The following is an excerpt from the beginning of one of my lectures that I’ve also posted on my parish website. It is well-known among Orthodox Christians that the word orthodoxyâoften used as a shorthand for our faithâhas two parallel meanings. It is composed of two Greek wordsâorthos and doxa. Together, they form orthodoxia, rendered into English as orthodoxy. The word orthos literally meansâŠ
The following article was originally published on the Roads from Emmaus weblog in March of 2011. It has been revised for this publication. An encounter by my wife with a Unitarian Universalist has set me thinking again upon what I believe is one of the great Christian evangelistic questions of our time: We now have to make the case for dogma. WeâŠ
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
Over at John Sanidopoulos’s Mystagogy website, we read the following regarding the Fourth Ecumenical Council, a quotation from the late Fr. John Romanides: Theologians of the Vatican have been supporting their position that Leo of Rome and his Tome became the basis of the decisions of the Fourth Ecumenical Council of 451 which, according to them, supposedly corrected the monophysitic and theopassionâŠ
I believe that the church in which I was baptized and brought up âisâ in very truth âthe Churchâ, i.e. âthe trueâ Church and the âonlyâ true Church . . . I am therefore compelled to regard all other Christian churches as deficient, and in many cases can identify these deficiencies accurately enough. Therefore, for me, Christian reunion is simply universal conversionâŠ