Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. In three talks, Dr. John Rao discusses the crucial role played in the growth of Christianity in Merovingian and Carolingian...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Irish monasticism came to play an essential part in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain. But so did the influence coming...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Ultimately, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Christianized by Benedictine and Irish monks who clashed but also complemented one another in important sections...
Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians and St. Boniface. The Kingdom of the Franks expanded eastward underneath the strongest of the Merovingians and the Carolingian...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Irish monks, the Merovingians and the Carolingians. Irish monasticism emphasized the need of going into exile for Christ’s sake. They became great evangelists. One of...
Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians, and St. Boniface. St. Boniface realized that working with the Franks and the Carolingians was a necessary but tricky...
Dr. John Rao discusses the iconoclast controversy. Before the popes could bring themselves to make a final break with subjection to the emperor in Constantinople one final blow was needed....
Dr. John Rao discusses the sealing of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. The years around 750 A.D. were crucial ones for the final sealing of the alliance of Rome and the Carolingian...
Father Richard Munkelt discusses the Third and Fourth Century Neo-Platonic environment. The great formative thinker for western Christianity was St. Augustine. Still, St. Augustine did not appear from out of...
Father Richard Munkelt tackles the great issues that moved St. Augustine to conversion and shaped his thinking. He discusses St. Augustine’s theology of Sin, Grace and Redemption.
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