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[English Edition / Theology]

"The Handwriting Against Us"

Fr. John Whiteford

It is the handwriting of the decree that was against us, i.e. the righteous sentence of God due to us for our sins which are blotted out, and nailed to the Cross. By extrapolation, some texts speak of it more generally as the debt of our sin, but this is focusing on the penalty of the sentence against us.

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Book of God, Logos of God

Seraphim Hamilton

When you understand the network of symbolic associations made within Scripture itself, you realize that the Bible and the Fathers are not roughly in the same ballpark: both of them are very precise, and they are describing exactly the same thing. Biblical theology and Patristic theology flawlessly roll together.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Hidden Gospel: A Study on the Book of Genesis

Introduction

Jesse Dominick

The whole of the Gospel can be found in the book of Genesis in a hidden form. It is important because it shows us how God intended man to be, it shows us why we’re in the condition we’re in now, and therefore it helps us to understand why we need Christ—what is it that we need to be saved from. The prophecies of Christ begin immediately after the Fall. If you study Genesis and read the Fathers’ commentaries you can basically learn the entirety of the Orthodox faith.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Mind the Gap

Fr. Lawrence Farley

For me the perplexing thing about the gap is not that it exists—secularists will be secular, after all, and most people are too busy living life to spend much time questioning the underlying presuppositions of their culture. For me the perplexing thing is how Christians could come to deny the existence of the demonic

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Why I Became a Creationist

Seraphim Hamilton

Despite occasional claims to the contrary, the Church has always confessed the absolute inerrancy of the Bible, not only in doctrinal matters, but in historical details as well. St. Augustine, for example, says that if he finds what looks to be a contradiction, he assumes that he has either misunderstood the passage or that there has been an error in copying one manuscript from another. St. Maximus the Confessor, one of the most influential theologians of the Eastern Church, goes so far to say that the Bible expresses the truth of the eternal God as fully as text can express that truth. But the contemporary naturalistic account of origins doesn’t fit with what the Scriptures declare.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Misguided Notions Harboured by Christ’s Contemporaries regarding His Person

Athanasios Moustakis

Saint Peter’s answer is interesting, when Christ asks: ‘Who do you say that I am?’ With his usual straightforwardness, Peter says: ‘You’re Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Matth. 16, 15-16). This answer is very important because it accurately sums up the belief of the Church concerning the person of the Saviour. He’s the Lord’s Anointed, the Messiah, the One chosen by God, and, at the same time, He’s His Son, Who will save the world from sin.

[English Edition / Theology]

The New Israel, New Jerusalem

Fr. John Whiteford

Is the Church the new Israel? This idea has been disparaged as "Replacement Theology." And how are we to understand the the term "New Jerusalem"? Is it Heaven? The Church? A literal city? All three? Fr. John Whiteford looks at the Scripture and patristic writings on the New Jerusalem.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Dispersing the dark cloud of the Passions

A discourse on the Mystery of Chrismation

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

By virtue of Chrismation the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth. He recalls for us the commandments, making our conscience very sensitive and vigilant. The grace of the Holy Spirit gives to man strength to contend with sin and not capitulate to the mercy of the conqueror, and not to yield to the evil that dominates in the world. The Mystery of Chrismation makes man a winged creature, born in Baptism not to crawl, but to fly.

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Quadriga

Seraphim Hamilton

There are four senses to Scripture: historical, allegorical, moral, eschatological. Why? As with anything, we ground this in the doctrine of the Logos, in whom all of God’s energies are summed up.

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Christological Inerrancy

Seraphim Hamilton

In order to have a coherent doctrine of Scripture, one needs to root and ground the Bible in a coherent doctrine of Christ. One often hears today that “the Bible is not the Word of God” because “Christ is the Word of God.” Popular as this sentiment is among Orthodox and Catholics, the Fathers taught otherwise.

[English Edition / Theology]

Sexual Purity and the Vocation of Marriage

Dr. David Ford, Dr. Mary Ford, Rev. Dr. Philip LeMasters, Dr. Philip Mamalakis, and Alf Kentigern Siewers

In light of the exalted dignity of our existence as male and female in God’s image, Orthodoxy urges everyone to embrace the high calling of sexual purity, which is a healing medicine from the only perfect “Doctor.” Indeed, the Church calls all human beings, married or celibate, to prepare for the Heavenly Wedding Feast.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

From the font wholly cleansed

A discourse on the Mystery of Baptism

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

There are such events and milestones in the earthly life of man that define his future—both in the temporal and eternal perspectives. Baptism, undoubtedly, is just such a turning point in the historical progression of the world.

[English Edition / Theology]

King of the Jews or King of Glory?

John Sanidopoulos

On the Cross the Lord Jesus sat upon His Throne as what Pilate perceived to be the King of the Jews, but being rejected by the Jews, He in fact sat as the King of Glory, for His kingdom was not of this world.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Taking Custody of Your Thoughts

Prayer of the Heart in an Age of Technology and Distraction, Part 6

Fr. Maximos (Constas)

As we begin to enter into the practice of the Jesus Prayer to engage the presence of the Spirit within ourselves we began to encounter both passing and deeper, recurring thoughts that work to distract us from calling upon the name of the Lord. What is the origin of these thoughts, and what do they show us about ourselves and how we interact with the world? How does the Church teach us to deal with distracting thought as they come to us, and make room for Christ in our hearts?

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Hesychasm and Theology: A Contribution to the Dialogue concerning the Great and Holy Synod

Georgios I. Mantzaridis

Hesychasm is not merely a theological school or ecclesiastical system, but rather a phenomenon which transcends the various schools and systems. It is even more true that hesychasm is not restricted to a particular period in the history of monasticism, such as that of the fourteenth century, when the erudite monk, Barlaam the Calabrian, attacked the Athonite monks and provoked the well-known hesychast dispute. Hesychasm is the cultivation of the tranquility which is the enduring characteristic of Orthodox monasticism. But what is this tranquility and of what does it consist?

[English Edition / Theology]

Ecclesial Holiness: On the Goodness of the Church

Fr. Edward Rommen

Perfection is the notion of having been fully realized or completed, an entity in which there is no longer any need of becoming. God is eternally perfect and thus absolutely good. Finite beings are perfectible, but their perfection can only take place gradually. Thus, the perfect is always good, but good is not always perfect. So how can these general ideas about goodness be mapped onto the Church? In what sense is the Church good?

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The Passover in the Old and New Testaments

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

The blood of Christ, both His shedding it for us, and us partaking of us, is what allows us to “pass over” from death to eternal life. It is the only way by which we can do this, the only thing that will spare us from death. We still keep Pascha (the new Passover) as a feast to the Lord.

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How God uses angels to assist our prayers

Joel J. Miller

God chooses to use means, and he’s given the angels an intercessory role in our lives. He is no less involved for their greater involvement. Angels are simply part of the many gracious and providential ways God is present in our lives.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

ROCOR HOLY SYNOD on Pan-Orthodox Council Texts

Communication of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to the Clerics and Faithful—13 April 2016.

The process of addressing the pastoral needs of any given age is one which requires both tremendous prayer and ascetical devotion from all Christians, but also the dedicated, deliberate work to ensure, in any document the Church may put forward, the faithfulness to the Gospel we have inherited. All such texts, now as throughout history, go through many stages of preparation and revision; and the fact that we, together with others, have identified serious problems with some of the documents pending consideration by the forthcoming Council should be a cause for neither fear nor anxiety. The Holy Spirit Who always guides the Church in love, is not far from us today; and the Church is not in our times, nor has she ever been, without the active headship of her True Head, Christ our God, Whom we trust with full faith will guide His Body in all truth.

[English Edition / Theology]

Is It Possible To Recognize The Antichrist?

Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

From the second chapter of St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians it is clear that the teaching about the Antichrist enters into the content of the earliest apostolic evangelization. After giving a description of the Antichrist in the third and fourth verses of that chapter, the holy Apostle writes further to the Thessalonians. “Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you this?” (1 Thess. 5:5)

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