issues involved.
Dr. Jenkins comes to the conclusion of the ordeals endured by St. John, including his banishment from Constantinople, the continued persecution of his followers, and the persistent malice aimed at him by his enemies.
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