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Episode 17: “What Hath Plato (& Philo) to do with Athanasius? Alexandria as the Intellectual Hea
Philo the Jew, from the Nuremberg Chronicle Today’s episode is found here! The Passage from the Theaetetus. But it is not possible,...

Cyril Jenkins
Jun 9, 20223 min read


Episode 16: The Montanists Athwart the Church’s First 170 Years
Today we look at the Phrygian heresy, often referred to as Montanism, after the name of its founder, Montanus. You can find the link...

Cyril Jenkins
Jun 2, 20224 min read


Episode 15: The Apostolic and Eucharistic Ministry of the Church
Here are the notes and works I cite, in order, from St. Hippolytus, St. Clement of Rome, and St. Ignatios of Antioch all for your...

Cyril Jenkins
May 25, 20228 min read


Episode 14: St. Irenaeus & Bishops as the Repositories of the Apostolic Ministry
Episode 15 can be found here! St. Irenaeus on the Succession and Teaching of the Roman Church But when they {the Gnostics} are refuted...

Cyril Jenkins
May 19, 20224 min read


Episode 13 The Obscure (and even Messy) History of the Monoepiscopacy prior to A.D. 150
You can find this week’s episode here. You can find this week’s episode here. Perry Robinson’s excellent treatment of Apostolic...

Cyril Jenkins
May 12, 20223 min read


Two Questions Along the Way to St. Irenaeus and Bishops
This week, episode 12 for 5 May 2022, I am answering questions. The first is from my nephew, Billy Jenkins, who has been on my other...

Cyril Jenkins
Apr 28, 20221 min read
St. Irenaeus third readings
True, the Lord could have provided the wedding guests with wine and filled the hungry with food without using any pre-existing created...

Cyril Jenkins
Apr 5, 20224 min read
St. Irenaeus second readings
The truth of this was shown when the Word of God became man, assimilating Himself to man and man to Himself, so that, by His resemblance...

Cyril Jenkins
Apr 5, 20223 min read
St. Irenaeus first readings
And the Word ‘used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend’ (Ex 33:11). Moses longed for an unveiled sight of the...

Cyril Jenkins
Apr 5, 20225 min read


For Those Seeking but Not Loving the Gnostic Religion
This is linked to my podcasts on Ancient Faith, that you can listen to here, and here. Behold, the mythical Ogdoad (the Gnostic hierarchy...

Cyril Jenkins
Apr 1, 20221 min read


A new podcast: Light Through the Past
I have a new podcast, to be added to Path to the Academy. When I first started recording this new one, I had to force myself to NOT say...

Cyril Jenkins
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Calvinism: A Dead End Theory (a ping)
An excellent read on Calvinism, if I may say so myself (and no, it’s not by me). https://crimsoncatholic.blogspot.com/

Cyril Jenkins
Jan 1, 20221 min read


De faciente librorum finis non est: a response to Fr. John Strickland.
I finally was able to listen to both of Fr. John Strickland’s responses to my review of his works published in Touchstone. A Journal of...

Cyril Jenkins
Nov 26, 202139 min read


Way too long, but here’s why: my Touchstone article
I can’t believe I have so violently neglected my blog, but I have. Apologies to all, but now I guess all of you who subscribe will get...

Cyril Jenkins
Oct 25, 20211 min read


The Neccessity of Christian Scholarship
Something I posted at Every Thought Captive Blog. Sorry to be such a stranger. More posts to come. https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/every-t...

Cyril Jenkins
Mar 10, 20211 min read
The Unexamined Essay is not Worth Writing
The Unexamined Essay is not Worth Writing: What Socrates and Boethius can teach us about writing I. The Tragedy of the five-part essay ...

Cyril Jenkins
May 9, 20201 min read


Calvin and Servetus
I hope you all enjoy it. Did Calvin Murder Heretics? The one point that I wish to make, as the itro to the interview implies I’m giving...

Cyril Jenkins
Feb 4, 20201 min read


St. Basil and the Holy Spirit
Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons,...

Cyril Jenkins
Jan 1, 20204 min read
Racine and Myrrh Dripping Icons
I was making some items for coffee hour tonight and asked the local NSA bug to play Tchaikovsky’s Cherubic Hymn. The NSA bug said she...

Cyril Jenkins
Dec 28, 20193 min read


Niggle’s Parish: Tolkien and St. Gregory of Nyssa meet in a Dantean Platonic Purgatorio
Tolkien’s path had already been blazed for him theologically by St. Gregory of Nyssa. St. Gregory took a dynamic view of human nature,...

Cyril Jenkins
Sep 12, 201912 min read
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