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1001 5,2 | things” (Doxa Theo panton eneken).~ The second Church Father,
1002 10,5 | life, unless we wish to be enfeebled Christians burdened with
1003 5,5 | the plains of daily life engaging the obligations of family,
1004 1,4 | Chrysostom, serious and regular engamement with the Scriptures. To
1005 10,2 | Saint John Chrysostom — was engulfed by as much evil, sin, callousness,
1006 5,5 | and that despair may be engulfing our soul. It is in such
1007 3,2 | Efforts are being made to enhance the socially supportive
1008 7,2 | pursuit of truth and the enhancement of all life in its ecological
1009 5,4 | not diminish us. Rather it enhances our lives with the grace
1010 3,2 | the aspects of parish life enhancing their particular functions.
1011 3,4 | although these may be neither enjoyable nor very inspiring. Not
1012 7,5 | responsibility for and enjoyment of community, and the like.
1013 6,6 | unhappy. The humble soul enjoys great peace, while the proud
1014 2,4 | blindness and the need for enlightenment, fervent prayer, and faithful
1015 3,2 | faith inspired by prayer, enlivened by a mystical sense of communion
1016 8,4 | under the law of Christ (ennomoi Christou, 1 Cor. 9:21).
1017 1,2 | temple, He the~Indweller (enoikos); He the First-begotten,
1018 11,3 | which in their totality enshrine not only the deep experiences,
1019 Intro,3| Church in one region, without enslaving them or prohibiting them
1020 5,4 | most of us because it may entail significant changes in our
1021 11,4 | towards all, how could I long entertain evil thoughts of prejudice
1022 5,3 | the Prophet Isaiah saw God enthroned in glory (Is. 6:1-9), the
1023 8,4 | resurrection of Christ as His enthronement as universal Lord (Kyrios).
1024 10,1 | instruction on the spiritual life. Enthused by the talk, one of his
1025 5,3 | praise of God, then make an entreaty of petitions, and end with
1026 11,1 | history has been variously entwined for centuries. In 1993,
1027 1,4 | It may be instructive to enumerate his major points by way
1028 1,2 | benefits. The Antiochean Father enumerates these blessings as follows:
1029 8,3 | sums up this heritage when enumerating God's many gifts to the
1030 4,3 | Jeremiah (Jer 31:31-34), envisioned not the obliteration of
1031 2,3 | Eastern Fathers generally, envisions a synergistic relationship
1032 8,1 | the East, such as Antioch, Ephesus, and Corinth, as well as
1033 3,4 | life of new creation, an ephiphany of God’s grace transforming
1034 5,3 | invoke” or “call upon” (epikaloumai), is significant in itself
1035 5,3 | name of Jesus Christ” (oi epikaloumenoi to onoma tou Iesou Christou,
1036 5,5 | were unable to heal the epileptic boy. In exasperation Jesus
1037 1,3 | also, now that the~divine epiphany of the Word of God has taken
1038 10,3 | of married clergy to the episcopate, both of which were honored
1039 8,4 | elements, including language, epistolary form, dialogic manner of
1040 8,1 | capacity. The great Apostle epitomizes the dramatic interaction
1041 5,3 | Iesou Christou, 1 Cor. 1:2), equates invocation with the process
1042 Intro,1| the German theologian Ernst Benz brilliantly introduced
1043 7,4 | tactics, and restored the erring brother to the community.
1044 2,3 | 55]~ Chrysostom has been erroneously accused of moralizing. It
1045 1,1 | good news, while refuting errors and heresies. The focus
1046 8,3 | 8:1). The Apostle Paul, erstwhile zealous persecutor of these
1047 2,4 | before Martin Luther, this erudite monastic affirmed the biblical
1048 8,4 | Gospel which [he] preach[es] among the Gentiles,” the
1049 7,1 | masterful way Jesus not only escaped the trap but also succeeded
1050 Intro,1| contemporary society by escaping to a world of our own making
1051 3,3 | do not have the luxury of escapism. We cannot blame the world,
1052 Intro,3| practice in ecclesiology, eschewing on the one hand the spirit
1053 1,4 | resolve or earnest will (espoudasmene boulesis) which leaves behind
1054 8,4 | Pharisees, Scribes, and Essenes — , virtually all Jews shared
1055 5,4 | of bridging the gap and establishing a personal relationship
1056 2,2 | apostles. All these are esteemed as saints by the Orthodox
1057 | etc
1058 5,3 | although a great mystery, eternally exists and is always there
1059 Intro,3| those perceived to be less ethnic-minded. According to Saint Paul
1060 5,1 | center of our life in Christ, etymologically means the “work of the people.”
1061 7,4 | is, vision of God, as the etymology of the term theoria (theoro=“
1062 4,4 | the vert “to evangelize” (euangelizesthai), occur in this particular
1063 5,2 | and then words” (Proteron euche kai tote logos). His last
1064 5,4 | way of avoiding God and evading the personal encounter with
1065 8,4 | letters at all, his Christian evangelizing and tent-making involved
1066 11,2 | rather than absorb what everybody else was telling me.~ The
1067 11,2 | attitudes which help regulate everyday life. To quote him: “Every
1068 9,3 | just as Christ did, love evil-doers with an unconditional love
1069 5,3 | immediate experience of God evokes powerful attraction and
1070 4,4 | and taught with the aim of evoking and strengthening faith
1071 1,2 | pertaining to time, place and exact wording. But such discrepancies
1072 1,4 | this theme can hardly be exaggerated. The frequency and manner
1073 9,3 | to others or in terms of exalted traditions and privileged
1074 2,2 | dealings with human beings exalting especially God's great acts
1075 1,2 | of these invites closer examination.~ An appreciation of Chrysostom'
1076 6,1 | radiance. The opportunity to examine the life and thought of
1077 5,5 | heal the epileptic boy. In exasperation Jesus cried out: “O faithless
1078 2,4 | to labor day and night “excavating” the Scriptures (p. 355)
1079 10,2 | Ecumenical Council (381) was exceedingly distressed by the chatter
1080 5,2 | in a pious home and later excelled in seminary studies. For
1081 11,4 | 143-146.~ [3]. For an excellent book on faith and reason
1082 9,3 | wagon after wagon of booty. Excited on his arrival, all Rome
1083 10,3 | world where novelty and excitement are at premium. All Orthodox
1084 6,5 | in you, and cause~you to exclaim, “How merciful is the Lord!”
1085 6,1 | s love for the world. He exclaims:~ ~My soul loves the Lord,
1086 4,2 | Israel, intends to reject and exclude the worship of pagan deities,
1087 1,2 | Their intimacy with God excluded the need of books. So, too,
1088 11,4 | practice of sinful deeds excludes one from inheriting the
1089 8,3 | or “fulfillment,” as many exegetes would have it, but rather
1090 9,3 | another Pharisee who became an exemplary servant of Christ. The Apostle
1091 9,3 | and canon law. Orthodoxy exhibits the universal Faith of the
1092 6,5 | repentance. Saint Paul frequently exhorted Christians to be sober,
1093 4,3 | have now a new Moses, a new Exodus, a new covenant, a new people
1094 11,4 | Orthodox Christianity long ago exorcized the ghost of the early Christian
1095 Intro,6| ideology or a religion of exotic externals.~ The challenge
1096 2,2 | hymns which both recount and expand on the meaning of these
1097 6,1 | 93] Later a revised and expanded edition of this work came
1098 4,2 | movement to a richer, more expansive understanding of monotheism
1099 5,2 | successful in your prayer,~do not expect success in anything. It
1100 2,4 | humility, love, and the fervent expectation of the coming kingdom. The
1101 2,4 | does something good and expects a reward is serving not
1102 9,2 | being away from home, experiencing exile in a foreign land,
1103 3,4 | teaching concentrate on explaining Christian virtues in the
1104 11,4 | Jewish Tradition,” pp. 56-69 explains variegations within the
1105 1,4 | To try to offer rational explanations of these and such mysteries
1106 2,4 | convert, its purpose is to explicate the person and work of Christ
1107 2,1 | as doctrines are for the explication of Christian truth and the
1108 2,2 | Easter service of Matins explodes with countless lyrical praises
1109 11,3 | all, a violent, unjust, exploitative, and perhaps dying world,
1110 11,4 | self-righteous critics or exploiters of society or of each other,
1111 1,1 | of the Gospel itself. It explores basic questions such as,
1112 10,3 | to itself, Orthodoxy has explosive potential. Twenty years
1113 4,2 | centuries. Perhaps the greatest exponent of this position was Adolf
1114 10,3 | interfaith marriages have exponentially increased, drifting away
1115 Pref | Church, and are inevitably exposed to the Orthodox liturgical
1116 9,3 | inspired, forthright, stirring, exposing institutional pretensions,
1117 2,3 | understood, interpreted, and expounded? In Protestantism the main
1118 8,3 | In Romans 9-11 Saint Paul expressly links the corporate unbelief
1119 8,3 | Jewish Christians and their expulsion from the synagogues.~ However,
1120 1,2 | Gospel of Luke, and that expurgated of what Marcion regarded
1121 7,5 | Fathers have already conducted extensive analysis of personhood and
1122 2,2 | after Harnack against the externalism of Orthodox worship as mere
1123 10,4 | fully under His rule. We extol our spirituality and parade
1124 9,3 | not an adulterer, nor an extortioner, nor unjust like the tax
1125 9,3 | bears the stench of death exuding from its very soul. And
1126 5,3 | the angels covered their faces with their wings as they
1127 4,3 | filial relation to God. Every facet of our relation to God,
1128 10,3 | ethnicity is inevitably fading and interfaith marriages
1129 9,3 | gifts and repentant for failing to use them adequately?
1130 6,5 | If one becomes forgetful, fails to chase away evil thoughts,
1131 1,4 | to pay heed. The personal failures of Christians and the shortcomings
1132 11,3 | Dialogue, as well known, is a fairly recent and distinctively
1133 5,5 | exasperation Jesus cried out: “O faithless generation, how long am
1134 9,3 | evil, while unmasking its falsehood and rebuking sin. On the
1135 3,3 | others. If we see parishes faltering, their spiritual focus waning,
1136 3,4 | Church, the Holy Spirit, our families, our children, the life
1137 9,2 | distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or anything
1138 Intro,1| an unloving, cultic and fanatical religiosity of externals
1139 11,4 | context. For those who are fanatically and self-righteously blind
1140 5,2 | which begins with a spark, fans into a flame, and kindles
1141 5,5 | especially in what is called the Farewell Discourse (Jn, chaps. 13-
1142 5,2 | support. He went a little farther to be by Himself, fell to
1143 6,1 | ye peoples of the earth, fashioned by God, know your Creator
1144 4,4 | are saved, if you hold it fast. . . that Christ died for
1145 9,3 | like the tax collector. He fasted according to the sacred
1146 3,1 | now constitute one of the fastest growing parts of the worldwide
1147 4,2 | trinitarian doctrine was fatally influenced by Greek philosophical
1148 2,3 | currents advocating blind fate and determinism. Nevertheless,
1149 8,3 | required this historically fateful passage toward the universalization
1150 9,2 | modern times we can hardly fathom the profound meaning of
1151 8,3 | with its richness (or “fatness,” piotes) is the whole Jewish
1152 7,3 | culture's latest wisdom and favored values. However, when theology
1153 2,3 | his supreme example of a fearless preacher of the Gospel who,
1154 8,4 | how much. The remarkable feature about the Jewish people
1155 1,2 | When He is hungry, let~us feed Him; when He is thirsty,
1156 6,4 | the soul and by a tender feeling towards every living thing.
1157 1,4 | which arises from glowing feelings, great love, and a fervent
1158 1,4 | rich fruit where it finds fertile ground.~ The most important
1159 4,2 | deities, for example, Baal the fertility god of Canaan, or Moloch
1160 10,3 | University of Chicago on a festive occasion celebrating the
1161 11,2 | then returned home alone to fetch her belongings. There she
1162 1,4 | no one despair. If human fierceness (agriotes) is caused by
1163 2,4 | is St. Mark the Ascetic (fifth century), whose treatises
1164 11,4 | Prayer: One Hundred and Fifty-Three Texts in The Philokalia:
1165 7,5 | scraps of bread, dates, figs, and onions under his bed
1166 4,3 | disputes among Christians who file lawsuits before secular
1167 5,5 | of the Lord whose glory fills heaven and earth. The praying
1168 3,2 | programs, administration, and finances.”~ ~
1169 9,2 | the Holy Spirit as God’s finger or power by which Christ
1170 5,3 | confession of sins, and finish with the praise of God.
1171 6,1 | twenty‑six, as soon as he finished his military service, Simeon
1172 10,1 | Christ has been called a “fire-starter.” He came “to baptize with
1173 6,4 | thinks of God, the more he is fired with love and fervor towards
1174 6,6 | love of God when the Lord fires the~soul with love for God
1175 10,2 | Rather, it is that the firewood needs stoking. In some instances,
1176 1,2 | Indweller (enoikos); He the First-begotten, we the brothers; He the
1177 8,4 | the religious groups in first-century Judaism, including the Jewish
1178 1,3 | achievement. To quote him:~ ~The fisherman, the tentmaker, the publican,
1179 9,2 | but a historical ornament fit for a museum. But with Christ,
1180 11,4 | from the title of Joseph A. Fitzmeyer's book Scripture, the Soul
1181 8,4 | as something static and fixed in order then to be superficially
1182 4,3 | zenith in both idolatry and flagrant injustice among God’s own
1183 10,1 | whole arm became like a flaming torch. He turned to his
1184 5,2 | when some electrical charge flashes through its nerve system
1185 11,2 | Smyrna was being emptied by fleeing Greeks. He and a friend
1186 7,5 | categories for the development of flexible and dynamic diagnoses and
1187 7,5 | these elements could be flexibly organized and prayerfully
1188 3,2 | post-modern consciousness often floating across the hearts and minds
1189 6,1 | reconciliation. Joy and peace flooded his soul. This was a new
1190 3,1 | Christian Mission Center in Florida, a vital and growing panorthodox
1191 Intro,4| Church has survived and flourished throughout the centuries,
1192 1,2 | godliness everywhere sown, and flourishing in its~growth, . . . and
1193 6,1 | all things. A deep love flowed from his heart for all people
1194 5,4 | prayer plants spiritual flowers but also takes out the weeds,
1195 4,2 | terminology, basic categories and focal attention was thoroughly
1196 1,3 | and did.[22]~ These twin foci of revelation, the resurrection
1197 3,2 | conviction and the living voice, focusing on the centrality of Christ,
1198 6,5 | and vigilant resolve to follow the guidance of the
1199 2,4 | simply astonishing. A loyal follower of the great Church Fathers,
1200 8,3 | practice circumcision, kosher foods and Jewish festivals (Gal.
1201 1,3 | Saint Paul writes about the foolishness and weakness of the Gospel
1202 8,4 | Romans, as barbarians and fools. But, of course, this is
1203 5,2 | rejoice. Let all know your forbearance. The~Lord is at hand. Have
1204 4,2 | offered as sacrifice. Heaven forbid that the name of the Holy
1205 Intro,1| Orthodoxy that are at the forefront of Orthodoxy’s engagement
1206 2,4 | himself uses a number of forensic biblical terms and images.
1207 5,5 | New. The Prophet Jeremiah foresaw a time when God would make
1208 5,5 | mystery of prayer is a foretaste on earth of the bliss of
1209 11,4 | either unwitting or willful forgetfulness of our common rootedness
1210 1,2 | attainment of virtue, he never forgets that all are part of God’
1211 5,4 | both judging and healing, forgiving and illuminating, cleansing
1212 3,2 | administrative structures and formational programs of the Church.
1213 3,4 | Gospel” (Mk 1:14-15). A formidable challenge that Jesus faced
1214 Intro,1| other, they in fact overlap forming a cohesive whole. These
1215 11,4 | Company, 1952), p. 12, who formulates this paradox in a striking
1216 10,5 | thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander [
1217 6,3 | single evil thought and He forsakes the soul. Unless we repent,
1218 3,2 | truths and practices to fortify the Church’s identity as
1219 11,4 | God Loves (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), and several
1220 6,5 | enemies are overturned and his fortresses taken.... The war is a stubborn
1221 4,4 | disputes, the ancient Church fostered a sense of unity in Christ.
1222 11,1 | to enjoy the freedom of fostering their own cherished beliefs
1223 2,1 | prayerfulness. Authentic Orthodoxy fosters unity which does not stifle
1224 6,6 | seemingly worshiping the foul creature. Silouan prayed
1225 9,1 | Judaism and Hellenism, by foundational beliefs and ritual acts,
1226 6,1 | repentance. These were the foundations for his later ascent to
1227 8,4 | Paul was like a jeep with four-wheel drive, efficient and able
1228 2,4 | roughly from the fourth to the fourteenth century.~ A number of contemporary
1229 10,1 | in “earthen vessels,” our fragile human nature, showing that
1230 5,2 | sharing all the attributes and frailties of human nature, except
1231 7,3 | then becomes a sociological frame, a pretext, for the application
1232 Pref | answer to the above paradox fraught with promise and peril?
1233 5,4 | designs. Prayer is a dynamic, free-flowing relationship of ups and
1234 7,4 | mind on the living God, freeing persons from ingrained habits
1235 1,4 | hardly be exaggerated. The frequency and manner with which he
1236 5,2 | traditional Jewish festivals. He frequented the centers of Jewish religious
1237 Pref | divine love, an experience of freshness and spiritual energy for
1238 11,4 | forces, sources, and areas of friction between Christians and Jews
1239 11,4 | admittedly have developed frightful and noxious popular traditions
1240 11,2 | into the house. The boys froze in their tracks. One soldier
1241 7,5 | all can cooperatively and fruitfully engage in the enormous,
1242 6,5 | fantasies, and beset by frustrations and evil thoughts. Silouan
1243 5,2 | For Saint John, prayer fulfils a similar spiritual function.
1244 11,4 | Press, 1995).~ [51]. For a fuller account of Saint John Chrysostom’
1245 10,1 | the day of Pentecost, the fullest moment of divine revelation,
1246 3,2 | lifestyles of others, and have fun enjoying the ride into an
1247 7,2 | truth both theoretically and functionally, truth as the basis of fulness
1248 11,4 | between faith and works fundamentally concerns faith in Christ
1249 10,3 | stoke the fireplace, to furnish a new supply of wood. And
1250 8,1 | Judaism and Hellenism. Furthermore, insofar as Saint Paul helped
1251 3,4 | would be an exercise in futility. The gifts and graces of
1252 1,2 | risen. This gospel also Gabriel~preached to the Virgin,
1253 8,2 | cultural traditions and gaining new ones, is exactly the
1254 6,5 | glory, power or material gains and you lose experience
1255 9,3 | betrayed them as village Galileans. He entered Jerusalem riding
1256 Pref | Preface.~ “Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of
1257 5,4 | can truly be a beautiful garden testifying to God’s presence
1258 11,2 | child living in the town of Gargalianoi in the southwestern Peloponnese,
1259 2,4 | drink; to him who is cold, a garment; to him who is weary, rest;
1260 10,5 | Christian life. Although the gate is narrow and the path difficult,
1261 10,5 | renewal of the soul,” and “gateway to heaven.” The spiritual
1262 7,5 | reported by Dorotheos of Gaza in his Discourses. A brother
1263 5,5 | minds to heaven in order to gaze at the divine glory and
1264 5,5 | According to Saint Paul, by gazing inwardly at this light,
1265 4,4 | without regard to race, gender, wealth, education and the
1266 11,4 | hears or reads about a false generalization that Eastern Orthodoxy features
1267 2,3 | that of the Eastern Fathers generally, envisions a synergistic
1268 3,3 | racial, social, economic, and generational boundaries. Despite conflicts
1269 Pref | elements together are the generative forces within Orthodoxy
1270 9,2 | His property, freely and generously, even though He knew it
1271 8,3 | people — “by no means!” (me genoito!), says the Apostle, for
1272 8,4 | and Gentiles, to triton genos, the third race.~ Ben Meyer
1273 6,6 | with him, he treated with gentleness and respect. He was a man
1274 6,6 | image of how God loves us, gently and without reproach, just
1275 10,4 | again about authenticity, genuineness, integrity, connecting ideals
1276 11,4 | including political and geographic interests which continue
1277 11,2 | sensing the danger of the Germans, moved her family to Athens,
1278 5,3 | of hosts!” In a dramatic gesture, one of the angels took
1279 1,3 | longer increase,~but it is getting less and gradually ceasing
1280 11,4 | Christianity long ago exorcized the ghost of the early Christian arch-heretic
1281 2,5 | Conclusion.~ Orthodoxy is gifted with precious treasures.
1282 11,4 | p. 20.~ [81]. Peter E. Gillquist, Becoming Orthodox: A Journey
1283 1,3 | question of the servant girl on the night of Jesus' passion.
1284 6,6 | of the Old Testament, is glad to sit among the ashes and
1285 6,2 | describe this joy, this gladness?” asks Silouan. The soul
1286 1,2 | topic of discussion. We must glean his ideas about the Gospel
1287 8,4 | New Testament. They have gleaned “many gospels.” They have
1288 9,2 | analogy, we might catch a glimpse of its significance when
1289 3,2 | a century of continuing globalization, multi-culturalism and pluralism —
1290 3,3 | our worship and hymnology gloriously celebrate the whole good
1291 5,5 | Elias the Presbyter in his Gnomic Anthology in the Philokalia
1292 8,4 | groups, the wild variety of Gnostic sects hopelessly syncretistic,
1293 2,4 | Apostles and of the holy and God-inspired Fathers,~if we speak contrary
1294 5,3 | revealed as Emmanuel — “God-with-us” (Mt. 1:23). During His
1295 1,2 | truth returning, the word of godliness everywhere sown, and flourishing
1296 11,4 | great difference between godly respect for others and disagreement
1297 1,4 | surnamed “Chrysostomos” (“Golden-mouthed”), offers to all these golden
1298 11,4 | Christ, from the Sinai and Golgotha Covenants, from the Mosaic
1299 3,2 | acquisition of material goods; the pursuit of pleasure
1300 8,4 | of belief, practice and governance. When the Epistle to the
1301 6,2 | absolute certainty. The soul, graced by the Holy Spirit, suddenly
1302 3,4 | futility. The gifts and graces of God always come first.~
1303 11,4 | society?[148] The Metropolitan graciously sympathized with the question
1304 7,4 | and each level includes gradations of considerable range. To
1305 11,3 | which to build bases for a gradual great reversal. That reversal
1306 9,2 | Is it for college or a graduate program? Is it to get married,
1307 3,1 | clergy and laity, including graduates of our own Holy Cross School
1308 9,3 | gathered to witness the grandeur of Orthodox worship. It
1309 8,3 | indicates that Saint Paul is grappling in an agonizing way with
1310 2,3 | of all good things. Faith grasps the mysteries of revelation.
1311 9,2 | testimony to the goodness, greatness and wisdom of God.~ Yet
1312 8,2 | preaching his message to Greek-Americans and all at once trying to
1313 6,6 | about a simple leaf:~ ~That green leaf on the tree which you
1314 11,4 | 16. See also Stanley J. Grenz, A Primer on Postmodernism (
1315 6,6 | sees others happier and grieves when it sees them suffering.
1316 11,2 | weakening and losing its grip on its Balkan holdings,
1317 2,1 | creativity also require grounding and direction. Thus Orthodoxy
1318 Intro,1| issue and suggesting the groundwork for further reflection.
1319 7,5 | care. Such work would not guarantee higher degrees of spiritual
1320 2,2 | by a stone and soldiers guarded Your pure body,~Your arose,
1321 11,4 | Metropolitan had to write ever so guardedly to justify such an obviously
1322 10,3 | well be the most authentic guardian of the classic, universal
1323 Intro,3| the Church, all being the guardians of the faith. As a family
1324 2,3 | sent messengers to call the guests. It falls to us, both before
1325 Intro,1| our mission. Who we are guides us in what wee are to do
1326 5,3 | touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your
1327 8,4 | as Walter Bauer, Hermann Gunkel, Walter Bauer, Rudolf Bultmann,
1328 8,4 | Palestine issued Greek coins. A gymnasium had been built in Jerusalem
1329 6,4 | counsels that he who makes it a habit to think of God always carries
1330 5,1 | so many of our faithful habitually late for worship? If the
1331 10,5 | have the keys of Death and Hades” (Rev. 1:17). Christ and
1332 11,2 | holding Greek heads by the hair but separated from their
1333 4,2 | scholarship during the last half century has emphasized the
1334 5,2 | closeness to the Father, the hallmark of Christ’s life and mission.
1335 5,3 | In all of the icons the halo or crown of Christ is inscribed
1336 9,2 | selfishness. Compassion is hamstrung by short-lived emotions.
1337 7,5 | Holy Mountain composed a handbook on confession discussing
1338 7,5 | spiritual therapy. A number of handbooks on confession have been
1339 4,3 | received from the Lord what I handed to you that the Lord Jesus
1340 6,6 | does not understand what happened everything was going~so
1341 6,6 | delights when it sees others happier and grieves when it sees
1342 11,2 | and keep you alive.~Live happily if you can. May God preserve
1343 6,6 | hell‑fire, would you feel happy?” The hermit responded: “
1344 5,3 | interpret leather as signifying hardness of heart or insensibility
1345 6,5 | some illness or physical hardship, which are unavoidable in
1346 9,3 | Book of Revelation as a harlot riding on the beast and
1347 1,3 | good news, might not be harmed or diminished in its own
1348 Intro,2| dichotomies, moves toward a harmonious balance on such matters
1349 11,4 | in England. See Michael Harper, A Faith Fulfilled: Why
1350 3,4 | obligatory Christianity” by harping on parishioners to come
1351 8,3 | Saint Paul, despite his harsh language — there was no
1352 8,4 | mostly in Greek. The later Hasmonean Kings in Palestine issued
1353 | hast
1354 8,3 | interpretation, and one which hastened the historical separation
1355 8,3 | Paul’s theological thought hat is really fulfilled in Christ
1356 8,3 | critique of Jews into a hateful source of prejudice, polemics,
1357 7,4 | exploitation, corruption, anger, hatred, cynicism, and despair.
1358 11,2 | literally holding Greek heads by the hair but separated
1359 6,3 | cares for us, forgives and heals us, illumines and rejoices
1360 5,2 | spiritual growth. The key was heartfelt prayer and a disciplined
1361 1,3 | ashes and towered to~to the heavens.[20]~ ~How did the Antiochean
1362 8,2 | it (Phil. 3:5). But while heavily involved in the persecution
1363 8,4 | cast of thought basically Hebraic. It is true that several
1364 8,4 | theological reasons. The Christian Hebraists understood themselves as
1365 1,4 | responsibility of the hearers to pay heed. The personal failures of
1366 11,4 | Had Christian leaders heeded Saint Paul's vision and
1367 1,3 | thieves to take to their heels, murderers to seek~refuge
1368 10,2 | full awareness, we must heighten our sensitivities at several
1369 2,3 | exalts the person of Christ heightening the awareness of hearers
1370 4,3 | sisters of Christ, and joint heirs of God with him. Thus the
1371 11,4 | doctoral dissertation by Helen Criticos Theodoropoulos,
1372 8,1 | cosmopolitan culture of the major hellenisitic cities of the East, such
1373 8,4 | observant Jew who chided other hellenizing Jews for not keeping the
1374 6,6 | loses the grace that was helping him to keep God’s~commandments.
1375 1,2 | kephalaiois tois synechousin hemon ten zoen kai to kerygma
1376 | hence
1377 11,4 | 1987), and several books by Henri Nouwen.~ [68]. Published
1378 3,4 | They must see themselves as heralds proclaiming the message
1379 8,4 | scholars such as Walter Bauer, Hermann Gunkel, Walter Bauer, Rudolf
1380 6,1 | monastic communities and many hermitages.~ The young novice set upon
1381 11,2 | their bodies. Our local hero had died in such confrontations.
1382 10,5 | Orthodoxy breathes a heroic spirit over against our
1383 | herself
1384 5,4 | answered: “Pray!” The man hesitated a moment, and then said: “
1385 5,2 | to the life of stillness (hesychia), he retired to a monastery
1386 7,4 | three-stage pattern as a heuristic model to discuss three levels
1387 2,1 | mystery of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of knowledge,
1388 7,5 | brother kept stealing and hiding scraps of bread, dates,
1389 11,4 | faithfulness is intentionally hierarchical. Our primary faithfulness
1390 10,3 | laity alike,~not by means of high-sounding promotional statements or
1391 3,1 | in the Orthodox Church. Highlighting Orthodox missionary activities
1392 4,2 | of the baptism of Jesus highlights the divine sonship of Christ,
1393 5,2 | crowds, “He went up into the hills to pray” (Mt. 15:23). Prior
1394 9,3 | Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and so many others.
1395 6,1 | the actual vision. But he hints at this profound experience
1396 10,3 | Lutheran theologian and Church historian, gave a key-note address
1397 11,4 | Orthodox-Jewish Relations in Historic Perspective — The Jewish
1398 Intro,5| in name only, a colossal hoax. Hypocrisy is religiosity
1399 8,3 | the circumcision party” (hoi ek peritomes, Gal. 1:12)
1400 11,2 | losing its grip on its Balkan holdings, Greeks and Bulgarians themselves,
1401 10,5 | son, waits to welcome our homecoming with music and dancing in
1402 4,2 | subsistence, person) and homoousios (of the same essence or
1403 7,5 | Christian the degree of honesty, self-acceptance, willingness
1404 10,3 | episcopate, both of which were honored traditions in the early
1405 7,1 | for his adversaries who, hopefully, withdrew with much food
1406 8,4 | variety of Gnostic sects hopelessly syncretistic, are evident
1407 11,2 | ancestral homes by the Turks in horrific ways. My friend, only ten
1408 6,1 | throat. He awakened full of horror and revulsion. He immediately
1409 8,3 | illustration is not accurate horticulture — a wild shoot is not grafted
1410 11,4 | occupation of Saint John's Hospice by Jews against the strong
1411 3,4 | visitation at a home or in the hospital tomorrow? Is there a confession
1412 9,1 | disputes, is established by a host of laws. Nevertheless, the
1413 Intro,5| totally indifferent or even hostile toward the true God. Minimalism
1414 10,2 | to be poked to find some hot coals below in order to
1415 5,3 | with their wings as they hovered around God’s throne and
1416 9,3 | expression of self-glorification, hubris, human pride. It was empty,
1417 8,3 | He does not appeal to any humanistic reasons in moving beyond
1418 11,4 | although immortal, You humbled Yourself for our salvation,
1419 5,4 | repented and were forgiven, a humiliated Jonah complained bitterly
1420 5,4 | else up there?” Beyond the humor of it, there is a serious
1421 6,1 | disciple Sophrony cites several humorous incidents about important
1422 2,2 | Christ by means of virtually hundreds of hymns which both recount
1423 Intro,1| many men and women deeply hunger for God and authentic expressions
1424 2,4 | own will.~ 117. To him who hungers after Christ grace is food;
1425 1,2 | actions . . . When He is hungry, let~us feed Him; when He
1426 11,2 | to marginalize, oppress, hurt, and even to destroy others
1427 7,3 | be far more healing for a hurting soul than the counsel of
1428 8,4 | years (35-50 AD) in the hustle and bustle of all the major
1429 5,5 | and sisters. His lonely hut seemed like a splendid palace.
1430 9,3 | in triumph (thriambeuonti hymas) and through us spreads
1431 10,5 | renewal which is obedience (hypakoe), a word which in Greek
1432 1,3 | the supernatural power (hyper physin ischyn) behind their
1433 9,3 | pretensions, denouncing hypocrisies on high, and calling all
1434 9,3 | Certainly not all Pharisees were hypocrites. It was precisely because
1435 4,2 | essence or substance), hypostasis (subsistence, person) and
1436 Intro,1| as an ideology, a sort of hypostatized entity, unconnected with
1437 11,4 | the New Theologian, Vols I-II, submitted to the University
1438 4,4 | the text is matheteusate, i.e., make disciples, whereas “
1439 9,3 | heresy of iconoclasm (or “icon-smashing”) was defeated. The holy
1440 9,3 | controversy, the heresy of iconoclasm (or “icon-smashing”) was
1441 5,3 | here for you!”~ Orthodoxy iconography features many icons of Christ
1442 10,3 | energy, your creativity, your idealism, your commitment, your talents.
1443 11,2 | but should — at any rate ideally — lead to practical conclusions.”[
1444 6,4 | spiritual life is virtually identifiable with progress in prayer.
1445 9,3 | respective ethnic cultures and identities in America. This is not
1446 1,3 | common men” (agrammatoi kai idiotai, Acts 4:13).[24]~ But what
1447 6,4 | Silouan, fault‑finding, idle talk ,and self‑indulgence
1448 8,4 | 56), it is not speaking idly but expressing a powerful
1449 5,3 | epikaloumenoi to onoma tou Iesou Christou, 1 Cor. 1:2), equates
1450 2,4 | love, was always eager to ignite a receptive soul, just as
1451 Intro,6| their own cultural contexts, ignorance, even sin. Its deepest intention
1452 Intro,1| throughout the ages. They ignore the struggle of the great
1453 11,4 | of Orthodoxy in America: III. The Spiritual Problem,”
1454 5,3 | ask” (aito), “entreat” (iketeuo), “cry” (krazo), and “invoke”
1455 7,4 | used to say: “A proud and ill word would turn good men
1456 6,5 | only outward, such as some illness or physical hardship, which
1457 1,4 | those suffering with many ills? Yet Christ works not by
1458 6,1 | of the Holy Spirit? Once illumined, why does the mind become
1459 6,3 | forgives and heals us, illumines and rejoices us. However,
1460 9,2 | wicked passions and evil imaginations. Love is shortchanged by
1461 1,3 | that they could not have imagined. Christ's resurrection is
1462 5,5 | fulness of spiritual maturity imaging “the measure of the stature
1463 1,3 | Christian authors seemed to be imbued with a spirit of confidence
1464 11,4 | writes: “A Christian is an imitator of Christ in thought, word
1465 4,2 | mystery both transcendent and immanent, which is the ground of
1466 11,4 | Judaism in the periodical Immanuel 26/27 (1994).~ [132]. The
1467 11,4 | on to one's own weak or immature religious convictions by
1468 5,4 | worse wickedness because of immaturity, carelessness and lack of
1469 11,4 | backs rich heritages and immeasurable treasures, even if our hands
1470 5,3 | expressed grave fears about the immensity of the task, God promised
1471 10,4 | sinful passions, corruption, immorality, hypocrisy, and the odor
1472 2,4 | mortal (thneton) must put on immortality (athanasian). . . Then shall
1473 2,2 | inflections and gestures, impacting the congregation with the
1474 1,2 | of the contents and not impaired~by the difference of persons.[
1475 3,4 | elucidation of it, but the imparting here and now of the life
1476 3,4 | creation that the Gospel imparts to receptive hearts. Saint
1477 11,2 | know?” he replied somewhat impatiently. I did not say anything
1478 1,3 | human or demonic power could impede the progress of the Gospel
1479 10,3 | Christ. Also, no theological impediments exist to the recovery of
1480 4,3 | his blood” (1 Pt 1:2). The imperishable gift of new birth, achieved
1481 5,4 | distant. He is a kind of impersonal “force” throughout the universe
1482 9,1 | moral conduct. The powerful impetus driving forward the new
1483 11,3 | interests which readily impinge on daily life to the present,
1484 3,2 | commission’s).~ ~The significant implication is that the parish cannot
1485 4,4 | literally a learner or pupil, implying an activity which involves
1486 1,3 | so far from continuing to impose on people by their~deceits
1487 Intro,6| has said: “Faith cannot be imposed on anyone because it has
1488 6,1 | honest, strong young man much impressed by the wisdom of his pious
1489 11,2 | There she was captured and imprisoned, her only crime being that
1490 6,4 | First, what we ask may be improper. Secondly, it may not be
1491 11,1 | liberating force meant to improve the lot of humanity, has
1492 6,6 | wrong thoughts and evil impulses will always torment it.
1493 8,3 | lover's quarrel and the “in-house” biblical critique of Jews
1494 2,4 | insensibility, their baptismal grace inactive and concealed by all manner
1495 Intro,1| reductionistic and narrow. It proves inadequate to the task of grasping
1496 7,4 | and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate, pursuable and avoidable,
1497 4,4 | that Jesus himself was the inaugurator of the kingdom, the risen
1498 6,5 | declares Silouan, the soul is incapable even of starting out upon
1499 Intro,6| dissimulation. Orthodoxy takes an incarnational approach to the world, showing
1500 8,4 | may be lived and expressed incarnationally through new cultural forms?