Podcasts by Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil

Season 2, Epi 5: Tertotally! from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.643443

This week K&T discuss that 2nd-3rd-century church father who never made it as a saint, Tertullian, and his extremely paranoid diabology.

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Season 2 Bonus: The Devil's Trill with Stefano from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.640488

This episode represents our first guest contribution to the pod. Stefano walks us through the use of the devil's interval in Baroque classical music and from there ventures into diabolic for...

Season 2 Bonus: Catherine Keller's Facing Apocalypse from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.637809

This episode Travis and Klaus discuss the new book by Catherine Keller, Facing Apocalypse, and talk through the way this contemporary theologian interprets the book of Revelation in the...

Season 2, Episode 6: Origen (sic) of Diabology from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.604316

Epi 6 focuses on one of the most brilliant, misunderstood, and maligned theologians of Church history, Origen of Alexandria, and his provocative ideas about the origin (so many bad puns coming) ...

Season 2, Epi 7: Leviathan’s Thighbone: Race and the Devil in Early Christianity from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.602018

Klaus and Travis think through the ways ancient understandings of race and ethnicity mattered for group formation in early Christianity. They also see how anti-Blackness and anti-Judaism b...

Season 2, Epi 8: The Devil&The Desert Daddies from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.599211

"We are their bodies," one monk admitted.

This week Klaus and Travis examine the practical knowledge the first generations of Christian monks developed for identifying ...

Season 2, Epi 9: A Hook Sticking Through the Devil's Cheek from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.595489

The episode that celebrates one year of 7H10H! Then we discusses how the Trinity happened, some influential theologians from Cappadocia, the devil as heretic, the devil as a man-eating Leviathan...

Season 2, Epi 10: Tool Time with Athanasius of Alexandria from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.591873

Lightning strikes twice in one week. It's a short solo episode from Klaus about Athanasius of Alexandria, how the devil might live in the air, and how Christian theology conceptualizes both ...

Season 2 bonus"CHURCH HANDSOME" from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.588773

This episode we unleash the takes upon some actually recent pop culture, viz. Netflix's Midnight Mass, and d...

S 2 Halloween Special: Devil’s Touch, Satan’s Skin from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.586326

To celebrate the witching season we devote our annual Halloween-horror-film episode to the 1970 folk horror classic, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, (dir. Piers Haggard). ...

History of Halloween (and the Devil) RELOADED from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.583420

We're re-releasing this history of Halloween we recorded last year to keep up with the trick-or-treat vibes.

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S 2, Epi 11: St. Augustine's many, many demons (pt. 1) from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.580710

This episode we look the hippo in the eye and dive into the treacherous, chilly waters of St. Augustine's demonology.

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S 2, Epi 12: Augustine's many, many demons, pt. 2 from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.578314

This week: Return of the Hippo--Augustine's Revenge!

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S 2, Epi 13: The Curse of Ham (Race and Demonology pt 2) from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.575743

A quick look at one of the weirdest traditions from Genesis, the Curse of Ham, and how it factored into patristic demonology as well as white supremacist Christianity of the 19th century antebel...

S 2 BONUS: Cops and Clergy on TV--Catholicism and the Police Procedural from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.573401

This episode we discuss a recent article in the religion/media/culture mag...

S 2 Bonus Xmas Epi: Black Pete, Skeletor Santa from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.569743

This episode 7H,10H is honored to welcome Louis Römer, ethnographer extraordinaire of the Caribbean and the Netherlands, to discuss Santa's demonic entourage in the Netherlands and Germany, ...

Seven Heads, Ten Horns Trailer from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.566086

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S2 Epi 14: Behemoth, Keeper of Antichrist’s Family Jewels from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.562834

This week's pod gets a little rowdy as Klaus and Travis discuss Gregory the Great, his demonology, and most especially his voluminous, and often hilarious, commentary on the Book of Job. Listen

S 2 Bonus: Moby-Dick? from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.559671

Massively unanticipated bonus pod on personified evil in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick inspired by a long drive across Pennsylvania.

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S 2 Bonus: Moby Dick! (pt. 2) from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.556428

Finishing up our coverage of Ahab's centipede-legged soul and mortal combat against the white weasel, ahem, whale (Chs. 133 & 134). With this we bid season 2 adieu and look forward to sh...

S 3 Culture Desk: Station Eleven-th Heaven from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.552309

Watching Station Eleven through goggles tinted as red as a cartoon devil.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaAG-SwEa7k

S 3 ep 1: John Chrysostom, Secret Star of Twin Peaks from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.548452

Back in the saddle for the official start of season 3.

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S 3 Culture Desk: Batman vs Moby-Dick from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.545061

Moby-Dick's dramatic return to the pod as he battles the Cape[Cod]d Crusader.

Twitter for 1940s Batman vs. White Whale images: @klaus_yoder

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S 3 Interview: Passing Orders with S. Jonathon O'Donnell from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.539721

An interview with author S. Jonathon O’Donnell about their new book, Passing Orders, in which we discuss spiritual warfare, the Christian Right, and the complicated r...

S 3 ep 2: Neoplatonic Demonology&Texas Brisket from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.500665

This episode is all about non-Christian, Greek-philosophical perspectives on demons and their role in the universe that were developing around the formative stages of Christian theology. N...

S 3 Lit. Desk: Paradise Lost, House of Pain Edition from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.495431

Bonus episode musings on Milton's Paradise Lost Book 2, creeping back to the first text we ever worked on for the pod, rethinking everything.

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S 3 ep 3: Boethius and the Consolation of Demonology from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.492096

This episode, Boethius uses Neoplatonic philosophy to prepare himself for his impending execution and to help Klaus and Travis understand why Batman is so miserable.

S 3 e 4: Pseudo-Dionysius from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.489139

This episode we deal with our first incognito secret-agent pseudonymous theologian, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the way he blends Christianity with Neoplatonism, and how this impacts his de...

S 3 film desk: Midwinter of the Spirit from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.486699

Kicking off our summer cinema series with 2015’s Midwinter of the Spirit, a supernatural British mystery centering on exorcists in the Church of Mystery and their battles against a “Satani...

S 3 Baker Street Beat: Sherlock Holmes&The Devil's Foot from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.482777

Sherlock Holmes, the Devil, and Old Time Radio, all under one podcast roof.

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S 3 Film Desk: Cops and Demons from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.479026

This week we discuss two films End of Days (1999) and Deliver Us From Evil (2014) both of which blend the police action flick with the exorcism film. What difference does it ma...

S 3 Film Desk: Prince of Darkness from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.472378

The Cinematic Summer of Sin continues with John Carpenter’s 1987 Prince of Darkness. Compelling devil cinema but also–-is this at once the best and the worst film abo...

S 3 Lit Desk: Heretic of Ulysses, Buck Mulligan from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.467186

To celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, 7H10H goes into the diabolical, blasphemous, and heretical elements of one of the funniest fre...

S 3 Film Desk: “I’M A FAN OF MAN!” - The Devil’s Advocate from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.463304

This episode we close out the Summer Cinema of Sin series with The Devil’s Advocate (1997), starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, and Charlize Theron, directed by Taylor Hackford.

S 3 Faust Cycle 1 from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.457958

This is the first episode of a mini-series-within-a-season devoted to the legend of Faust, a guy who was too clever for his own good and got mixed up with the wrong people--the kind who make you...

S 3 Faust Cycle 2 from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.454304

Faust is back, ready to party, and hopefully get things squared away with the hosts of hell.

S 3 Film Desk: The Satanic Rites of Dracula from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.449377

Getting warmed up for Halloween with the 1973 Hammer Studios film The Satanic Rites of Dracula (dir. Alan Gibson), starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

S 3 Faust Cycle 3 with Katherine Walker from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.443531

Amazing special guest Dr. Katherine Walker takes us through Christopher Marlowe’s Listen

S 3 Halloween! City of the Dead from 2023-12-13T16:00:10.439630

Celebrating Halloween this year with the seasonally atmospheric 1960 film City of the Dead (released as Horr...