HeyJaredTheology Unpacked
Designed for RE teachers and open to all listeners, to explore and navigate Christian theology within the new RE curriculum directory for Catholic Schools, Academies and Colleges in England and Wales.
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To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 13: Spirituality and Ordinary People (opens the original)
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In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how medieval Christianity was communicated and experienced through the everyday lives of ordinary people, offering glimpses of 14th-century society in Chaucer's colourful cast of characters alongside the Church's official vision of salvation. He highlights the crucial work of the friars, whose preaching, drama, art, and pastoral presence brought Christian teaching into towns and marketplaces, while simple devotions such as the Rosa
To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 12: Encountering the sacred: official and unofficial (opens the original)
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In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how ordinary medieval Christians encountered the sacred through both the Church’s official sacramental life and the rich world of popular devotion, where relics, pilgrimages, charms and local traditions often existed alongside formal theology. 📚 Explore the wide range of reading materials in the Heythrop Library 🤓 Join online or in-person courses at the London Jesuit C
To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 11: Authority, Content Creation, and New Learning. (opens the original)
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In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores who does the thinking in the Church, tracing the shift in theological leadership from monasteries and monks to the new universities and the friars, especially the Dominicans and Franciscans, who became some of the Church's leading scholars. He explains how figures such as Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas developed Christian doctrine through rigorous debate, while new learning from the Islamicate world, including the rediscovery of
To the Ends of the Earth | Ep. 10: Canons, Councils, and Crusades (opens the original)
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In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores how the growing distinction between state law and canon law strengthened papal authority, illustrated by the conflict between Church and Crown in the case of Thomas Becket and the Church's increasing claim to govern its own affairs. It also examines how Pope Urban II used this new authority to launch the First Crusade to Jerusalem, while the Lateran Councils, especially under Innocent III, consolidated papal leadership, defined key
To the Ends of the Earth | Ep. 9: Who runs the Church? 1076 and all that. (opens the original)
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In this “Theology Unpacked” episode, Dr John Moffatt SJ explores the growing struggle for control of the Church between the Pope and Christian monarchs, tracing the shift from imperial oversight in both East and West to the sweeping reforms of the eleventh century. He explains how Pope Gregory VII asserted the Pope as the supreme lawgiver for all Christians, claiming authority over bishops, councils, and even emperors, culminating in the dramatic confrontation with Henry IV at Canossa. 📚
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