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Hi there.

This is Chris Stewart of the History of China podcast.

Stephen Guerra has been tackling one of the most information-dense topics I can think of,

the popes of Rome and the councils that shaped the branching pathways of the early church.

And what's more, he's been telling that insanely complex story in a way that's not only easy to

follow, but fun and interesting. As Stephen concludes his overview of the Second Ecumenical Council,

he will be approaching one of the pivotal moments in the church's history, but one that may not

seem quite so important at the time as it will ultimately prove to be. I'm speaking of the reign

of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, beginning in 386. His teachings will ultimately be branded as heresy and purged

from Anatolia, but we'll find a home in Sassanid Persia as the Church of the East, and ultimately

wend its way across the entire length of the Silk Road and into China and Mongolia.

Largely thanks to the efforts of these heretical Nestorian missionaries to the east,

Europe during the Crusades will begin to hear legends of a Prestor John,

who was helping them crush Islam in a Christian vice.

But they would learn only too late that this Prestor John was, in fact,

Jenghis Khan, and he made no distinction between Crescent or cross. In fact, the grandson of Jenghis Khan, and he made no distinction between crescent or cross.

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