History of the Papacy Podcast

Christianity and the Roman Papacy have weathered a serious persecution and the fall out of how to deal with the Christians who had sacrficed. Now we are entering a long period of relative peace and qu...

27 Okt 201331min

This is the third of our Sidetrack Episodes. In this Sidetrack we look at a Pope who was not a Pope of Rome, but instead a Pope of Alexandria. Dionysius was the Bishop of Alexandria, then as today the...

19 Okt 201313min

At long last, we're back with Episode 23: The Ante-Nicene Popes Part 3. In this episode we will start sifting through the mess left over at the end of the Persecution of Decius. A mess is the only way...

14 Okt 201331min

In this Sidetrack Episode, we will take a look at the issue of excommunication and the importance of excommunication to the early Christian movement. We will take a look at how one can become excommun...

22 Sep 20138min

The second part of our tour of the popes before the Council of Nicaea will start in a fairly stable situation where Christianity was largely tolerated, but we will quickly move into the first formal, ...

15 Sep 201335min

This is the first of a new series called "Sidetrack Episodes." These episodes will investigate some issues, ideas and personalities around the history of the Roman Popes, but don't exactly fit into th...

7 Sep 201310min

In this special episode, we will take a look at the formation and development of the biblical canon. Why were certain documents accepted as canonical and others tossed out? This will be a wide ranging...

2 Sep 20131h 1min

In the previous episode, we discussed some of the beliefs of the Gnostics. Now we will talk about the documents various Gnostic groups used as their scared literature, along with the characteristics o...

18 Aug 201344min