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501 9,3 | Strangely, those who are closest to us sometimes cause us
502 5,5 | are closely related and co-exist in the dynamics of Christian
503 11,3 | been periods of tolerated co-existence.[136] The reality is that
504 1,2 | brothers; He the Heir, we the~co-heirs; He the Life, we the living;
505 11,3 | both sides we have many co-religionists for whom dialogue, as modernity
506 5,3 | the angels took a burning coal from the altar of the Temple
507 10,2 | be poked to find some hot coals below in order to rejuvenate
508 4,3 | covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit” (2 Cor.
509 7,4 | the sense of meditative cogitation on a verse of Scripture,
510 7,4 | speak of a truly mystical cognition, mystical discernment, grounded
511 3,2 | they have been blissfully cohabitating for years, and then seem
512 7,4 | discernment). However, this level coherently builds on and also transcends
513 Intro,1| in fact overlap forming a cohesive whole. These are precious
514 8,4 | in Palestine issued Greek coins. A gymnasium had been built
515 7,2 | diagnosis for repairs lest it collapse and cause harm. A marriage
516 11,2 | Christian and Jew. My Jewish colleague and I, dealing with our
517 11,4 | correction of my Orthodox colleagues to whom I mainly speak,
518 11,4 | and even a triumphalistic collective ego of a religious community
519 9,3 | nor unjust like the tax collector. He fasted according to
520 9,2 | considerable request? Is it for college or a graduate program? Is
521 1,2 | suspicion of pernicious collusion on the part of the sacred
522 9,3 | keep the treasure locked in colorful boxes while being boastful
523 4,3 | birth. The Letter of Peter combines the baptismal base of newness
524 1,2 | exhortation based 1 Cor. 3:11, combining the images of Christ as
525 1,3 | Acts, of what that other Comforter [the Holy Spirit] said and
526 11,4 | love Him as the One who commands love and mercy, justice
527 7,4 | themselves are of course commendable. Rather theoria is a dynamic
528 2,3 | bequeathed to us valuable commentaries. Paul was his supreme example
529 11,4 | is arranged according to commentary notes rather than developed
530 9,2 | are the King of Israel!” Commenting on this passage, Saint John
531 5,2 | its sacred precincts from commercialism. His holy zeal was to restore
532 5,3 | the resurrection, when He commissioned the disciples to evangelize
533 4,2 | Son of God possesses, He commissions His followers to make disciples
534 6,5 | thinking, decisions and commitments. On the negative side, the
535 Intro,6| We must come out of our committee meetings and our liturgical
536 Pref | the appointment of more committees and task forces, or the
537 3,2 | entertainment; the explosion of communications through the printed and
538 4,2 | sophisticated one, but both comparably superficial, equally false
539 7,2 | Diagnosis is the ability to compare, assess, and come to a conclusion
540 1,3 | humanly wise, at least not in comparison with such philosophers as
541 5,2 | Ascent. It is a stern and yet compassionate book. Beyond ascetic strictures
542 4,2 | find utterly coherent and compelling. God is primarily God the
543 6,6 | and others. We boast and compete over trifles, and so make
544 1,2 | John wisely does not try to compile a definitive list of agreed
545 10,3 | indifference and cynicism, or complain and merely wring our hands
546 5,4 | forgiven, a humiliated Jonah complained bitterly to God. “Are you
547 5,2 | slightest hint of personal complaint or self-pity is found in
548 5,4 | honest questions and even complaints. The great Moses never made
549 2,2 | historical and exegetical complexities of the New Testament eucharistic
550 Intro,4| performance of ceremonies. The complexity of worship services, the
551 3,2 | of grace. All these key components, which are integrated and
552 2,2 | to the New Testament but comprehends the saving message of the
553 11,3 | area of faithfulness is comprised of God's gifts, covenants,
554 11,3 | dialogue which, without compromise to the transcendent claims
555 7,1 | authority of the tradition be compromised. On the other hand, Christ'
556 4,2 | slightest concern that he is compromising the Jewish legacy of monotheism
557 8,4 | the diversity should not conceal the drive toward identity
558 2,4 | baptismal grace inactive and concealed by all manner of evil desires
559 1,3 | 5). Saint Paul does not concede that the Gospel of the crucified
560 1,2 | of Christ's ministry. He concedes that the plurality of the
561 8,3 | times not to be haughty or conceited toward unbelieving Jews
562 8,3 | about the Law, the Apostle conceives of it in its totality as
563 1,4 | particular way, Saint John concentrates on this theme of the earnest
564 2,2 | of Christ with a certain concentration going back to the emphasis
565 1,2 | moves within three related concentric circles dealing with the
566 2,2 | entire life of Christ from conception to his glorious return as
567 3,2 | enhanced by purposeful and concerted efforts, will continue to
568 11,2 | ideally — lead to practical conclusions.”[134] Let us hope and pray
569 9,3 | but also to apply them concretely. a fully adequate theology
570 7,3 | but the Church in all its concreteness — its experience of God,
571 1,2 | is an expression of God's condescension or accommodation to human
572 Intro,6| the Holy Spirit as if were conducting a Liturgy. We must face
573 2,2 | attest to the liturgical confessions of faith pertaining to the
574 7,5 | discussing the person of the confessor, the nature and dynamics
575 1,4 | and to be knowledgeable, confident and effective in their daily
576 10,2 | sing the Doxology and to confirm with a resounding “Amen”
577 Intro,3| and witness. Its unity is confirmed by a common faith and life,
578 11,2 | partners against the Turks, conflicted over boundary claims. History
579 10,4 | spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed
580 Intro,1| nothing else but life in conformity with one’s truth claims
581 1,4 | involved in a widespread confrontation with paganism over the true “
582 11,2 | local hero had died in such confrontations. We had a statue of him
583 6,5 | intrude, preoccupy the mind, confuse it, and subtly deceive
584 9,3 | riddled with massive inner confusions, fears, pretensions and
585 Intro,3| rejects both clericalism and congregationalism. It is shepherded by a hierarchy
586 11,4 | pp. 1-29.~ [91]. Anthony Coniaris, Preaching the Word of God (
587 Pref | those who maintain regular connections with the Church, Orthodoxy
588 1,3 | Spirit, empowered them to conquer the world. For St. John
589 9,3 | people, without dreams of conquest and domination, indeed,
590 5,1 | apart from our own faithful consent and eager efforts through
591 3,4 | commitment. Repentance, a consequence of faith, is less a regret
592 8,3 | Israel (Rom. 9:6-8). He considers that they are “vessels of
593 8,4 | among Christians that they constituted, along with Jews and Gentiles,
594 7,5 | Another might be a paradigm constructed on the basis of fundamental
595 11,2 | provide as well a theological construction for its actualization. Yet,
596 11,4 | fulfill. We have positive and constructive work to do in the world.
597 11,4 | to commit,” should one consult an English dictionary, is
598 11,4 | 1977). Two international consultations between Jewish and a wider
599 11,4 | several decades. I have consulted the original Greek in the
600 2,4 | fire is always eager to consume dry wood. What was required
601 7,3 | businessman, or even a consumer in a shopping mall — cannot
602 10,3 | substance abuse of all kinds, consumerism, pornography and other dehumanizing
603 2,4 | creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. He points to God's love
604 2,2 | huge collection of hymns contained in the liturgical book called
605 5,3 | invocation of God is awesome to contemplate. To call upon God means
606 6,1 | Holy Scripture and the contemplative writings of Church Fathers.
607 6,1 | himself not only to his contemporaries but to all. The love of
608 10,4 | we need. “For we are not contending against flesh and blood,
609 8,4 | Gal. 1:15-16). The Apostle contends for “the Gospel which [he]
610 2,1 | powerful, the bickerings of the contentious, the divisiveness of the
611 2,1 | and post-modern world. The contest is hardly engaged as Orthodoxy
612 11,1 | is neither intellectual contests over beliefs, nor agreement
613 2,3 | righteousness by works.” A contextual and holistic reading of
614 2,2 | Liturgy is understood as a continuation of the Last Supper in which
615 8,1 | find evidence of powerful continuities and discontinuities between
616 5,5 | Nevertheless, we cannot live continuously on the mountain top. We
617 2,4 | is not a dealer~bound by contract, but God our Creator and
618 7,1 | subversion of God's law or contradicting his own principle of mercy
619 1,2 | but on the agreement or contradictoriness of its contents. Therefore
620 11,4 | the Western temptation of contrasting Law and Gospel, free will
621 8,3 | end” is indicated by the contrasts which follow as explanation
622 10,3 | Athanasioses. However, we can contribute our part, small or large,
623 6,1 | above books are valuable contributions to the spiritual witness
624 11,1 | often been a significant contributor to human strife causing
625 6,1 | around him nor created any controversies. But his written word carries
626 9,3 | two centuries of bitter controversy, the heresy of iconoclasm (
627 7,4 | going against Christian convention. The Jewish religious leaders
628 9,2 | transcend human boundaries and conventions to witness to the One, Holy,
629 8,4 | by a broad but distinct convergence through developing patterns
630 5,4 | Prayer as true dialogue is a conversational journey of give and take,
631 6,4 | sensitivity. In all his conversations with others, and in all
632 1,3 | such great results of mass conversions. In a later homily on Acts,
633 Intro,3| strength and creativity to cooperate and establish effective
634 7,5 | therapists and others, all can cooperatively and fruitfully engage in
635 8,4 | Eirenaios, form a golden cord of amazing historical continuity,
636 11,4 | John Chrysostom (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995).~ [
637 6,1 | him all persons on every corner of the earth were part of
638 2,1 | Christ himself being the cornerstone — the Church growing in
639 1,2 | accommodation to human weakness. A corollary insight is that the highest
640 2,3 | 49] and on whose entire corpus of letters he bequeathed
641 7,3 | human affairs be modified, corrected, and even rejected or replaced
642 4,2 | superficial, equally false and correspondingly dangerous. The popular one
643 2,4 | 56 as a key text: “This corruptible (phtharton) must put on
644 Intro,5| all personal, social and cosmic wickedness, we nevertheless
645 9,2 | Anything else would hardly count. But not for God who freely
646 5,5 | praying, the appearance of His countenance was altered, and His raiment
647 3,3 | society, distinct from and counter cultural to ancient paganism,
648 3,4 | gospel. Such a mentality is counter-productive because it does not perceive,
649 10,3 | contemporary crisis of faith can be countered at its roots by raising
650 10,4 | people of “corrupt mind and counterfeit faith,” showing themselves
651 10,5 | activated without its close counterpart, repentance, the second
652 1,2 | Saint Paul, so Chrysostom counters, had in view not the number
653 1,3 | coming~from the far distant country of Palestine, and having
654 8,1 | said, “Neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision,
655 5,2 | Condemned by an ecclesiastical court and forced out of office
656 4,3 | lawsuits before secular courts (1 Cor. 6:1-11), or manifold
657 5,2 | prayer. When Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, Elizabeth was
658 5,5 | theological reflection is that covenental relationship with God, based
659 5,3 | Is. 6:1-9), the angels covered their faces with their wings
660 2,4 | treatises on the spiritual life covering a period roughly from the
661 11,4 | stirring through incoming coverts is occurring in England.
662 1,3 | same Peter who formerly had cowered in fear at the question
663 3,1 | phronema). We so-called “cradle” Orthodox have been learning
664 1,4 | poverty, and disease, and~craft of enemies. For it is a
665 9,2 | this jewel in a jewel box crafted with exquisite care. The
666 9,2 | When the young son utterly crashed and hit bottom, he remembered
667 3,2 | influence of modern culture crashing upon us like a mighty tidal
668 6,1 | he dreamed that a snake crawled down his throat. He awakened
669 Intro,6| received if the new life it creates is never seen or heard.”
670 3,4 | the good news as a gift, creating a sense of gratitude and
671 6,6 | seemingly worshiping the foul creature. Silouan prayed fervently
672 7,5 | the basis of professional credentials alone, but would surely
673 9,3 | Orthodoxy truly ascribe the credit and the glory to God, being
674 11,4 | was published in America (Crestwood: St. Vladminir’s Seminary
675 11,2 | and imprisoned, her only crime being that she was a Jew.
676 Intro,1| the truth and accepting criticism because “wherever truth
677 6,2 | Christ. However, he did not criticize the implicit faith of Christians.
678 11,4 | doctoral dissertation by Helen Criticos Theodoropoulos, Love of
679 3,2 | Orthodox Christians. He critiqued the inundation of worldly
680 2,2 | are well-known and still crop up in Protestant circles.
681 8,4 | boundaries were not to be crossed. A former Pharisee inclined
682 10,5 | personal crisis, a coming to a crossroad where one must choose one
683 5,3 | of the icons the halo or crown of Christ is inscribed with
684 7,4 | the powers of the soul and crowned the received knowledge with
685 4,1 | text functions both as a crowning conclusion to the Gospel
686 3,4 | try-harder sermons,” thus crushing the conscience of worshipers
687 5,5 | on the Law and the Temple cult, defined the essence of
688 Intro,1| tends to foster an unloving, cultic and fanatical religiosity
689 11,4 | unbelieving Jews — much less to cultivate evil intent and engage in
690 7,4 | to pray, perceiving and cultivating patterns of Christian behavior
691 7,3 | cultural heritage. Yet such culturally conditioned elements can
692 11,3 | expressions of faith, however culture-bound they may seem, which in
693 1,3 | untiringly seeks to expose and cure them like a skilful surgeon,
694 2,1 | countries behind the former iron curtain, and the secular pluralism
695 2,2 | eight-week hymnological cycle according to eight musical
696 11,4 | Congress in Washington, D.C. (1990) under the title:
697 11,4 | Clergy-Laity Congress in Dallas, Texas, entitled “Rekindling
698 11,2 | Thessalonike and, sensing the danger of the Germans, moved her
699 4,2 | realm of pagan thought, dangerously leaning toward tritheism,
700 8,3 | people. It is one of the darkest ironies of history that
701 4,2 | reflection on Scripture and the data of Christian worship since
702 11,4 | Consultation II (no editor or date given). A third international
703 7,5 | hiding scraps of bread, dates, figs, and onions under
704 2,4 | astonishingly rich literature dating from the Egyptian Desert
705 6,5 | evil thoughts, but also day-dreaming, empty fantasies, and irrelevant
706 9,3 | millennium as we consider its day-to-day life and witness in actual
707 5,2 | the morning, long before daylight, He rose and went out to
708 5,5 | and His raiment became dazzling white” (Lk. 9:28-29). Saint
709 6,5 | confuse it, and subtly deceive it into evil. The
710 5,2 | Antioch, where he served as deacon and priest, he devoted himself
711 10,2 | this condition spiritual deadness. Minimalism is picking and
712 2,4 | Himself; and He is not a dealer~bound by contract, but God
713 1,3 | diverse kinds of punishments,~deaths innumberable and of all
714 9,1 | harmony itself seems always debatable in view of rival claims
715 1,3 | of oratory, the skilful debaters, alone prevailed against~
716 11,4 | occurred in the form of debates and disputes.~ [133]. See
717 1,3 | once had heard a Christian debating in a ludicrous way with
718 8,4 | must shun drunkenness and debauchery (Rom. 13:13), but they may
719 5,4 | flesh,” probably a periodic, debilitating ailment. Saint Paul asked
720 2,4 | transgression as a result of which a debt had to be paid. The death
721 3,1 | Orthodox.[81] Over the last decade they have stirred up things
722 3,3 | disobedience, its lust and moral decadence, its lostness and despair,
723 11,4 | Discourses, translated by C. J. deCatanzaro (New York: Paulist Press,
724 1,3 | impose on people by their~deceits and oracle-givings and sorceries,
725 6,4 | prayer and their fears about deception. For Silouan the fruits
726 2,4 | away layers of ego-centric deceptive concerns and opened up new
727 3,4 | raise their voices to high decibels, or thump on the pulpit,
728 9,2 | the capacity to think and decide, the capacity to create
729 11,2 | each other? From then on I decided to do my own thinking about
730 10,3 | center of our thinking, deciding, and planning for the~future.
731 9,2 | Testament about why Christ is so decisively important and absolutely
732 2,4 | statement includes the following declaration:~ ~Wishing to show that
733 4,4 | glory, God’s holy people declaring “the wonderful deeds of
734 9,3 | society that is morally decomposing and bears the stench of
735 1,2 | the word of God, and to deem no season unseasonable. . .
736 1,4 | old, rich or poor, all are deemed worthy of the same privilege
737 2,3 | works which Paul everywhere deems necessary for Christians
738 4,3 | basis for the renewal and deepening of the covenant between
739 11,4 | spend enormous attention to defending and qualifying the concept
740 8,4 | than maintain a basically defensive and protective posture over
741 Intro,6| it has nothing to do with defensiveness, narrowness, self-righteousness,
742 3,3 | something seriously amiss. The deficiency is not in the tradition
743 2,2 | insofar as they express a deficient view of Christianity and
744 10,5 | witness, slander [which] defile a person” (Mt 15:19-20).~
745 8,4 | eating with Gentiles as defiling, the Apostle would indeed
746 1,3 | behind these words was to deflate the pride of the Corinthians
747 10,3 | consumerism, pornography and other dehumanizing aspects of modern life.
748 2,4 | human so that we may become deified” (theopoiethomen).[62] This
749 9,2 | by Your own free will you deigned in the flesh to ascend on
750 5,3 | Almighty. Moreover, because God deigns to be at our disposal, to
751 6,5 | distress, fear and conflict, or dejection, emptiness and unfulfillment.
752 11,4 | and distributed to all the delegates of the Clergy-Laity Congress
753 11,4 | participants as well, I would be delighted and thankful to the One
754 5,5 | everything around me seemed delightful and~marvelous. The trees,
755 6,5 | God withdraws from him and delivers him to suffering. Suffering
756 11,1 | Conference, I prefaced the delivery of my paper with the following
757 Intro,1| live “for illusions and delusions.” His vision of the task
758 10,3 | rings true to anyone who delves into it. In a word, the
759 7,4 | not necessarily reject the demand of the law but affirmed
760 2,3 | is also required, indeed demanded. For Chrysostom this response
761 10,5 | use of God’s gifts, not of demeaning personal dignity but of
762 11,4 | different approaches of Demetrios J. Constantelos, “Greek
763 1,3 | teach it to all. No human or demonic power could impede the progress
764 11,4 | systematic denigration, even the demonization of, the Jew.” I tend to
765 11,4 | into the inclination to “demonize” the Jewish heritage as
766 7,5 | pertaining to psychopathology, demonology, or addictiveness to substances
767 5,2 | restore the Temple from a “den of robbers” to a “house
768 5,4 | sunk in the water and later denied Christ three times. Are
769 10,5 | its traditions. We do not denigrate formal faith but welcome
770 11,4 | community shows contempt and denigrates the claims of the other
771 11,1 | Church and of Protestant denominations such as the Lutherans, Anglicans,
772 9,3 | institutional pretensions, denouncing hypocrisies on high, and
773 4,3 | presence, the shekinah, departing from the Temple and leaving
774 10,3 | administrative polity, church departments, and parish life.”~ Let
775 5,5 | As Christ anticipated His departure from the world, He assured
776 8,3 | interpretations as radical departures, even an apostasy, from
777 3,1 | Church, will significantly depend on the effective proclamation,
778 2,2 | education, the people of God depended primarily on worship for
779 10,5 | unwavering reliance, abiding dependence on Christ as risen Lord,
780 9,3 | the Arch of Titus — and depicting carved scenes of his victory.
781 5,4 | energies would be quickly depleted without regular material
782 2,2 | the eucharistic tradition deriving “from the Lord” who commanded: “
783 9,3 | often that we theologians descend from our ivory towers to
784 5,5 | actual theosis.~ When Jesus descended from the transfiguration
785 4,2 | the fullness of the Spirit descends (Mt. 3:16-17). In 2 Cor.
786 4,2 | this study with a brief description of my understanding of God
787 1,2 | the variety of incidental descriptions and the essential features
788 1,1 | methodological approach is both descriptive and analytic, that is to
789 6,5 | resources. God both demands and deserves a Christian's best in total
790 3,4 | true and reliable, both deserving and requiring our commitment.
791 8,4 | a special role in God's design pertaining to the Gentiles
792 2,1 | socio-cultural religious designation but as a referent to the
793 5,4 | God to accomplish selfish designs. Prayer is a dynamic, free-flowing
794 1,4 | Let then the man who despairs of himself. . . come continually
795 1,2 | foot the love of money, to despise pain, to inspire confidence,
796 9,3 | they were righteous and despised others (Lk. 18:9). Amazing
797 6,6 | A person who reviles or despises those who are against him,
798 8,3 | polemics, and persecution, despising and mistreating the Jewish
799 4,3 | Christians are “chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified
800 7,5 | degree of attachment or detachment, use or abuse, whether self-worth
801 1,2 | certain discordance in the details (en mikrois diaphonia) pertaining
802 Intro,2| enacted in word and deed, will determine the viability of Orthodoxy
803 11,4 | self-awareness as Jews is determined by our overview of Jewish
804 2,2 | Baptism and the Eucharist as determining one's entry into the kingdom (
805 2,3 | advocating blind fate and determinism. Nevertheless, it would
806 4,2 | always wondered whether the detractors of the trinitarian understanding
807 4,2 | as false gods and humanly devised idols. We read in Dt. 6:
808 7,4 | theology, but be entirely devoid of spiritual discernment (
809 2,4 | resurrection to which Athanasios devotes supreme attention.~ Saint
810 6,5 | lion, seeking some one to devour” (1 Pt. 5:8). Let not an
811 11,2 | as clearly as I can the diabolical abuse of religion, if not
812 7,1 | religious discernment and diagnostic action. On the one hand,
813 11,4 | Church and Eucharist,” in Diakonia 18 (2, 1983) 100-127 and
814 9,3 | fishermen and others whose dialect betrayed them as village
815 9,3 | question and be questioned, to dialog and persuade on the basis
816 8,4 | language, epistolary form, dialogic manner of exposition and,
817 4,2 | syncretistic view of God is diametrically opposed to the Jewish and
818 1,2 | the details (en mikrois diaphonia) pertaining to time, place
819 8,4 | great diversity both in the Diaspora as well as in Palestine —
820 5,4 | biblical truth of covenant — diatheke — a word that in its more
821 7,1 | and mercy toward sinners dictated a chance at a new start
822 11,4 | should one consult an English dictionary, is to put someone into
823 2,4 | reflects profound wisdom. A dictum of Evagrios was” “If you
824 11,3 | communities. Although we differ in the interpretation of
825 6,6 | every person. Those who differed with him, he treated with
826 11,3 | vicissitudes, doctrinal differences, divergent concepts, and
827 8,3 | communities of faith with differing hermeneutical perspectives.~
828 3,2 | Boston may well express a diffused aspect of the post-modern
829 1,1 | requiring talent as well as diligence. In this famous work one
830 10,5 | you desire it and seek it diligently, you can become all light
831 1,2 | accommodation to human weakness diminishes neither the truth nor the
832 8,2 | his awareness, are only dimly perceived by his fellow
833 6,1 | serving in the kitchen and dining room. He never became externally
834 1,2 | Let food and~baths and dinners and the other things of
835 9,3 | applicable as much to parishes, dioceses, local Churches and patriarchates
836 5,4 | oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, eliminating toxicity and
837 9,1 | customs and morals is in a dire state because the majority
838 2,2 | John Chrysostom, a prayer directed to the Father, reads as
839 Pref | resources within Orthodoxy by directing focused attention to them
840 9,3 | his insightful and weighty directives:~ ~1) We must compel
841 6,1 | He wrote with a spiritual directness reminiscent of the proclamation
842 5,2 | force of everything, and the director of everything. If prayer
843 3,3 | boundaries. Despite conflicts and disagreements in the ancient Church, Christians
844 1,3 | that which used to be is~disappearing. And demons, so far from
845 3,2 | surprised by the Church’s disapproval. To draw such couples into
846 6,2 | know God; nothing is more disastrous than not to know Him. For
847 5,3 | prayer. Three such elements disclose the essential meaning, or
848 4,2 | unity of the one true God disclosed in three distinct persons,
849 5,3 | avoid prayer because of the discomfort of being judged by a righteous
850 8,1 | powerful continuities and discontinuities between Christianity, Judaism
851 1,2 | Gospels displays a certain discordance in the details (en mikrois
852 Intro,4| language, all unwittingly discourage congregational participation
853 5,5 | pilgrim was astonished to discover the wondrous changes occurring
854 3,1 | parish. At stake is the discovery of the inner evangelical
855 1,2 | written Gospels but the discrepancy of doctrines circulating
856 1,3 | embraces everyone and does not discriminate against the learned of the
857 11,1 | prejudice, proselytism, discrimination, misrepresentation, persecution,
858 2,3 | Although Chrysostom nowhere discusses the Gospel as a separate
859 11,2 | proposed that even academic discussions are inevitably concerned
860 1,4 | downcast about poverty, and disease, and~craft of enemies. For
861 7,4 | in a monastery fell into disgrace. He came before the Elder
862 11,4 | love and truth, “even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (
863 11,3 | critique of one another, we dishonor God Himself and diminish
864 7,4 | forces of alienation and disintegration in humanity, community,
865 8,4 | then to be superficially dismissed, for “orthodoxy” itself
866 5,2 | 35). After teaching and dismissing the crowds, “He went up
867 3,2 | effects of war, economic disparity, and ecological neglect;
868 1,2 | implications. For one thing they dispel any suspicion of pernicious
869 2,4 | an amazing Master freely dispensing His wealth to all. Nevertheless,
870 1,4 | quality of life Christians display. The Antiochean candidly
871 1,2 | of the canonical Gospels displays a certain discordance in
872 10,5 | working together as permanent dispositions of Christian life. Although
873 8,1 | which he fought both to disseminate and define with all his
874 1,3 | of the Gospel as it was disseminated by Paul, error was banished,
875 11,4 | 1980). A recent doctoral dissertation by Helen Criticos Theodoropoulos,
876 Intro,6| coercion, manipulation, or dissimulation. Orthodoxy takes an incarnational
877 11,3 | is a fairly recent and distinctively modern phenomenon. The histories
878 4,3 | not only the element of distinctiveness and separation from all
879 7,4 | works. Practical discernment distinguishes the importance of love,
880 1,4 | grounded in free will and distort human beings into wilful
881 7,4 | foreign to human nature, a distortion of the image and likeness
882 Intro,1| option of a “Holy Byzantium” distorts the universal, dynamic character
883 5,2 | Christ was sorrowful and distraught. He asked the disciples
884 6,5 | or an evil inclination disturb the heart, let the Christian
885 6,5 | thoughts, no freedom from inner disturbance, without frequent prayer
886 7,4 | prophetic, radical, and disturbing in its bold call for repentance
887 8,4 | have talked about the utter disunity of early Christianity. One
888 2,4 | Philokalia,[66] a collection of diversified treatises on the spiritual
889 11,3 | self-disclosure, now painfully divided into variegated Jewish communities[
890 8,4 | Christ “has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing
891 10,2 | injustice, conflict, and division as our own times. Facing
892 10,2 | lukewarmness. Factionalism is a divisive spirit based on ego and
893 2,1 | of the contentious, the divisiveness of the proud. Every age
894 7,3 | to the world — whether a doctor, psychologist, engineer,
895 11,4 | Paulist Press, 1980). A recent doctoral dissertation by Helen Criticos
896 7,5 | truth, theologians, pastors, doctors, therapists and others,
897 6,6 | his spirit was not rigid, doctrinaire, self‑righteous or triumphalistic.
898 4,4 | the most clearly organized document among the Gospels. The same
899 11,4 | 1994).~ [132]. The only documented conference between Orthodox
900 6,6 | some time ago related how a dog jumped into a well after
901 8,4 | resistance to truth-claims and dogmatic teaching (Meyer, p. 196).~
902 Intro,1| of the icon. The Orthodox dogmatician John Karmiris and other
903 1,4 | to give the holy to the dogs, nor to cast pearls to the
904 10,5 | remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease
905 10,4 | All-ruling Christ, in the domes of our Churches, but we
906 9,3 | which has already begun to dominate the planet.”[126]~ As Orthodoxy
907 6,4 | growth. Silouan's life was dominated by prayer. From the day
908 9,3 | without dreams of conquest and domination, indeed, without even the
909 5,4 | his task of pronouncing doom, knowing that a merciful
910 8,3 | Rom. 9:22-24). Thus a double discontinuity exists, not
911 6,4 | Silouan was aware of people's doubts about the efficacy of prayer
912 2,4 | substantial volume appeared by Douglas Burton-Christie entitled
913 1,4 | life? Let no one then be downcast about poverty, and disease,
914 5,2 | to God for all things” (Doxa Theo panton eneken).~ The
915 6,1 | While Simeon on one occasion dozed off to sleep he dreamed
916 11,4 | conceive of the end of the drama of salvation history without
917 6,1 | occasion dozed off to sleep he dreamed that a snake crawled down
918 9,3 | serving all people, without dreams of conquest and domination,
919 11,2 | nights we sat on the bed dressed, waiting for the knock at
920 5,4 | If it is neglected, it dries out and eventually dies.”~
921 10,4 | the depths of sin and I am drowning in the sea of life. But
922 11,4 | of Orthodoxy (Stirling: Drummond Press, n.d.), pp. 10-11.~ [
923 9,3 | riding on the beast and drunken with the blood of Christian
924 8,4 | Roman Christians must shun drunkenness and debauchery (Rom. 13:
925 6,1 | the mind become dark and dull again? How can one grow
926 11,3 | interpretation of the meaning, duration, and present validity of
927 1,3 | faith of Christ is daily dwindling and weakening and falling,
928 7,4 | On the contrary, they are dynamically connected, interpenetrating
929 3,3 | an explosion of spiritual dynamism, with an invincible sense
930 10,3 | persistent problems cause dysfunction, all family members must
931 4,2 | understanding of God as Trinity (e.g., Acts 1:1-5; 1 Cor. 12:1-
932 8,1 | historical life, particularly its earliest period marked by the most
933 6,2 | soul. A person can even earn a doctorate in theology
934 10,2 | centuries to reach our own ears, fought like a lion of God
935 4,2 | startling and disarming ease he is able to appeal to
936 11,4 | Comparative Perspective” Pro Ecclesia 5 (2, 1996), pp. 202-213.~ ~[
937 11,4 | where I endorsed A. Roy Eckardt's critique of Saint Paul
938 7,3 | of discernment is never eclipsed by obedience to a spiritual
939 11,3 | world, both spiritually and ecologically, urgently needs the sacred
940 7,3 | psychologist, engineer, economist, lawyer, politician, businessman,
941 5,5 | the mind, the heart, and ecstasy of the spirit in which one
942 11,4 | the context of Christian ecumenism, defined theology as “a
943 6,1 | Later a revised and expanded edition of this work came out in
944 11,4 | Orthodox-Jewish Consultation II (no editor or date given). A third
945 6,2 | God. Staretz Silouan knew educated men and respected them.
946 3,4 | selectively, with little effect on daily life, while the
947 3,2 | electronic media; the pernicious effects of war, economic disparity,
948 8,4 | jeep with four-wheel drive, efficient and able to travel the cultural
949 11,4 | libel, the burning of the effigy of Judas during Holy Week
950 6,6 | after good, all I s easy and effortless; and seeing this, in his
951 2,4 | stripped away layers of ego-centric deceptive concerns and opened
952 7,4 | renouncement of self-will, egomania, and indulgence to evil
953 2,2 | Trinity.”[45] The basic eight-week hymnological cycle according
954 8,3 | circumcision party” (hoi ek peritomes, Gal. 1:12) who
955 10,2 | enormously rich tradition — elaborate worship, high doctrines,
956 Intro,1| the writer briefly met an elderly monastic who seemed sublimely
957 7,4 | traditions. Yet Jesus and the two elders of the desert perceived
958 11,4 | that the Holy One of Israel elected to call all Gentiles to
959 11,4 | affirmed their continued both electedness and existence. In fact,
960 4,3 | relationship by God’s free and elective grace, based on divine love.
961 3,2 | through the printed and electronic media; the pernicious effects
962 3,4 | chanted the triple Kyrie Eleisons. Parishioners know that
963 5,4 | How can the distance be eliminated and a true connection of
964 5,4 | breathe out carbon dioxide, eliminating toxicity and receiving renewing
965 1,3 | claimed that Paul was more eloguent than the philosopher, thus
966 8,4 | last words on the subject eloquently indicate both an open-ended
967 11,4 | language is taken from W. A. Elwell and R. W. Yarbrough, Encountering
968 2,4 | a “Christ-bearer,” who embodied the sacred texts and who
969 10,3 | the Orthodox tradition embodies an exquisite balance between
970 Intro,3| gift of Orthodoxy is its embodiment in a historical community,
971 11,3 | memories, all invested with an embracive sanctity that seems as inviolate
972 11,4 | we cannot but regard the emergence of the Christian branch
973 9,1 | Christianity as a renewal movement emerging from Judaism and adapting
974 11,4 | Orthodox countries, the eminent and enlightened Metropolitan
975 5,2 | In particular the Gospels emphasize that Christ practiced solitary
976 5,3 | the process of salvation. Emphasizing the importance of personal
977 11,4 | Romanides who has regularly employed the term “glorification”
978 11,1 | justice, freedom, peace, employment, health, and the environment.~
979 2,2 | Orthodox vocabulary which employs the biblical term “mystery” (
980 9,2 | who gives the Spirit to empower us in the life of new creation.
981 10,5 | lifts it up, cleanses and empowers it, transforming it into
982 1,2 | laws” (biblia kai nomoi empsychoi), pouring forth treasures
983 6,5 | conflict, or dejection, emptiness and unfulfillment. It often
984 6,6 | to Christ's humble, self‑emptying love for all people and
985 10,5 | violate divine love, is to enable them in their wrongdoing,
986 6,1 | illumination of grace which enabled him intuitively to understand
987 6,3 | with love for us. If love enables one not to forget a brother,
988 Intro,2| The presentation of truth, enacted in word and deed, will determine
989 2,2 | power. The Liturgy is the enactment of the Gospel through sacramental
990 2,2 | the liturgical year itself encompasses the entire life of Christ
991 6,1 | Orthodox saints: Easter joy, encompassing love and spiritual radiance.
992 11,4 | Elwell and R. W. Yarbrough, Encountering the New Testament (Grand
993 3,4 | the thief on the Cross as encounters which bear good news for
994 11,1 | mutual respect, and the encouragement of human cooperation in
995 10,5 | Christ looks down from heaven encouraging you and waiting to welcome
996 | ending
997 11,4 | 1, 1977), p. 77, where I endorsed A. Roy Eckardt's critique
998 4,2 | 2 Cor. 13:13 Saint Paul ends with the blessing, “The
999 5,5 | with God for strength and endurance. When we remain faithful
1000 2,5 | historical institution, and endures by means of its institutional