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Empire of the Son

Hosted by Matthew James · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes

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About this podcast

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.

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Matthew James hosts Empire of the Son, a religion show with 25 episodes published.

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Who is Charles Lowder? A Short Introduction

Mar 12, 20263mEp. 25S1

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? A Short Introduction

Mar 12, 20263mEp. 24S1

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: Christian Apocalypse in a British Metal Key

Mar 12, 202633mEp. 23S1

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 Is the Oxford Movement? A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 22S1

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 Lloyd-Jones and Stott? A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 21S1

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? A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 20S1

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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Who is Martyn Lloyd-Jones: A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 19S1

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?: A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 18S1

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?: A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 17S1

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: A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20263mEp. 16S1

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?: A Short Introduction

Mar 11, 20264mEp. 15S1

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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Why Joanna Southcott Felt Plausible in 1814: Millenarianism and the Thousand Years

Mar 11, 202630mEp. 14S1

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

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Joanna Southcott: The Seal, the Voice, the Box

Mar 5, 202634mEp. 13S1

Joanna 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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All-American Prophet: The Story at Speed

Mar 5, 202617mEp. 12S1

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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Evangelicals vs Tractarians: The Real Argument | The Oxford Movement

Mar 3, 202646mEp. 11S1

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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The Two Lost Sons and the Peace We Won’t Enter (Psalm 16 & Luke 15)

Mar 1, 202631mEp. 10S1

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 and Mormonism: The Night, the Years, the Voice in the Book

Feb 25, 202633mEp. 9S1

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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An Impeachment of the False – Arthur Stanton (Matthew 5:20)

Feb 23, 202614mEp. 8S1

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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The First Vision: Mormonism’s Missionary Hinge

Feb 23, 20261h 2mEp. 7S1

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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Holy Things for Hard Places: Why Slum Parishes Needed Ritual

Feb 23, 202653mEp. 6S1

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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Empire of the Son is hosted by Matthew James. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 25 episodes.

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Empire of the Son has published 25 episodes.

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Empire of the Son regularly covers religion, spirituality, christianity. It sits in the religion category, with a spirituality focus.

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