Light Through the Past

By Dr. Cyril Jenkins, and Ancient Faith MinistriesReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Light Through the Past episodes

May 21 Florence and Purgatory. An Introduction
Dr. Jenkins continues looking at the council of Florence, this week looking at the question of Purgatory, with a history of the doctrine in the Latin west, and how it developed.
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34 min
May 14 Florence and the Filioque, part 2
On the heels of last week's episode, Dr. Jenkins seeks to tie together loose ends as regards the question of the filioque, along with addressing some recent scholarship on the question.
St. John Damascene, On the Two Wills in Christ: https://bit.ly/4cWYqcA
34 min
May 14 Florence and Purgatory. An Introduction
Dr. Jenkins continues looking at the council of Florence, this week looking at the question of Purgatory, with a history of the doctrine in the Latin west, and how it developed.
St. John of Damscus, On the Two Wills in Christ: https://bit.ly/4cWYqcA
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May 07 Florence and the Filioque
This episode Dr. Jenkins continues with the Council of Florence, tackling that most thorny of issues, the filioque addition to the creed.
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April 30 St. Mark of Ephesus and Latin Theology
As Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the Council of Florence this week he looks at the key figure in the council St. Mark (Eugenikos) of Ephesus and his theological training and education, and why he has been vilified by Catholics in the last century.
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36 min
April 23 Making Sense of the Council of Florence
The run-up is over, as this episode Dr. Jenkins, back from Rome and recovered from Holy Week and Pascha, begins in earnest the events and implications of the Council of Florence.
43 min
April 16 From Constance to Florence
In this episode Dr. Jenkins finishes his discussion of the events in the West that made the Council of Florence a reality, one in which, unlike Lyons in 1274, the theological differences between the Latins and the Greeks were fully aired and discussed.
40 min
April 09 A Eucharistic Divertimento
On this Great and Holy Thursday Dr. Jenkins takes a pause to reflect on the Eucharist and the nature of Love in the Church.
16 min
April 02 The Rise of Conciliarism
At the beginning of the 15th century the doctrine that the council stood over the pope dominated the Latin Church, and its ascendence provided a necessary ingredient for the coming council of Florence. Dr. Jenkins takes this episode to explain this movement.
https://tinyurl.com/FrDamickDrMoritz
35 min
March 26 Blaspheming, Sword-wielding Monks: The Knights Templar and the Council of Florence
In this episode Dr. Jenkins continues the long strange trip through maze of Latin church history that brings us to the Council of Florence, by looking at the trial of the Templars, an element without which Florence as it happened would not have occurred.
https://tinyurl.com/FrDamickDrMoritz
36 min