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Essays and readings

Essays on philosophy, theology, Church history and the classics, written with the same philosophical-Christian lens as our lessons. By John Wanzer.

Church History

The Protestant Reformation: causes and consequences

The century in which Western Christianity broke apart. The causes, Luther's ideas, Trent's response and the religious map that was born from this.

Church History

The Eastern Schism (1054)

The year in which Christianity split between Rome and Constantinople. The causes that went back centuries, the episode and consequences of the Great Schism.

Church History

The Church Fathers: who they were and why they matter

The thinkers of the first centuries who defined faith and stitched it together with Greek philosophy. Who the Fathers were, and why we still read each of them.

Church History

The Crusades: what they really were

Neither gratuitous barbarity nor pure devotion. The context, the real people and the myths behind the most caricatured chapter in Church history.

Church History

The Church in the Middle Ages

Far from the darkness of cliché: the time when the Church preserved ancient culture, founded universities and built cathedrals. What the Middle Ages really were.