Paradise and Utopia
By Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom
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From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Communist World Building III: The Great Terror
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above
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May 30, 2025 |
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Dehumanization II: The Great War and Its Cultural Outcome
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Dehumanization I: Artistic Modernism and the Dismal Sciences
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Dostoevsky IV: Restoring Christendom's Paradisiacal Culture
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Dostoevsky III: Repentance Will Save the World
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Dostoevsky II: Shattering the Illusion of Utopian Rationalism
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Dostoevsky I: A Believer among Atheists.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Making of an Antichrist IV: "Behold the Man"
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Making of an Antichrist III: An Anti-Gospel
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Making of an Antichrist II: Unmasking Secular Humanism
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Making of an Antichrist I: "Whoever Fears the Tip of My Spear . . ."
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Introduction to Part Four of the Podcast: Friedrich Nietzsche in Bayreuth
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Introducing The Age of Nihilism
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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At the Threshold of Nihilism: The Russian Revolution and Its Utopia Project
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem III: The Architects of Nationalist Ideolo
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem II: The Architects of Socialist Ideology.
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Solving Post-Christian Christendom's Transcendence Problem I: The Architects of Liberal Ideology
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Age of Utopia Released
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Utopian Christianity
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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The Forest and Its Trees: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part II
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Monographs and Metanarratives: An Answer to Cyril Jenkins, Part I
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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When the Romantic Agony Became Personal: The Music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Secular Glory and Spiritual Agony in the Music of the Great Romantics
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Counterfeit Communion
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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A New Vision of Western History during the So-Called Enlightenment
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part II
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Secular Humanism and the Disorientation of Western Art during the Italian Renaissance: Part I
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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When Christendom Was Born Again V: From Adam to Prometheus
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Dec 24, 2017 |
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When Christendom Was Born Again IV: Petrarch contra Pope Innocent
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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When Christendom Was Born Again III: The Origins of the Saeculum
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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When Christendom Was Born Again II: Petrarch's Despair
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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When Christendom Was Born Again I: The Roman Revolution of Cola di Rienzo
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Introduction to Part 3
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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Secularizing the State, East and West
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Replacing Reformational Christianity
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Dec 17, 2017 |
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Subverting a Sacramental Culture
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise VIII: The Wars of Western Religion
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise VII: From Communion to Commonwealth in Puritan England
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise VI: The Reformation of Worship
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise V: The Cosmology of Calvinism
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise IV: The Spirit of Calvinism
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise III: The Case of John Calvin
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise II: The Reformation of Western Christendom
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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The Fall of Paradise I: Reformation Muenster as the New Jerusalem
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Jul 02, 2017 |
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The Crisis of Western Christendom V: The Protestant “Resolution”
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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The Crisis of Western Christendom IV: New Directions in Western Soteriology
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Oct 17, 2016 |
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The Crisis of Western Christendom: The Curse of Anthropological Pessimism
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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The Crisis of Western Christendom II: The Hypertrophic Papacy
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Jul 06, 2016 |
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The Crisis of Western Christendom I: Martin Luther's Reformation Breakthrough
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West VI
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Nov 14, 2015 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism V
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism IV
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism III
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West II
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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The Rise of Anthropological Pessimism in the West I
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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The Old Believer Schism and the Decline of Russian Christendom before Peter the Great
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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The Third Rome IV: Muscovite Russia and Western Christendom
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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The Third Rome III: The Possessor Controversy and Its Consequences
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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The Third Rome II: The Rise of Muscovite Russia
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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The Third Rome I: Ivan the Terrible and the Murder of Saint Philip
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom VI: The Muslim Conquest of Constantinople
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom V: Mark of Ephesus and the Council of Florence
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Sep 06, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom IV
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom III: The Second Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom II: Hesychasm
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Continuity and Catastrophe in the Old Christendom I: Byzantium in the Shadow of the Muslim Turks
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May 28, 2015 |
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A New Christendom V
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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A New Christendom IV
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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A New Christendom III
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Aug 29, 2014 |
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A New Christendom II
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Jul 27, 2014 |
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A New Christendom I
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Jul 10, 2014 |
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Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways V
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Nov 28, 2013 |
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Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways IV
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways III
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Nov 26, 2013 |
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Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways II
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways I
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Nov 24, 2013 |
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Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: III
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Nov 23, 2013 |
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Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: II
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Nov 22, 2013 |
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Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: I
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Nov 21, 2013 |
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The Rise of Russian Christendom II
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Nov 20, 2013 |
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The Rise of Russian Christendom I
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Nov 19, 2013 |
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Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West IV
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Nov 18, 2013 |
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Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West III
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Nov 17, 2013 |
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Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West II
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Nov 16, 2013 |
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Frankish Christendom and the Estrangement of East and West I
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Nov 15, 2013 |
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Introduction to Part Two of the Podcast: The Nicolaitan Schism
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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Paradise in Early Christendom's Hymns of Lent and Pascha
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Oct 17, 2013 |
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Characteristics of Early Christian Hymnography
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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The Flowering of Christian Architecture II
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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The Flowering of Christian Architecture I
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Sep 26, 2013 |
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Summit of Orthodox Iconography
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Sep 20, 2013 |
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The Theme of Paradise in Byzantine Icons
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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The Evangelical Character of Byzantine Iconography
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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The Production of Byzantine Liturgical Art in Contrast to Modern Secular Art
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Triumph of Christian Art
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Aug 29, 2013 |
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The Spiritual Transformation of Society II: Marriage
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Aug 22, 2013 |
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The Spiritual Transformation of Society I: Monasticism
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Aug 18, 2013 |
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Saint Macarius and the Married Women
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Aug 11, 2013 |
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A Pilgrimage to Paradise: Egeria and the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem
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Jul 18, 2013 |
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The Byzantine Liturgy and the Roman Mass as Acts of Cosmic Reorientation
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Jul 12, 2013 |
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Eucharistic Worship as an Experience of Paradise
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Jul 11, 2013 |
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Christian Temples and the Spiritual Transformation of Space
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Jun 29, 2013 |
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Christian Calendars and the Spiritual Transformation of Time
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Jun 28, 2013 |
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The Liturgical Orientation of the World
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Jun 27, 2013 |
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The Holy Empress Pulcheria and the Origin of the Thrice-Holy Hymn
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Jun 20, 2013 |
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The Ecclesio-Political System of Byzantium and Its Shortcomings
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Jun 06, 2013 |
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Symphony and Caesaropapism
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Jun 05, 2013 |
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The Consolidation of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire
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May 31, 2013 |
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The Consequences of Emperor Constantine
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May 23, 2013 |
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Emperor Constantine and the Christianization of the Roman State
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May 16, 2013 |
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Toward Sexual Dignity and the Elevation of Women
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May 09, 2013 |
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Beyond Subculture: Toward the Transformation of Roman Society
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May 02, 2013 |
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Four Pillars of Traditional Christian Culture
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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The Formation of a Christian Subculture in the Pagan Roman Empire
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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The Origins of Christendom in the Cosmology of Christ's Great Commission
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Apr 11, 2013 |
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Introducing The Age of Paradise
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Apr 05, 2013 |
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An Orthodox Perspective on the History of Christendom
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Apr 04, 2013 |
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The Post-Christian Christendom of Our Time
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Mar 29, 2013 |