Constantinople seemed always an event, either coming, happening, or going. In the years before the Council of Ephesus (431) the city, reeling still from the deposition and exile of St. John Chrysostom, now faced a new challenge with the arrival of an Archbishop, Nestorius, at odds with the life and thought of the most influential elements of the ci…

Two conflicting sets of assumptions faced off in the Nestorian controversy, and Dr. Jenkins addresses these as we move closer to the confrontation between St. Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

This Episode Dr. Jenkins dives into the world of Alexandria, what made the city unique, how its disparate residents handled themselves, and what made the Church there such a force in the Ancient Christian World.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…

The Christological controversies were about far more than what it means that 'the Word was made flesh.' This Week Dr. Jenkins looks at how the Orthodox thought differently about Holy Scripture than did those who strayed from the Faith.Fr. Soroka's show: https://www.youtube.com/live/1Q3nUxqurjoOrthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEdu…

This episode Dr. Jenkins begins looking at the era of the great Christological debates which will dominate the mind of the Church for the next few centuries, and begins by looking again at the thought of Origen of Alexandria.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…

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: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…

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: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…

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."By Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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. Augustine to pen his greatest work, The City of God.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/Orthodo…

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 episode starts to address.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https:…

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/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24By Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

"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: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24Luxchristi blog for the text from today's episode: https://tinyurl.com/StAugPredes…

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: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaintsDonne's poem: https://luxchristi.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/the-feast…

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 difference between Greek East and Latin West.Orthodox Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationA …

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://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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/DragonsAngelsSaintsOrthodoxy & Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxyEdu…

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: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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: https://orthodoxeducationconference.wordpress.com/By Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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: http://tinyurl.com/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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/DragonsAngelsSaintsBy Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio

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 (dubious in so many ways), Semipelagianism.By Dr. Cyril Jenkins and Ancient Faith Radio