Differing visions of how to reorder the “pilgrimage to God” competed in the 900’s and 1000’s. Dr. John Rao discusses three of these: one that saw the problem as that...
Irish and Benedictine monks both worked to convert Anglo-Saxon Britain. There, Dr. John Rao explains, they influenced one another and finally built the vision of a monastic life combining work,...
One of the greatest early problems of Church History was a rigorism that did not wish to allow Penance to have the role that it must in the life of...
Dr. John Rao discusses Protestant Naturalism. The problem of the Missions also was central to the developments tackled by Dr. Rao in these three lectures. China loomed especially large in...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...
The Roman Empire in the East could not help the West by the 600’s. It was attacked first by Persians and then the new force represented by the Islamic world....
Dr. John Rao treats here of the roots of Arianism, its rather simple basic beliefs, and its expansion in the wake of the Council of Nicaea through till the victory...
Dr. John Rao says each period of reform in the Church brings with it the hope of reunion with the Eastern Churches, and Dr. Rao shows that the Tridentine Reform...
Dr. John Rao describes the “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment. The “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment is the final element that Dr. John Rao brings in...
The monks of Cluny and others like them saw two groups that had to be “transformed” before all others: the soldiers and the clergy. In order to do this work...
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