Light Through the Past

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the 5th and 6th centuries, the period after St. Augustine (d. 430), wherein the Latin west nearly unanimously embraced doctrine of the double procession of the Holy Spirit. But this confession came with no real theological explanation about what exactly this meant. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium Next issue of Rule of Faith: https://tinyurl.com/RuleofFaith6-1

This episode Dr. Jenkins begins untangling how the filioque arose in the West. It is a long, strange trip. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

As we contiue our look at the question of the Schism, we pick up with the matter of Theology proper, that is, how do we think and speak of God in Himself, as opposed to how God works in Creation and Redemption, and how this impacts the question of the Filioque. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

Building off of last week's episode, Dr. Jenkins continues discussing the preconditions of the schism, the geographical, cultural, historical, and linguistic concerns that fed into the schism, though certainly didn't create it. The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

Prompted by thoughts on the ecclesiology of Pope St. Gregory the Dialogist, this episode begins a long discussion of the history of the schism: what it is, what's involved, and how it happened. The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

Dr. Jenkins begins a discussion of the power and prerogative of the bishops of Rome, looking at the second-century Quartodeciman controversy over the date of Pascha. This controversy marks the first interaction of the bishops of Rome with the Churches of the eastern Mediterranean. Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

Finishing his look at the Rule of St. Benedict, this week Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Benedict's vision of the monastic life came off the rails and morphed into something he had no intention for in the centuries following his death in the Latin west. Dr. Jenkins on Byzantine Empre: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict, this episode focusing on the goal of the monastic life, the attaining of God. For the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict's Rule treating the place of the Abbot, his authority, duties, and obligations, and most importantly, the place he holds in St. Benedict's monastery. For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

For St. Benedict, that most necessary thing a monk could do was pray, what he called the work of God (Opus Dei), adn this episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks exactly what that looked like in a Benedictine monaster. For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium