Age of Division—Great Schism to Protestant Reformation

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Before there was a West, there was Christendom.” Fr. John Strickland has written a monumental four-part history of Christendom—from the first millennium of Christendom which he deems “the age of paradise” to our current cultural condition which he labels “the age of nihilism.” telling the story of how both came to be.Fr. John Strickland joins Hank to discuss his book The Age of Division: Christendom from the Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation, which provides an overview of the break in unity that occurred within Christendom after the Great Schism to the continued fracturing that occurred through the Protestant Reformation.If you have ever wondered exactly how we got from the Christian society of the early centuries, united in its faithfulness to apostolic tradition, to the fragmented and secular state of the West today, this episode on The Age of Division is an absolute must listen—tracing the decline and disintegration of both East and West after the momentous but often neglected Great Schism. For five centuries, a divided Christendom was led further and further from the culture of paradise that defined its first millennium, resulting in the Protestant Reformation and the secularization that defines our society today.For more information on receiving The Age of Paradise, The Age of Division, The Age of Utopia, and the Age of Nihilism individually, as a package of two or three or the full 4 Volume set for your partnering gift please click here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another Hank Unplugged podcast. We are committed to bringing the most interesting,
0:27.7	informative, inspirational people directly to your earbuds. And we're right now engaged in a series,
0:34.3	which is interesting, informative, and inspirational with Father John Strickland.
0:40.6	He serves as a priest at St. Elizabeth Orthodox Church in Paulsbo, Washington.
0:47.3	He's an Orthodox scholar, a former professor of history.
0:51.9	He's an author.
0:54.0	And the books that we're most interested in right now,
0:57.7	of course, is what we're doing a five-part series on, and that is a four-part series,
1:03.9	The Age of Paradise, Christendom from Pentecost to the first millennium, a second volume titled The Age of Division. We're going to talk about that today, Christendom from Pentecost to the first millennium. A second volume titled The Age of Division, we're going to talk about that today.
1:13.6	Christendom from the Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation.
1:17.6	The Age of Utopia, Christendom from Renaissance to the Russian Revolution.
1:22.6	And then the final volume, The Age of Nealism,
1:25.6	Christendom from the Great War to the Culture Wars.
1:29.3	I said it's a five-part series. The reason is, is we did an overview.
1:33.3	That's available on Hank Unplugged right now.
1:36.3	And then we did the first volume, which is also available on Hank Unplugged,
1:42.3	The Age of Paradise, Christendom from Pentecost to the
1:45.5	first millennium. Today we're going to talk about the age of division, Christendom from the
1:49.5	Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation. And I want to start this podcast by reading something
1:55.7	or paraphrasing something that Father John Strickland wrote in this volume.
2:02.6	He was talking about the need to understand the origin of the crises we face today.
2:09.6	And he said, to do so, we have to understand the primordial and consequential event from which all micro-crisuses of our day arise.
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