By Robin Phillips Calvinism Destroys Godās Justice āMay the Lord curse you and abandon you. May the Lord keep you in darkness and give you only judgment without grace. May the Lord turn his back upon you and remove his peace from you forever.ā These words, taken from a popular R.C. Sproul video, starkly reveal the dark underbelly of the Calvinistās conceptā¦
By Robin Phillips Introduction My wife and I used to be Calvinists (or āreformedā as we liked to say), and we wanted our children to grow the same. We attended a Calvinist church and taught reformed theology to our children. Beginning in 2012, however, we began to grow increasingly uncomfortable with the primary doctrinal tenets of this perspective. We still have respectā¦
I once jumped off the southernmost point in the United States into the ocean, and the only way I was able to do it was to suck up my fear, hop off the cliff, and face what may. Ā Or, rather, back what may. Ouch. Iāve been behind the scenes here at Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy doing very little but cheerleading for over aā¦
Does the Orthodox Church believe in “transubstantiation” (Ī¼ĪµĻĪæĻ ĻĪÆĻĻĪ¹Ļ in Greek) with regards to the Eucharist? Or is that only used in the Latin (Roman Catholic) church? There’s certainly a lot of confusion and conflicting information out there, so let’s take a closer look. As a long-time blogger, I can vouch for the necessity of extending grace towards a writer when they areā¦
Editorās Note: Following is the final entry in a 5-part series addressingĀ the claimĀ by Presbyterian pastor Steven Wedgeworth that there is significant patristic testimony against iconography. The response is necessarily more in-depth than the original post it responds to, because numerous quick claims are made there without much in the way of examination of their context or historic character. A Summary of theā¦