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A Good Word on the Feast of the Transfiguration
Read more: A Good Word on the Feast of the TransfigurationThe following excerpt is from Ocholophobist’s Website, as always well-written. It’s an excellent meditation for the feast. Fr. Hopko speaks of the fact that when one encounters holiness, if it is indeed holiness one is encountering, one will be filled with both fear and a desire to stay in the presence of that holy place, […]
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Another Wall Street Journal Article on Belief in the Modern World
Read more: Another Wall Street Journal Article on Belief in the Modern WorldThis article also recently appeared in the WSJ. It is an interesting take on Christianity in Europe, where, we are constantly told, it is almost completely dead. Perhaps the obituaries are premature. Comments are off for this article.
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An Interesting Read on the “New New Atheism”
Read more: An Interesting Read on the “New New Atheism”David Berkowitz, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has an interesting article on the “New New Atheism” worth a read for any who have been following discussions on belief and atheism here on Glory to God for All Things. Comments are off for this article.
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Via Negativa
Read more: Via NegativaOne of the strongest hallmarks of Orthodox theology is its preference for the apophatic approach to God. By apophatic is meant, “that which cannot be spoken.” There are certain positive affirmations we can make about God, but there are many more things that we can affirm by what we do not say. Fr. Thomas Hopko […]
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The Transfigured Beauty of the Crucified God
Read more: The Transfigured Beauty of the Crucified GodOn the Mountain Thou wast Transfigured, O Christ God, And Thy disciples beheld Thy glory as far as they could see it; So that when they would behold Thee crucified, They would understand that Thy suffering was voluntary, And would proclaim to the world, That Thou art truly the Radiance of the Father! Kontakion of the Feast of […]
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The Mystery of Beauty
Read more: The Mystery of BeautyThe great mystery of Beauty is that its most profound statement in all of human history is the crucified Christ. The human experience of that Beauty is well described by Isaiah: Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him […]
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Christ Crucified
Read more: Christ CrucifiedWriting to the Corinthians, St. Paul makes one his most famous statements: “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified (1Cor. 2:2). It is among the clearest definitions of the apostolic preaching to be found anywhere in the New Testament, or perhaps I should say, “everywhere in the New […]
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Where I Saw Beauty
Read more: Where I Saw BeautyBeauty is a deeply theological word. In both Hebrew and Greek, when God creates the world He says: “It is good (beautiful).” The word carries both meanings. I believe that to encounter Beauty is, in some way to encounter God, for it simply transcends our ability to comprehend, to challenge or even to recreate. I have […]
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God is Wonderful in His Saints
Read more: God is Wonderful in His SaintsThe painting of St. Sergius as a youth by Mikhail Nesterov is one of my favorites. Just a bit more beauty to share.
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