One of the criticisms of Orthodoxyâs understanding of its own history (not to mention, Roman Catholicismâs) is that there really is no unbroken Christian tradition of anything at all, that Church history is really just about multiple movements, doctrines and practices that cannot coherently be traced back to the Apostles. This is essentially one version of the historiography of the anti-ecclesiologists. If there isâŠ
Not that I watch awards shows more than perhaps once every five years or so (and I didn’t see this one, either), but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the first time that Orthodox Christian monastic enclave Mount Athos was mentioned in an Emmy speech. This is Jonathan Jackson winning his fifth Emmy. Readers may recall myâŠ
…we are supposed to act with great deference to natural rhythms and patterns when it comes to nature âout there,â but extendâby government fiat, if necessaryâthe greatest possible technological control over human reproductive rhythms and patterns. We should learn to live with and in nature out there, but conquer nature in here. To what can one attribute this fundamental contradiction? Peter J. Deneen, âForwardââŠ
I’ve got a new post up at Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy that continues our series on ecclesiology. This one is entitled Who’s not a Christian? It examines the question of how different Christian communions see each other’s legitimacy.
One of the perhaps most pressing theological questions of our time and place is answered beautifully in this post from Jim John Marks: The question is not âwhy canât God love me the way I amâ, the question is âwhy canât I love God the way I amâ. And it is the pursuit of the answer to that question which opens the door toâŠ
I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again. —Frodo Baggins I happened upon this quotation again yesterday evening, while I was reading my daughter The Lord of the Rings. It seems a dauntingly long tomeâŠ
The first of our ecclesiology posts is now up at the new Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy weblog. I wrote this one, and it’s essentially a sort of meditation on what it means to believe in the teachings of your own church and how that cannot help but affect one’s relations with other communions.
I have an announcement of a major new project, opening today: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: The Weblog. It’s been plain to me for some time that Christian doctrine is starting to matter to more and more people, and a lot of the people it matters to are Orthodox Christians, some of whom are doing some very good writing about it. You’re of course aware ofâŠ
