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[English Edition / Theology]

The Blurring of Logical, Natural Distinctions

Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D.

The mind naturally distinguishes between the true and the false, recognizing the difference between the real and some substitute or imitation for the authentic, between the true and the ersatz, the natural and the artificial. So many errors of judgment and foolish and immoral decisions begin by the failure to recognize these logical, inherent distinctions that form the structure of reality.

[English Edition / Theology]

Old Testament Images of Christ’s Birth

Fr. Ted Bobosh

There were three hymns that caught my attention with beautiful imagery.

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Who Are the Holy Forefathers, and Why do We Commemorate Them Before the Nativity of Christ?

Priest Andrei Chizhenko

We honor all the righteous of the Old Testament, including those who became the Savior’s ancestors according to the flesh, because these people burned like candles of God in the darkness of paganism, and lived in the hope of the coming of the Messiah and mankind’s deliverance from slavery to the devil, sin, and death.

[English Edition / Theology]

If Nothing Else, the True Faith

Protopresbyter-Stavrophore Srboljub Miletic

What is the difference in the understanding of the Church and the Church affiliation between Orthodox and Roman Catholics? For other “Christians”, there is no clear and consistent teaching about it, so we will consider this particular difference, in hopes that the understanding of it will also make the other differences clearer.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Eternal God is Calling You to Himself

The text explains the problem of the human condition and the Orthodox theology of how Jesus Christ came to save fallen mankind, also offering an overview of the Ten Commandments and how to apply them in our lives.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Creed and the Trinity

Fr. John Whiteford

Why is there no mention of the Trinity in the Nicene Creed? If it was written by a Synod of bishops in order to direct the young Church’s thinking, why then is there no mention of the Trinity? Is/was the Trinity less important than the other tenets laid out in the Credo?

[English Edition / Theology]

Figure It Out Yourself

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Wisdom is as an essential element of our Scriptures and Tradition as is any set of rules or rubrics that have been offered to the faithful. And yet, Wisdom is often given a secondary place in the pedagogy of the Church as many in leadership roles prefer to lay down the law of God rather than to wrestle with Wisdom.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why is Psalm 103, Which Speaks of the Creation of the World, Placed at the Beginning of Vespers?

Priest Andrei Chizhenko

The worship of the Orthodox Church is closely connected with the sacred history of the Old and New Testaments. It as if illustrates this history from the very beginning, symbolically and spiritually, deeply connected with it.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Passions

Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos)

The chief passions are three: money, authority and pleasure. Authority is itself legitimate, but domination is not legitimate.

[English Edition / Theology]

Fr. George Florovsky on The Boundaries of the Church

Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

We consider the essay on “The Boundaries of the Church” as a product of a young Florovsky, fragmented and lacking clarity.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Antichrist: an Orthodox Perspective from the Church Fathers

Fr. Andrew J. Anderson

Today’s sermon is about the Antichrist, as I continue my sermon series on the Orthodox Christian perspective on the awaited Second Coming of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. The purpose of this sermon is to provide a Patristic understanding of the Scriptures on this timely and important topic.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why We Need a God of Wrath

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The real question therefore is not “Is the biblical God a God of wrath?”, but rather “Why is the wrath of God celebrated so widely and so emphatically in the Bible?”

[English Edition / Theology]

Ecclesiastic Psychotherapy vs. Secular Therapeutic Techniques

Fr. Constantine Strategopoulos

From a tape-recorded discussion by Protopresbyter Constantine Strategopoulos, at the Church of Saint Paraskevi, in the Athens suburb of the same name, on March 18, 2003. Fr. Constantine Strategopoulos was for many years Head of the Department for Overseas Mission of the Church of Greece.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Principle of Consensus Patrum and Modern Attacks Against It

Priest George Maximov

The patristic consensus, as on a whole the dogmatic authority of Church Tradition, places an insurmountable barrier on the path of those who would like to introduce some new teaching of their own into Orthodoxy. Even were you to convince the majority of modern men about it, it wouldn’t work out with the ancient saints who have already died and left their confession of faith without your innovation.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Eucharistic Context of Pastoral Response to Contemporary Challenges in Marriage, Family, and Sexuality

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The celebration of the Eucharist provides a necessary context for understanding the pastoral response of the Orthodox Church to contemporary challenges in marriage, family, and sexuality. As St. Nicholas Cabasilas commented on the Eucharist, “its aim is the sanctification of the faithful.” Likewise, the aim of the union of husband and wife is their sanctification, their participation in the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.

[English Edition / Theology]

St. Gregory the Theologian and the Literal Interpretation of Scripture

Fr. John Whiteford

St. Gregory was not attacking those "who insist on literal interpretations," he was attacking those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, who insisted on exclusively literal interpretations as a cloak for their impiety -- and their impiety was not that they interpreted Scripture literally, but that they denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit.

[English Edition / Theology]

Did Enoch and Elijah (Elias) Ascend into Heaven?

Dcn. Peter Mikhalev

In His night conversation with Nicodemus, the Savior says, And no man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man Which is in Heaven (Jn. 3:13). Many opponents of Christ see in this phrase a contradiction in the words of Scripture, for the Old Testament relates how Elijah ascended into Heaven and how God took Enoch to Himself. Let’s try to sort this issue out, using the Tradition of the fathers of the Church as the key to Scripture.

[English Edition / Theology]

An Orthodox Understanding of the Atonement

Jonathan Hill

How does the Eastern Orthodox Church view and articulate the atonement of our Lord? This question arises from many converts to the Eastern Orthodox Church, particularly here in America.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Term “Churches” as a “Technical Term”

Met. Hierotheos Vlachos

Recently it has been asserted repeatedly by some people that, although the Church is “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic” and it is the Orthodox Church, we can also make use of the term “Churches” for the non-Orthodox, and in this case it is a “technical term” (terminus technicus).This view makes a particular impression, as it is not just written in articles but is also being put forward by bishops, even in official Synodical bodies, in order to support the decision of the “Great and Holy Council” of Crete that “the Orthodox Church accepts the historical name of other non-Orthodox Christian Churches and Confessions that are not in communion with her.” I have a different view, of course, and I would like to express it in this article.

[English Edition / Theology]

Explanation of the All-Night Vigil Service

Archpriest Victor Potapov

Not only did Christianity not abandon ritual, but in time, in its historical development, it established its own complex system of worship. Does this constitute a self-contradiction? Is not private prayer sufficient for a Christian?

[English Edition / Theology]

St. Photius: On the Essence of Icons

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Living in the literary culture of the 21st Century, and being shaped by the literary tradition of recent centuries, it is hard to imagine that at one time Christians, like Photius, thought the pictured icon to be “truer” than the written text – a more certain witness to the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

[English Edition / Theology]

How Was the World Made? Facts and Theories

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

How was the world made? There are many things that we do not know and cannot know in order to answer this question, because quite simply and obviously we were not there at the time. The world was made before we existed. So what can we know about it?

[English Edition / Theology]

For Those Who Love God All Things Work Together for Good

Talks on the Book of Genesis 12:1-20

Andrei Solodkov

In this next conversation on the Bible, Andrei Ivanovich Solodkov talks about the lessons in trusting God which we find in Genesis 12, on why Abram went into Egypt, and how to understand the fact that he gave his wife as his sister.

[English Edition / Theology]

A Biblical-Theological Exegesis of Numbers 24

Seraphim Hamilton

Numbers 24 is a fascinating and rich Scripture - perhaps the most deeply messianic text in the Pentateuch. We are told that Israel is “like gardens beside a river” and that “his seed shall be in many waters.” The poetic seams in the Pentateuch draw heavily on Genesis 1-11, and this is no exception.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Amsterdam Symposium: An Abuse of Authority?

Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse

So why did they meet? It’s a fair question to ask because some of the participants draw their ideas from the left wing of the dominant political culture rather than Orthodox tradition. Secondly, since the participants listed the institutions with which they are affiliated, those institutions lent their authority to the symposium whether they intended to or not.

[English Edition / Theology]

VIDEO: The Spiritual Heart

Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)

Fr. Zacharias from Holy Momastery of John the Forerunner, Essex, England, speaks on the nature of what the Church Fathers call the spiritual heart, and on the means of uniting with God through His Name, His Word, and His Body in the holy Eucharist.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Orthodox Church and the Non-Chalcedonians: Part 2 Deification: Pope Shenouda and Matthew the Poor

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

There is one more issue to consider which is central to the Orthodox concept of salvation, and that is deification. I will relate what I have learned from an Orthodox priest who is a university professor. This father is fluent in Arabic and has studied the Chalcedonian/Non-Chalcedonian positions.

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A Greatly Troubled Heart

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Scriptures and Orthodox theology are clear that God is not just a super human being – God is not merely an omnipotent and omniscient human writ large. God is totally other, and whatever words we might apply to us humans – being, nature, person, existing – cannot then rightfully be applied to God.

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The Orthodox Church and Non-Chalcedonians, Part One Christology/Ecclesiology

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

There are, however, many of both Chalcedonians and Non-Chalcedonians, who believe that all along through history, it was a language problem, a matter of semantics. However, St. John of Damascus knew their language, and he wrote against them. And if it was all along this language problem, then we would have to say that God made a mistake with the miracle He performed through the Great Martyr Euphemia at the Fourth Ecumenical council.

[English Edition / Theology]

Filioquism is Arian Subordinationism Applied to the Spirit

Jay Dyer

Recently reviewing some old Roman Catholic dogmatic manuals and catechisms, a strange position stood out to me which I had not previously seen.

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