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[English Edition / Theology]

Has science rejected God?

Talks on the book of Genesis

Andrei Solodkov

The first chapter of the book of Genesis, as we remember, speaks about how God created the world and man. Perhaps no other Biblical narrative causes such aggressive attacks as that on the creation of the world. “It’s not scientific!” is the main argument. But are science and faith truly contradictory; can scientists be believers? And are those theories that contradict the Bible truly “scientific?” Should science, in principle, concern itself with questions of the origin of the world? Religious historian Andrei Ivanovich Solodkov contemplates these questions.

[English Edition / Theology]

Blood that Cries and Capital Punishment

Fr. Lawrence Farley

We all have seen the statue of Justice holding her scales and wearing a blindfold so that she cannot be subject to partiality or bribery. That blindfold should obscure her tears as well, for one may well shed tears even when administering just punishment. All punishment for crime, whether execution or incarceration, represents a defeat for society, and should be administered with sorrow—and for Christians, with prayer for all, perpetrator as well as victim.

[English Edition / Theology]

God is a reality

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

God is the highest, purest, and most undoubtable reality. I can doubt that you see me, or that I see you. Maybe we’re sleeping, perhaps it’s a dream. We can have doubts about this. But about whether God is a reality—it’s impossible to doubt. He is life, and truth, and the way, and He is reality, clouded for man because the devil played an evil trick on us—and we went along with this trick and called life that which is not life.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

The “Council” of Crete: The Chronicle of a Premeditated Deviation

Archimandrite Athanasios Anastasiou

This is by far the most complete historical account and spiritual analysis of the "Council" of Crete to date, giving the reader both an overview and inside look at the events leading up and occurring at the "Council", with emphasis on the Church of Greece's involvement.

[English Edition / Theology]

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

So that we would not form the impression that the teaching on the aerial tollhouses was only known to the Eastern Fathers of the Church, we will turn to testimony from the book by Fr. Seraphim (Rose), where he show that he was familiar with themany different Orthodox Western sources, which were never translated into Greek or Russian and which abound with descriptions of the tollhouses.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Spiritual Fatherhood and Modern Psychology: Thoughts for Consideration

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

In Orthodoxy salvation is a process of working to cleanse the inner man. In this process there are three stages of grace: the first is that of cleansing, the second enlightenment, and the third perfection, which is rare. We must repent and become cleansed of our wrong thoughts and sins, and then the mind can become enlightened by receiving thoughts of God.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why does God allow evil

Talks on the Book of Genesis 4

Andrei Solodkov

How does the Bible explain the reason for satan’s fall from God? Why does the devil appear to Eve in the form of a serpent? What is the trap hidden in his questions? Why does the All-Seeing God ask Adam, “Where are you?”

[English Edition / Theology]

The Mystery of Christ the Word of God Found in the Scriptures

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Whereas Protestant Christians treat their Bibles as The Word of God, the history and Tradition of Orthodoxy Christianity shows the Church as celebrating Jesus Christ as the incarnate Word of God, to whom the written texts of the Scriptures bear witness.

[English Edition / Theology]

Literalism: The Word of God vs. the Scriptures

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Though in the Bible in a few narratives a saint is commanded to literally eat the scroll on which words are written, we have no problem understanding these commands as having a metaphorical or spiritual meaning.

[English Edition / Theology]

Jesus Christ, The Word of God, and Scriptures

Fr. Ted Bobosh

I am now bringing the quotes together to explore the relationship between the Word of God and the Scriptures. Obviously if Jesus is literally the Word of God, then the Scriptures are the Word of God in some other way. They are the written record of God’s revelation, but Jesus is the full revelation of God. The Scriptures bear witness to Him. It is of Jesus that all the Scriptures speak.

[English Edition / Theology]

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Eastern Fathers

Conversation 2, Part 2

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Those who have parted their bodies do not rise so easily to the heavens as the neo-Protestants and our own renovationists would have it. There is a good deal of testimony in the holy fathers about the aerial tollhouses.

[English Edition / Theology]

Christ in the Old Testament

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Central to the teachings of Christ is that Moses and the Prophets wrote about Him.

[English Edition / Theology]

The God of the Old Testament

Fr. Lawrence Farley

I understand some of this denunciation of the Most High on online forums and the like—some people are simply angry at Christianity and happily use any stick with which to beat Christians. They take some Old Testament verses out of their literary context and entirely out of their cultural context and start shouting. What is more perplexing to me is finding some Christians arguing that the Old Testament deity is insufficiently Christ-like. I expect the unbelievers to throw large chunks of the Bible angrily across the room. But I expected believers to be more respectful of what is for them, after all, Holy Writ.

[English Edition / Theology]

Interpreting the Scriptures

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Fathers of the Church recognize that the written Scriptures require interpretation. The written texts occasionally are self- evident in their meaning and can be read at face value, but often they contain within them the prophecies and revelations of God hidden in familiar images, events, and in the language of the text.

[English Edition / Theology]

Augustine, Aquinas, Barlaam & Palamas: The Root of Western Theological Error

Jay Dyer

When Western theology attempts to understand and interact with Eastern Orthodox theology’s distinctions, it is generally dismissed as “Palamism” – some form of obscure, medieval Byzantine mysticism.

[English Edition / Theology]

Scriptures: The Written Word of God

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Christians began to claim to have the correct understanding of the Jewish Scriptures – the Scriptures were written about the Christ, and properly interpreted in Christ.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses

Conversation 2, Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Where in the Bible do they talk about aerial tollhouses—those obstacles that the forces of darkness put in the way of souls rising after death to heaven through the space under heaven? Why do the demons wait for a soul in the under-heavens? How should we view the fact that there are differences between patristic works and the lives of the saints in explanations of the tollhouses? How can we answer critics of the teaching on the tollhouses?

[English Edition / Theology]

On the Surpassing Value of the Spiritual Unity of the Church, Its Brutal Abuse in Crete and the Identification of the Church with its Administration

Letter (Aug. 30, 2016) to the Archbishop and Hierarchy of the Church of Greece on the Council in Crete

Dr. Demetrios Tselengidis

The well-known and respected Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Demetrios Tselengidis, has issued an important and timely three part analysis of the Cretan Council and the ecclesiological problems and issues surrounding it. The letter was sent to all of the hierarchs of the Church of Greece at the end of August and has been included in a recent publication dedicated to the "Council" of Crete.

[English Edition / Theology]

An Orthodox Perspective on Roman Catholicism

Fr. Josiah Trenham

This lecture entitled "An Orthodox Perspective on Roman Catholicism" was given by Fr. Josiah Trenham, the Senior Pastor of of Saint Andrew Orthodox Church, Riverside, CA and the author of “Marriage and Virginity in St. John Chrysostom."

[English Edition / Theology]

Why are we Orthodox Christians?

Wisdom from Lebanon

Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)

Orthodoxy has preserved the faith of the early Church in the same form it received it from the beginning; it neither added to it nor subtracted from it even a letter.

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