CCM “Summer School” Podcasts
During the 2019 summer break, our campus minister will be putting out a series of podcasts. We’re calling it “CCM Summer School” but hopefully it will be more enjoyable than sitting in a classroom on a beautiful summer day! We hope instead that it will serve as a way to learn a little more about our rich Catholic faith over the summer months.
During the Summer of 2019 we will be looking at Church history — specifically about the different heresies the Church has dealt with since the beginning of Christianity, and how the Church’s response to these challenges led to what Blessed John Henry Newman called the “development of doctrine.”
Or, to put it in the words of St. Augustine:
For while the hot restlessness of heretics stirs questions about many articles of the Catholic faith, the necessity of defending them forces us both to investigate them more accurately, to understand them more clearly, and to proclaim them more earnestly.
St. Augustine, City of God
It is in the spirit of understanding our Catholic faith more clearly so that we might proclaim it more earnestly that we will be looking at the major heresies of the first fifteen hundred years of Christianity.
Episode 1: Heresy (an introduction)
External Links
Bibliography
- Dissent From the Creed, by Richard M. Hogan
- The Great Heresies, by Hilaire Belloc
- How the Reformation Happened, by Hilaire Belloc
- Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, by H. W. Crocker III
- A History of Christendom (7 volumes), by Warren Carroll (link to volume 1).
- The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers, by Mike Aquilina
- The Villains of the Early Church & How They Made Us Better Christians, by Mike Aquilina
Episode 2: Gnosticism
CORRECTION: Towards the end of this podcast I start to say that St. Irenaeus mentions the Gospel of Judas in his work, Against Heresies, but then correct myself and say it was Eusebius and St. Cyril of Jerusalem. Well, it turns out that my first impulse was right! St. Irenaeus does indeed mention the Gospel of Judas by name. Eusebius and St. Cyril mention the Gospel of Thomas. My apologies for getting these sources mixed up!
External Links & References
- The Catholic Encyclopedia (1910) entry for “Gnosticism”
- Against Heresies, by St. Irenaeus
- The Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Trallians
- “The Gnostic Jedi” by Deacon Matt Newsome
- “Knowing the Gnostics” by Robert Spencer
- “Straight Answers: The Gnostic Gospels” by Fr. William Saunders
- “Questioning Q” by Jimmy Akin
- The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ, by Dr. Brant Pitre (see especially chapter 5, “The Lost Gospels”).
Episode 3: Arianism
External Links & References
- The Nicene Creed
- “The Arian Heresy” (chapter 3 of The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc).
- The entry for the Council of Nicea from The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
- The entry for the Council of Constantinople from The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
- More information about St. Athanasius
- More information about St. Basil the Great
Episode 4: Pelagianism
External Links & References
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) article on “Pelagius & Pelagianism”
- Confessions of St. Augustine (Kindle edition available for $.99)
- Restless Heart (full length) film about the life of St. Augustine
- “On the Proceedings of Pelagius” by St. Augustine (c. 417 AD).
- The Canons of the Council of Carthage on sin and grace (c. 418 AD).
- The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptised by the International Theological Commission (2007)
- “Let the Children Come to Me” by Matthew Newsome, published October 2007 in This Rock magazine (Catholic Answers)
Episode 5 – Nestorianism & Monophysitism
External Links & References
- The Tome of St. Leo
- “How the Pope Caught a Robber” by Fr. Ray Ryland (about the Robber Council of Ephesus) published in June 1998 in This Rock magazine (Catholic Answers).
Episode 6 – Iconoclasm
External Links & References
- About St. John of Damascus
- The Second Council of Nicaea
- A short (< 2 min) video on Iconography from Rome Reports
- Two of Deacon Matt’s favorite places to purchase high quality reproduction icons are Damascene Gallery and Legacy Icons
Episode 7 – The Cathars
External Links & References
- The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for “The Albigenses”
- More about St. Dominic
- A video on the 800th anniversary of the Order of Preachers
Episode 8 – The Waldensians
External Links & References
- The Annual Waldensian Festival of Valdese, NC
- The Waldensian Presbyterian Church (Valdese, NC)
- The American Waldensian Society
- The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Waldensians
- The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for the Franciscan Order
- “Here’s What You Need to Know About the Franciscans,” by Philip Kosloski
- Franciscan Orders:
Episode 9 – Wyclif & Huss
CORRECTION: When introducing John Wyclif, I misspeak and say he was born in “330” AD. This is obviously wrong. He was born in the year 1330 AD.
External Links & References
- Bubonic Plague (Wikipedia)
- “Priests and the Black Death,” by Danièle Cybulskie (Medievalists.net)
- “When and Why Were Popes in Avignon?” by Tom Nash (Catholic Answers)
- John Wyclif (Catholic Encyclopedia)
- The Lollards (Catholic Encyclopedia)
- Jan Hus (Catholic Encyclopedia)
- Hussites (Catholic Encyclopedia)
- Utraquism (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Episode 10 – Protestantism
External Links & References
- How the Reformation Happened by Hillaire Belloc (Amazon)
- “Faith In Action” by Deacon Matthew Newsome (a reflection from our campus ministry blog on the relationship between faith and works)
- “Scripture and Tradition” (Catholic Answers)
- “Faith and Works” by Jimmy Akin (Catholic Answers)
- “Lessons From the Council of Trent” by Stephen Beale (Catholic Exchange)
- “The Council of Trent: Overview of its Importance and Difficulties” by Brother Andre Marie
- Bishop Robert Barron on the Council of Trent (YouTube)
- “Did the Catholic Church Add to the Old Testament?” by Kenneth Howell (Catholic Answers)
- “Why Do Catholics Accept the Deuterocanonical Scriptures?” (Catholic Answers Live – Youtube).
Episode 11 – Deism & Modernism
External Links & References
- “How Thomas Jefferson Created His Own Bible” (Smithsonian)
- Pascendi Dominici Gregis (encyclical of Pope Pius X on Modernism)
- “What Did St. Pius X Mean When He Called Modernism ‘The Synthesis of all Heresies’?” by Brother Andre Marie, MICM
- The Case for Jesus by Dr. Brandt Pitre (Amazon) – a good resource that argues for the historical reliability of the Gospels and refutes the false distinction between “the historical Jesus” and “the Christ of faith.”
- “Lessons from Big-City Jesus” by Cale Clark – included as an example of how the study of history and archaeology can help us grow in knowledge of the real historical Jesus.