Theology Unpacked
by London Jesuit Centre
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To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 21: Things fall apart even more
To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 21: Things fall apart even more
About this podcast
Designed for RE teachers and open to all listeners, to explore and navigate Christian theology within the new RE curriculum directory for Catholic Schools, Academies and Colleges in England and Wales.
A podcast by Heythrop Institute in collaboration with London Jesuit Centre, hosted by Dr John Moffatt SJ.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 113 episodes
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 21: Things fall apart even more · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 21In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how growing tensions within the late medieval Church, particularly the sale of indulgences, prompted Martin…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 20: Things Fall Apart · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 20In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how European expansion, papal authority and Renaissance humanism reshaped Christianity in the late 15th and early…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 19: “Restoration and Reform” - the 15th Century · 20 minApologies to lovers of Italian epic for inadvertently putting Dante in the wrong century in this episode! In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 18: Popes, Councils and the end of Unity · 22 min · Season 5 Episode 18In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the growing clashes between Kings, Emperors and Popes during the later Middle Ages, as political rivalries and…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 17: Genesis of the future – Christian Storytelling (Sample 4) · 19 min · Season 5 Episode 17In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how Bonaventure takes Joachim’s approach in a new direction, placing Christ at the centre of his interpretation…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep16: Ages Foretold – Christian Storytelling (Sample 3) · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 16In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores two medieval approaches to the end time, both of which read contemporary events as part of God’s plan for…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 15: Spirituality and the Spirit (Part 2) · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 15In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how the medieval Church sought to tolerate and tame the Spirit, distinguishing accepted forms of personal…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 14: Spirituality and the Spirit (Part 1) · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 14In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores Christian prayer and the work of the Holy Spirit, tracing how medieval Christians understood prayer as an…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 13: Spirituality and Ordinary People · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 13In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how medieval Christianity was communicated and experienced through the everyday lives of ordinary people…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 12: Encountering the sacred: official and unofficial · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 12In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how ordinary medieval Christians encountered the sacred through both the Church’s official sacramental life and…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 11: Authority, Content Creation, and New Learning. · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 11In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores who does the thinking in the Church, tracing the shift in theological leadership from monasteries and monks to…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep. 10: Canons, Councils, and Crusades · 24 min · Season 5 Episode 10In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how the growing distinction between state law and canon law strengthened papal authority, illustrated by the…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep. 9: Who runs the Church? 1076 and all that. · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 9In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the growing struggle for control of the Church between the Pope and Christian monarchs, tracing the shift from…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep. 8: Beyond the Borders of Empire (200 - 1000) · 15 min · Season 5 Episode 8In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the intriguing story of how Christianity spread into Asia and Africa beyond the control of Constantinople and…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 7: Charlemagne – Church and Empire in the West (750-1054) · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 7In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the rise of a new Frankish dynasty that took charge of the Latin Church, as Charlemagne and his successors forged…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 6: A Land of His Own – Popes and Kings (500-750) · 14 min · Season 5 Episode 6In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how, between 500 and 750, the pope navigates a changing political landscape, negotiating with emperors in the…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 5: Christian Storytelling (II) - Augustine and Bede · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 5In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explore how St Augustine of Hippo made sense of the sack of Rome, presenting the rise and fall of empires within God's…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 4: Orthodoxy and Incursions (AD 400-600) · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 4In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, theological controversies, and new migrant kingdoms elevated the…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 3: Christian Storytelling (I) · 26 min · Season 5 Episode 3In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ examines how two Christians tell their version of history from the early centuries through Luke’s Acts of the Apostles and…
- To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 2: Romans and Barbarians · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 2In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ takes us on a race through the first 400 years of Christianity, tracing its journey in the Roman Empire from a persecuted…
