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1501 1,2 | distinction between the variety of incidental descriptions and the essential
1502 6,1 | learned anything new. Then he incidentally discovered Silouan. They
1503 8,4 | crossed. A former Pharisee inclined to see even eating with
1504 5,4 | Saint Paul, a larger, more inclusive “yes” about His identity
1505 9,3 | tradition and gave 10% of his income to the Temple. And yet it
1506 11,4 | evangelical stirring through incoming coverts is occurring in
1507 9,2 | impressive dignity, and incomparable love.~ We may ask: What “
1508 8,2 | His Church have for him an incomparably higher priority. He welcomes
1509 1,4 | power of the Gospel would be incomplete without consideration of
1510 3,3 | theological writings are incomprehensibly abstract for the average
1511 4,3 | communal liturgical acts which incorporate and transform believers
1512 11,1 | Future.” This essay has been incorporated in the present book as part
1513 2,4 | phtharton) must put on incorruption (aphtharsian) and this mortal (
1514 1,3 | does idolatry no longer increase,~but it is getting less
1515 2,2 | subsequent centuries developed incredible riches in the hymnological
1516 Intro,1| issues in America. He was incredulous that Orthodoxy could exist
1517 11,4 | For use of this word I am indebted to Father John Romanides
1518 Intro,1| impossible but also theologically indefensible. They are uninformed about
1519 Intro,3| there are about fifteen independent Orthodox Churches throughout
1520 11,2 | dream, day and night in~indescribable anguish. God, who sees my
1521 8,3 | termination” or “end” is indicated by the contrasts which follow
1522 Intro,5| age, while being totally indifferent or even hostile toward the
1523 5,2 | acting” when he was joyful or indignant, when He needed to eat and
1524 8,4 | borrowing and mixing elements indiscriminately. On the contrary, it had
1525 7,2 | discernment. Often inseparable and indistinguishable from one another, discernment
1526 10,3 | society marked by selfish individualism, family instability, substance
1527 8,1 | 16-29). Far from being an individualist working in splendid isolation,
1528 Pref | not merely subjective and individualistic, but is measured and guided
1529 1,2 | we are the temple, He the~Indweller (enoikos); He the First-begotten,
1530 1,4 | of the Holy Spirit remove inequality and stamp all believers
1531 4,2 | then the conclusion is inescapable that the Son and the Spirit
1532 2,3 | preaching and teaching is inescapably influenced by one's confessional
1533 2,3 | continuous festival despite inevitable sufferings.~ ~
1534 9,3 | Orthodoxy is nothing if not this inexhaustible divine love and invincible
1535 5,5 | self-acting prayer of the heart. Inexpressible peace and sweetness filled
1536 2,4 | Athanasios does not engage the infancy narratives. His attention
1537 5,2 | its nerve system while the infant is developing in the mother’
1538 11,4 | people on the basis of wrong inferences drawn from the Scriptures,
1539 10,5 | Christians burdened with an inferiority complex, we need to know
1540 5,3 | universe and can release His infinite love for forgiveness, healing,
1541 5,5 | concentrated prayer, the soul is inflamed with grace and glows like
1542 6,4 | of the Holy Spirit which inflames the soul with divine love
1543 2,2 | Gospel with words, voice inflections and gestures, impacting
1544 2,4 | rush at him in order to inflict bodily harm. Although rejected
1545 11,4 | Apart from the sufferings inflicted upon Jews, and sometimes
1546 3,2 | impact everyone equally, influences all members of our society,
1547 5,5 | God. Prayer was neither to inform God about our material needs
1548 11,3 | openly admit, certainly informs the treatment of my whole
1549 1,2 | and their unity no wise~infringed by the number of writers . . .
1550 6,2 | God through human skill, ingenuity or wisdom. The Lord makes
1551 2,4 | the conviction that they inherently carried the power to transform
1552 10,5 | there is a formal faith we inherit from our parents called “
1553 11,4 | deeds excludes one from inheriting the kingdom (5:21; cf. 6:
1554 5,2 | a place of cruelty and inhumanity especially in the ancient
1555 9,1 | proclamation of the Gospel, the initiation act of Baptism, the sacred
1556 3,3 | benefit by reason of their own initiatives, the parish as a whole seems
1557 11,4 | law,” that is, the ritual injunctions of the Mosaic Law (Gal.
1558 6,6 | against him, brings spiritual injury to himself and shows that
1559 7,4 | sure, the personal faith, innate moral sense, and individual
1560 6,3 | prayers and even know our innermost thoughts. Intimates Silouan: “
1561 1,3 | kinds of punishments,~deaths innumberable and of all sorts.[25]~ ~
1562 Intro,5| in hell, but His love is inoperative where it is rejected. Orthodoxy
1563 5,3 | halo or crown of Christ is inscribed with the letters “OWN,”
1564 8,4 | own use. Jewish cemetery inscriptions found throughout the empire
1565 10,4 | Spirit, the veil of spiritual insensitivity is removed from the heart
1566 6,1 | He thinks of himself as insignificant. His personal concerns completely
1567 5,2 | counted prayer as his great inspiration. His principle was: “First
1568 9,2 | revealed to us through the Son inspires in us? See what good news
1569 10,3 | selfish individualism, family instability, substance abuse of all
1570 2,3 | message of your gospel.~Instill in us also reverence for
1571 2,5 | exhibited tendencies toward “institutionalization. The problem is not so much
1572 6,4 | prayer is the delicate instrument which, by its depth and
1573 9,3 | and feet, His voice and instruments, to bring Orthodoxy’s universal
1574 6,5 | human being recognizes his insufficiency and turns to God. The Lord
1575 6,5 | enemies, pray for those who insult or injure you, and offer
1576 4,1 | Gospel of Saint Matthew integrates the three elements of our
1577 8,4 | express the Church's deep integrative movement toward doctrinal,
1578 4,2 | thought and argued issues as intellectuals of their time, and in the
1579 5,2 | with exceptional gifts of intelligence and eloquence, he nevertheless
1580 Intro,1| in a loving, positive, intelligible, and convincing manner.
1581 6,6 | humility after years of intense struggles which seemed to
1582 11,2 | seen a single Bulgarian, intensified one day when I saw in our
1583 10,2 | however, is not burning with intensity in all places and at all
1584 11,4 | areas of faithfulness is intentionally hierarchical. Our primary
1585 3,4 | infrequently and with all good intentions, priests and parish leaders
1586 2,1 | should be attested by all inter-related and interactive aspects
1587 11,4 | values. Deep renewal in inter-religious relations cannot occur without
1588 11,4 | Continuity and renewal meet and interact most essentially at the
1589 1,4 | effective in their daily interactions with pagans on behalf of
1590 2,1 | by all inter-related and interactive aspects of the Church's
1591 9,3 | On the other hand we must intercede before God on behalf of
1592 9,3 | the message of life. As intercessors and advocates before God,
1593 5,3 | petitionary, confessional, intercessory, or doxological, are defined
1594 11,4 | could say to each other, if interested: “Let us therefore discuss
1595 6,4 | of activity necessarily interferes with the person who yearns
1596 3,2 | external formalism to an “internalization” of Orthodox truths and
1597 10,5 | complex, we need to know and internalize the treasures of our faith,
1598 7,4 | are dynamically connected, interpenetrating each other especially at
1599 8,3 | viewing the christological interpretations as radical departures, even
1600 1,2 | Alexandria, the Jewish biblical interpreter and philosopher of the first
1601 2,4 | until, by Christ's luminous intervention, they yielded their spiritual
1602 3,2 | following words of a man interviewed in the streets of Boston
1603 6,1 | experience which he later intimated to his close disciple Sophrony.
1604 4,2 | Jewish heritage already bears intimations of the plentitude of God —
1605 5,4 | God neither forces nor intimidates human beings to respond
1606 9,2 | built — itself adorned with intricate carvings, precious stones,
1607 7,4 | Christian are intimately and intricately involved as well, and not
1608 11,4 | Jewish heritage as being intrinsically legalistic and lacking grace.
1609 6,5 | irrelevant thoughts often intrude, preoccupy the mind, confuse
1610 3,2 | Christians. He critiqued the inundation of worldly values into the
1611 6,4 | from nearness to God and invalidate our prayers.~ The highest
1612 11,3 | and long memories, all invested with an embracive sanctity
1613 1,3 | the vehement~resistance of inveterate custom, demons in arms,
1614 11,3 | embracive sanctity that seems as inviolate as the principle of faithfulness
1615 Pref | rather than definitive, invitational rather than prescriptive.
1616 3,4 | preached and taught as both inviting and requiring a response,
1617 5,3 | prayers are replete with invocations to the Father, the Son and
1618 10,5 | Christian spirituality, invoked the axiom, “Give blood to
1619 2,4 | The Alexandrian Father invokes, as well, uses Pauline language
1620 5,3 | and the Holy Spirit. By invoking the name of God we engage
1621 11,4 | Orthodoxy and Culture, ed. Ioan Sauca (Geneva: World Council
1622 11,4 | Churches Today, edited by Ion Bria (Geneva: World Council
1623 11,4 | in history would not have ironically proven themselves “superior”
1624 8,3 | It is one of the darkest ironies of history that the “honorary
1625 11,4 | constitutive from the useful, the irreformable from the reformable, as
1626 8,3 | Gentiles, but they are the irrevocably beloved and elect people
1627 1,3 | supernatural power (hyper physin ischyn) behind their glorious achievement.
1628 10,2 | times, add to all of these “isms” secularism, a total indifference
1629 8,1 | individualist working in splendid isolation, as some have portrayed
1630 11,4 | Story of John Chrysostom (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1631 6,1 | two books.~ Born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov in the year 1866,
1632 9,3 | theologians descend from our ivory towers to look at the actual
1633 2,3 | of John, and the Book of James as well as that of Galatians.
1634 8,4 | of Saint Paul was like a jeep with four-wheel drive, efficient
1635 10,2 | by exhibiting her empty jewelry boxes to the world. Here
1636 10,2 | as well as her spiritual jewels, and is satisfied merely
1637 9,3 | that we live in what Pope John-Paul II has called a “culture
1638 1,2 | mingled together, angels joining the choirs~of humanity and
1639 4,3 | and sisters of Christ, and joint heirs of God with him. Thus
1640 6,1 | point in his life. It was a jolting vision after a period of
1641 11,4 | usually do not. See Elias Jones-Golitzin, “The Role of the Bible
1642 11,4 | meeting were published in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies 13 (
1643 Intro,1| Orthodoxy, and as ways of living joyously the fullness of its faith
1644 5,2 | spontaneously referred all his joys and trials to God. They
1645 1,2 | Jn 1:29 and Nathaniel's jubilant confession to Christ: “Rabbi,
1646 11,4 | burning of the effigy of Judas during Holy Week in some
1647 5,4 | divine love which is both judging and healing, forgiving and
1648 6,6 | time ago related how a dog jumped into a well after a three
1649 9,2 | might live; or that someone jumps into a burning house to
1650 10,3 | applies to all Orthodox jurisdictions. The report is instructive
1651 11,4 | by Jewish objections and justifications.~ [138]. The Jewish scholar
1652 2,1 | enormously opportune time — a kairos in the biblical sense —
1653 8,3 | believers. The good olive tree (kallielaios) with its richness (or “
1654 10,4 | says, is like an oil lamp (kandili) which consists of the oil,
1655 Intro,1| Orthodox dogmatician John Karmiris and other noted Greek theologians
1656 4,4 | Theos en Christo kosmon katalasson, 2 Cor. 5:19).~ Moreover,
1657 7,4 | stages: (a) purification (katharsis), (b) illumination (photisis),
1658 6,5 | also said that it takes keen and daring persons to take
1659 1,4 | wanted Christians to be keenly aware of this struggle and
1660 9,2 | Holy Spirit. We are the keepers of holy fire. And our vocation
1661 3,2 | true evangelical spirit keeps alive the horizon of living
1662 11,4 | interests, is by J. N. D. Kelly, Golden Mouth: The Story
1663 11,4 | Anti-Semitism (Aldington: Kent Publishing Company, 1952),
1664 1,2 | news are grounded (en tois kephalaiois tois synechousin hemon ten
1665 7,5 | to steal. But the brother kept stealing and hiding scraps
1666 10,3 | Church historian, gave a key-note address at a large gathering
1667 11,4 | p. 174.~ ~[86]. In his keynote address to the Clergy-Laity
1668 10,5 | forever, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Rev.
1669 9,2 | newspapers that someone gives a kidney that someone else might
1670 11,2 | One soldier said: “Let’s kill them!” The other replied, “
1671 11,2 | taken away and eventually killed. Is it possible to read
1672 11,2 | affairs peacefully instead of killing each other? From then on
1673 11,3 | disdain, persecution, and even killings, although there have also
1674 3,3 | that something is out of kilt at the level of priorities
1675 6,3 | Holy Spirit. He makes us kin with Him. The Holy Spirit
1676 10,3 | Spirit is always eager to kindle the wood and let the fireplace
1677 8,3 | sake of my brethren and kinsmen by race” (Rom. 9:3). These
1678 9,3 | transfigured cosmos. We kiss and reverence icons as sacred
1679 6,1 | stewards serving in the kitchen and dining room. He never
1680 7,5 | obviously suffered from kleptomania. In such areas it may well
1681 7,4 | river a man sunk to his knees in the mud; and some came
1682 1,2 | but let us be cemented (kollethomen) to Him, for if~we stand
1683 9,3 | His Eminence Chrysostomos Konstantinides of the Ecumenical Patriarchate,
1684 8,3 | to practice circumcision, kosher foods and Jewish festivals (
1685 4,4 | Himself (Theos en Christo kosmon katalasson, 2 Cor. 5:19).~
1686 5,3 | entreat” (iketeuo), “cry” (krazo), and “invoke” or “call
1687 3,4 | have chanted the triple Kyrie Eleisons. Parishioners know
1688 8,4 | enthronement as universal Lord (Kyrios). The experience and theology
1689 8,3 | Saint Paul's complex and laborious argumentation in part reaches
1690 6,5 | inward, the agonies and lacerations of the soul. Without God,
1691 6,6 | and held him up until the lad was rescued. Love is in
1692 5,3 | who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (
1693 3,4 | the Parish Council or the Ladies Society tonight? Is there
1694 2,1 | foundation can suffice than that laid by the apostles — Jesus
1695 9,2 | and Redeemer. He is “the Lamb of God who takes away the
1696 9,2 | not hear of any words of lament or long explanation. Rather,
1697 7,4 | presence, a growing flame, a lantern of the soul, and a source
1698 6,6 | itself. The Christian can lapse into self‑assurance and
1699 6,5 | exalts himself or subtly lapses into self‑reliance, God
1700 8,3 | the positive cause of a large-scale conversion of Gentiles and (
1701 3,3 | motivated hearts to be of lasting benefit. Although individuals
1702 7,3 | coopted vehicle of a culture's latest wisdom and favored values.
1703 2,2 | not our intention here to launch into a defense of the liturgical,
1704 8,2 | in me” (Gal. 2:20). From Law-centered he became Christ-centered.
1705 4,3 | among Christians who file lawsuits before secular courts (1
1706 2,4 | the soul. It stripped away layers of ego-centric deceptive
1707 4,2 | pagan thought, dangerously leaning toward tritheism, and thus
1708 4,4 | mathetes means literally a learner or pupil, implying an activity
1709 11,4 | heritage as being intrinsically legalistic and lacking grace. However,
1710 2,2 | the periods of the Great Lent and Easter season have their
1711 10,4 | connecting ideals and life, letting heaven touch the earth,
1712 11,4 | anti-Semitism include the blood libel, the burning of the effigy
1713 4,3 | God’s purposeful will to liberate his people in order that
1714 10,5 | Otherwise, obedience is license for wrongdoing and abuse.
1715 5,5 | as communion may grant us life-changing moments of illumination
1716 11,4 | but expressions of my own life-long struggles with continuity
1717 8,3 | of the Law of Moses was life-threatening to the Jewish community.
1718 6,6 | not want to obey God. He likes to be his own master. But
1719 11,3 | realistic and admit our human limitations, as much as we may be inspired
1720 2,2 | presentation of the Gospel is not limited to the New Testament but
1721 8,4 | more the image of a stretch limousine, self-conscious about its
1722 11,4 | what follows are suggestive lines of thought rather than well-defined
1723 11,2 | years of age at that time, lingered behind as Smyrna was being
1724 11,3 | smoother historical and linguistic parallel? I assume that
1725 2,4 | impossible concept, one which can linguistically be traced back to Plato.
1726 1,2 | the Antiochean Father to link the Church's saving message
1727 8,3 | 11 Saint Paul expressly links the corporate unbelief of
1728 1,2 | to compile a definitive list of agreed essentials, nevertheless
1729 10,5 | Greek literally means to listen well and to come under what
1730 5,2 | The first ray of light is lit by prayer. Prayer gives
1731 1,2 | finally not to be tied in a literalistic way to the Bible alone or
1732 8,4 | Greek is distinctly less literary than Philo's and his cast
1733 4,2 | The Creed in essence is liturgically rooted and has become an
1734 2,2 | God's word. A prayerful liturgist not only proclaims but acts
1735 7,4 | created images, but an abiding lively awareness of God's presence —
1736 6,1 | saying: “Just as you found it loathsome to swallow a snake in your
1737 9,3 | Do not keep the treasure locked in colorful boxes while
1738 7,3 | community is a concentrated locus of God's gracious action
1739 8,3 | the oracles of God” (ta logia Theou), the Scriptures,
1740 2,2 | the Father) this rational (logiken) worship~without the shedding
1741 10,3 | She needs you to put new logs in the fireplace. She needs
1742 10,1 | the past, such as Vladimir Lossky, have taught us that the
1743 3,3 | and moral decadence, its lostness and despair, since these
1744 6,3 | is like a dear mother. He lovingly cares for us, forgives and
1745 11,4 | conference were edited by Malcolm Lowe and published under the
1746 2,4 | is simply astonishing. A loyal follower of the great Church
1747 3,3 | of Christianity, such as Lucian, publicly acknowledged that
1748 1,3 | Christian debating in a ludicrous way with a pagan about Paul
1749 Intro,5| true God. Minimalism is lukewarm Christianity to suit our
1750 10,2 | Bible calls this condition lukewarmness. Factionalism is a divisive
1751 1,2 | needful to quench pride, to lull desire to sleep, to tread
1752 5,4 | breathing gardening. Our lungs breathe in oxygen and breathe
1753 4,2 | Fathers were presumably lured into the realm of pagan
1754 3,3 | pride and disobedience, its lust and moral decadence, its
1755 2,4 | thousand years before Martin Luther, this erudite monastic affirmed
1756 10,3 | Jaroslav Pelikan, a preeminent Lutheran theologian and Church historian,
1757 11,4 | Saarinen, “Salvation in the Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue: A Comparative
1758 11,1 | denominations such as the Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists,
1759 3,3 | more, we do not have the luxury of escapism. We cannot blame
1760 1,2 | Chrysostom continues to expound lyrically on the theme of intimate
1761 1,4 | the main battle (megale mache), this is the unanswerable
1762 1,4 | of spiders,” weaving such madness as to say sometimes that
1763 4,3 | Christ” (1 Pt 2:4-5).~ In a magisterial work on biblical prayer
1764 5,2 | And Mary replied: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit
1765 8,3 | Paul's Epistles. In his magnum opus, the Epistle to the
1766 11,2 | and futile attempt by the mainland Greek army to reconquer
1767 11,4 | especially the so-called mainline churches in our times. ~ ~ ~[
1768 3,2 | prime responsibility for maintaining and strengthening the Orthodox
1769 2,1 | Christian truth and the maintenance of Christian unity, they
1770 11,4 | conference were edited by Malcolm Lowe and published under
1771 7,3 | a consumer in a shopping mall — cannot leave his or her
1772 9,2 | still living and want to manage my household. Besides, what
1773 5,4 | who fell off a cliff and managed to grasp a bush on the way
1774 6,4 | speaks against prayer has manifestly never~experienced the goodness
1775 4,3 | courts (1 Cor. 6:1-11), or manifold other aspects of daily conduct (
1776 10,2 | distressed by the chatter and manipulations of ecclesiastical authorities.
1777 11,4 | this observation to George Mantzarides, a Greek Orthodox scholar
1778 1,4 | beings into wilful beasts and many-faced monsters.[36] But let no
1779 11,4 | Archbishop Iakovos and the late Marc H. Tanenbaum. The papers
1780 9,3 | officers in full uniform marched ahead of him. Behind him
1781 11,4 | the reformable, as time marches on and the circumstances
1782 1,2 | rejected the position of the Marcionites who had taken these words
1783 11,4 | 1984.~ [67]. For example Margaret R. Miles, Fullness of Life (
1784 11,2 | abuse of religion is to marginalize, oppress, hurt, and even
1785 2,4 | One thousand years before Martin Luther, this erudite monastic
1786 2,4 | even death in the face of martyrdom. According to Athanasios,
1787 11,4 | Orthodox Missionary Ethos,” Martyria/Mission: The Witness of
1788 6,3 | thoughts. Intimates Silouan: “Marvel not at this. Heaven and
1789 9,2 | care. The next generation marveled not only at the jewel but
1790 Pref | School of Theology~Brookline, Massachusetts August 28, 2001~ ~ ~ ~
1791 1,4 | 5) the persuasion of the masses to truths that even philosophers
1792 1,3 | C. S. Lewis has called a masterpiece, Saint Athanasios shines
1793 4,4 | original Greek. The noun mathetes means literally a learner
1794 4,4 | and pivot of the text is matheteusate, i.e., make disciples, whereas “
1795 4,4 | scribe who has been trained (matheteutheis) in the kingdom of heaven
1796 8,1 | renewal movement from the matrix of Judaism and rapidly spread
1797 4,4 | communal setting. Typically Matthean, the verb undoubtedly reflects
1798 11,4 | from the sixth canticle of Mattins of the Sunday of the Prodigal
1799 6,1 | struggles, when he had deeply matured in grace and was beyond
1800 11,3 | authenticated and enriched to the maximum degree of faithfulness and
1801 5,2 | He regularly prayed at meals and observed the traditional
1802 1,4 | wise, it hides our human meanness, and leaving reasonings
1803 Pref | individualistic, but is measured and guided by the Church’
1804 7,4 | stages, variously named, for measuring spiritual growth. A basic
1805 3,2 | the printed and electronic media; the pernicious effects
1806 3,4 | conviction that the Gospel mediates God’s presence and power
1807 4,3 | God’s presence among us mediating every dimension of our life
1808 7,5 | and professionals in the medical and psychological fields.
1809 1,2 | treasury of all manner of medicines, so~that whether it be needful
1810 2,2 | Apostle Paul..~ Here is a medley of Anastasima from the Matins
1811 1,4 | this is the main battle (megale mache), this is the unanswerable
1812 1,3 | resurrection is the great proof (megiste apodeixis) of the divine
1813 5,1 | beautiful chapels, making melody to the Lord with hymns and
1814 9,3 | was an awesome procession memorialized to this day by the colossal
1815 1,4 | has only empty signs and memorials of those things. He continues:~ ~
1816 11,3 | rich traditions, and long memories, all invested with an embracive
1817 2,4 | life. By means of study and memorization of the sacred texts, as
1818 8,4 | statement of a Greek poet (Menander) with approval, “bad company
1819 3,4 | validity of the gospel. Such a mentality is counter-productive because
1820 6,4 | the teacher. The Lord, who mercifully watches over us, will not
1821 2,4 | that works in themselves merit either hell or~the kingdom.
1822 2,2 | Christ. Amen. Changing (metabalon) them by Your Holy Spirit.~
1823 2,2 | Lord's Supper as merely metaphorical in 1 Cor 11, any more than
1824 3,4 | witness. Jesus used the metaphors of salt and light to describe
1825 11,1 | the Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. A few
1826 1,1 | Praise of Saint Paul. The methodological approach is both descriptive
1827 8,4 | syncretistic, are evident until the mid-second century and beyond. But
1828 3,3 | religions, of constant wars and migration of peoples, of diverse philosophies
1829 1,2 | discordance in the details (en mikrois diaphonia) pertaining to
1830 11,4 | and used it to formulate a mild prophetic call for change
1831 11,4 | For example Margaret R. Miles, Fullness of Life (Philadelphia:
1832 10,3 | the Augsburg Confession, a milestone in the Protestant Reformation.
1833 9,1 | adapting to the new cultural milieu of the Graeco-Roman world.
1834 6,3 | Triumphant and the Church Militant. The communion of glorified
1835 11,3 | force of survival over the millennia. Faith and faithfulness
1836 11,4 | most momentous event in our millennial experience.”[140]~ Along
1837 | million
1838 Intro,2| the imitation of Christ (mimesis Chrestou),” writes Saint
1839 8,3 | unbelieving Jews. Without mincing his words, the Apostle holds
1840 Pref | the answer in quick and mindless changes pertaining to liturgical
1841 11,4 | Archimandrite Sophrony, His Life Is Mine, translated by Rosemary
1842 3,3 | their service orientation minimal, and their witness impotent
1843 8,4 | Paul preached, taught, ministered, organized, and theologized.
1844 9,2 | property. I would say: “Wait a minute, I am still living and want
1845 9,1 | fasting, is specified down to minutiae. Its canonical order, although
1846 1,3 | most of all, the greatest miracle of the establishment of
1847 5,4 | striking image of prayer as a mirror, or the light of the mind
1848 11,2 | What is it about religious misconceptions and prejudice, as well as
1849 9,2 | various ways, we share the misfortune of the Prodigal Son — being
1850 2,2 | Christians. They are largely misplaced and pernicious insofar as
1851 11,1 | proselytism, discrimination, misrepresentation, persecution, or denigration
1852 | miss
1853 4,4 | ministry of the Church. Missiology and ecclesiology are integrally
1854 8,3 | persecution, despising and mistreating the Jewish people. It is
1855 8,4 | syncretistic manner borrowing and mixing elements indiscriminately.
1856 10,2 | above phenomena in various mixtures have existed in every era.
1857 11,2 | the street. The cries, the moans,~the tragedy cannot be described. . .
1858 9,3 | faced arrest, beatings, mockings, and finally shameful death
1859 3,2 | of what have been called modernism and post-modernism — massive
1860 11,3 | from an allegedly superior modernistic critical viewpoint, time-honored
1861 2,2 | according to eight musical modes which has developed over
1862 10,4 | only we do not rise to a modest level of lived spirituality,
1863 1,3 | such arrogance and compel modesty. The reason that the apostles
1864 10,3 | singing and perhaps some modifications in liturgical services to
1865 7,3 | fields of human affairs be modified, corrected, and even rejected
1866 6,1 | Silouan's spiritual life was molded through the traditional
1867 4,2 | fertility god of Canaan, or Moloch to whom children were offered
1868 4,2 | singularity or exclusive monad. God existed and acted by
1869 6,1 | months of visiting various monasteries he began to feel that his
1870 6,5 | the mind “a wagon full of monkeys.” There can be no inner
1871 1,4 | wilful beasts and many-faced monsters.[36] But let no one despair.
1872 6,1 | concern to him. After two months of visiting various monasteries
1873 9,3 | revelation, and an enduring monument to the victory of the saints.”~
1874 6,5 | being controlled by inner moods, drives and passions which
1875 Intro,1| Christians are losing their moorings, are not at all justifiable.
1876 8,4 | any Greek philosopher or moralist. He even uses a Stoic term
1877 5,2 | as well. We read: “In the morning, long before daylight, He
1878 2,4 | overcoming of sin, corruption, mortality, and death through the incarnate
1879 11,3 | to honor our fathers and mothers who have struggled to preserve
1880 1,3 | down from above the waters,~mountains, villages, and cities; so,
1881 6,1 | you... You sit~sit there mournfully, your inspired lips sealed.
1882 2,4 | prays, assurance; to him who mourns, consolation.~ ~The most
1883 4,3 | Ezekiel speaking as the mouthpiece of God:~ ~I will vindicate
1884 11,4 | by C. S. Lewis (London: Mowbray, 1953), p. 61. The citation
1885 11,4 | England (London & Oxford: Mowbrays, 1973), whereas Wisdom from
1886 7,4 | sunk to his knees in the mud; and some came up with outstretched
1887 3,2 | continuing globalization, multi-culturalism and pluralism — all powerful
1888 11,3 | behavior which mark the multi-dimensional identity and consciousness
1889 11,3 | the modern world and of multi-faceted modernity that inevitably
1890 1,3 | to take to their heels, murderers to seek~refuge in caves,
1891 11,4 | Eerdmans, 1996) and Nancey Murphy, Anglo-American Postmodernity:
1892 3,4 | already burdened with a myriad personal, family and work
1893 2,2 | confession of Thomas, the women myrrh-bearers coming to the empty tomb,
1894 2,2 | biblical term “mystery” (mysterion) to refer to the central
1895 5,2 | man of prayer, indeed a mystic of Christ privileged with
1896 1,4 | calls “mystical silence” (mystike sige).[33]~ A second element
1897 8,4 | although there are many mythical gods and lords, yet for
1898 2,2 | O loving God.~ You were nailed upon the cross willingly,
1899 Intro,2| from both blind faith and naive rationalism. Following the
1900 3,2 | of Orthodox wrongly and naively identify with the American
1901 9,2 | persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or anything else saint
1902 11,4 | Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996) and Nancey Murphy, Anglo-American Postmodernity:
1903 2,4 | does not engage the infancy narratives. His attention is on the
1904 4,3 | was divine judgment and national catastrophe with the destruction
1905 8,3 | of the Spirit led quite naturally to the Christian interpretation
1906 11,4 | Evangelist and Gregory (Nazianzen) the Theologian. ~ [74].
1907 7,4 | and they sunk him to the neck.” Then Abba Anthony said: “
1908 1,2 | medicines, so~that whether it be needful to quench pride, to lull
1909 6,6 | leaf on the tree which you needlessly plucked: it was not wrong,
1910 1,2 | face of the poor and the needy:~ ~Do you see how his soul
1911 11,3 | them superficially or even negatively in polemical critique of
1912 3,2 | disparity, and ecological neglect; the failure of systems
1913 10,2 | merely outward forms, while neglecting or even denying the inner
1914 11,2 | am not here to debate or negotiate issues of ultimate value
1915 10,1 | the Jewish word behind it (nephesh) which means the living
1916 5,2 | charge flashes through its nerve system while the infant
1917 11,4 | diminishment of Christology neutralizes and cancels authentic dialogue
1918 Pref | particularly true of our youth, the newly married couples, and many
1919 4,3 | combines the baptismal base of newness of life as well as the wider
1920 7,5 | healing and growth. Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain composed
1921 | Nine
1922 6,1 | early life. At the age of nineteen he expressed the desire
1923 5,4 | with destruction. When the Ninevites repented and were forgiven,
1924 8,3 | culture was “higher” or “nobler” than the Jewish. He does
1925 10,3 | the Church Fathers is the noblest element of the image of
1926 1,2 | books and laws” (biblia kai nomoi empsychoi), pouring forth
1927 11,4 | Saint Paul as teaching a “non-functional election” for Jews who do
1928 11,4 | There is no such thing as “non-functioning election” according to the
1929 11,4 | problem” between religious and non-religious Jews (p. 63).~ ~ [136].
1930 2,3 | of its discerning use and normative interpretation is acknowledged.~
1931 2,5 | professional, and cultural norms and forms take prominence.
1932 10,2 | the world would surely notice and soon be converted. Orthodoxy
1933 11,3 | the communities that have nourished us in the experience and
1934 6,5 | sinful clay. As a person nourishes himself with food, so also
1935 6,1 | prayer, that provided the nourishment for Silouan's spiritual
1936 11,4 | and several books by Henri Nouwen.~ [68]. Published by Oxford
1937 10,3 | the day in a world where novelty and excitement are at premium.
1938 11,4 | in the Christian Century, November 12, 1980, p. 1085.~ [129].
1939 11,4 | developed frightful and noxious popular traditions denigrating
1940 11,4 | But another significant nuance of the verb “to commit”
1941 4,2 | Trinity. Of course, to draw a nuanced distinction, we must say
1942 11,4 | Future.~ One of the primary nuances of the verb “to commit,”
1943 2,4 | given according to their numbering in The Philokalia, will
1944 4,3 | blessed and guided by the numinous presence and power of a
1945 1,4 | days “a dark night (batheia nyx) seemed to prevail among
1946 4,3 | you, and is keeping the oath which~he swore to your fathers,
1947 11,4 | worshiped, praised, and obeyed by Jews all over the world,
1948 6,5 | passions which the inner self obeys like a slave, whether or
1949 11,3 | communities.~ You may by now object that I have placed all things
1950 Intro,6| We must plan and define objectives in the light of Christ and
1951 1,3 | the apostles prevailed. Objectors to Christianity must, even
1952 3,4 | reinforce this view of “obligatory Christianity” by harping
1953 9,3 | discipline. Theologians are obliged not only to expound the
1954 4,3 | 34), envisioned not the obliteration of the covenant but its
1955 Intro,1| legalism, authoritarianism and obscurantism. It tends to foster an unloving,
1956 6,2 | education. He was not an obscurantist. However, he was convinced
1957 8,4 | nevertheless was a sincerely observant Jew who chided other hellenizing
1958 2,4 | is proclaiming Christ. He observes the expansion of the Christian
1959 6,2 | through books can become an obstacle to knowing God, not because
1960 1,4 | Therefore, you who have obtained~and are still obtaining
1961 1,4 | have obtained~and are still obtaining such things, how can it
1962 2,3 | pertaining to family life, occupations, social relationships, and
1963 6,4 | Prayer.~ Prayer occupies a central position in the
1964 8,4 | world mission against all odds, and that for theological
1965 2,2 | literally, “Book of the Three Odes”) features the following
1966 10,4 | immorality, hypocrisy, and the odor of spiritual death — all
1967 9,3 | divisions from its 2000 year odyssey through history [and] now
1968 6,1 | love of Christ that I may offend no man and pray for all
1969 8,4 | Corinthians whose conscience is offended by such practice (1 Cor.
1970 8,4 | the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or
1971 5,2 | court and forced out of office by the emperor, Saint John
1972 9,3 | military power. Soldiers and officers in full uniform marched
1973 11,1 | instances have seen separate official contacts with Jews[131]
1974 11,4 | Son. ~ [131]. The first officially sponsored dialogue between
1975 2,4 | harm. Although rejected by officials and exiled, he was soon
1976 5,3 | the name of Jesus Christ” (oi epikaloumenoi to onoma tou
1977 7,1 | one, beginning with the oldest, went away. Jesus then said
1978 9,2 | which is the alpha and the omega of all things.~ Recall how
1979 7,5 | One of our great sins of omission as Orthodox leaders and
1980 Intro,1| aspects of Orthodoxy. However, one-sided focus on particular themes
1981 8,4 | 1 Cor. 7:9). The slave Onesimus is returned to his master,
1982 7,5 | bread, dates, figs, and onions under his bed and in other
1983 5,3 | Christ” (oi epikaloumenoi to onoma tou Iesou Christou, 1 Cor.
1984 2,1 | engaged as Orthodoxy meets the onrush of Western pop culture in
1985 8,3 | political and military onslaughts, they probably sensed only
1986 | onto
1987 11,3 | personal testimony, I should openly admit, certainly informs
1988 1,4 | grace of the Spirit neither operates by compulsion, nor will
1989 3,2 | way of life that is, in my opinion, the root of the deep spiritual
1990 2,1 | its history, an enormously opportune time — a kairos in the biblical
1991 1,3 | and everything else that~opposes the faith of Christ is daily
1992 1,3 | faith over against various opposing forces, St. Athanasios sums
1993 11,2 | religion is to marginalize, oppress, hurt, and even to destroy
1994 6,6 | begins. He becomes inwardly oppressed until he turns to the Lord.
1995 10,5 | of admirable but shallow optimism, nor is it a leap into the
1996 Intro,1| 20:21). In the end, the option of a “Holy Byzantium” distorts
1997 3,2 | Christian faith is one of many options, an individual and personal
1998 8,3 | Epistles. In his magnum opus, the Epistle to the Romans,
1999 1,3 | people by their~deceits and oracle-givings and sorceries, are routed
2000 1,3 | barbarians, Greeks, philosophers,~orators, sophists, historians, laws,
2001 1,3 | philosophers, the masters of oratory, the skilful debaters, alone