A Podcast All About Christianity
While Christianity was developing within the western Roman Empire, it was also developing within the easter Roman Empire, what we often call the Byzantine Empire. One of the most important emperors based out of Constantinople was Justinian. This video will give you a bit of an overview of this influential historical figure. You might also … Read More “Justinian and the Byzantine Empire” »
The Hagia Sophia has been in the news lately as this historic church turned museum has now become a mosque. This short documentary gives a nice introduction to the Hagia Sophia. For more about this period of history, I recommend The History of Byzantium.
As I’m publishing this, we are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this is not the first pandemic. Many times through history, diseases have ravaged civilization. One of the bad ones was the Justinian Plague that affected the Byzantine Empire. This is an extract from Procopius’ ‘History of The Wars‘ in which he … Read More “The Justinian Plague” »
The city of Constantinople is extremely important in the history of Christianity, arguably as important as Rome. It was the centre of Christianity in the East and it was here that Christians resisted the Muslim advance. Constantinople had held out against incredible odds for a long time. But it could not last forever. This interesting … Read More “Fall Of Constantinople 1453” »
What is the role of images? What exactly were icons? Such questions played a major role in church history. Some icons as an important part of worship and others saw it as a breaking of commandments. This short video gives a nice summary of icon controversy of the church.
