Episodes
Sunday Dec 30, 2012
HoP 109 - Spreading the Word - the Latin Church Fathers
Sunday Dec 30, 2012
Sunday Dec 30, 2012
Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome and Ambrose use and abuse Hellenic philosophy.
Sunday Dec 23, 2012
HoP 108 - George Boys-Stones on the Greek Church Fathers
Sunday Dec 23, 2012
Sunday Dec 23, 2012
George Boys-Stones joins Peter to discuss philosophy in the Bible and the Greek Fathers.
Sunday Dec 16, 2012
HoP 107 - Practice Makes Perfect - Christian Asceticism
Sunday Dec 16, 2012
Sunday Dec 16, 2012
Christian ascetics like Antony, Macrina and Evagrius create a new ethical ideal by pushing the human capacity for self-control to its limits.
Sunday Dec 09, 2012
HoP 106 - Double or Nothing - Maximus the Confessor
Sunday Dec 09, 2012
Sunday Dec 09, 2012
The early Byzantine thinker Maximus uses Aristotle to defend the orthodox view of Christ's two natures
Sunday Dec 02, 2012
HoP 105 - Naming the Nameless - the Pseudo-Dionysius
Sunday Dec 02, 2012
Sunday Dec 02, 2012
A mysterious author calling himself Dionysius fuses Neoplatonism with Christianity