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1 11,4 | Century, November 12, 1980, p. 1085.~ [129]. Alexander Schmemann, “
2 8,3 | against the Romans (ca. 165BC-73AD), when the Jews were struggling
3 11,4 | 193. ~ [85]. Ibid., p. 174.~ ~[86]. In his keynote
4 11,4 | 83]. Henderson, p. 183.~ [84]. Alexander Schmemann, “
5 4,2 | position was Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) who argued that the
6 6,1 | Ivanovich Antonov in the year 1866, Silouan lived the ordinary
7 2,4 | things (2 Cor. 5:17; Rom. 8:18ff.). The most appropriate
8 11,2 | catastrophe” in the early 1920s. After an unwise and futile
9 4,2 | Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) who argued that the development
10 6,1 | Archimandrite Sophrony. In 1948, ten years after Silouan'
11 Intro,1| first published in German (1957) and later translated into
12 8,4 | dogmatic teaching (Meyer, p. 196).~ As for this writer, whenever
13 11,4 | 4, and Vol. 9, Number 4 (1964-65)., ~ ~[125]. Metropolitan
14 Intro,1| Eastern Orthodox Church (1967), the German theologian
15 11,4 | scholars occurred in New York (1972) at the initiative of Archbishop
16 11,4 | London & Oxford: Mowbrays, 1973), whereas Wisdom from Mount
17 11,4 | Vladminir’s Seminary Press, 1974).~ [95]. Monk, p. 11.~ [
18 11,4 | Rosemary Edmonds (New York, 1975), pp. 26-27.~ [93]. Translated
19 11,4 | Ecumenical Studies 13 (4, 1976) and The Greek Orthodox
20 11,4 | three appeared in 1981 and 1984.~ [67]. For example Margaret
21 11,4 | writer, occurred in March 1985 at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox
22 11,4 | Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), and several books by Henri
23 11,4 | Lomond: Conciliar Press, 1992) and the abundance of literature
24 11,4 | Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).~ [83]. Henderson, p.
25 11,4 | Lomond: Conciliar Press, 1999).~ [82]. David W. Henderson,
26 2,4 | united to the vine (Jn 15:1ff.). It is by such intimate
27 8,4 | idol meats is one thing (1O:23) which is permissible.
28 9,3 | pretensions and divisions from its 2000 year odyssey through history [
29 Pref | Massachusetts August 28, 2001~ ~ ~ ~
30 11,4 | Ecclesia 5 (2, 1996), pp. 202-213.~ ~[64]. See On the
31 11,4 | Ecclesia 5 (2, 1996), pp. 202-213.~ ~[64]. See On the Incarnation,
32 11,4 | Review 24 (4, '79), pp. 271-289, and Basilios Stoyiannos, “
33 11,4 | 1993.~ [69]. Ibid., pp. 297-300.~ [70]. The Philokalia:
34 11,4 | Saint Symeon, Discourses, p. 298.~ [78]. St. Syemon, Discourses,
35 11,4 | 69]. Ibid., pp. 297-300.~ [70]. The Philokalia:
36 11,4 | in the same volume, pp. 309-322~ [146]. Popular examples
37 4,3 | of Christian Prayer” (pp. 314-321). Miller defines the
38 4,3 | Christian Prayer” (pp. 314-321). Miller defines the specific
39 11,4 | the same volume, pp. 309-322~ [146]. Popular examples
40 8,4 | Alexander the Great (356-323BC). The Jews in Alexandria,
41 11,4 | Saint Symeon, Discourses, p. 353.~ [75]. Saint Symeon, Discourses,
42 11,4 | Syemon, Discourses, p. 354.~ [79]. Anastasios Yannoulatos, “
43 8,4 | of Alexander the Great (356-323BC). The Jews in Alexandria,
44 1,1 | Antioch as presbyter (381-397) and Constantinople as archbishop (
45 1,1 | Constantinople as archbishop (398-404). In his treatise On
46 2,4 | said to Nicodemos (Jn 3:3ff.), signifying the gift of
47 1,1 | Constantinople as archbishop (398-404). In his treatise On the
48 10,3 | occasion celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg
49 9,3 | an event that occurred in 843. After nearly two centuries
50 9,3 | eleven hundred years ago in 878. It was established as a
51 7,5 | our virtual surrender and abandonment of the Church's ministry
52 11,4 | agree with this view but abhor the pernicious Christian
53 7,4 | also based on God-given abilities of reason and moral sense.
54 9,2 | Church became a burning bush ablaze with the grace of the Spirit.~
55 8,4 | dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of
56 8,3 | rather than negation or abolition of the Jewish heritage.
57 11,4 | us. On the other hand, to absolutize all of these faith expressions
58 11,2 | true and right rather than absorb what everybody else was
59 3,2 | cultural crisis, that is, an absorption of a sociological loss of
60 4,2 | philosophical principles and abstractions, not the living faith of
61 9,2 | matter how much we have abused His gifts and have been
62 9,2 | God’s property by in fact abusing His gifts. Freedom becomes
63 10,4 | money, proud, arrogant, abusive . . . holding the form of
64 6,6 | seemed to cast him into the abyss of despair. According to
65 8,3 | but sealed Christianity's accelerated separation from Judaism.
66 2,3 | faith and works, with the accent unerringly falling on grace
67 9,2 | sanctified, and have full access to the mercy and forgiveness
68 5,2 | when the people wanted to acclaim Him king, Jesus left both
69 1,2 | comments on Nathaniel's eager acclamation and connects it with one
70 2,4 | Orthodox tradition and was accorded the rare honorary title “
71 9,3 | calling all faithful to accountability before God. The aim of Father
72 8,4 | is not whether or not to acculturate but how much. The remarkable
73 7,2 | aptitudes developed through accumulated wisdom and trained skill.~
74 7,3 | cultures and the progressive accumulation of human knowledge. In the
75 10,4 | said years ago.[129] More accurately, it is not the problem of
76 8,3 | judgment on the Jews as being accursed by God. Rather, he expresses
77 7,4 | before Jesus, just as the accusing brothers who came before
78 6,1 | for them.[107]~ My heart aches for the whole world, and
79 9,1 | to his personal religious achievements but also to his rich Jewish
80 5,5 | from which he uttered the aching words: “My God, my God,
81 10,2 | Situation.~ We need humbly to acknowledge that the highest claims
82 2,4 | to Plato. However, while acknowledging the Greek philosophical
83 6,5 | goal of spiritual life: to acquire the mind of Christ. The
84 3,2 | for individual freedom and acquisition of material goods; the pursuit
85 5,2 | birth to death. He was not “acting” when he was joyful or indignant,
86 3,4 | order to receive and we must actively seek in order to find (Mt.
87 5,3 | together, we seek to affirm and actualize our status as sons and daughters
88 4,3 | 16). It is the Spirit who actualizes the gift of adoption, our
89 2,4 | to free humanity from its Adamic transgression as a result
90 8,1 | well as its capacity to adapt to new circumstances and
91 11,4 | ongoing process of change and adaptation in changing historical circumstances,
92 9,1 | emerging from Judaism and adapting to the new cultural milieu
93 8,3 | transcends all cultures and adapts to new ones? What are the
94 2,2 | Revelation. To these should be added the sacramental passages
95 7,5 | psychopathology, demonology, or addictiveness to substances such as alcohol.
96 3,4 | Paul, is not some external additive but an intrinsic quality
97 2,2 | remembrance of me.” And Saint Paul adds: “For as often as you eat
98 8,3 | as a zealous and strict adherent.~ Chapters 9-11 of Romans
99 7,5 | such as priests, teachers, administrators, missionaries — all those
100 10,5 | subjective sentiment, a kind of admirable but shallow optimism, nor
101 9,2 | Outsiders, too, would come and admire the antique beauty of the
102 3,4 | merely to be observed and admired, but to be received and
103 5,2 | Gospel of Christ and a great admirer of Saint Paul. He, too,
104 6,6 | Spirituality.~ “Test the spirits,” admonishes Saint John (I Jn 4:1). What
105 6,6 | counsel of despair but an admonition to check spiritual pride.
106 4,2 | exponent of this position was Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
107 8,4 | and the three youths had adopted Babylonian names and used
108 Intro,4| Christianity seeks to praise and adore the mystery of God. Innumerable
109 5,1 | worshipers” praising and adoring our God “in spirit and truth” (
110 9,2 | had been built — itself adorned with intricate carvings,
111 9,3 | The Pharisee was not an adulterer, nor an extortioner, nor
112 7,4 | similar to the account of the adulterous woman brought before Christ.
113 Pref | married couples, and many adults totally involved in the
114 1,3 | words:~ ~Since the Savior’s advent in our midst, not only does
115 5,4 | experiential knowledge of God is an adventure in divine love which is
116 6,5 | sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around
117 5,2 | contacts with people whom he advised through countless letters.
118 Intro,1| spectrum are those who would advocate an ideal “Holy Orthodoxy”
119 11,4 | 22). Although the Apostle advocated freedom from the Mosaic
120 8,4 | his time.~ Saint Paul's affinities with hellenistic culture
121 3,3 | should be answered in the affirmative. The fullness of the gospel
122 3,2 | reliance on success, ambition, affluence, status, profit, prestige,
123 6,6 | ourselves and pray for those who affront us, God works impossible
124 3,4 | ministry the great Apostle was aflame with the evangelical spirit
125 10,4 | properly repented and many are afraid of the words “spiritual
126 3,1 | activities particularly in Africa, where he himself was a
127 3,4 | not intended only for the afterlife, but also for the daily
128 6,1 | spiritual gift. Not long afterward Simeon was granted an even
129 Intro,1| spirit apart from narrow agendas, whether as individuals
130 1,3 | Eirenaios, and others, were aglow with an amazing boldness
131 6,5 | is above all inward, the agonies and lacerations of the soul.
132 5,2 | needed to rest, when He felt agony and pain. Nor was His devotion
133 1,3 | uneducated and common men” (agrammatoi kai idiotai, Acts 4:13).[
134 8,4 | The Apostle answers yes, agreeing with the “strong” or theologically
135 8,3 | shoots of a wild olive (agrielaios), but now organically “grafted”
136 1,4 | despair. If human fierceness (agriotes) is caused by choice and
137 5,4 | a periodic, debilitating ailment. Saint Paul asked the Lord
138 5,4 | us call prayer spiritual air-conditioning. Prayer, according to Saint
139 5,3 | invocation such as “ask” (aito), “entreat” (iketeuo), “
140 7,4 | spiritual discernment (and, alas, sometimes even practical
141 3,1 | autocephalous Church of Albania, published an article with
142 8,1 | worked with the strongest, albeit paradoxical, sense of solidarity
143 7,5 | addictiveness to substances such as alcohol. To lift an example, there
144 11,4 | Christianity and Anti-Semitism (Aldington: Kent Publishing Company,
145 6,5 | side, the inner person must alertly reject all evil thoughts
146 2,3 | evangelization implies constant alertness regarding integrity and
147 5,3 | desires reformation of life in alignment with His will and purpose.
148 7,2 | comprehensive as it is complex, all-embracing reality. There are consequently
149 10,4 | magnificent Pantocrator, the All-ruling Christ, in the domes of
150 2,3 | primary antidote against the all-too-human tendency toward routine,
151 3,3 | today. No Christian can allege that the power of the Holy
152 8,3 | has nothing to do with the alleged Jewish attitude of meritorious “
153 6,5 | teaches Silouan, but He allows affliction so that man may
154 3,3 | and surrendering to the allurements of a world ruled by Satan?
155 | almost
156 9,2 | Holy Trinity which is the alpha and the omega of all things.~
157 5,5 | appearance of His countenance was altered, and His raiment became
158 11,3 | of Jews and Christians. Alternate terms are fidelity, steadfastness,
159 5,4 | wait” or a different answer altogether. We believe in God’s love
160 6,1 | asked the questions looked amazed.~He had known Silouan for
161 6,1 | infrequently, like Saint Paul, the ambassador of Christ who beseeched
162 8,2 | baptismal identity, and not an ambiguous kind of sociological identity
163 3,2 | example, reliance on success, ambition, affluence, status, profit,
164 10,4 | yearning for Christ, no amount of good works could receive
165 10,3 | These phenomena were seen as amounting not only to the breakdown
166 10,5 | again and again, it also amounts to a personal crisis, a
167 3,3 | clarity as Gospel, and with ample faith and conviction, to
168 5,5 | the believer is “mingled” (anakrathenai) with the Spirit of the
169 8,2 | While the parable is not analogical in every detail, it gives
170 9,2 | Jesus grew up. By way of analogy, we might catch a glimpse
171 11,4 | Ankori, especially pp. 28-46, analytically exposes the forces, sources,
172 2,4 | about God, then let me be anathema from the Lord God Jesus
173 5,4 | person? Is it by knowing anatomy, psychology or history?
174 2,2 | holding these Your words as an anchor of hope.~ It is the day
175 9,3 | magnificent parade, which the ancients called triumph (thriambos),
176 9,2 | capacity to forgive and begin anew, the capacity to bond and
177 1,2 | proclaimed by human and angelic beings in the Old and New
178 11,1 | denominations such as the Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians.
179 11,4 | 1996) and Nancey Murphy, Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical
180 8,4 | allowed to eat the meat of animals previously offered to pagan
181 11,2 | Bulgarians as well. My personal animosity toward the latter, without
182 5,2 | Mary, Symeon the elder, and Anna the prophetess, whose lives
183 10,3 | occasion celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession,
184 3,4 | the same gifts that are announced become realities in the
185 4,4 | evangelism is not merely announcing the gospel but also “making
186 11,2 | Peloponnese, we used to have an annual celebration in honor of
187 2,2 | namely, the events of the annunciation, the birth of Jesus, His
188 8,4 | occasion, key terms. Once he anonymously quotes a proverbial statement
189 2,4 | system as in the case of Anselm in the West. Remarkable
190 11,4 | Week in some lands, and anti-Jewish gestures of abuse or even
191 7,4 | reconciling with others, anticipating and avoiding occasions of
192 2,3 | the Church, the primary antidote against the all-too-human
193 6,1 | Born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov in the year 1866, Silouan
194 5,2 | Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything
195 6,5 | struggle “invisible warfare” (aoratos polemos). What is at stake
196 2,4 | servants.[71]~ ~A few more aphorisms from Saint Mark the Ascetic,
197 2,4 | must put on incorruption (aphtharsian) and this mortal (thneton)
198 8,3 | tree by reason of unbelief (apistia), just as “in their place”
199 1,3 | the great proof (megiste apodeixis) of the divine power behind
200 4,2 | bearing many names, Zeus, Apollo, Baal, Serapis, and numerous
201 8,3 | radical departures, even an apostasy, from Judaism. What we observe
202 5,5 | And as He was praying, the appearance of His countenance was altered,
203 Intro,1| to be found wanting while appearing to instruct others. Authenticity
204 1,2 | of this life have their appointed time; but~let the teaching
205 Pref | answer cannot be simply the appointment of more committees and task
206 10,2 | is honest and courageous appraisal of our actual situation.
207 3,1 | treasure is not adequately appreciated, nor sufficiently effective,
208 1,2 | significant. It provides a way of appreciating the diversity of the Gospels
209 3,2 | living faith by which we~apprehend that the risen Christ is
210 6,1 | in the monastery my soul apprehended God in the Holy~Spirit . . .
211 5,3 | what is unclean. When Moses approached the burning bush, God said
212 5,3 | which must be put off before approaching God’s holy presence. In
213 1,4 | of the human response in appropriating the power and blessings
214 8,4 | Greek poet (Menander) with approval, “bad company ruins good
215 7,2 | observation, thought, and aptitudes developed through accumulated
216 2,1 | what Thomas Torrance has aptly called “fidelity to truth”
217 11,4 | the Middle East there are Arab Orthodox Christians whose
218 8,1 | remarkable transition from the Aramaic-speaking Jewish culture of Palestinian
219 9,2 | His gifts. Freedom becomes arbitrariness. Knowledge becomes cunning
220 10,2 | spirit based on ego and arbitrary choice. The Bible calls
221 11,4 | ghost of the early Christian arch-heretic Marcion who renounced the
222 11,4 | 87]. Commission on the Archdiocesan Theological Agenda, “Report
223 5,2 | His example serves the archetype of deep, personal prayer.~
224 1,3 | power of the Gospel or his ardor about preaching and teaching
225 6,1 | to feel that his long and arduous journey had perhaps been
226 8,2 | culture. Born in Tarsus, arguably the Athens of the Eastern
227 1,3 | on these grounds that he argues with unbelievers in rhetorical
228 8,3 | s complex and laborious argumentation in part reaches a high point
229 1,3 | the fourth century, when Arianism rocked the Church and when
230 3,4 | but an intrinsic quality arising out of “the light of the
231 10,1 | heaven and suddenly his whole arm became like a flaming torch.
232 6,5 | gives them the powerful armament of the grace of the Holy
233 1,4 | and ways of the multitude. Armed with earnest will, it is
234 5,2 | He was exiled and died in Armenia while suffering terribly
235 6,5 | and to put on the whole armor of God, always ready to
236 11,2 | attempt by the mainland Greek army to reconquer Byzantine territory
237 3,4 | 2 Cor. 2:14-15). This aromatic fragrance of Christian witness,
238 8,2 | open society. He tries to arouse local Greek Orthodox congregations
239 8,3 | No wonder that they were aroused to persecution of Jewish
240 4,3 | particularly its systematic arrangement of Jesus’ teaching in several
241 1,3 | arms, the devil in battle array and stirring~up all, kings,
242 9,3 | prayer, not trade. He faced arrest, beatings, mockings, and
243 7,2 | skill to see, analyze, and arrive at a deep insight about
244 9,2 | carvings, precious stones, artful symbols, and mystical paintings.
245 9,2 | deigned in the flesh to ascend on the Cross to save Your
246 1,2 | miracles, that He rose, that He~ascended, that He will judge, that
247 10,5 | not a slogan for extreme asceticism as another “ism” — that
248 10,5 | in training. The ancient ascetics, literally the “athletes”
249 9,3 | triumphs, does Orthodoxy truly ascribe the credit and the glory
250 6,3 | unites the whole wondrous assembly of God: the Virgin Mary,
251 6,5 | away evil thoughts, and assents to them, he must at once
252 5,4 | in our lives. The saints assure us, however, that experiential
253 5,5 | Prayer, the pilgrim was astonished to discover the wondrous
254 2,4 | tradition is represented by an astonishingly rich literature dating from
255 1,4 | to his hearers:~ ~Let us astound them [the pagans] by our
256 9,2 | before His death when He ate the Last Supper with His
257 2,4 | must put on immortality (athanasian). . . Then shall come to
258 10,3 | Chrysostoms, or Basils, or Athanasioses. However, we can contribute
259 6,6 | satisfaction: “God will punish all atheists. They will burn in everlasting
260 11,4 | theological thinking. Patriarch Athenagoras of blessed memory once,
261 10,5 | ascetics, literally the “athletes” of Christian spirituality,
262 6,6 | lived the strict life of Athonite monasticism but his spirit
263 8,2 | society, yet powerfully attached to their own religious and
264 11,4 | convictions by denying or attacking the religious convictions
265 8,2 | all things, including his attainments in Judaism, a “loss” and “
266 Intro,1| harvest” (Jn 4:35).~ Some have attempted to define the essence of
267 Intro,4| while Western Christianity attempts to analyze and comprehend
268 3,4 | spiritual principles must be attended to and be taught to our
269 5,4 | weeds and becomes wild. Attentive, persevering prayer plants
270 2,2 | overtones. All of these texts attest to the liturgical confessions
271 4,2 | As Scripture abundantly attests, the Father is the primary
272 6,6 | God.~ Silouan was greatly attracted to the humility of Christ
273 4,2 | Christ in the same breath attributing to them equal divine prerogatives.
274 11,4 | enmity — much less raise up audaciously a hand of violence, injustice,
275 10,3 | charm, Pelikan startled the audience with the remark that the
276 10,3 | 450th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, a milestone
277 Pref | Brookline, Massachusetts August 28, 2001~ ~ ~ ~
278 11,4 | of tradition in such an authentically faithful way that its gifts
279 11,3 | dialogical process itself may be authenticated and enriched to the maximum
280 10,2 | manipulations of ecclesiastical authorities. Saint John Chrysostom did
281 3,1 | Yannoulatos, now Archbishop of the autocephalous Church of Albania, published
282 1,4 | but requires free will (autoexousion). Christ has done all His
283 3,3 | incomprehensibly abstract for the average person. The catechetical
284 7,4 | inappropriate, pursuable and avoidable, based on received tradition.
285 9,3 | theologian is positive: to awaken the community to its actual
286 10,5 | spirituality, invoked the axiom, “Give blood to get spirit.”
287 4,2 | understanding and revealed them to babes . . .~All things have been
288 5,2 | Cardiologists tell us that a baby’s heart begins to beat when
289 4,3 | Temple and the exile to Babylon. In those days, the Prophet
290 3,3 | new way of life in Christ backed up by the transforming experience
291 Intro,6| toward all people and their backgrounds, we witness to the fulness
292 11,4 | contrary we carry on our backs rich heritages and immeasurable
293 9,3 | identity problems, looking backwards to past glories, and drawing
294 11,4 | the pernicious Christian backwash for Jews. Yet I do not see
295 11,2 | and losing its grip on its Balkan holdings, Greeks and Bulgarians
296 1,3 | disseminated by Paul, error was banished, truth introduced in its
297 7,4 | Abba Paphnoutios, “on the bank of the river a man sunk
298 8,4 | Participating in ceremonies and banquets at pagan temples is quite
299 11,4 | Jewish people in history, the bare fact of which shows that
300 4,3 | Peter combines the baptismal base of newness of life as well
301 11,3 | values upon which to build bases for a gradual great reversal.
302 11,4 | 79), pp. 271-289, and Basilios Stoyiannos, “The Law in
303 10,3 | to become Chrysostoms, or Basils, or Athanasioses. However,
304 1,4 | his days “a dark night (batheia nyx) seemed to prevail among
305 1,2 | unseasonable. . . Let food and~baths and dinners and the other
306 5,2 | possessed the power of a “battle-ax” against the devil and his
307 6,5 | against sin and evil. The Lord battled unceasingly with evil and
308 6,5 | human being. The crucial battleground is mostly unseen. The Orthodox
309 11,2 | ethnic martyr who had died battling the Bulgarians in the early
310 9,2 | the Holy Spirit, a bright beacon shining the path to a lost
311 1,3 | of Palestine, and having beaten off their own ground~the
312 9,3 | trade. He faced arrest, beatings, mockings, and finally shameful
313 3,1 | thanks to the work of His Beatitude and others, both clergy
314 3,4 | Mount, He began with the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the humble...
315 3,1 | that, as the new millennium beckons us forward, a parallel rekindling
316 7,4 | image and likeness of God, a beclouding of reason and moral sense,
317 6,4 | Him. Remembrance of God begets prayer. But without prayer
318 2,4 | a poor, brother-loving beggar” (ptochos philadelphos),
319 7,5 | has reached at least the beginnings of the stage of illumination
320 6,4 | are who say that prayer beguiles. This is not so. A man is
321 7,4 | light which penetrates the beholder and transforms him into
322 5,5 | this light, the Christian beholds the glory of the Lord and
323 8,4 | patterns of language of belonging and separation, a sense
324 11,2 | home alone to fetch her belongings. There she was captured
325 | below
326 1,4 | and leaving reasonings beneath, it philosophizes about
327 4,2 | all of you,” a familiar benediction in the Liturgy of St. John
328 7,1 | cast a stone.” And again he bent down to scribble. Hearing
329 Intro,1| German theologian Ernst Benz brilliantly introduced western
330 11,4 | Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley: University of California
331 11,4 | Mystical Theology of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Symeon
332 6,1 | ambassador of Christ who beseeched all to be reconciled to
333 6,5 | tormented by fantasies, and beset by frustrations and evil
334 | Besides
335 11,3 | late in history but also a betrayal of our particular histories.
336 11,1 | away from negativism and bias, is that of respectful mutual
337 1,2 | living books and laws” (biblia kai nomoi empsychoi), pouring
338 11,4 | 133]. See note 1 for the bibliographical information. ~ [134]. Shemaryahu
339 11,4 | 1995), provides a full bibliography on Symeon the New Theologian.~ [
340 2,1 | presumptuousness of the powerful, the bickerings of the contentious, the
341 3,2 | mentioned: the growth of big cities; the astonishing
342 11,1 | faith. In addition several bilateral dialogues have continued
343 11,4 | an obligation, indeed a binding pledge, to matters of the
344 11,4 | Christ who paradoxically both binds and separates us. It is
345 5,5 | The trees, the grass, the birds, the earth, the air, the
346 1,3 | Here Saint John presses a bit the point. Let no one say
347 5,4 | humiliated Jonah complained bitterly to God. “Are you angry?”
348 6,5 | It is easier to uproot a blade of grass than a tree, another
349 9,3 | who viewed himself as blameless according to the Law (Phil.
350 6,6 | find peace, is troubled, blames others, and does not realize
351 3,3 | to self-criticism alone, blaming ourselves and our own people
352 9,3 | of Christ who affirms and blesses all that is good and beautiful
353 2,4 | transgression, sin is a sickness, a blight on humanity. Sick humanity
354 2,4 | conscience, an awareness of one’s blindness and the need for enlightenment,
355 5,5 | foretaste on earth of the bliss of heaven.” Through the
356 3,2 | even though they have been blissfully cohabitating for years,
357 8,4 | organization — the building blocks of what in time emerged
358 Pref | new creation” in Christ blossoms by God’s grace. All these
359 1,2 | paradise opened, the curse blotted out, sin put out of the
360 8,4 | blush to commit a social blunder by referring to his future
361 8,4 | great Apostle seems at first blush to commit a social blunder
362 1,3 | Corinthians who argued and boasted about their spiritual gifts
363 9,3 | triumphalism, the pride and boasting of empty religiosity, through
364 2,4 | him in order to inflict bodily harm. Although rejected
365 9,2 | begin anew, the capacity to bond and create friendships,
366 11,4 | Westminster, 1981); Roberta C. Bondi, To Love God as God Loves (
367 9,3 | them wagon after wagon of booty. Excited on his arrival,
368 11,4 | Homily 15.6.~ [43]. I borrow this expression from the
369 8,4 | in a syncretistic manner borrowing and mixing elements indiscriminately.
370 11,4 | Science, Religion, and Ethics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).~ [
371 1,4 | earnest will (espoudasmene boulesis) which leaves behind the
372 11,2 | the Turks, conflicted over boundary claims. History lessons
373 9,2 | sacrifice. However, out of his boundless love for the world, God
374 10,5 | himself to a runner and a boxer in training. The ancient
375 7,1 | discerned that a serious breach of God's law had occurred
376 3,4 | transformative grace of God breaking into people’s lives: “Behold,
377 2,4 | Saint Symeon lived and breathed the Scriptures. In Disourses
378 10,5 | Mt 15:19-20).~ Orthodoxy breathes a heroic spirit over against
379 11,4 | Churches Today, edited by Ion Bria (Geneva: World Council of
380 1,2 | He the Bridegroom, we the bride; He the Shepherd, we the
381 1,2 | we~the branches; He the Bridegroom, we the bride; He the Shepherd,
382 7,2 | cracks in the structure of a bridge will make the necessary
383 9,3 | glories, and drawing up the bridges because it neither understands
384 Intro,1| many years ago, the writer briefly met an elderly monastic
385 10,5 | the heart radiate with the brightness of God’s grace.~ The abiding
386 11,4 | Christian-Jewish Relations (Bristol: Wyndham Hall Press, 1990).
387 11,4 | Christians Across Great Britain Embracing Orthodoxy? (Ben
388 2,4 | its center. We have also broached the topic of justification
389 8,4 | Christianity is marked by a broad but distinct convergence
390 2,4 | as no more than “a poor, brother-loving beggar” (ptochos philadelphos),
391 11,4 | place in Lucerne (1977) and Bucharest (1979). The papers of these
392 9,3 | Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and so many others. But
393 8,4 | Gunkel, Walter Bauer, Rudolf Bultmann, and others, who have treated
394 9,2 | living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:
395 6,6 | Without them life becomes burdensome. Silouan is lyrical about
396 4,4 | scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the
397 11,4 | much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices” (
398 11,2 | suddenly two Turkish soldiers burst into the house. The boys
399 7,3 | economist, lawyer, politician, businessman, or even a consumer in a
400 9,2 | Is it to get married, or buy a house, or start a business?”
401 11,4 | Philip Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley: University of
402 9,1 | over the ecclesiastical calendar. Historically, these are
403 11,4 | Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).~ [49]. See
404 Pref | simply to our respective callings — as bishops, priests, theologians,
405 10,2 | engulfed by as much evil, sin, callousness, pretension, injustice,
406 3,2 | activities, conferences, camps, study groups, and philanthropic
407 4,2 | Baal the fertility god of Canaan, or Moloch to whom children
408 11,4 | Christology neutralizes and cancels authentic dialogue precisely
409 Intro,1| and instructive as it is candid and courageous.~ In what
410 9,3 | hymnology, spirituality and canon law. Orthodoxy exhibits
411 1,2 | Saint Paul literally and had canonized only the Gospel of Luke,
412 11,4 | hymn taken from the sixth canticle of Mattins of the Sunday
413 10,4 | appears as wide as the Grand Canyon. The tragedy is that, not
414 9,2 | words, we too have the inner capacities, just as Christ did, to
415 2,1 | only to the Orthodox with a capital “O” but to all who regard
416 4,2 | Saint Athanasios, the three Cappadocians, and others. While doing
417 5,4 | in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, eliminating toxicity
418 5,2 | with God’s holy presence. Cardiologists tell us that a baby’s heart
419 11,3 | for me, I should lay my cards on the table and say that,
420 5,2 | nevertheless put aside a promising career as a lawyer to concentrate
421 3,4 | recite with conviction a carefully chosen passage from Scripture,
422 6,1 | vision after a period of careless living. While Simeon on
423 6,6 | himself above those who live carelessly, and begins to pass~judgment
424 5,4 | wickedness because of immaturity, carelessness and lack of a stable relationship
425 3,3 | They long to be part of a caring and supportive community.
426 9,3 | of Titus — and depicting carved scenes of his victory. His
427 9,2 | itself adorned with intricate carvings, precious stones, artful
428 10,2 | indeed the repositories and caskets of her golden ornaments,~
429 Intro,1| It is only another way of casting the issue and suggesting
430 3,4 | There is also worship, catechesis, pastoral guidance, philanthropy,
431 2,3 | baptizing them but also by catechizing them regarding Jesus' commandments.
432 11,4 | just as Saint Paul long ago categorically declared (Rom. 11:1,11).~
433 5,2 | served as abbot of Saint Catherine’s monastery located at the
434 9,3 | whole world — Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus,
435 6,1 | Mount Athos from the Russian Caucasus. He was well‑known for his
436 7,1 | Gospel account of the woman caught in adultery who was brought
437 1,4 | fierceness (agriotes) is caused by choice and not by nature,
438 9,3 | prophetic, cleansing, even cauterizing function. The ancient prophets
439 5,2 | spent several years in a cave praying and reading one
440 11,4 | difficult task. Permit me the caveat that what follows are suggestive
441 1,3 | murderers to seek~refuge in caves, pirates to disappear, . . .
442 6,5 | Christian is called to wage ceaseless spiritual warfare against
443 6,5 | confuse it, and subtly deceive it into evil. The outcome
444 4,1 | magnificent text is recited at the celebrations of the mystery of Baptism.
445 6,6 | midst of his struggles, his cell was filled with devils.
446 8,4 | for their own use. Jewish cemetery inscriptions found throughout
447 1,4 | Christian. The sharpest censure of his contemporary Church
448 1,4 | Antiochean candidly exposes and censures the failings of Christians.
449 2,2 | redemptive work of Christ. The centerpiece is the Gospel according
450 8,3 | distinction between moral and ceremonial parts of the Law, he does
451 7,1 | toward sinners dictated a chance at a new start for the woman,
452 5,2 | When He cast out the money changers from the Temple area, He
453 3,1 | clergy and laity of America channel their sense of missionary
454 Intro,4| The necessary reliance on chanters and choirs often puts worshipers
455 3,4 | the Eucharistic Gifts, he chants: “We offer to You these
456 2,1 | traditional Orthodox lands, the chaotic promises of democracy in
457 5,1 | hearts also be beautiful chapels, making melody to the Lord
458 5,3 | from the burning bush and charged him to lead the people out
459 4,4 | and all the other personal charisms (Gal. 5:22-23). Accordingly,
460 10,3 | insightful gems and personal charm, Pelikan startled the audience
461 6,5 | becomes forgetful, fails to chase away evil thoughts, and
462 10,2 | exceedingly distressed by the chatter and manipulations of ecclesiastical
463 2,1 | s self-revelation and to cherish the Gospel of Christ as
464 5,3 | Liturgy we symbolize the Cherubim in Isaiah’s vision singing
465 8,4 | sincerely observant Jew who chided other hellenizing Jews for
466 10,3 | ought to be moving beyond a childish understanding of Orthodoxy
467 Pref | parish council members, choir members, parents, and parishioners
468 4,2 | any one to~whom the Son chooses to reveal him.~ ~Full divine
469 Intro,2| imitation of Christ (mimesis Chrestou),” writes Saint Basil.[4]
470 2,4 | saintly elder as a person, a “Christ-bearer,” who embodied the sacred
471 8,2 | became Christ-centered. The Christ-focus was so immense that the
472 2,4 | growth toward perfection in Christ-likeness.~ The masterful work by
473 11,4 | Western Traditions within Christendom,” in Orthodoxy: A Faith
474 Intro,1| with Hellenism in order to christianize it. They forget the mission
475 4,4 | world to Himself (Theos en Christo kosmon katalasson, 2 Cor.
476 8,3 | that the Apostle presents a christocentric survey of universal history
477 8,2 | 9:1-18) he was granted a Christophany, a vision of the risen Christ,
478 10,3 | do not presume to become Chrysostoms, or Basils, or Athanasioses.
479 11,4 | between Jewish and a wider circle of Orthodox scholars took
480 1,2 | discrepancy of doctrines circulating among the Galatians. Saint
481 8,3 | Gentiles Christians had to be circumcised to be saved (Acts 15:1).
482 11,4 | Mowbray, 1953), p. 61. The citation occurs in chapter 30 of
483 1,3 | comparative purposes one might cite the case of Saint Athanasios.
484 8,1 | figure of Saint Paul, Roman citizen (Acts 22:27-28), zealous
485 11,3 | faithful people, and admittedly claimants of a longer historical polemical
486 3,3 | religion of the Roman Empire, claiming the emperor himself as its
487 11,4 | Theology of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Symeon the New Theologian,
488 11,4 | from each other, and even clarify our own ideas and convictions
489 11,2 | that they should aim at clarifying principles, rules, and attitudes
490 8,4 | concerned, the Apostle would classify himself not as a barbarian
491 5,4 | superficial view of God as Santa Claus who quit spiritually because
492 10,5 | yourselves: make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your
493 10,5 | God’s grace lifts it up, cleanses and empowers it, transforming
494 2,4 | biblical position in the clearest terms. His opening statement
495 6,1 | for the glory of God... Cleave not to the earth, for God
496 2,4 | address only lay people but clerics and monastics as well. All
497 5,4 | of a man who fell off a cliff and managed to grasp a bush
498 11,4 | Church leaders. Saint John Climacos, The Ladder of Divine Ascent,
499 11,4 | participation of Jews as the climax of history by the hand of
500 10,1 | pray, “It is good for me to cling to my God and to place in