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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom - A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of...
In this episode, Fr. John describes how ideological world building created not only a hard totalitarianism in the Communist dictatorship of...
In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John tells how traditional Christianity provided certain critics of ideological world-building with a...
In this episode, Fr. John describes the anticommunist character of liberalism in America during the Cold War, noting how in its promotion of...
In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John looks at the origins of the main rival to the world-Building ideologies of Communism and Nazis, A...
In this final episode on Nazi Germany, Fr. John discusses the unparalleled nihilism of Hitler's "new order" for the West during World War II...
In this episode, Fr. John describes how the Nazis, once in power, pursued a culture war against existing German values and beliefs by attack...
In this episode, Fr. John launches into the darkest period of the age of nihilism, Nazi Germany. In it, he explores the conditions of Wester...
In this final episode dealing with the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fr. John narrates one of the most chilling episodes in the ideological pro...
Father John continues his account of the Soviet Union's totalitarian project of building socialism by contrasting its nihilistic ideology wi...
In this episode, Fr. John begins a discussion of ideological world-building during the twentieth-century age of nihilism. The Communist lead...
Father John describes the way the First World World shattered confidence in utopia with Western Christendom, and how the growing specter of...
In this episode, Fr. John reviews the rise of modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century, an artistic movement that largely annihil...
In this final episode telling of Dostoevsky's encounter with the "specter of nihilism," Fr. John brings attention to the novelist's characte...
In this episode, Fr. John reflects on Dostoevsky's spiritual prescription for Christendom as it began to fall under the specter of nihilism....
Returning to a literary career after a decade of exile, Fyodor Dostoevsky confronted one of the great delusions of secular humanism: that ma...
In this summary of the second chapter of his book, The Age of Nihilism, Fr. John discusses the early life and faith and incarceration of Rus...
In this final presentation on the nihilistic philosophy of Nietzsche, Fr. John considers the philosopher's final work, an autobiography enti...
In his continued account of Friedrich Nietzsche, Fr. John discusses the megalomaniac philosopher's effort to replace the Gospel with an athe...
Friedrich Nietzsche is in many ways the father of modern nihilism. In this episode, Fr. John describes the philosopher's relationship to the...
In this episode, Fr. John begins an account of Friedrich Nietzsche by discussing Richard Wagner, a direct influence on the philosopher whose...
In this introduction to the final part of Paradise and Utopia, Fr. John reads the prologue to his recently released book, The Age of Nihilis...
Fr. John Strickland gives an overview of his latest book, The Age of Nihilism, available at Ancient Faith Store: https://store.ancientfaith....
In this final episode of part three of the podcast, Fr. John Strickland traces the outcome of secular humanism in the case of the Russian Re...
Fr. John Strickland concludes his account of the origins of modern political ideology with the rise of nationalism, a force that not only pr...
Fr. John Strickland continues his account of the rise of secular ideology with a presentation on the Russian intelligentsia and the case of...
In this long-delayed episode (due to work on The Age of Nihilism, available at store.ancientfaith.com/the-age-of-nihilism-christendom-from-t...
Fr. John Strickland announces the release of the third volume of his book series. The Age of Utopia: Christendom from the Renaissance to the...
In the nineteenth century, some Christians in America developed radically new visions of God's relationship to man and the cosmos. This "uto...
In this second half of his response to a recent review of his books, Fr. John Strickland discusses his use of scholarly sources (The Age of...
In this special edition of Paradise and Utopia, Fr. John Strickland responds to a recent review of the first two volumes of his book series....
Most Americans know Tchaikovsky as the composer of the delightful dances contained within the Nutcracker Ballet. As Fr. John Strickland show...
What was the genius of classical music during its nineteenth-century golden age? According to Fr. John Strickland, it was an effort to rescu...
The early nineteenth-century romantics pioneered a new way of seeking personal transformation. Following a century in which deism desecrated...
In this reflection on an emerging post-Christian Christendom, Fr. John Strickland discusses two ways in which eighteenth-century philosophes...
This is part 2 to last week's special video episode, on the revolution of art during the Italian Renaissance.
In this special video episode (the first of two parts), Father John discusses the background to the revolution in art during the Italian Ren...
In this episode, Fr. John Strickland recounts the efforts of three Italian humanists of the quattrocento ("fourteen hundreds") to rescue the...
In this episode, Father John relates a case in which the early humanist Petrarch confronted one of the new Christendom's chief architects, P...
Modern historians often bring attention to the effects of secularization on the West. Once traditional Christianity ceased to influence West...
In this episode the "father of humanism," Francesco Petrarch, broods over his sense of guilt and despair, seeking a new path for Western Chr...
In this anecdotal introduction to Reflection 21, Father John relates a remarkable but short-lived revolution in fourteenth-century Rome that...
Father John welcomes listeners back to the podcast with the opening to its third part, the age of utopia. He also summarizes some of the mai...
In this reflection, Fr. John Strickland relates how Christianity ceased to motivate and regulate statecraft in Christendom following the War...
In this episode Fr. John Strickland discusses various ways in which Christendom's leadership rejected the reformational Christianity that ha...
In this reflection, Father John Strickland turns from secular humanism to reformational Christianity to see how Christendom's paradisiacal c...
In this final episode of Part 2 of the podcast, Fr. John discusses the catastrophic wars that broke out in western Christendom during the Re...
In this episode Father John explores the way in which the loss of sacramental experience among Calvinists led to the rise of a political ide...
In this episode Fr. John discusses Reformed attitudes toward worship, and the ways in which western Christendom's liturgical and sacramental...
In this episode Fr. John discusses ways in which Reformed cosmology represented a shift from the heavenly immanence of paradisiacal Christen...
In this episode Father John discusses a few tendencies in Calvinism that would serve to undermine the place of paradise in Reformation Chris...