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Light Through the Past

Dr. Cyril Jenkins, and Ancient Faith Ministries

A Survey of Church History

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Empire and State after Chalcedon

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2024/10/03

This episode Dr. Jenkins begins looking at the variegated and often troubled relationship between the Church and the empire, and how this relationship played a key role in the shape the history of the Chalcedonian and monophysite controversy.

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Chalcedon: Where We've Been & Where We're Going

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2024/09/25

This week we look back at what we've covered, but more so at what the future of the podcast entails with regards our study of the division between Chalcedon's defenders and detractors.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation

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The Latin Fathers on the Matter of Chalcedon

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2024/09/19

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the ways that the Latin Church talked about the economy or dispensation of the Incarnation, and what this means for its language about the realtionship of the human and Divine in the Incarnation.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation

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Chalcedon the Cyrillian Council

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2024/09/12

Dr. Jenkins continues his study of the Council of Chalcedon, looking at how the fathers of the council labored to address both Nestorius and Eutyches all the while staying true to St. Cyril's single subject (but dual nature) Christology.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Dr. Jenkins new website with the Atheism course: luxchristi.co/ (note, not .com)

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Chalcedon Begins

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2024/09/05

This episode Dr. Jenkins formally begins the Council of Chalcedon, looking at the main actors and also the two fundamental questions facing the council.

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The Latrocinium (Robber) Council of 449

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2024/08/29

This Episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the council of Ephesus of 449, its background, its consequences, and why it is called the Robber or Brigand council (from the Latin, latrocinium). Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Dr. Jenkins new website with the Atheism course: luxchristi.co/ (note, not .com).

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The Road to Chalcedon

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2024/08/22

While the Church held St. Cyril as a standard for Orthodoxy in the same way it did St. Athanasius, divisions still emerged over an understanding his language. This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at how this all started, and how the Church persisted in the doctrines enshrined at Ephesus while refining its understanding of St. Cyril's language.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Dr. Jenkins new website with Atheism course:

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St. Cyril and the Correct Language at the Correct Time

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2024/08/15

The period between the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Council of Chalcedon (451) laid the groundwork for the controversy of the latter. St. Cyril's explicit use of a single-subject Christology that at the same time embraced the two natures of God Incarnate, still sought a precision of terminology that was only gradually being developed.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Dr. Jenkins new website with Atheism course:

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Let the Heavens Rejoice!; The End of the Nestorian...

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2024/08/08

Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Cyril of Alexandria reconciled with John of Antioch and mend the schism brought about in the Church over the condemnation of Nestorius.

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The Council of Ephesus

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2024/08/01

The conflict between St. Cyril and Nestorius culminates in the Council of Ephesus that not only vindicated St. Cyril's single-subject Christology, but canonized his second letter to Nestorius as a standard for understanding the Creed, and which letter became the basis for the definition of Chalcedon...but that's for a few weeks from now.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Dr. Jenkins new website with Atheism course:

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The Shambolic Road to the Council of Ephesus

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2024/07/25

Dr. Jenkins continues looking at the history of the Council of Ephesus, and how both St. Cyril and Nestorius had cause for both optimism and alarm as the council approached.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Dr. Jenkins' new website with Atheism course: luxchristi.co (note, not .com).

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Saint Cyril, Nestorius, and the Mounting Controversy

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2024/07/18

Continuing our study of the Nestorian controversy, Dr. Jenkins looks at the expansion of the dispute and the issues the propelled it out of Constantinople and across the Mediterranean to Rome and Alexandria. We shall also see St. Cyril's first entrances into the controversy and his keen focus on the issues involved.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24 Dr. Jenkins new website with Atheism course: luxchristi.co (note, not

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Union in Christ: The Christology of St. Cyril of...

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2024/07/11

Having looked at the heretical Christology of Nestorius, this week Dr. Jenkins wades into the deep but wonderful waters of St. Cyril's doctrine of the Incarnation, looking at why St. Cyril believed that our salvation was at stake in the questions dividing him from Nestorius.

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The Theology of Archbishop Nestorius

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2024/07/04

What did Nestorius teach that struck St. Cyril of Alexandria as heresy? This episode Dr. Jenkins tackles the theology of Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, and how it was he came to the conclusions he did.

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Constantinople on the Even of the Council of Ephesus

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2024/06/27

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 city. This episode we get into the details.

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Constantinople on the Even of the Council of Ephesus

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2024/06/27

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What has Alexandria to do with Antioch: Theological...

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2024/06/20

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.

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What has Alexandria to do with Antioch: Theological...

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2024/06/20

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Alexandria as the Logical Place for Heated...

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2024/06/13

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/OrthodoxEducation Doxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24

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Alexandria as the Logical Place for Heated...

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2024/06/13

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