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How Christianity Created Universities
Step into Oxford in the year 1096: muddy streets, cramped halls, chickens underfoot… and the sound of students shouting Latin at the top of their lungs. It wasn’t polished, but something revolutionary was being born.
This episode uncovers the surprising truth: the university is a Christian invention.
Before Oxford or Paris ever had quads and lecture halls, the Church built the only places in the world where ordinary people (not nobles, not monks) could pursue knowledge openly. Cathedral schools, monastic libraries, and Christian convictions about truth, reason, creation, and the human mind…
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