Dec 2, 2022
Dec 2, 2022
The Christian Roman Empire of the 300's and early 400's ultimately split into three parts that ruled from Constantinople, from the confused Germanic dominated West, and from underneath the dominion of the Moslem Caliphate. What was the character of each of these three parts of early Christendom by the middle of the...
Dec 2, 2022
Dr. John Rao first takes a detailed look at the Germanic West at the time of the Papal alliance with the Carolingian Family of the Kingdom of the Franks. He examines the complex and intense effort at Romanization and Christianization of a still highly Germanic world under Pippin, Charles the Great, Louis the Pious and...
Dec 2, 2022
What exactly was Church life like under the Carolingians? What was the position of the Papacy, Metropolitans, Bishops, monks, and parish priests? How deeply was the Faith understood? What were the ecclesiastical differences among the different parts of Charlemagne's Empire?
Dec 2, 2022
The Eastern part of the old united Roman Empire was ripped apart by the Iconoclast Heresy in the 700's and early 800's. Dr. John Rao discusses the nature of that heresy and the growth in depth of the orthodox response to it from its height in the 750's until its final defeat in the 840's.