Podcast – Orthodox Church History

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Orthodoxy in America, The Alaskan Mission. St. Tikhon, Conversion of Uniates,. Revolution and disintegration of united missionary Church. Immigrant churches. Transition to English and re-emergence of a Pan-Orthodox mission. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_34-America.mp3

Ottoman Empire 18-19th Centuries, The Church under Turkish rule. Nationalist independence movements. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_33-Ottomans18-19.mp3

Russia 18-19th Centuries, Enlightenment and Romantic influences. Revival of Hesychasm. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_32-Russia-6-18th-19th-B.mp3

Peter the Great 17th-18th Century, Westernization of Russia and theological education and persecution of the Church. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_31-Russia-5-Peter.mp3

Old Believer Schism 17th Century, Bishop Nikon changes service books. Maxim the Greek, Old Believer schism. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_30-Russia-4-oldbeliv.mp3

Ivan the Terrible and Peter Moghila 16th-17th Century, Ivan the Terrible’ conflict with Metropolitan Phillip. Peter Moghila and westernization of Russian service books in Western Russia. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_29-Russia-3-Ivan.mp3

Mongel Conquest and Rise of Moscow 14th-15th Century, Division of Russia by Mongol conquest. Rivalry of Moscow and Lithuania. Sergius of Radonezh, Hesychast Monastic Movement. Rise of Moscow – Third Rome. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_28-Russia-2-Mongols.mp3

Kievan Period 9-13th Century, Conversion of Russia and development of Kievan Church, Alexander Nevsky. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_27-Russia-1-Kiev.mp3

The Protestant Reformation 1516-> Martin Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Anabaptists, Anglicanism, leading to modern Protestantism. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_26-Protestantism.mp3

After The Fall of Constantinople 1453. Historical developments in Byzantium, Europe and Russia after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_25-FallCpol.mp3

Unionism at end of Byzantine Empire. The Council of Florence in 1439 in the context of unionism in the late Byzantine Empire as a response to political weakness following the Crusader conquest of Constantinople in 1204AD. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_24-Unionism.mp3

Scholasticism and St. Gregory Palamas 11th-14th Century. Scholasticism resulted from the introduction into Christian thought of Aristotle’s view of God and man’s relationship to the spiritual world. While Scholasticism was largely defeated in the East through the work of Gregory Palamas, it became dominant in the West. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_22-ScholasitcismE.mp3

The Papal Revolution 1046-1518, The Papal Revolution transformed Western Christianity gradually replacing consenus with monarchy and introducing secular rule into the Church. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_21-PapacyM-ed.mp3

Filioque, St. Photios and the Council of 879 AD The Emperor Charlemagne and the Filioque, SS. Cyril and Methodius and mission to the Slavs, St. Photius and Council of Constantinople in 879AD condemn the Filioque. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_20-Filioque_WEB.mp3

Iconoclasm and 7th Ecumenical Council 787 AD 2 of 2 http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_19-Iconoclasm-pt2.mp3

Iconoclasm and 7th Ecumenical Council 787 AD 1 of 2 The doctrine of Iconoclasm and the opposition by St. John of Damascus. Iconoclasm’s effect on the Byzantine Empire and the Papacy. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_18-Iconoclasm-pt1.mp3

The Origins of the Celtic Church 2 of 2 http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/17b_Celtic_WEB.mp3

The Origins of the Celtic Church 1 of 2, The Churches in Scotland and Ireland arose during the fifth and sixth century flowering of monasticism and produced many important Orthodox monastic saints. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/17a_Celtic_WEB.mp3

St. Augustine of Hippo 385-430 AD Educated convert from Manicheeism who became the founder of a distinct Western theology. Philosophical doctrine of Trinity leading to Filioque, Doctrine of original sin and Pelagian controversy leading to Predestinationism and displacement of ascetic theology. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/16-AugustineF_LQ_WEB.mp3

6th Ecumenical Council-681 AD reaffirms two natural energies and two natural wills of Christ taught by Pope Leo and Maximus the Confessor against the Emperor Heraclius’ Church reunion efforts using Monoenergism and Monothelatism. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_15-6th_Ec_Council_ed.mp3

5th Ecumenical Council-553 AD and the Emperor Justinian Completion of integration of Chalcedon and Cyril of Alexandria’s theology. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_14-5th_Ec_Council-Final.mp3

4th Ecumenical Council-450 AD Condemnation of Eutychianism. 2 natures doctrine of Leo’s Tome. Monophysite schism. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/13-4th_Ec_Council.mp3

3rd Ecumenical Council-431 AD Conflict between Nestorius and Cyril of Alexandria over the term “Theotokos” and the question of who was born of Mary. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/WEB_12-3rd_Ec_Council_ed_D_WEB.mp3

2nd Ecumenical Council-Constantinople 381 AD St. Basil the Great and the doctrine of three hypostases in the Trinity. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/11-2nd_Ec_-C_WEB.mp3

1st Ecumenical Council-Nicea 325 AD and the struggle with Arianism, Athanasius, and the controversy over the term “homoousios”. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/10-1st_Ec_Council_J_WEB.mp3

Monasticism in the 4th-5th Centuries surveys monastic literature, types of monasticism, struggle with Gnosticism, conflict between Theophilus and Evagrian’ Origenism, Gregory of Nyssa. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/9bMonasticism_in_the_fourth_century_WEB.mp3

Donatism 313AD -> was the controversy between rival hierarchies in North Africa based on the question of whether personal sins invalidate sacraments. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/9donatism_WEB.mp3

Diocletian’s Persecution 303-313 AD was a severe and lengthy persecution of Christianity in the Roman Empire ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/8Diocletian_s_Persecution_WEB.mp3

Cyprian of Carthage 200-258 AD Bishop of Carthage during the Decian Persecution. Participated in penance and rebaptism controversies. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/7Cyprian_WEB.mp3

Origen of Alexandria (185-254AD) was a zealous and well educated Christian youth who became an instructor of Christian converts during the persecution that killed his father. He was a leading Biblical scholar and Spiritual writer. Unfortunately, while attempting to refute Gnosticsm, his theology was influenced by the Gnostic presupposition that the world was evil. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/6Origen2006A.mp3

Tertullian of Carthage (160-220AD) was a second century Roman lawyer who converted to Christianity in North Africa . Tertullian wrote extensively about Christian life and faith. He later left the Church to join the rigorist Montanists, and his writings reflect his transition from Orthodoxy to sectarianism. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/5Tertullian-2006-A_WEB.mp3

Clement of Alexandria (150-215AD) was a philosopher who converted to Christianity and ran a school for converts in Alexandria, Egypt. He wrote an extensive handbook on Christian life as well as works on the Christian view of Paganism and philosophy. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/4ClementAlex-2006-C_WEB.mp3

St. Irenaeus (130-202AD) was a disciple of Polycarp in Smyrna, the disciple of the Apostle John. In his struggles with Gnosticism as bishop of Lyons in Gaul, Irenaeus defined the Church by its unity, universality, and continuation of the Apostolic Faith in its scriptures, creed, and preaching http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/3Irenaeus-2005-final.mp3

St. Justin the Philosopher (130-165AD) was a Samaritan follower of Plato’s philosophy who converted to Christianity in the early second century and became a Christian Philosopher in Rome. While many of his works are lost, his two surviving Apologies or defenses of Christianity show both what many educated Romans came to admire in Christianity and the […]

St. Ignatius was Patriarch of Antioch at the beginning of the second century. He wrote a number of letters concerning the Church and its struggle with Gnosticism while on his journey through Western Asia Minor on his way to martyrdom in about 117AD. http://archive.org/download/OrthodoxChurchHistory/1Ignatius-2005-final.mp3