Dr. John Rao discusses Rome, the East and the Monothelite controversy. Highly gifted intellectual and spiritual exiles from the East, like St. Maximus the Confessor, stirred up the Papacy to...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
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...
The Papal-Carolingian alliance evoked arguments from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to speak of life as a hierarchically-organized Pilgrimage to God led by Emperor and Bishops. Dr. John Rao discusses the character...
The High Middle Ages had taught that Christians were involved in an exalted but highly complex, hierarchically-organized pilgrimage to God. Obstacles to completion of that pilgrimage came from all segments...
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...
One obstacle to the organized pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao argues, failure to recognize papal guidance of the line of march. Opposition came from the Eastern Churches, led...
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...
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