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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 discusses the once popular philosophical movement known as Existentialism, and the way in which one of its leaders...
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...