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Podcast: Professor Kozlowski Lectures
Episode: Augustine and the Evolution of Christianity
Description: Professor Kozlowski largely abandons today's reading from Augustine's Confessions in order to embark on a brief history of the early Christian church, tracking its evolution from a guerrilla religion fleeing from Roman authorities, through its acceptance as the state religion of Rome, growing through schism, and the rise of the papacy, monasticism, and religious reform. Â Where does Christianity end and secular power begin? Â How much of developing Christianity is indebted to stoicism, Neo-Platonism, or other cultural forces? Â Who the heck knows?
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