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1 Fwd,4| 36, Jordanville, NY 13361-0036~ ~St. John of Kronstadt
2 7,11| 94:1172C-1173B; cf. 1304-05.] The Holy Fathers likewise
3 7,13| John the Theologian (nearly 100 years after Christ). A Romanian
4 11,1 | Vladimir of Kiev (ruled 980-1015) was approached by various
5 Fwd,6| is from the West” (Psalm 103:12), so far is the Truth
6 9,28| Spirit creates (Gen 1:2, Ps 104: 30, Job 33:4); He redeems (
7 6,8 | with the papal changes of 1046-73. As Professor Aristeides
8 2,19| The Life in Christ, p. 106].~ ~Concerning the Theanthropos (
9 7,14| the Battle of Hastings (1066), England was brought under
10 1,6 | Bishop-Martyr of Antioch (+107), who was the child whom
11 2,1 | Metropolitan of Russia (1080-89) stated, “All profess
12 1,9 | traitor, Peter, applying Psalm 109:8, declared, “his bishopric
13 6,14| Letters to the Romans, AD 110, in The Faith of the Early
14 2,20| Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1100) that appeared after the
15 9,3 | devil [The Law of God, p. 112].~ ~Parenthetically, regarding
16 7,16| from the Old Testament and 114 from the New.~ ~
17 1,2 | Apologetic Theology, p. 115-16].~ ~
18 4,12| PG, 1864, vol. 94, cols. 1168-76]. (The word icon is a
19 4,12| The Meaning of Art, p. 117].~ A Greek monk remarked
20 7,11| Orthodox Faith, IV.16, PG 94:1172C-1173B; cf. 1304-05.] The Holy
21 Fwd,4| John of Kronstadt Press,~1180 Orthodox Way, Liberty, TN
22 4,4 | movements, lasting for some 120 years. The seriousness of
23 4,12| during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the image disappeared and
24 10,23| He takes pity on us” (Ps 122:2). David will have his
25 9,42| of the Holy Mountain, p. 124].~ ~Any such idyllic realm
26 11,1 | forced to fight the Swedes in 1240 and the Teutonic Knights
27 11,1 | the Teutonic Knights in 1242 to prevent the forcible
28 7,14| proclaimed heretical in 1277. It was not until years
29 3,5 | world. Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303), for example, proudly
30 6,18| of Chalcedon in 451, some 130 years later). Elsewhere,
31 3,5 | Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303), for example, proudly insisted, “
32 7,11| PG 94:1172C-1173B; cf. 1304-05.] The Holy Fathers likewise
33 9,42| Apologetic Theology, p. 131].~ ~Dr. Andreyev states
34 Fwd,4| Box 36, Jordanville, NY 13361-0036~ ~St. John of Kronstadt
35 6,16| teaching was confirmed in 1343, and as Protopriest Victor
36 4,12| Throughout the Year, vol. 1, p. 137].~ ~A hieromonk notes that
37 5,8 | lesson is seen in Serbia in 1389, in Constantinople in 1453,
38 6,8 | he was excommunicated in 1409, after which he was captured
39 3,17| Studies, vol. 2, 1951, pp. 145-64.] Bishop Auxentios concurs,
40 10,26| disputes. Only then, in 1475, Pope Sixtus IV approved
41 3,5 | us and ours —Pope Leo X (1513-1521).~We hold upon this
42 3,5 | and ours —Pope Leo X (1513-1521).~We hold upon this earth
43 7,14| boastful autobiography (1558), he suggests that ordinary
44 1,6 | Theologian and bishop of Smyrna (+156). These epistles contain
45 7,17| generally understood in 1611. Moreover, this new edition
46 7,17| Christian Bibles, and a law in 1615 in England even forbade
47 2,36| Apologetic Theology, p. 164].~ ~ ~ ~
48 4,17| comment. St. Justin Martyr (+165), the leading Christian
49 Ep | Nilus the Myrrhstreaming (+1651). In it, the saint speaks
50 11,1 | p. 271].~ ~Likewise, in 1675 Johannes Herbinius wrote
51 2,20| and to sanctify him [pp. 171-72; emphasis added].~ ~The
52 7,5 | anything from it.” [Letter of 1718].~ ~
53 10,14| Outside of the Church, p. 173].~ ~Mr. Barnes' conclusions
54 2,20| the legalistic spirit [p. 175; emphasis added].~ ~The
55 7,11| Speaking against this error in 1756, Eugenics Voulgaris wrote:~ ~
56 2,35| Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+1809) gives four distinguishing
57 10,14| Elder Nektary of Optina, p. 181].~ ~Metropolitan Philaret,
58 3,16| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 182].~ ~
59 7,11| are [Ibid., p. 16].~ ~In 1820, Adamantios Koraes observed:~ ~[
60 4,12| after the Revolution of 1821, innovative icons modeled
61 9,26| St. Seraphim of Sarov (+1833), one of the most revered
62 6,18| Whelton, Two Paths... p. 184.] Moreover, Dr. von Dollinger
63 7,11| Neophytos Doukas wrote in 1845 that:~ ~The things of the
64 10,27| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 186-87].~ ~Fr. Michael states
65 1,1 | with the Eastern Churches, 1866].~ ~Knowing that Rome's
66 7,14| Ignatii Brianchaninov (+1867), admonishes:~ ~Do not dare
67 7,11| of life in Christ. In an 1884 letter to the French Jansenist
68 7,11| the Holy Spirit, 27, PG 32:188A; emphasis added].~ ~St.
69 1,1 | St. John of Kronstadt (+1908), a contemporary of the
70 1,1 | authority to hinder him. 1918, the year Russia's royal
71 7,11| chap. 27, PG 32:188-89, 192-93].~ St. Dionysius ten
72 1,1 | the New-Martyr Tikhon (+1925), Patriarch of All Russia,
73 11,4 | Greek parishes beginning in 1926, this practice takes place
74 7,14| Archbishop Ilarion Troitsky (+1929), the translator's preface
75 5,4 | Passion Friday on February 18, 1932, when all of Russian monasticism
76 11,1 | that of a letter written in 1935 by an Englishwoman, wherein
77 10,27| proclaimed to be a dogma in 1950, implies that Mary did not
78 3,17| Theological Studies, vol. 2, 1951, pp. 145-64.] Bishop Auxentios
79 1,1 | Nikolai Velimirovich (+1956) call the Latin Church a
80 10,23| Counsels for Life, pp. 196-97].~ ~The Mother of God,
81 6,16| Shanghai and San Francisco (+1966) explained that Christ's
82 5,7 | Episkopi-Ispovedniki, San Francisco, 1971, p. 92].~ ~
83 1,1 | authority. Archbishop Averky (+1976) of Jordanville explains
84 9,42| Modern Theory of Evolution, 1977]. This postulate and all
85 1,1 | Popovich) of Chelije (+1979) writes in this regard,
86 Ep | Elder Philotheos Zervakos (+1980) additionally states that:~ ~
87 1,1 | Fall of the Roman Church, 1981].~ ~In the aftermath of
88 Fwd,5| Bible that was produced in 1983. In it, 209 passages were
89 1,1 | Archimandrite Panteleimon (+1984), a co-founder of the Holy
90 Fwd,2| Reporter dated September 11, 1987, only 26% of Roman Catholics
91 6,16| well [Life After Death, pp. 199-200].~ ~As the Latins demonstrated
92 5,5 | Ecumenical Patriarch in 1991.~ In recent times, the abbots
93 6,8 | Orthodox Life, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, p. 15].~ ~Further development
94 11,1 | Orthodox Life, vol. 49. no. 6, 1999, p. 16].~ ~In the Holy Liturgy,
95 6,16| Life After Death, pp. 199-200].~ ~As the Latins demonstrated
96 7,14| the Orthodox Church, p. 203].~ ~Humanism did not go
97 Fwd,5| produced in 1983. In it, 209 passages were rewritten
98 5,8 | Creation and Early Man, p. 210].~ ~The Holy Fathers state
99 6,16| The Soul After Death, p. 212].~ Metropolitan Hierotheos
100 10,14| Heterodox Be Saved?” (Leaflet #213 published by the St. John
101 2,35| the Orthodox Church, pp. 215-16].~ Protopresbyter Michael
102 1,10| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 224].~ ~In no place does Fr.
103 10,29| heavenly homeland [Op. cit., p. 225].~ ~ ~
104 1,1 | Pomazansky, Op. cit., p. 228].~ ~As another writer also
105 9,21| quotations given on page 231 of the textbook.~ Through
106 9,22| three hymns given on page 232 of the textbook, and explain
107 9,37| Confessor given on page 237 of the textbook, and give
108 9,38| scriptural quotes given on page 238, and explain what point
109 9,28| Triodion and Pentecostarion, p. 239].~ ~In addition to the descent
110 10,10| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 243-46].~ ~
111 7,17| At that time, from 284-247 BC, Judea was a tributary
112 10,16| the bishops.” [Ibid., p. 248].~ Commenting on Apostolic
113 10,16| the bishops [Ibid., p. 252].~ ~Archpriest Seraphim
114 5,8 | of the Saints, vol. 4, p. 254].~ ~After the first human
115 10,6 | Dogmatic Theology, pp. 262-65].~ ~Above all else, it
116 Fwd,1| York: Time, Inc., 1963, p. 266]. The author took the course
117 Fwd,6| North America [1995 ed., p. 275; 1996 ed., p. 298]. Likewise,
118 7,17| world. At that time, from 284-247 BC, Judea was a tributary
119 2,17| Theological Oration, p. 289].~ ~
120 Fwd,6| ed., p. 275; 1996 ed., p. 298]. Likewise, an article in
121 5,8 | Commentary on Genesis, p. 329]. Rassaphore Nun Maria goes
122 1,1 | Orthodox Dogmatic Theology (pp. 344-45), Blessed Augustine of
123 9,39| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 345].~ ~(5) Theosis is not a
124 10,28| yourself for this [Ibid., pp. 349-50].~ ~Fr. Michael states
125 3,5 | in the West. In them, the 34th Canon states that “... neither
126 10,28| eternal torments [Ibid., p. 351].~ ~Fr. Michael concludes
127 5,4 | St. Anthony the Great (+356). When he was a young man,
128 7,11| Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 357-58].~ ~The Apostle to the
129 Fwd,4| Orthodox Way, Liberty, TN 37095-4366~ ~As noted, the updated
130 6,14| First Canonical Letters, AD 374, in The Faith of the Early
131 3,2 | 390), Basil the Great (+379) and Gregory of Nyssa (+
132 1,1 | Second Ecumenical Council (381). Importantly, it was in
133 9,14| St. Cyril of Jerusalem (+386); “your task is to accept
134 3,2 | and Gregory of Nyssa (+395).~ ~
135 10,28| of the Orthodox Faith, p. 406]. Vladimir Lossky adds that “
136 2,35| 28) [The Law of God, p. 425].~ ~
137 3,6 | Council was held at Ephesus in 431.~ ~
138 Fwd,4| Orthodox Way, Liberty, TN 37095-4366~ ~As noted, the updated
139 2,35| St. Cyril of Alexandria (+444). Whoever does not accept
140 6,5 | difficult?~ By the year 450, very few people in Western
141 7,11| Thessalonians, Homily 4, PG 62:488; emphasis added].~ ~Also
142 1,11| Collegial Tradition, pp. 52-53].~ ~In another book,
143 11,4 | faith would come to Him [pp. 526-27].~ ~Fr. Seraphim explains
144 4,12| Ecumenical Councils, p. 550].~ ~The Greek Fathers distinguish
145 7,11| Truth of Our Faith, pp. 56-57].~ ~Elder Cleopa likewise
146 7,11| Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, 1, PG 3:565C].~ ~In his defense of holy
147 7,11| Truth of Our Faith, pp. 56-57].~ ~Elder Cleopa likewise
148 6,18| papal power” (vol. 11, p. 586). For over 600 years this
149 2,15| Ecumenical Councils, p. 596.] Local councils were attended
150 3,5 | Pope Gregory I the Great (+604), misunderstanding the authority
151 7,11| Thessalonians, Homily 4, PG 62:488; emphasis added].~ ~
152 3,5 | to mention Pope Honorius (625-38), who fell into the Monothelite
153 9,42| Religious Ideas, vol. 1, pp. 63-64]. Among the most interesting
154 5,5 | culminates at its tip in a peak 6,670 feet in elevation. The peninsula
155 2,20| to sanctify him [pp. 171-72; emphasis added].~ ~The
156 4,9 | St. John of Damascus (+749) defended icons during the
157 6,15| writes that:~ ~In the year 752, Pope Zacharias anointed
158 2,35| Iconoclast Council of Hieria (754), and Florence (1438-39).~
159 6,15| this, Pepin, in the year 755, took away from the Germanic
160 4,12| 1864, vol. 94, cols. 1168-76]. (The word icon is a transliteration
161 1,1 | of all other religions” (#77). This same decree, which
162 10,23| Epiphanius of Cyprus, Panarion, 78). Also, the sister of the
163 4,6 | Council met in Nicaea in 787. This Council dealt largely
164 6,10| council at Frankfurt in 794. As Aristeides Papadakis
165 11,4 | Carefully read pages 272-80 of the textbook, and then
166 4,7 | a new attack on icons in 815.~ ~
167 4,9 | St. Theodore of Studium (+826) defended them when the
168 6,15| Church.~ ~Pope Nicholas (858-876) began to cite the “
169 10,27| Dogmatic Theology, pp. 186-87].~ ~Fr. Michael states that
170 6,15| Church.~ ~Pope Nicholas (858-876) began to cite the “Pseudo-Isidorian
171 7,17| Jewish council in Jamnia in 90 AD (see below), the Jews
172 5,8 | African-American Experience, p. 91].~ ~In the writings of St.
173 5,7 | San Francisco, 1971, p. 92].~ ~
174 7,11| chap. 27, PG 32:188-89, 192-93].~ St. Dionysius ten Aeropagite (+
175 9,42| was granted a long life of 930 years so that tradition
176 4,12| transferred to Constantinople in 944, where it was brought out
177 9,3 | heathens are demons” (Ps 95:5 [Russian Bible], Ps 96:
178 11,1 | Vladimir of Kiev (ruled 980-1015) was approached by
179 11,1 | true religion. In the year 987, emissaries were sent to
180 11,1 | s con to Christianity in 988, Grand Prince Vladimir of
181 6,8 | idea is given by Professor A.P. Lopukin of the St. Petersburg
182 6,10| filioque at the royal chapel of Aachen was apparently permissible,
183 11,4 | or else the high priest Aaron and the Prophet Moses. Since
184 7,11| it is the disregard and abandonment of Tradition that causes
185 2,19| act of self-emptying and abasement, God the Son directly intervened
186 4,12| on icons now seems to be abating. For some time, there has
187 1,1 | judge our conduct [Quoted in Abbé Guetée, The Papacy: Its
188 Fwd,6| eldresses, preachers, ascetics, abbesses, anchorites, prophetesses,
189 4,12| enrich Western Europe's abbeys and monasteries with Byzantium'
190 5,5 | 1991.~ In recent times, the abbots of the major monasteries
191 1,1 | nevertheless dismissed as abhorrent any harm directed against
192 4,12| which warns: “Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit
193 1,1 | the same way, Orthodoxy abhors intolerance, condemnation,
194 1,1 | come while the Holy Spirit abides in people, while people
195 7,11| six centuries, under the abominable superstition of the Turks,
196 9,42| those of the Australian aboriginal people, which are filled
197 Ep | seasons, end-times prophecies abound, and their astonishing messages
198 4,12| miraculous. Orthodox Russia abounded with these icons, and several
199 1,1 | whom the Holy Spirit is absent, will accelerate the end
200 1,1 | Roman popes asserted an absolutist primacy that Eastern Christians
201 10,16| understanding of bodily abstinence. Inasmuch as the bishop'
202 Fwd,5| turn Him into a genderless abstraction: “the Creator,” or “the
203 6,13| addition of a word is not an abstruse theological issue, but one
204 10,23| forth righteousness and an abundance of peace, until the moon
205 6,8 | much over the people, and abusing its position, it oppressed
206 2,19| over men. By bridging the abyss that separates men from
207 Fwd,5| discovered in human and humanus, academia's thought police might next
208 6,15| of Scholasticism or the academic-analytical approach to knowledge as
209 1,1 | Holy Spirit is absent, will accelerate the end of the world. They
210 7,14| from the Orthodox worldview accelerated during the period of humanism.
211 8,4 | that make the divine life accessible to man without taking away
212 11,4 | inside a church is far from accidental, but is done according to
213 11,4 | appointed times. Later, to accommodate those living in the world,
214 2,6 | for the very purpose of accommodating the Christian Church. Thus
215 9,7 | incense. The prayer that accompanies incense does indeed rise
216 11,4 | ecclesiastical hymns, and also the accompaniment of hymnody with instruments,
217 5,7 | and his angels for their accomplices. They are totally sinful
218 5,8 | their true designation. He accomplishes this return without meddling
219 7,11| in the Church of Christ. Accordingly, therefore, it must be safeguarded
220 3,18| answer is obvious. The media accords the pope the worldly glory
221 5,4 | that “they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain... the
222 Fwd,5| thought police are coming to accredit a growing number of Christian
223 3,5 | administrative duties and honors that accrue to their rank.~ Prior to
224 7,11| mummy.” However, such an accusation shows to what degree Western
225 Ep | affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, without self-control, fierce,
226 6,4 | universal jurisdiction by accusing the East of heresy: he charged
227 4,12| being windows into hell, accustom people to terrible sins
228 6,8 | the Roman pontiffs for the achievement of their ambitious political
229 9,35| and the greatest good for achieving mutual tolerance and love.
230 10,23| word for cousin, the word achim (brethren) was used, and
231 Fwd,4| individuals of the writer's acquaintance. It is especially meant
232 1,1 | among Christians.~ ~Becoming acquainted with the history of the
233 5,6 | Christ did not bless the activist Martha, who was “burdened
234 9,35| prominent New Age proselytizer, actress Shirley MacLaine: “Man has
235 6,17| doing. These two things actualize the whole of history; and
236 9,39| of the body will not be actualized until the Last Day, when
237 10,28| awareness is raised, the more acute become the feeling of moral
238 5,4 | angelic life. As an old adage from St. John of the Ladder
239 7,11| Ibid., p. 16].~ ~In 1820, Adamantios Koraes observed:~ ~[Our]
240 7,11| of Christian teaching by adapting it to contemporary worldly
241 5,4 | itself forbidden — is not adequate to satisfy.” In the same
242 9,42| the Fertile Crescent and adjacent areas — the Greeks themselves,
243 7,14| unfailingly used with the adjective catholic. Likewise, the
244 9,3 | pronoun Us and the possessive adjectives Our are likewise plural.~
245 10,10| close to,” or perhaps even “adjoining” the Church, but sometimes “
246 10,16| bishop's job to oversee and administer all the churches in his
247 8,14| institution, organized and administered according to the principles
248 7,11| consequently cannot be considered admissible or fit to be observed [Ibid.,
249 10,15| and it cannot allow any admixture of falsehood. An error of
250 7,11| Church. As the Apostle Paul admonished: ~ ~Jesus Christ: the same
251 7,14| Ignatii Brianchaninov (+1867), admonishes:~ ~Do not dare to interpret
252 4,17| with the Apostle Peter's admonition that “no prophecy of Scripture
253 7,14| this very antiquity, we adopt the definitions of all,
254 10,27| wishes to introduce thus two adorations, the one in special relation
255 11,4 | Catholics would attend church to adore the “host” at elevation,
256 9,38| pilgrimages to holy tombs, and in adorning them; f) in the constant
257 10,19| dogma). As Archimandrite Adrianos, a former abbot of St. Catherine'
258 6,9 | pope entails the greatest adulteration of Christianity and was
259 10,25| teaching, Mary received in advance the gift which Christ brought
260 2,22| of the highest spiritual advancement and in need of the most
261 Ep | tremendous technological advances hundreds of years before
262 6,18| an unqualified success in advancing the falsehood of papal claims.
263 10,20| It will be a very great advantage to the souls, for whom the
264 Ep | unrecognizable. When the time for the advent of the antichrist approaches,
265 3,18| pope the worldly glory and advertisement he seeks because he is an
266 5,7 | far and wide to seek his advice. So great did his fame for
267 1,11| Councils were not called to advise the bishop of Rome, and
268 4,10| theology. St. John of Damascus advised Christians to take any outsider
269 6,10| West since Charlemagne's advisors saw fit to endorse it. Until
270 5,5 | Greece, it juts into the Aegean Sea and culminates at its
271 10,23| Birthgiver of God) and Aeiparthenos (Ever-Virgin). She is also
272 4,12| itself, it is not merely an aesthetic object to be enjoyed for
273 4,12| Herbert Reed, a famous English aesthetician and art critic, who wrote: “
274 5,4 | demons. “Lo, I have fled afar off and have dwelt in the
275 11,4 | homelike, for it is a family affair. The textbook for this course
276 Ep | unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers,
277 9,28| crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in
278 7,14| individual's particular affiliation, Fr. John states, it became
279 2,17| positive theology proceeds by affirmations, apophatic theology proceeds
280 2,17| Mystagogy that we can use both affirmative and negative expression
281 7,14| modern cult of self in the affluent West, Buddhism and Hinduism
282 3,5 | Orthodox Church does not afford the Roman Catholic popes
283 10,14| concerning those who were never afforded the opportunity to encounter
284 5,8 | African Christianity to the African-American Experience, p. 91].~ ~In
285 6,16| matter. This opinion on the afterlife was elaborated and developed
286 11,3 | West, with God added as an afterthought, if added at all. This process
287 3,5 | delegates of the Roman bishop, Agatho, also were present and signed
288 6,16| granted to a sinner by the agency of the pope, of the Savior’
289 7,17| impress their views. These agenda-driven redactors, the staff members
290 7,17| translators, representing numerous agendas” have sought to impress
291 9,28| in His role as the divine agent of Him by Whom “all things
292 Fwd,5| theorists, “experts,” political agitators and other wardens of the
293 8,14| believer or an atheist (or an agnostic, in the case of the less
294 7,17| community was clearly and agonizingly aware of the fact that errors
295 9,42| degree or another, a mutually agreeable account of another biblical
296 7,11| Protestants have difficulty agreeing that the Holy Spirit, abiding
297 9,39| teaching the locals the arts of agriculture, carpentry an other useful
298 11,3 | their private jets, their air-conditioned dog houses, their garish
299 Fwd,5| Hebrew), nôshô (Syriac), al-insan (Arabic), chelovyek (Russian),
300 3,20| 20.~ What new and alarming development occurred in
301 9,42| maintained a knowledge of God, albeit an imperfect knowledge.
302 6,4 | of political and cultural alienation between the East and West,
303 2,22| the simplest of senses to alight upon is the first meaning,
304 10,26| Conception is that “the All-Blessed Virgin Mary in the first
305 7,14| understanding, that is, for the all-embracing reality of God's Truth.
306 7,14| signifies the highest degree of all-embracingness, all-inclusiveness, wholeness,
307 9,42| existence of Paradise became the all-encompassing goal of the entire human
308 10,10| Christianity; on this same all-equaling level are placed also the
309 7,14| degree of all-embracingness, all-inclusiveness, wholeness, fullness.” As
310 7,14| allied themselves with the all-powerful feudal, military aristocracies
311 Fwd,5| s attention through this alleged objective, this concern
312 2,22| and historical meaning; 2) allegorical or metaphorical, which is
313 1,1 | thousand-year bondage, as he allegorically calls it in Revelation 20:
314 7,14| of the Normans, and that alliance proved effective in helping
315 7,14| century, the Germanic popes allied themselves with the all-powerful
316 8,14| Roman Catholic theologians allocate to the activity of the Holy
317 3,4 | Cappadocians did not make due allowance for His “oneness.” This
318 11,4 | Royal Coronation. Additionally, there are a number of lesser
319 9,26| fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done
320 10,12| many forms of Christianity, alongside other legitimate, non-Orthodox
321 7,19| to formulate in words the already-existing revealed Truth, of which
322 7,21| comments concerning the alter-ability and relative value of canons?~
323 7,21| textbook's remarks about the alterability and relative value of canons
324 7,17| Savior.~ One of the masoretic alterations was of the above quoted
325 8,14| that the Western Churches' altering the Creed represents an
326 9,28| would have reason to be amazed. This happened on the day
327 1,1 | cult of peace. Russia's amazing aspiration to maintain and
328 3,5 | minister, ministers and ambassadors [nuncios]. Likewise, the
329 9,35| and the same energy” [from Ambigua], he was not saying that
330 7,17| antichrist), substitutes the ambiguous phrase young woman for virgin.
331 3,5 | those occasions when certain ambitions bishops of Rome raised excessive
332 6,8 | the achievement of their ambitious political plans [Orthodoxy
333 10,26| Augustine of Hippo and St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. These
334 5,7 | less than twelve elders: Ambrosi, Leo, Moses, Anthony, Isaaki,
335 10,16| unto the end of the world. Amen. (Mt 28:19-20). In these
336 11,3 | Episcopalians (and tragically, many Americanized Roman Catholic parishes),
337 6,13| insignificant that the word amor [love] spelled backwards
338 5,8 | the Lord did not make” (Amos 3:6). He speaks of evil
339 7,17| However, all this uniformity amounts to absolutely nothing. Only
340 5,4 | irritability, wrath, revenge, amusements, fornication, drunkenness —
341 9,42| Peaceable Kingdom, three anachronisms are present: there are more
342 10,6 | Son and Holy Spirit is analogous to the co inherence of the
343 11,3 | Protestantism, takes an analytical look at the debased spectacles
344 7,14| tried to investigate and analyze the Truth of the Church
345 9,42| states:~ ~Nicholas Cabasilas analyzes this new condition vividly.
346 11,1 | clouds of incense and, at the Anaphora, an overwhelming supernatural
347 5,7 | Isaaki, Makari, Ioasaph, Anatoli, Ilarion, Barsanuphius,
348 3,20| almost completely extinct in Anatolia.~ ~
349 5,7 | thirty-five) living as a desert anchorite in strict solitude and ascetic
350 5,4 | monk and the founder of anchoritic monasticism. St. Anthony'
351 7,11| other saints, equal to the ancients, and how Orthodoxy possesses
352 9,42| by secular historians (R. Andree, H. Usener and T.G. Frazer).
353 10,6 | Greek theologian Chrestos Androustos adds, the Church is: ~ ~...
354 2,20| deifying man. Men are vexed and angered when not taken seriously
355 11,4 | Russian Cross sits at an angle.~ Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy
356 10,12| three branches were given: Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism and Eastern
357 10,12| popular among High Church Anglicans and taught that the Christian
358 9,42| Thus, man is sustained with anguish and labor. The animals are
359 1,1 | the worst recorded in the annals of history. One of the members
360 9,39| transformed, but would be totally annihilated [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
361 1,2 | will come and will Himself announce to the people the New Covenant (
362 11,4 | over death, is so often announced. Who that loves life would
363 11,4 | services, there are weekly and annual cycles. Concerning the weekly
364 6,15| year 752, Pope Zacharias anointed Pepin the Short, the chief
365 7,20| the waters of Baptism, the anointing with oil, the sign of the
366 2,20| it was a fabrication of Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1100)
367 5,4 | harm them. Dwelling in the antechambers of Heaven as they did, these
368 1,1 | to conquer the Balkans, anterior Asia and northern Africa,
369 7,14| with human conjecture and anthropocentric views and always tried to
370 9,21| Rousseau, “Incarnation et anthropologie en orient et en Occident,”
371 9,42| such-like. The famous French anthropologist Katrefage gets to the truth
372 2,20| Explaining how most Westerners anthropomorphize God, or project sinful qualities
373 Fwd,5| refer to men alone): ho anthropos (Greek), ha'adam (Hebrew),
374 3,12| called the Mother of Man (Anthropotokos), or at most the Mother
375 Fwd,6| in the text. There is no anti feminine bias in this wording,
376 1,1 | virulent and deadly form of anti-Christianity the world has so far witnessed
377 1,1 | in order to establish an anti-church, a “reborn Christianity.”
378 Fwd,5| stages, that is, in its anti-rational, goddess-worship modes,
379 9,12| without his human will being anticipated and upheld by God's grace,
380 11,3 | Scripture, their clownish antics and near-blasphemous inanities,
381 10,25| place of God.” [Against the Antidikomarionites].~ Orthodoxy and Rome part
382 Fwd,4| this material can serve to antidote that pagan indoctrination,
383 10,16| sanctification of holy chrism or an antimens (antimension). From the
384 6,4 | outset, there was a marked antipathy towards things Greek in
385 3,17| Eucharist theology are two antipodes on a spectrum of belief
386 4,12| avoided — the influence of antique pagan painting and realism —
387 7,14| deep-rooted pride, the very antithesis of Christian virtue.~ Archimandrite
388 3,17| concurs, stating that the antithetical strands of these two figures
389 9,42| yellow jackets, hornets, fire ants, etc.), and the cause of
390 9,15| providence. St. Gregory adds that anyway, the journey to God and
391 10,23| adopted John had for her.~ Aping the ancient heretics who
392 7,17| are commonly called the apocrypha, often with a pejorative
393 10,28| condition of innocence (apokatastasis in Greek). The condemnation
394 3,17| school supposedly tainted by Apollinarianism is an artificial and overstated
395 1,1 | repetition of the heretic Apollinarius' false teaching, which was
396 2,36| criticism with impartial apologetics; slander with holiness;
397 4,17| the leading Christian apologist of the second century, explicitly
398 9,39| I would gladly do it” [Apophthegmata].~ (9) Deification, even
399 9,3 | Triune God lest the Hebrews apostatize to the polytheism of their
400 3,5 | view of the papacy and his appalling and clearly misleading statement
401 5,4 | of every kind, gorgeously appareled and living delicately (Lk
402 1,11| settled doctrinal disputes by appealing to an infallible pope. Claims
403 10,16| and a special authority. Appearing to them after His Resurrection,
404 2,20| must be propitiated and appeased. Such an attitude wants
405 2,20| towards justifying themselves, appeasing God, and not toward their
406 7,17| and looks on them as an appendix to the canonical books.
407 1,11| in Antioch regarding the applicability of the ritual law of Moses.
408 7,21| cast aside; rather their application is left up to a bishop's
409 10,6 | of the Church has broad applications. The first is that just
410 4,12| things that would take an appreciable amount of time to describe
411 3,4 | that St. Athanasius did not appreciate the “threeness” of God or
412 5,4 | but live in an exaggerated appreciation for the present. This answer
413 11,4 | departing this life, will first apprehend Heaven. There is great power
414 11,1 | only an intellectual system apprehended by the clergy and expounded
415 4,12| soul, giving to those whose apprehension is not spoiled by [evil]
416 7,14| faiths will continue to appropriate to themselves the name Christian [
417 10,26| by this very act openly appropriated to himself the right to
418 10,6 | personal gift that each appropriates in his own way. “There are
419 7,14| later reluctantly came to approve of the death penalty for
420 9,38| Paul's handkerchiefs and aprons (Acts 19:12). The same divine
421 10,20| Church in his time, wrote apropos of the Church's commemoration
422 7,17| arsenic — or, to use another apt metaphor, psychological
423 10,16| and this occupation is aptly summarized in St. Dositheus’
424 10,23| translators were found (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion)
425 9,42| and the cause of harmful arachnids such as poisonous spiders,
426 2,17| and exalted to angelic or archangelic place and dignity. For though
427 8,8 | that He is the principle (arche) of unity among the Three.
428 4,12| which is passed along to the archetype, as the Fathers and teachers
429 8,14| mind the delta or grand architect of freemasonry, rather than
430 11,4 | violate the traditional architectural concepts and spiritual practices
431 5,4 | additionally explains that the arduous process of monastic self-denial
432 9,35| receive their final blow. The arena has been transferred to
433 5,4 | drowned, thrown to lions in arenas, and having molten lead
434 3,12| and Godhood of Christ. He argued that Mary can only be called
435 2,22| deification (theosis in Greek). Arguing that if man is to share
436 1,1 | were the Gnostics, then the Arians, then the Macedonians, then
437 7,17| important points, the question arises why the Greek and Aramaic
438 7,14| all-powerful feudal, military aristocracies of Europe. Of these, the
439 4,19| a combination of Moslem/Aristotelian ideas and Gnosticism. Luther
440 7,14| Western thought, because Aristotelianism prepared the way for Renaissance
441 6,15| nations — Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia, and large parts of the
442 5,4 | there appeared a wonderful army of Christ, leading a form
443 4,12| awarded, and my zeal is aroused like fire; I fall down and
444 6,8 | of which it assimilated, arraying itself in Christian garb
445 7,17| worst, quasi-theological arsenic — or, to use another apt
446 9,39| Seraphim of Sarov, St. Arsenius the Great and Abba Pambo.
447 9,42| of the English scientist Arthur Hook show, these nations
448 11,4 | the Liturgy. Behind these articles, against the eastern wall
449 2,6 | likewise became a time to articulate the beliefs of the faith
450 10,10| Church.” Elsewhere the martyr articulates the Orthodox view on this
451 4,12| therefore sent his court artist, Ananias, to invite Jesus
452 2,30| open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the
453 9,42| nature, and even more, he ascends to a more elevated state
454 7,14| intellect alone, man can ascertain truth and can derive universals
455 9,42| cases recorded where the ascetic-hermit lives in the company of
456 9,38| idea is false. Orthodox asceticism does not regard the body
457 9,12| suspicion since they feel it ascribes too much to man's free will,
458 11,4 | working, and death from asphyxiation would result in a matter
459 6,15| in the intentions, in the aspirations, and in the modi operand
460 1,1 | coven of sadistic clergy assassins openly boasted that he alone
461 5,4 | into sin even without being assaulted, and defeated by their own
462 7,14| examination of the phenomena assaulting Christianity in modern times,
463 5,4 | during their whole life the assaults of the opposing forces [
464 3,18| remaining Orthodox bishops must assign the presidency to the senior
465 7,11| promoting the understanding and assimilation of Christ's Church [Orthodoxy
466 6,15| of sanctity (Francis of Assisi), unacceptable to Orthodoxy,
467 10,22| know how necessary heavenly assistance is in the battle here on
468 1,17| Presbyters (priests) and deacons assisted the bishop in a threefold
469 4,12| Christ's Incarnation, His association with men, His miracles,
470 4,12| pillage and sacrilege. To assuage their notorious greed for
471 6,17| thinkers might begin by assuming that God does not exist (
472 7,14| although Holy Scriptures assured them that it was still to
473 5,8 | destruction of Nineveh in Assyria by fire and water, the Ninevites
474 9,42| are met among peoples of Assyria-Babylon, the Persians, the Chinese,
475 8,14| himself as a believer or an atheist (or an agnostic, in the
476 5,5 | capitulation of certain Athonite Fathers to the ecumenical
477 6,16| such as purgatory, merits, atonement, indulgences, the Assumption,
478 4,12| other things to which people attach more importance than God.
479 10,27| how much a man might be attached to another — for example,
480 2,1 | importance that Orthodoxy attaches to the Seven Ecumenical
481 10,27| would never refer to his attachment to the heart of the beloved
482 7,14| hearts and souls of earthly attachments and human passions, they
483 11,3 | fifteenth century. When attacking the reunion council of Florence,
484 9,42| theosis. Whereas the ascetic attains to “the likeness of God” (
485 9,42| race, although the means of attempting the practical attainment
486 11,4 | people. Roman Catholics would attend church to adore the “host”
487 9,39| or esoteric. It involves attendance at church, the reception
488 6,6 | Tsars took this role and its attendant responsibilities very seriously.
489 6,15| various synods since that time attest to this fact. Speaking of
490 4,12| the contrary, it should attract one's thoughts and feelings
491 Fwd,3| the opposite: a point of attraction. He explains that Orthodoxy
492 Fwd,6| things make Orthodoxy highly attractive to these Western newcomers.
493 4,12| thoughts. The bloom of painting attracts me, it delights my sight
494 7,14| intermediary, with a blind audacity, with an impure mind and
495 11,4 | thoroughly conversant with the audible parts of the Holy Liturgy,
496 Fwd,4| bent on programming its audience with an anti-Christian worldview.
497 7,17| edition of the Bible is augmented by the ten deuterocanonical
498 7,14| as creator: a wonderful aura began to surround men of
499 5,4 | solitude they needed for the austere monastic life. Monasticism
500 11,4 | ecclesiastically minded in the West [Austin Oakley, The Orthodox Liturgy,
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