Hosted by Matthew James · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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Evangelical fire. Ritualist depth. Mormon theology. Culture, music, and modern Christianity.Empire of the Son is a Christian history and theology podcast about the movements, controversies, and imaginations that have shaped the modern church, especially in England, over the last three centuries. From Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholic slum priests to Mormon theology, Christian metal, historic sermons, and the strange edges of religious culture, each episode tries to get behind the slogans and return to the sources. Not to win arguments, but to understand them properly.Serious research. Clear argument. Lived faith.
Matthew James hosts Empire of the Son, a religion show with 25 episodes published.
Who was Charles Lowder, and why does he matter in the history of Anglican ritualism? In this short introduction, I look at Lowder as more than a controversial Victorian priest. Because he was one of the key figures in th
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What is ritualism, and why did it cause so much controversy in nineteenth-century English Christianity? In this short introduction, I look at ritualism as more than “fancy church” or clerical taste. Because ritualism was
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Stairway’s No Rest No Mercy is not just a Christian metal album with loud guitars. It is a record shaped by apocalypse, judgement, bondage, Babylon, Zion, and spiritual conflict. In this video I look at how this Midlands
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What was the Oxford Movement, and why did it matter so much in English church history? In this short introduction, I look at the Oxford Movement as more than a nineteenth-century controversy. Because it was also an argum
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What happened in 1966 between Martyn Lloyd-Jones and John Stott, and why does it still matter? In this short introduction, I look at one of the most important clashes in modern British evangelical history. A moment that
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Who is John Stott, and why does he matter so much in modern evangelical history? In this short introduction, I look at Stott as preacher, writer, Anglican leader, and one of the most important evangelical voices of the t
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In this episode, I look at Martyn Lloyd-Jones, why he mattered, what made his voice so powerful, and why he still looms so large in modern Evangelical history. Lloyd-Jones was not simply a famous preacher. He helped shap
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What is the Keswick movement, and why did it matter so much in evangelical history? In this short introduction, I look at Keswick as more than a conference. Because Keswick was also a way of talking about holiness, surre
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What is the Bebbington Quadrilateral, and why does it keep turning up whenever people try to define evangelicalism? In this short introduction, I look at David Bebbington’s famous four-part description of evangelical rel
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Who is John Wesley, and why does he matter so much? In this short introduction, I look at Wesley as preacher, organiser, revival leader, and one of the central figures in the history of evangelical religion in the Englis
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What is evangelicalism, actually? In this short introduction, I try to answer that properly. Not as a culture-war label, and not as a vague modern stereotype, but as a real historical movement with its own instincts, pri
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Joanna Southcott only makes sense if you understand the millenarian atmosphere around her. In this episode, I look at the “thousand years” of Revelation 20, Christian arguments about the end times, and why late Georgian
Show notesJoanna Southcott is one of those religious stories people treat as a joke, until you realise it is really a story about England. This is Episode 1 of a new mini-series. In the age of Napoleon, with war, anxiety, and reli
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In this episode of Hello Mormonism, we use the song “All-American Prophet” from The Book of Mormon Musical as a way into a serious question: why can Mormonism’s founding story sound tidy and familiar when it is, in reali
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In 1833, the Oxford Movement begins, and it is not really about candles, lace, or church vibes. It is about authority. Where does Anglican Christianity live, and who gets to define it? In this episode of my Evangelicalis
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Sometimes the Christian life isn’t a big doctrinal debate. It’s fractures, silence, misunderstanding, and the awkward reality that you can be forgiven and still not get along. In this episode, I set two texts on the tabl
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Moroni is easy to turn into a joke, a trumpet angel on a temple, a quirky Mormon detail. But inside Mormonism, Moroni is the hinge. In this episode I walk through the official origin claim carefully, without mockery: Sep
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This episode is a reading of An Impeachment of the False, a sermon preached by Father Arthur Stanton on Matthew 5:20: “Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no
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In this episode, we go slow and do history. If you’ve ever had missionaries at your door, you’ll recognise the shape of the conversation, because there’s a moment they want you to reach, a sacred origin story. For Latter
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In this episode I want to argue for something simple, and a bit unfashionable. Victorian slum priest ritualism was not mainly a debate about taste. Not “lace vs plain”. Not “candles vs no candles”. Not an aesthetic hobby
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