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Fifth Friday after Pascha, Christ is Risen!

05/23/2014

What is Orthodoxy? (Part II) By Rev. Dr. Theodore Pulcini TO BE AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN… Is to assume responsibility for the Christian Tradition… The Orthodox Church is the Church of Tradition. Notice the capital “T”. This Tradition is absolutely not to be equated with the transient cultural and other merely human aspects of the Church. Tradition, in the Orthodox view, is not a specific thing or set of things. It is, rather a critical faculty,

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part V)

10/11/2013

REV. DR. EUGEN J. PENTIUC Scripture’s polyphony is a pastorally more efficient way to cope with the tough questions of the suffering of the just and the silence of God than any flat statement such as creatio ex nihilo. When Tradition fails to give an adequate explanation, untamable Scripture through its ambiguous, enigmatic language and imagery offers us alternative routes of inquiry and further meditation that may at least provide an authorized word on the

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part I)

10/07/2013

The Bible is a scented garden, delightful and beautiful … Let us seek in the fountain of this garden “a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” We shall taste a joy that will never dry up, because the grace of the Bible garden is inexhaustible. ~ST. JOHN OF DAMASCUS, AN EXACT EXPOSITION OF THE ORTHODOX FAITH, 4. 17 REV. DR. EUGEN J. PENTIUC The fourth-century exegete and theologian St. Gregory of Nyssa passionately

THE TWO MEANINGS OF FASTING (Part I)

04/17/2013

At this point, the next question arises: if Eucharist is incompatible with fasting, why then is its celebration still prescribed on Saturdays and Sundays of Lent, and this without “breaking” the fast? The canons of the Church seem here to contradict one another. While some of them forbid fasting on Sundays, some others forbid the breaking of the fast on any of the forty days. This contradiction, however, is only apparent, because the two rules

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part III)

10/19/2012

The Original Christian World-view: A study of the lives and writings of the great spiritual masters of the First Millennium of the Christian Church — East and West — will show that a sacred cosmology was integral to the Church’s world-view. Salvation, or deification, as the ancient Church and the Orthodox Church of today calls the process of reconciliation with God, was cosmic as well as personal in scope. It included not only human beings

“Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1)

09/20/2012

In ecclesiastical circles today one often hears the lament, “The faith is evaporating.” Despite an unprecedented “pastoral approach”, the faith of many Christians in fact appears to be” growing cold” or even, to put it colloquially, to be “evaporating”. There is talk of a great crisis of faith, among the clergy no less than among the laity. This loss of faith, which is so often lamented in the West, stands nevertheless in contrast to a

Father Maximos on the Bible, Translations, Tradition and the Church

09/04/2012

“Meanings were lost in translation,” I muttered. “That’s what I was just thinking,” Teresa added. “Much distortion sneaked into the Bible though flawed translations.” “It is always a problem with translation,” Fr. Maximos agreed. “That is why many Christians who rely exclusively on the words of the Bible for guidance generated such great diversity of beliefs, interpretations, and, alas, distortions.” “And that is why a rigid and literal adherence to words can lead to all

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Fifth Friday after Pascha, Christ is Risen!

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part V)

The Untamable Textbook and Its Handouts: Ruminations on Scripture—Tradition Relationship (Part I)

THE TWO MEANINGS OF FASTING (Part I)

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part III)

“Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1)

Father Maximos on the Bible, Translations, Tradition and the Church

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