by Jesse Dominick [source] The theology of creation and salvation in Orthodox Christianity upholds the centrality and kingship of mankind while simultaneously embracing a cosmological vision that is largely absent in western Christendom. A common characteristic of all creation is corruption and death, and yet we are told that God is not the author of [...]
From Repose to Resurrection: the Intermediate State of Souls
by Jesse Dominick [source] [NOTE by RAS -- Many years to Jesse, who is going to be a great asset to the Church of Christ and a humble defender of its Holy Tradition] In a letter to Fr. Thomas Merton, the young Orthodox convert Eugene (later Fr. Seraphim) Rose wrote: “Above all, the Christian in [...]
Dialogue on Free Will & Determinism
Dialogue on Free Will & Determinism: An email exchange between a Calvinist Pastor and Father John, an Orthodox Christian Priest FATHER JOHN: It has been asserted that foreknowledge of a choice, necessarily determines that choice, and eliminates other possibilities as possibilities. Let’s take the godless world of Star Trek, just to test whether this logic [...]
What are Orthodox Icons?
The word Icon, which derives from the Greek word “Eikon”, is a religious work of art in Orthodox Christianity. The term is used in a number of contexts and means an image or representation of something or someone of greater significance, but in the more restricted sense in which it is understood, it means a [...]
Faith, Truth and Temperance
by Fr. Christopher Salamy “These three things God requires of all the baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.” — St. Gregory the Theologian We are all striving to be good people, to truly live as God’s children; but there are challenges that accompany our lives. How do [...]
Using Origen to Deny the Literalness of Genesis? Don’t !
“Philo and Origen are not your friends, Dr. Alexander: A short survey of what two Biblical allegorists taught about Adam and Eve” by Vincent Torley [SOURCE] Dr. Denis Alexander, who is the Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University, is an eminently qualified molecular biologist with a very odd combination [...]
2011 as the Year of Hell Debate
by MORGAN GUYTON (Morgan is a Methodist and has brought up good questions here that some could say lean toward an Orthodox view of Hell) The Year 2011 will always be remembered as the year of the “hell debate” because of the explosion of Christian writing that rattled the popular evangelical conception of hell. What [...]
The Liturgical Significance of Justin Martyr’s Apology
Martin M. Davis [Mr Davis is an Anglican and and this paper of his is a good summary of Justin Martyr and early Orthodox Christianity – RAS] Justin Martyr wrote his famous Apology from Rome circa 150 A.D. He wrote to defend the Christian faith against attackers who claimed that Christians practiced cannibalism (they ate [...]
A Homily by St John of Kronstadt on the Nativity of Christ
The Word became flesh; that is, the Son of God, co-eternal with God the Father and with the Holy Spirit, became human – having become incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. O, wondrous, awesome and salvific mystery! The One Who had no beginning took on a beginning according to humanity; the One [...]
The Ascension – MAY 24
