Dr. John Rao discusses the difficulties faced by the Empire from the time of the entry of the Goths in 376 A.D. onwards. Here one learns of the Gothic move...
Dr. John Rao begins by arguing that aspects of the crusading spirit are natural to man, and that it was also alive in the ancient world already. Cyrus the Great,...
Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Church and the Theodosian Emperors. What was the situation of the Church under the Theodosian Emperors who supported Orthodoxy versus the Arian Heresy? Dr. John...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
The nineteenth century Catholic revival was very rich and variegated. Aspects of it had combined together by the turn of the century to create a distinct “Roman School” dominating the...
Dr. John Rao discusses Christology and the Council of Ephesus. The first great threat to the new orthodox order of things came through the divergences over Christology emerging out of...
Dr. John Rao describes the maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...
Dr. John Rao shows that Pope Leo XIII to begin with, and Pius X much more so, had to find a way to separate what was merely modern and innovative...
Dr. John Rao discusses the collapse of the “Union” to the Council of Chalcedon. The highly confusing and divisive history of the Council of Ephesus seemed to reach a happy...
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