This week’s episode is HERE. Novatian is generally known for his moral rigorism and the fact that he helped begin a schism that lasted...

This week’s episode can be found here. The passage I read at the berginning, St. Hippolytus of Rome on the Incarnation of the Son of God...

Today on the podcast (you can find it right here) I give a brief introduction to a much larger question: whether doctrine has in any way...

Today we hit Tertullian and the Trinity. You can listen here. Tertullian is the first writer whom we know to use the word Trinity, though...

With all apologies gentle readers (and listeners), I was at the Touchstone Conference last week (which was absolutely fantastic) and so I...

Today we begin what will be a very long series dealing with the Trinitarian Doctrine of the Church from its earliest days, up through the...

Sorry for the delay in getting out the shownotes. The perils of running a blog with my schedule. You know where you can find Episode 32...

This week we pivot to Origen’s system. Quotes from the episode are below, and you can find the episode here. I must say, that the more I...

You can find Episode 29, “On the Science of Reading the Bible” here, and Episode 30, “Moses My Servant is Dead” here. Origen on figuring...

I dove further into the life of Origen with this episode (found here), and below are the various items that I cited during the podcast....

Today we begin our look at Origen. Any look has to be partial, as he was a man of vast learning, and certainly someone who produced 1000s...

In this week’s podcast we look at the mid-third-century persecutions enacted by the Emperor Decius. The heaviest blows fell on larger...

This episode (found here) covers a number of texts, the most important is the Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas and their...

We are back with another episode (which you can find here) and of course another blog post with the content from this week’s post! Don’t...

This episode we discuss the death of St. Polycarp, and how the persecutions that surrounded his death marked the end of some decades of...

This week’s episode dives into the question of what the early Church thought Martyrdom entailed. We shall expand on this over the next...

For those regular readers of my blog, as you can see, over the past weeks I have used this as a show-notes page for my podcast, “Light...

My recent appearance on the Amon Sûl podcast, which you can find HERE!!

In the past I have always tried to post on this day, 24 June. First, it is the Feast of the Nativity of the Forerunner. Second, it is the...

This week’s episode is found here. Today we look at the question of Hellenization, that is, did the Gospel’s encounter with Greek thought...