History of the Papacy Podcast

Did you know one of the 12 Minor almost inspired a gigantic plan for an aircraft carrier in World War 2? In this teaser for the 12 Minor Prophets series brought to you buy the History in the Bible and History of the Papacy Podcasts, you will see there was absolutely nothing minor about the Habakkuk Project. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/historyofthepapacy .  See acast.com/privacy fo...

This is a short preview of the 12 Prophets series produced, written, directed and presented by Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible Podcast and me, Stephen Guerra of the History of the Papacy Podcast. Look for the first episode next week. If you are on Patreon you can listen right now! www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/historyofthepapacy .  See ac...

Description: Salvation is a topic that people have been preoccupied with for thousands of years. How do you get to go to the good place and avoid the bad alternative? The monotheistic religions developed on idea of justification. In this second part of the conversation, we pick up right where we left off and continue to discuss the evolution of the concept of justification.   You can learn more ab...

Description: Salvation is a topic that people have been preoccupied with for thousands of years. How do you get to go to the good place and avoid the bad alternative? The monotheistic religions developed on idea of justification. Let’s look at how that word and concept evolved throughout the ages.   You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: http://atoz...

Sidetrack Episode 84: Q&A and Update 2021   Description: Today I have for you a quick announcement of what is coming up in the next few months of the podcast and the question and answer session from our latest live stream event.   You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: steve@atozhistorypage.com http://rss.acast.com...

Episode 114: Biblical Literacy – The Greeks and Learning to Read   Description: This episode is an edited version of the 2nd presentation I’ve done on literacy in the ancient world. These episodes are really fun and special for me because I can talk about many subjects I’m passionate about. The history of the Popes of Rome, Christianity, the bible, book production, literacy and the history of lite...

This is a very fun episode for me. It started off with an email from a listener who corrected me on a point I made about the history of the Christian liturgy. It turns out, the listener is a university academic, who has written papers on the foundations of the Christian liturgy. Well I just had to have Professor Andrew Messmer on the show. New information coming out from the academy is always real...

Description: For this episode, we have a really fun collaboration with another papal history podcast, Pontifacts with Bry and Fry. The history of the popes of Rome is such a nearly infinite topic, which is great because the institution can be looked at in many different ways. I take more of a scatter shot approach. I pick and choose and follow threads in interesting directions. I like the politics...

Description: Today Joshua of the Our Foundations Podcast and I continue to discuss the relationships and connections between the early Modern Period and today. Today we see some of the relationships between the power structures of the church, secular government and the academia which existed hundreds of years ago still have connections to this day.   Learn more about our guest: The Our Foundations...

Description: Today Joshua of the Our Foundations Podcast and I continue to discuss the relationships and connections between the early Modern Period and today.   Learn more about our guest: The Our Foundations Podcast - https://ourfoundations.podbean.com/ History of  North America Podcast - https://anchor.fm/mark -vinet     www.markvinet.com/podcast   You can learn more about the History of Papacy...

Description: The next few episodes have a little bit of background that will put them into context. I recorded this episode going on a year ago with Josh from the Our Foundations Podcast. One thing led to another and I am just getting around to publishing the conversation now. Join Josh and I as we talk about the Church, organizational politics, and pandemics before they were all the news.   Learn...

Episode 108 Fratelli Tutti Papal Encyclical   Description: Papal encyclicals are a big deal and they don’t come out often. Encyclicals are the way the popes of Rome push out their big new teachings. Francis I has been pope a little over 7 years by this point in October 2020 and has just published his third Papal Encyclical. Francis’ encyclicals are whales too. They are huge documents stuffed with...

Sidetrack Episode 83 Halloween and Special Announcement! Description: What are the origins of the Christian celebration of Halloween? How does Halloween fit into the All Hallows Tide? What is the All Hallows Tide? These questions and more will be answered in the very first History of the Papacy in 10 Minutes Episode. Normally they will only be available on YouTube, but this is a special treat with...

Description: I’m joined by Terry Young of the History of the Early Church Podcast. We discuss one of the most fascinating aspects of Christian history, martyrs. Today, we will get into more of the details of Christian martyrs and martyrdom and talk about a framework to look at individual martyr stories. You can even play at home!    Links to Today’s Guests: The History of the Early Church Podcast...

Description: Today I’m joined by Terry Young of the History of the Early Church Podcast. We discuss one of the most fascinating aspects of Christian history, martyrs. Who were the early Christian martyrs? Why did they act the way they did? Were the tales of martyrdom accurate or overblow? We will address all those questions and more in this 2 part special!   Links to Today’s Guests: The History of...

Description: The International Congress of Coptic Studies does not usually make waves in mass media or popular culture. But at the group’s 2012 meetings in Rome, unbeknownst to most of the attendees, Harvard professor Karen King had a big announcement planned in conjunction with her scheduled lecture. Now begins the drama of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.   Links to Today’s Guests: Max Gulker: @maxg_e...

Description: Moses had a great career, but he wasn’t able to enter the Promised Land. The Old Testament picks up the rest of the story with the person who would lead the chaotic, violent and sometimes boring narrative of the Hebrew people’s conquest of the Canaan. Come and listen as Garry Stevens and I take you on a guided tour of the Book of Joshua!   You can learn more about the History of Papac...

Description: Today’s episode is my introduction to a series I am doing on the development of book culture in Christianity. The end goal is to look at how the book as a way of presenting and disseminating information helped spread Christianity from its very beginnings all the way today. This is really a look at the history of book production, publication, changes in literacy and education. These ar...

Description: This is a presentation of The Pilgrimage of Etheria audiobook from Librivox. https://librivox.org/the-pilgrimage-of-etheria-by-etheria/   You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: steve@atozhistorypage.com http://rss.acast.com/historyofthepapacy https://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacy https://www.faceb...

Description: Today, we delve into one of the most important parts of day to day religion. The liturgy or mass is how day to day people engage in their religion. We are going to look at the foundations of the Christian liturgy and one of the most important sources for early liturgical practices, The Travels of Etheria. We will also talk about this fascinating travelogue while we are here.   You can...

Episode 101 The Top 7 Heresies of Christianity Part 2   Description: Our goal for this episode is to discuss the top 7 heresies of Christianity. Some of the heresies we will discuss happened before the late 700s/early 800’s and some had their beginnings in this time period and grew through the ages. We’ll talk about Gnosticism, Christology and much more!   You can learn more about the History of P...

Episode 100 The Top 7 Heresies of Christianity Part 1   Description: In the next two episodes, we will look at the top 7 heresies of Christianity. Some of the heresies we will discuss happened before the late 700s/early 800’s and some had their beginnings in this time period and grew through the ages. We’ll talk about Gnosticism, Christology and much more!   You can learn more about the History of...

Episode 99 The Late Byzantine Papacy and Maximus the Confessor   Description: Today, we are going to wrap up the so called Byzantine era of the papacy. This was a time when nearly every pope was eastern in origin and owed his job to the emperor in Constantinople. Things will change dramatically for the popes after this time. We also see some interesting stories, like a bishop of England who came f...

Episode 98: Stubborn Wills and Natures   Description: Today we are going back to talking about the monotheletism controversy. This was a very difficult time politically and religiously for papacy. The popes had to balance their relationship with the emperors in Constantinople and their local political position along with making sure their theology was correct. It was not an easy time to be pope!  ...

Episode 97 Early Spanish Christianity   Description: Last episode, we discussed the political history of the Iberian peninsula up to and just past the Islamic conquest. This time, we are going to zoom in on the Christian history of the area of modern day Spain and Portugal up to the same point in history. The Iberian peninsula might be a long way from the land where Christianity was founded, but i...