3.8 Cities of God: Lugdunum, the French Connection

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3.9 Cities of God: Ejmiatsin and Christian Armenia

As if an interest in patristics isn't strange enough, in this episode we're getting still more exotic. We're entering the world of Armenian patristics. We're visiting the ancient city of Ejmiatsin—leaping over the barriers of language (and even alphabet) to encounter the heroe ...

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3.10 Cities of God: Constantinople (Not Istanbul)

In a short span of time, in the fourth century, Byzantium made the leap from a relatively insignificant harbor city to the de facto capital of the world. Constantine moved there from Rome and gave his empire a new (and Christian) founding. He also laid the foundations for a po ...

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