The History of the Christian Church - 2000 Years of Christian Thought.
A History Podcast of the Christian Church told through the lives and thoughts of it's greatest thinkers.
Season 1 – A.D. 1 – A.D. 500
Plato and Greek philosophy.
Apostolic fathers
Justin Martyr
Irenaeus
Clement of Alexandria
Origin
Cyprian
Eusebius of Caesarea.
Council of Nicaea
Athanasies.
Ephraim the Syrian.
The Cappadocian fathers.
The Council of Constantinople
Ambrose
John Chrysostom.
Jerome.
Augustine
Cyril of Alexandria.
The Council of Ephesus
Theodor of Cyrus
Leo the great.
The Council of Chelsea and.
The Apostles Creed.
The History of the Christian Church - 2000 Years of Christian Thought.
Latest Episodes
The History of the Church (Part 41) Francis of Assisi Part 1
This month's episode is a massive bonus triple episode. Parts 2 and 3 will follow over the next two weeks.Please note that this episode is a complete 2026 rewrite and expansion of an essay I first wrote in 1995 as part of a module ...
A History of The Christian Church (Part 40). The Fourth Council of the Lateran. (1215 A.D.)
SPECIAL NOTE:This episode was extensively developed from an essay I wrote in 1994 as a conclusion to a module on the Medieval Church that I was studying under distance learning through London Bible College. I always hoped i...
A History of The Christian Church (Part 39) Joachim of Fiore - The Father of the ‘New Age’.
It was an age of order, logic, and structure. The great questions of faith were increasingly discussed in the schools and universities, and theology was becoming a disciplined science. But not everyone believed that God was working ...
The History of the Christian Church (Part 38) Peter Lombard -The Man Who Built Medieval Theology.
Episode Notes:Some people change history through dramatic events. Others change it through ideas. And then there are those rare figures who quietly reshape the way an entire civilization thinks. Peter Lombard was one of those men....
A History of The Christian Church (Part 37) Bernard of Clairvaux - The Voice That Called the Church Back.
Welcome:What happens when the church becomes too clever? What happens when faith is no longer something to be lived, but something to be analysed? That is the world we stepped into with Peter Abelard in our last episode.&nb...
