Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great religious and counterrevolutionary writers of the nineteenth century. He saw Russia and Russian Orthodoxy as being central to the battle for Christianity and...
Discussions of what to do to save the Crusades grew stronger after the total loss of the Holy Land in the late 1200’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the various crusading...
Dr. John Rao discusses theological methodology, including whether it was influenced by Descartes and Newton, in the 1600s and 1700s. Another source of debate regarding teaching in the 1600’s and...
Dr. John Rao says that threats to Christian security very much increased with the Ottoman victory over Byzantium. Dr. Rao describes the Ottoman advance, which continued, seemingly unabated, into Africa...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains how the Inquisition is one of the main targets of the promoters of the Black Legends. Monsignor Barreiro discusses the reasons for the Inquisition, the distinctions...
Mr. Michael Davies gives the history of the Anglican Ordinal. He discusses in detail the Anglican Ordinal from the time of Thomas Cranmer to Leo XIII. Even though prominent Catholic...
Dr. David Allen White analyses the person and poetry of Petrarch, who arguably introduced the literary forms of the High Middle Ages in the 14th century, specifically the sonnet. Petrarch...
In this lecture Dr. WIlliam Marra continues his study of the topics he began in his last lecture. Saint Augustine raises questions about bodily motion in relation to time and...
Hinduism, a complex and contradictory system, promotes the worship of “enlightened God-men called Gurus.” However this dramatized study describes how Hinduism has gained a foothold in the west.
...Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...
Monsignor William Smith regards the plight of the family and current trends that have an adverse effect on the family, including the sexual revolution and radical Feminism. “The Attack On...
Dr. John Rao’s next three talks all take up the problem of the Church’s struggle with a postwar world dominated by Marxism on the one hand and Americanist Pluralism on...
The entire legalist-Humanist-Protestant-Jansenist-Enlightenment alliance became a new Grand Coalition which seized upon the image of freedom and placed it on its banners. All those who yearned to be free had...
Dr. John Rao’s talk concerns the life of Orthodox, Nestorian, and Monophysite Christians under the Moslems in the Middle East in the 700’s and 800’s. A short discussion of the...
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...
John Rao discusses how Church Theory is often defeated by Church practice. Papal teaching in the interwar period theoretically confirmed the message of the nineteenth century revival movement regarding how...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Alexandria to Antioch. Origen’s profound theological influence extended into Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor. Here it also encountered many...
Dr. William Marra looks at modern warfare with the Christian conscience. Dr. Marra examines not only the ethical questions involved in modern warfare, but also unilateral disarmament, the peace movement,...
After reviewing the history of the indult, Father James McLucas digs into 20th century Church history. The opposing forces of old and new theology collided in a mountainous battle. The...
Dr. John Rao shows that in order for theology to grow, sources of Christian teaching had to be more clearly identified, authoritative interpreters pinpointed, and, inevitably, the value of Greek...
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