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Dr. Jenkins is the Director of the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture at Eastern University He has taught History, Theology, Greats, Latin, and Greek, and recently published A Perilous Realm: Confronting Dragons, Angels, and Saints in the Ordering of the Soul.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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This episode Dr. Jenkins formally begins the Council of Chalcedon, looking at the main actors and also the two fundamental questions facing the council.Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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At 16, Wadeed fell in love with Youth Equipped to Serve's mission of loving and serving all people. He is now the new Director of YES, the FOCUS ministry dedicated to creating formative opportunities that equip participants to serve each person as the image of Christ.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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This Episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the council of Ephesus of 449, its background, its consequences, and why it is called the Robber or Brigand council (from the Latin, latrocinium). Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDr. Jenkins new website with the Atheism course: luxchristi.co/ (note, not .com).…
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Susan founded and directs Thrive Life Skills, an international ministry organization and has worked for over 30 years with suffering people around the world. She wrote A New Song: Our Journey Toward Healing and lives with her daughter and family in MichiganOleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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While the Church held St. Cyril as a standard for Orthodoxy in the same way it did St. Athanasius, divisions still emerged over an understanding his language. This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at how this all started, and how the Church persisted in the doctrines enshrined at Ephesus while refining its understanding of St. Cyril's language.Orthodoxy a…
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Clarissa grew up in South Africa, and has a background in acting. She homeschools three fiercely spirited girls and is wife to a man who gets paid to make actors look like superheroes. The Murrays live in downtown Atlanta, with their 90-lb Doberman named Blaise.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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The period between the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Council of Chalcedon (451) laid the groundwork for the controversy of the latter. St. Cyril's explicit use of a single-subject Christology that at the same time embraced the two natures of God Incarnate, still sought a precision of terminology that was only gradually being developed.Orthodoxy …
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Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Cyril of Alexandria reconciled with John of Antioch and mend the schism brought about in the Church over the condemnation of Nestorius.Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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Dr. Mark Faries, professor in behavioral medicine and adjunct faculty with the College of Medicine with Texas A&M College of Medicine and School of Public Health, Mark is the Director of the Well Church Initiative. He specializes in theology in health, health behavior change, and the role of religious beliefs in chronic disease prevention.…
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The conflict between St. Cyril and Nestorius culminates in the Council of Ephesus that not only vindicated St. Cyril's single-subject Christology, but canonized his second letter to Nestorius as a standard for understanding the Creed, and which letter became the basis for the definition of Chalcedon...but that's for a few weeks from now.Orthodoxy a…
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Zachary Porcu is a professor of history and theology and a catechist. His is the author of Journey to Reality. He earned his PhD in church history from the Catholic University of America and holds degrees in philosophy, classics, and interdisciplinary humanities.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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Dr. Jenkins continues looking at the history of the Council of Ephesus, and how both St. Cyril and Nestorius had cause for both optimism and alarm as the council approached.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24Dr. Jenkins' new website with Atheism course: luxchristi.co (note, not…
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Continuing our study of the Nestorian controversy, Dr. Jenkins looks at the expansion of the dispute and the issues the propelled it out of Constantinople and across the Mediterranean to Rome and Alexandria. We shall also see St. Cyril's first entrances into the controversy and his keen focus on the issues involved.Orthodoxy and Education: https://…
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Having looked at the heretical Christology of Nestorius, this week Dr. Jenkins wades into the deep but wonderful waters of St. Cyril's doctrine of the Incarnation, looking at why St. Cyril believed that our salvation was at stake in the questions dividing him from Nestorius.Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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A mother, writer, and teacher of college students and preschoolers, Laura received her Ph.D. from Harvard, earned tenure, published her first academic book, and then left to homeschool her children. She's working to set up Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in her parish.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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What did Nestorius teach that struck St. Cyril of Alexandria as heresy? This episode Dr. Jenkins tackles the theology of Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, and how it was he came to the conclusions he did.Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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Constantinople seemed always an event, either coming, happening, or going. In the years before the Council of Ephesus (431) the city, reeling still from the deposition and exile of St. John Chrysostom, now faced a new challenge with the arrival of an Archbishop, Nestorius, at odds with the life and thought of the most influential elements of the ci…
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Aleksandr Jovic just made his directorial debut with the documentary, Beyond the Peak. He has spent years in Hollywood, working in various roles in both production and post-production. Get to know Aleksandr, and learn about his lenten documentary!Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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What has Alexandria to do with Antioch: Theological Assumptions on the Eve of the Nestorian Controversy
Two conflicting sets of assumptions faced off in the Nestorian controversy, and Dr. Jenkins addresses these as we move closer to the confrontation between St. Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople.Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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Kristi grew up with a Yiayia who truly lived the faith. In one of the hardest experiences of Kristi’s life, she was diagnosed with MS and Lyme. She relied on prayer, like Yiayia, and this struggle led to her true calling - author and illustrator of Orthodox children’s books!Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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This Episode Dr. Jenkins dives into the world of Alexandria, what made the city unique, how its disparate residents handled themselves, and what made the Church there such a force in the Ancient Christian World.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…
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Evan and his wife discovered Orthodoxy in 2008 and soon established Otherworldly Productions, a video production company specializing in quirky commercials (Adidas, Clif Bar). Now, they're focused on Facing Phantoms, a feature-length documentary on the beauty of Orthodoxy.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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The Christological controversies were about far more than what it means that 'the Word was made flesh.' This Week Dr. Jenkins looks at how the Orthodox thought differently about Holy Scripture than did those who strayed from the Faith.Fr. Soroka's show: https://www.youtube.com/live/1Q3nUxqurjoOrthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEdu…
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With years of experience in prison ministry, Fr. Michael Pejovic serves as a Prison Relationship Manager for OCPM, responding to the spiritual needs of prisoners and supporting the community surrounding them. Serbian-American, he serves as an OCA priest in New Jersey.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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This episode Dr. Jenkins begins looking at the era of the great Christological debates which will dominate the mind of the Church for the next few centuries, and begins by looking again at the thought of Origen of Alexandria.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…
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This week Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of St. Augustine's vision of history, on how the Incarnation is the central fact of history, and the place that the Incarnation plays as the paradigm for all of history.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…
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Fr. Nick specializes in negotiation, diplomacy, peacemaking, and change leadership. He has used those gifts in service to the GOA, the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Assembly of Bishops, and the UN––and now he's part of the effort to translate the Divine Liturgy into ASL.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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We continue our analysis of St. Augustine's monumental work, The City of God, looking at how St. Augustine, in taking on the pagan views of history of his time, lays the groundwork for a Christian theology of history.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/OrthodoxEducationDoxamoot 2024: https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot24…
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Artist Emanuel Burke found Orthodoxy through icons. His art, rooted in Orthodox tradition, portrays saints in fresh ways, exploring the boundaries of light and dark, life and death, and sketching out the path of salvation. He and his wife, Yam, have 3 young children.Oleh Elissa Bjeletich Davis
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This week Dr. Jenkins looks at the question of the "atonement" (an English word from the 16th century) in the minds of our Fathers among the Saints, Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa."Oleh Dr. Cyril Jenkins
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The Church thrived in the Greek East, but not so much in Rome. The old rites were now forbidden, but Rome's educated class of pagans made bold to promote the old Roman ways, and were led by men of real education. This threat in the end moved St. Augustine to pen his greatest work, The City of God.Orthodoxy and Education: https://tinyurl.com/Orthodo…
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