Germania: Divided and United

Understanding the relationship between the city of man and the city of God requires going back to the genesis of the human raceInstagram: @germaniapod

In 393, the Christian Theodosius defeated the pagan Arbogastiz, cementing Christianity as the dominant faith in the Roman World and proving it as the true faith. Less than 20 years later, Rome was sacked by Alaric and the Goths for the first time in more than 800 years. In the aftermath, St. Augustine wrote his magnum opus, City of God, showing that the point of faith was not to wi

Book Club! This episode follows the life of St. Augustine from his baptism on Easter 387 to the end of the 4th century. We then review his groundbreaking memoir "Confessions" and his relationship with God, his relationships with his fellow man, and his relationship with sins of the flesh.Instagram: @germaniapod

Time to confess my feelings about St. Augustine's ConfessionsInstagram: @germaniapod

Between 374 and 394, the actions of St. Ambrose of Milan and Emperor Theodosius the Great had a major impact on the integration of the Christian Church with State policy that reverberated through history for 1500 years.Instagram: @germaniapod

The story of Wulfias (c.310-380), the bishop of the Christians to the Getic people and the creator of the Gothic alphabet.Instagram: @germaniapod

In May 325, Emperor Constantine called a council of bishops together outside of Nicomedia to settle doctrinal disputes and align the followers of Christ under a universal catholic church. This was to end the ongoing conflict between Arius and Athanasius. While history remembers this ecumenical council as a unifying moment for Christians, it did not really play out that way in the i

The decentralized nature of the early Christian communities meant that a lot of different beliefs about the nature of God and Jesus were proposed and preached. The name that is now associated with the heresies more than any other was Arius, a presbyter from Libya. Instagram: @germaniapod

After the death of Jesus, most assumed that he and his followers would never be heard from again. Well, you know what happens when you assume...Instagram: @germaniapod

What kind of world was Jesus born into? And what message to he have to deliver to it?Instagram: @germaniapod