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Sep 2023
2h 6m

Orthodox Ecclesiology (Lesson 7): The Ko...

Fr. Peter Heers
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Join Fr. Peter Heers for a 10-part course in developing our understanding of the nature of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church as the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ and the pillar and ground of the Truth (I Tim. 3:15). This lecture series will provide an introduction to the Dogma of the Church as handed down to us by the Holy Fathers throughout the ages in contrast with the more recent ecclesiological reconstructions of the heterodox, and what this means for the Body of Christ amidst the new "religion of the future." This podcast was originally recorded in March of 2021.


Lesson 1: Introduction, What is the Church?
Lesson 2: The Unity of the Church and The Mystery of Baptism
Lesson 3: St. Basil the Great, St. Augustine, and the Response to Nestorius
Lesson 4: The Church in Ss. Maximos and John of Damascus, and the 6th and 7th Oecumenical Councils
Lesson 5: The Church in the 8th Oecumenical Council & Great Schism
Lesson 6: The Church in Ss. Nicholas Kabasilas and Gregory Palamas and St. Mark of Ephesus
Lesson 7: The Church in The Kollyvades Fathers, St. Hilarion (Troitsky) and Fr. George Florovsky
Lesson 8: The Church in St. Justin Popovich, Vladimir Lossky and Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Lesson 9: The Church as Presented in Vatican II and Modern Ecumenism
Lesson 10: The Church Before the Face of the Religion of the Future


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