CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

As protestants, we'd sometimes say one of the ancient Creeds, including the line affirming a belief in the "one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church." This always confused me, since we weren't Catholic.

To get around this, I was frequently told that "Catholic" in the Creeds referred to "little c" catholic, a generalized reference to all, or most Christians.

But when I dug into the writings of the Church Fathers, the men who wrote and defended the Creeds, I found absolutely nothing like this "little c" idea of the "catholic church." They everywhere asserted and defended only the "Big C" Catholic Church: a single, visible society possessing a unity of faith, worship, and government.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

02:05 - "Little c" catholic in the Creeds

04:28 - "Big C" Catholic in the Church Fathers

09:12 - St. Ignatius of Antioch (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

12:06 - Muratorian Fragment (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

13:52 - Tertullian (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

15:31 - St. Cyprian of Carthage (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

18:34 - Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

24:16 - St. Cyril of Jerusalem (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

28:30 - Ecumenical Council of Constantinople I (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

29:59 - St. Augustine (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

38:00 - St. Vincent of Lerins (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

43:27 - Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (Evidence from the Church Fathers)

44:58 - Conclusion

CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In our first full-length interview, we host Dr. Alan Fimister, a renowned theologian and seminary professor, to discuss his conversion to the Catholic Faith from atheism, and why he found protestantism so unconvincing. Not only did he find it unconvincing, he concluded it played a decisive role in the rise of secularism. We also discuss issues of political theology, Christendom, and the rise of liberalism (both "left" and "right" wing varieties).

Dr. Fimister is a member of Eternal Christendom's Advisory Board. We hope to host him as a regular guest on the Eternal Christendom Podcast. You can find his bio here: https://eternalchristendom.com/advisory-board/

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

02:32 - Bio: Dr. Alan Fimister

05:13 - Interview: Dr. Fimister's Atheist/Communist Childhood

20:01 - Anglicanism, and the UK's "Christian" State of Apostasy

24:17 - More of Dr. Fimister's Non-Christian Childhood

25:38 - Dr. Fimister's Earliest Memories of the Blessed Virgin Mary

28:52 - Dr. Fimister's First Consideration of Religion/Christianity

35:24 - His Atheist Father Reading Him C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" as a Child

36:13 - Pictures of Hell in a Friend's Family Bible

37:50 - Asking His Mother if He Could Become Anglican

39:13 - Attending Catholic School

44:45 - Those Who Know the Catholic Faith is True But Don't Convert Go to Hell

46:12 - Dr. Fimister Asks His Mother to be Baptized

48:23 - Dr. Fimister's Favorite Biblical Character as a Child

48:50 - Receiving a Beautiful Gift from His Catholic Teacher, and Being Baptized

51:24 - Why So Many Catholic Friends Fell Away from the Faith

56:14 - Why Catholicism Was the Only Viable Option

01:01:09 - The Rise of the "Celebrity" Papacy

01:05:04 - Why Protestantism Was Not Convincing

01:11:00 - Facing Protestant Opposition at University

01:12:33 - Is Catholicism Pelagian or Semi-Pelagian?

01:15:36 - Valid Protestant Points on Good Works, and the Church's Actual Teaching

01:26:24 - Why Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy are Fairly Easy to Refute

01:31:11 - Protestantism and the Rise of Secularism

01:37:08 - Why an Infallible Magisterium is Necessary, and Not Above Scripture

01:49:09 - How Protestantism Inadvertently Paved the Way for Secularism

02:32:53 - Conclusion

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION

In this Papal Snapshot, we dive into St. Jerome's incredibly Catholic view of the papacy and the authority of the Pope as outlined in his Letter 15 to St. Pope Damasus. St. Jerome was a Church Father who lived from c. 342-420, and is widely considered one of the greatest Scripture scholars of the ancient Church.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

03:10 - Historical Context

04:37 - St. Jerome's Letter 15 to St. Pope Damasus

14:14 - Conclusion

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