Episodes
- 01
The World Jesus Entered
Second Temple Judaism. Messianic expectations. Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes. Hellenistic context.
Coming soon - 02
The Apostolic Church & Its Diversity
What earliest Christians actually believed and practiced. Diversity of early communities. Paul vs. James. Early authority structures.
Coming soon - 03
The Creedal Controversies
Nicaea, Chalcedon, christological debates. What was at stake? Why did the Trinity develop as it did? The creeds as genuine problem-solving, not just "apostasy."
Coming soon - 04
The Church Fathers
Augustine's influence on Western Christianity. Original sin, grace, City of God. Eastern Orthodoxy as a major tradition most LDS know nothing about.
Coming soon - 05
Medieval Christianity
Monasticism, scholasticism, mysticism. Cathedral schools and universities. Aquinas. The mystics. A thousand years of rich Christian intellectual life.
Coming soon - 06
The Great Schism & the Reformation
East-West split. Luther, Calvin, radical Reformation, Counter-Reformation. How one church became dozens and what that did to religious authority.
Coming soon - 07
Christianity in Early America
Puritanism. Great Awakenings. Camp meetings. Restorationism as a broad movement. Campbellites, Shakers. The burned-over district.
Coming soon - 08
Rethinking "Apostasy"
What do Latter-day Saints actually mean by "apostasy"? Total or partial? What was lost vs. preserved? The "great apostasy" as theological claim with a complex relationship to historical evidence.
Coming soon - 09
Modern Christianity
Liberal-conservative split in Protestantism. Fundamentalist reaction. Vatican II. Ecumenism. Where Christianity stands in the 21st century.
Coming soon - 10
What Christians Share
Commonalities across the Christian tradition. What the Restoration shares with broader Christianity. Building an informed and charitable relationship with the Christian world.
Coming soon