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Repressed Guilt and the Phenomenon of Projection

Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos † What is projection? It’s when someone projects onto others whatever it is that’s inside themselves. To put it more analytically, so that we all understand: people who’ve committed a sin and have repressed the guilt created by it, have, along with the guilt, also repressed their moral conscience; they’ve also repressed the valid law of God and replaced it with their own. It follows that everything they think, judge and decide

Form and Substance (Luke 13, 10-17)

Published by Pemptousia Partnership, on December 11, 2017 Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis Today’s Gospel reading is a clear and stark indictment of formalism in religion. Saint Luke tells us that Christ cured someone on the Sabbath and this was cause enough for Him to come into conflict with the Judaism of His time, which had transformed the commandments of the Decalogue and the Law into a sterile system of obligations and restrictions. The absurdity of the reactions