

Light Through the Past
Dr. Cyril Jenkins, and Ancient Faith Ministries
A Survey of Church History
Episodes
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Sep 18, 2025 • 0sec
St. Peter and the First 2 Centuries of the Church
Continuing the discussion of the development of the office of the Papacy, this week Dr. Jenkins looks at St. Peter and the office of the pope in the first two centuries of the life of the Church.
https://tinyurl.com/ChristasTruth
https://tinyurl.com/sundoesnotshine
Orthodoxy & Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Sep 11, 2025 • 0sec
St. Peter in the Book of Acts
This episode Dr. Jenkins continues to look at St. Peter's place in the New Testament, and how this status can shed light on how we should think about the St. Peter's successors in Rome.
For the new books from Basilian Media & Publishing:
https://tinyurl.com/ChristasTruth
https://tinyurl.com/sundoesnotshine
Orthodoxy & Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Sep 4, 2025 • 0sec
St. Peter's Primacy in the Gospels
In this episode Dr. Jenkins continues his look at the office of the Bishop of Rome by examining the Primacy of Peter and what the four Gospels have to say about his authority.

Aug 28, 2025 • 0sec
The Authority of the Pope & the Schism: An Introduction
The week Dr. Jenkins shifts gears in his discussion of the Schism to offer an introduction to the office and function of the bishop of Rome.
For the Orthodoxy and Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025.

Aug 21, 2025 • 0sec
Anslem of Bec and the Filioque
Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the schism between the Orthodox and Latins, focusing this week on Anselm of Bec and Canterbury and his treatise on the Holy Spirit, and how this became the basis for so much of later Latin theology on the subject.
For the Orthodoxy and Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Aug 14, 2025 • 0sec
A Record of Errors
This week Dr. Jenkins looks at the errors and misunderstandings that plagued by Rome and Michael Kerularius, and thus we examine both Humbert's Bull of Excommunication against the Patriarch, but also Peter of Antioch's reprimand of Kerularios for his own misunderstandings of the Latins.
For the Orthodoxy and Education Conference: https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Jul 24, 2025 • 0sec
1054 and All That
This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the crucial and calamitous event that was the Papal legation to Constantinople in 1054, what it was (a sign of Rome's new jurisdictional claims), and what it wasn't (either the de facto or de jure beginning of the schism).
https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxRoadtoCollege

Jul 17, 2025 • 0sec
Revolution in Eleventh-Century Rome
This episode Dr. Jenkins looks into the events and movements in the Latin world that lay the foundation for the claims of the late-medieval Roman popes, and how the two questions of the filioque and the powers of the pope became intertwined.
Still Points https://tinyurl.com/StillPoints
From the Morning Watch https://tinyurl.com/HaikuPsalms

Jul 10, 2025 • 0sec
The Dissonant Theology of the Latin West on the Spirit
Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion on the history of the Filioque by looking at the responses of the Latin west to the accusation leveled against it by St. Photios. What emerges are two responses, with one marking the future of Western theology, and the other a road pointed to by St. Maximos the Confessor, but untraveled.
https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025
https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Jul 3, 2025 • 0sec
A Clash of Titans: The confrontation of Pope St. Nicholas and Patriarch St. Photios
In this episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the conflict between St. Photios the Great and Pope St. Nicholas, a confrontation that touched the question of the Filioque, but involved so much more, even scandalously so.
https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025
https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025
Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium
Still Points: https://tinyurl.com/StillPoints