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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom - A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of "paradise and utopia"—that is, of the civilization's orientation toward the kingdom of heaven when ...

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom - A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of "paradise and utopia"—that is, of the civilization's orientation toward the kingdom of heaven when traditional Christianity was influential, and of its "disorientation" toward the fallen world in the wake of traditional Christianity's decline in the west following the Great Schism.

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    A New Christendom IV

    In the latest episode of his reflection on the new ...

    In the latest episode of his reflection on the new Christendom of the medieval west, Fr. John discusses the new approach to theology fostered by scholasticism, contrasting it with traditional Christian theology.

    Aug 21, 2014 Read more
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    A New Christendom III

    In this episode, Fr. John describes the revolutionary changes that ...

    In this episode, Fr. John describes the revolutionary changes that came to characterize western monasticism after the Great Schism, leading to the rise of the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Templars.

    Aug 7, 2014 Read more
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    A New Christendom II

    In this episode of his reflection on the new Christendom ...

    In this episode of his reflection on the new Christendom of the middle ages, Fr. John discusses the new ecclesiology of Roman Catholicism, contrasting it to Orthodoxy and concluding with a reference to its most notorious statement, the papal bull Unum Sanctum of Boniface VIII.

    Jul 24, 2014 Read more
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    A New Christendom I

    In this opening anecdote of a new reflection in the ...

    In this opening anecdote of a new reflection in the podcast, Fr. John examines a famous account of a medieval English knight's pilgrimage to Ireland and vision of purgatory there, relating how it documents the rise of a new type of piety in western Christendom.

    Jul 10, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways V

    In this final episode of Reflection 15, Fr. John discusses ...

    In this final episode of Reflection 15, Fr. John discusses the thirteenth-century popes Innocent III and Gregory IX, showing the close connection between their efforts to advance papal supremacy on the one hand and direct crusades against the Orthodox on the other. He concludes the reflection by noting the recent meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew and placing it within the context of centuries of cultural division between east and west.

    Jun 13, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways IV

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses Pope Urban II's calling ...

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses Pope Urban II's calling of the First Crusade and the impact it and the crusades of the twelfth century had upon relations between the Orthodox and Roman Catholics.

    Jun 5, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways III

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses the coming of the ...

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses the coming of the crusades and the decisive role played by Pope Gregory VII.

    May 15, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways II

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses the immediate aftermath of ...

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses the immediate aftermath of the mutual excommunications of 1054 and the ways in which papal supremacy emerged as the main point of continued division between the east and the west.

    May 1, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Supremacy and the Parting of the Ways I

    In the anecdotal introduction to a new reflection, Fr. John ...

    In the anecdotal introduction to a new reflection, Fr. John tells the story of the fall of Constantinople to the western crusaders in 1204, showing how this event, inspired in part by new claims of papal supremacy, resulted in the permanent separation of eastern and western Christendom.

    Apr 17, 2014 Read more
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    Papal Reformation and the Great Schism: III

    In this conclusion to his account of the Great Schism, ...

    In this conclusion to his account of the Great Schism, Fr. John reviews the leading controversies that aggravated relations between Rome and Constantinople during Pope Leo IX's military confinement, and how they resulted in the latter's posthumous act of excommunicating Patriarch Michael Cerularius in 1054.

    Mar 20, 2014 Read more
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