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2002 1,4 | merely external, requiring orderly behavior, but above all
2003 11,4 | roots. It was wise of the organizers of the conference not to
2004 4,2 | 1:4-6). All these texts originate not from one author or one
2005 9,2 | Orthodoxy is but a historical ornament fit for a museum. But with
2006 11,2 | twentieth century. As the Ottoman Empire was weakening and
2007 4,2 | philosophical terms, such as ousia (essence or substance),
2008 6,5 | ceive it into evil. The outcome is the mind's separation
2009 4,3 | the shekinah of God, the outpouring of the Spirit on the day
2010 8,4 | Israel and resisted the outreach to Gentiles. But the Christian
2011 2,2 | Christian meant from the outset to engage an ecclesial praxis
2012 7,5 | Church — and others who work outside the Church but who take
2013 7,4 | mud; and some came up with outstretched arms to pull him out, and
2014 Pref | and informed laity, its overarching theme is continuity and
2015 1,3 | indeed unlearned and yet overcame Plato in results, the victory
2016 9,2 | and the darkness has not overcome it” (Jn 1:1-5).~ The marvelous
2017 2,3 | coherence, and a polemical overemphasis on the “alone” which, though
2018 10,5 | becomes a community of love, overflowing with concern and love for
2019 Intro,1| each other, they in fact overlap forming a cohesive whole.
2020 11,4 | customs, not that they were overly ethical, something which
2021 4,2 | texts, is utterly clear and overpowering: if Scripture attributes
2022 2,2 | resounds with baptismal overtones. All of these texts attest
2023 6,5 | snares of our enemies are overturned and his fortresses taken....
2024 11,4 | Jews is determined by our overview of Jewish history, we cannot
2025 7,4 | proper monastic discipline, overwhelmed him with reproaches. Now
2026 7,4 | heart, repented of their overzealous tactics, and restored the
2027 11,4 | the same work.~ [65]. I owe this observation to George
2028 5,4 | gardening. Our lungs breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide,
2029 9,2 | generous gifts to us — all packaged in what we call the gift
2030 4,3 | the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the
2031 2,4 | of which a debt had to be paid. The death of the Lord was
2032 11,3 | God's self-disclosure, now painfully divided into variegated
2033 6,6 | Christians to take great pains to preserve the humble spirit
2034 5,3 | features many icons of Christ painted in various styles. In all
2035 9,2 | artful symbols, and mystical paintings. The family clan, now grown
2036 2,4 | is the fact that Gregory Palamas, known for his theology
2037 11,4 | Greek Orthodox scholar of Palamite studies.~ [66]. See above,
2038 11,4 | Vol. 1, ed. by G. E. H. Palmer and others (London & Boston:
2039 9,3 | of ordinary people waved palms and welcomed him with the
2040 2,2 | as merely figurative, a palpably modern notion, but rather
2041 11,2 | occupation. It comes from a pamphlet, published by the museum
2042 3,1 | Florida, a vital and growing panorthodox ministry, is the administrative
2043 10,4 | point to the magnificent Pantocrator, the All-ruling Christ,
2044 5,2 | for all things” (Doxa Theo panton eneken).~ The second Church
2045 11,4 | approach is by George C. Papademetriou, Essays on Orthodox Christian-Jewish
2046 2,2 | the liturgical book called Parakletike, meaning Book of Intercession
2047 2,2 | tomb, the healing of the paralytic of John 5, Jesus's meeting
2048 4,2 | development of dogma was part and parcel of the “hellenization” of
2049 10,5 | for obedience, priest or parent, must oneself first be obedient
2050 1,2 | consider all things secondary (parerga) to the~hearing the word
2051 6,1 | subsequently published in Paris under the saint's name (
2052 3,4 | life is a familiar routine partaken selectively, with little
2053 11,1 | which the present writer participated.[133] The theme of the conference
2054 4,4 | and “teaching” are all participles in the original Greek. The
2055 Intro,1| Orthodoxy” in all its historical particulars to be presented to the world
2056 2,2 | Protestant circles. They are partly justified insofar as they
2057 10,5 | celebration of a perpetual Pascha in communion with Christ.
2058 9,2 | first jewel box. As ages passed, generation after generation
2059 3,2 | Nevertheless, we are all passengers on the same ship, the impact
2060 7,3 | integrity. Even in a close pastor-parishioner relationship, the Christian'
2061 8,4 | Nevertheless, the Apostle pastorally sides with the “weak” Corinthians
2062 4,3 | Biblical Prayer (1994), Patrick D. Miller includes a section
2063 8,4 | city. He received the name Pavlos which, although originally
2064 1,4 | responsibility of the hearers to pay heed. The personal failures
2065 11,1 | respectful mutual acceptance and peaceful cooperation on the level
2066 11,2 | not settle their affairs peacefully instead of killing each
2067 3,4 | heart... blessed are the peacemakers” (Mt. 5:3-9). This blessing
2068 1,4 | to the dogs, nor to cast pearls to the swine (Mt. 7:6).
2069 6,1 | ordinary life of a Russian peasant. He was an honest, strong
2070 11,2 | Gargalianoi in the southwestern Peloponnese, we used to have an annual
2071 7,4 | as uncreated light which penetrates the beholder and transforms
2072 5,4 | the place of his struggle “Peniel,” meaning “the face of God”
2073 2,2 | the Holy Trinity with a penitential element echoing the Prophet
2074 2,2 | Pentecostal hymn book called Pentecostarion (“Book of Pentecost”) embraces
2075 7,4 | pray, finding time to pray, perceiving and cultivating patterns
2076 3,2 | view of the overwhelming percentage of interfaith marriages
2077 1,2 | God became man, that He performed miracles, that He rose,
2078 3,2 | drifting membership and perfunctory participation in the sacraments
2079 Pref | fraught with promise and peril? The answer cannot be simply
2080 5,4 | in the flesh,” probably a periodic, debilitating ailment. Saint
2081 11,4 | Orthodoxy and Judaism in the periodical Immanuel 26/27 (1994).~ [
2082 8,3 | circumcision party” (hoi ek peritomes, Gal. 1:12) who wanted,
2083 2,3 | biblical idea of covenant permits. The initiative and saving
2084 10,5 | grants the celebration of a perpetual Pascha in communion with
2085 Intro,3| establish effective ways of perpetuating our respective ethnic traditions
2086 11,4 | and to pray for those who persecute them, yet not necessarily
2087 11,4 | Lord God by denigrating and persecuting His people. Nicholas Berdyaev,
2088 8,3 | Paul, erstwhile zealous persecutor of these same kind of Christians,
2089 5,2 | Chrysostom mightily resisted his persecutors until finally soldiers drew
2090 5,4 | becomes wild. Attentive, persevering prayer plants spiritual
2091 7,1 | ground. When the question persisted, he stood up and said to
2092 10,3 | also in the Church, when persistent problems cause dysfunction,
2093 7,5 | the dynamics of the human personality, should not theologians
2094 9,3 | questioned, to dialog and persuade on the basis of all the
2095 1,4 | a crucified God; 5) the persuasion of the masses to truths
2096 1,4 | life that can shown only by persuasive conduct. Precisely where
2097 2,3 | between faith and works pertained to the ritual obligations
2098 9,3 | year, it is therefore both pertinent and justifiable to ask whether
2099 6,3 | to the whole person. He pervades a person's entire soul,
2100 8,4 | in the Hellenic culture pervasive in Rome itself. His words
2101 11,4 | justice, and peace, is perverted into a kind of satanic force
2102 Intro,1| almost to the point of pessimism, about the grave dangers
2103 5,3 | variety of forms such as petition, confession, intercession,
2104 5,3 | Christ.” All prayers, whether petitionary, confessional, intercessory,
2105 5,3 | then make an entreaty of petitions, and end with additional
2106 9,2 | ties are scarred by human petty weaknesses and unrepentant
2107 1,4 | spiritual surgery” (iatreion peumatikon).[34] The Spirit Himself
2108 Intro,5| without spirituality, a pharisaical attachment to external forms
2109 2,4 | brother-loving beggar” (ptochos philadelphos), who out of love for his
2110 3,3 | migration of peoples, of diverse philosophies and lifestyles, of the breakdown
2111 1,4 | leaving reasonings beneath, it philosophizes about things in heaven.[
2112 7,4 | katharsis), (b) illumination (photisis), and © perfection (teleiosis).
2113 8,3 | Gal. 2:16).~ The Pauline phrase “works of the Law,” contrasted
2114 2,3 | from which ensued the catch phrases “Scripture alone,” “Christ
2115 2,4 | text: “This corruptible (phtharton) must put on incorruption (
2116 7,2 | sociology, economics, and physics, as well as medicine and
2117 1,3 | supernatural power (hyper physin ischyn) behind their glorious
2118 10,2 | deadness. Minimalism is picking and choosing from the Church’
2119 9,2 | is of course God who is pictured as the Father in that parable.
2120 10,5 | Yes, life is a journey, a pilgrimage toward God. It has many
2121 9,2 | Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth” (
2122 3,1 | where he himself was a pioneer, the Archbishop emphasized
2123 8,3 | richness (or “fatness,” piotes) is the whole Jewish heritage
2124 1,3 | to seek~refuge in caves, pirates to disappear, . . . and
2125 4,4 | 28:18). The main verb and pivot of the text is matheteusate,
2126 10,3 | goals of the Church and by~placing these goals at the center
2127 2,1 | 3:11). The New Testament plainly testifies that Christ is
2128 5,5 | top. We must return to the plains of daily life engaging the
2129 9,3 | already begun to dominate the planet.”[126]~ As Orthodoxy celebrates
2130 10,3 | thinking, deciding, and planning for the~future. A new spiritual
2131 11,4 | as God continues to have plans for all Jews, even during
2132 5,4 | gardening. Gardening involves planting and weeding. Left unattended,
2133 11,4 | term in order to avoid the Platonic philosophical implications
2134 2,4 | central role that Scripture played in the life of the ancient
2135 9,3 | without recourse to special pleading.~5) We must reject
2136 3,2 | material goods; the pursuit of pleasure and entertainment; the explosion
2137 11,3 | recriminations have had plenty of theoretical and practical
2138 7,5 | case as an example of the plight to which indulgence to passions
2139 6,6 | tree which you needlessly plucked: it was not wrong, only~
2140 8,3 | himself identifies using the plural “we” (Rom. 9:22-24). Thus
2141 1,2 | ministry. He concedes that the plurality of the canonical Gospels
2142 8,4 | proverbial statement of a Greek poet (Menander) with approval, “
2143 11,2 | possible to read to read this poignant story of this widow and
2144 11,4 | Orthodox religious philosopher poignantly wrote: “Perhaps the saddest
2145 3,2 | functions. The commission pointed to prayer, clear teaching
2146 2,1 | they are nevertheless only pointers to the mystery of Christ
2147 1,3 | to support its reality by pointing to what the risen Christ
2148 10,2 | or the ashes need to be poked to find some hot coals below
2149 6,5 | invisible warfare” (aoratos polemos). What is at stake is control
2150 Pref | forms and ecclesiastical policies without a renewed, deep
2151 8,3 | there was no ecumenical politeness in antiquity — refrains
2152 7,3 | engineer, economist, lawyer, politician, businessman, or even a
2153 7,2 | including religion, philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, and
2154 10,3 | assemblies, administrative polity, church departments, and
2155 4,2 | Isaac. It is against the polytheism of the times that the Hebrew
2156 9,3 | the trimmings of worldly pomp and military power. Soldiers
2157 2,1 | meets the onrush of Western pop culture in traditional Orthodox
2158 9,3 | recognize that we live in what Pope John-Paul II has called
2159 10,3 | all kinds, consumerism, pornography and other dehumanizing aspects
2160 8,1 | isolation, as some have portrayed him in the past, Saint Paul
2161 10,2 | contemporary Church. He portrays the Church of his day as
2162 11,4 | ordinary Orthodox Christian posed the occasional question
2163 4,3 | be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples
2164 9,2 | gives of His attributes and possessions to His sons and daughters.
2165 3,4 | all believers have the possibility of becoming the “aroma of
2166 3,2 | influence of modernity and post-modernity on our people.~ The most
2167 11,4 | is that of The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, edited by Philip
2168 11,4 | Stanley J. Grenz, A Primer on Postmodernism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2169 11,4 | Nancey Murphy, Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives
2170 8,4 | defensive and protective posture over against contemporary
2171 3,2 | on our people.~ The most potent answer to the cultural crisis
2172 11,4 | ethnic self-interests, a potentially dangerous mixture, although
2173 1,2 | biblia kai nomoi empsychoi), pouring forth treasures of teachings
2174 1,4 | one then be downcast about poverty, and disease, and~craft
2175 9,3 | teachers of wisdom and sincere practitioners of their religion, that
2176 10,4 | which, as noted above, is praiseworthy in itself. In Saint Paul “
2177 5,1 | thus be “true worshipers” praising and adoring our God “in
2178 5,1 | explain the phenomenon of prayerlessness in our own lives? If we
2179 4,2 | personified Wisdom to proclaim the pre-existence of the Divine Logos or Word,
2180 2,4 | Christ as the eternal and pre-existent Word, the same agent who
2181 1,4 | though we give ten thousand precepts of philosophy~in words,
2182 5,2 | order to cleanse its sacred precincts from commercialism. His
2183 2,2 | is not dependent on the precision of a particular formula
2184 3,2 | seriously considered at all. The predictable results are drifting membership
2185 5,5 | when communion becomes predominant, the Christian attains to
2186 5,5 | language of communion and union predominates in the Gospel of John, especially
2187 Pref | Preface.~ “Jesus came into Galilee,
2188 11,1 | the Athens Conference, I prefaced the delivery of my paper
2189 2,4 | emperors or patriarchs, prelates or priests, monks or lay
2190 10,3 | novelty and excitement are at premium. All Orthodox together must
2191 6,5 | thoughts often intrude, preoccupy the mind, confuse it, and
2192 9,2 | sign of restored sonship, prepare a banquet and let’s have
2193 11,1 | Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. A few instances have seen
2194 Pref | invitational rather than prescriptive. If you are looking for
2195 Intro,6| not merely protective and preservative. The message of Orthodoxy
2196 Intro,2| lay people, that Orthodoxy preserves the most authentic expression
2197 11,4 | respectful manner, thus preserving continuity while working
2198 10,2 | Gregory the Theologian, who presided for a time at the Second
2199 9,1 | by the Holy Spirit, he “pressed forward to what lies ahead”
2200 1,3 | unlearned, too? Here Saint John presses a bit the point. Let no
2201 3,2 | affluence, status, profit, prestige, and the like.[84] He wrote: “
2202 2,1 | But it also scores the presumptuousness of the powerful, the bickerings
2203 10,2 | evil, sin, callousness, pretension, injustice, conflict, and
2204 7,3 | a sociological frame, a pretext, for the application of
2205 9,3 | of us, not often exhibit prideful self-righteousness and unconcealed
2206 3,2 | must take upon itself the~prime responsibility for maintaining
2207 11,4 | also Stanley J. Grenz, A Primer on Postmodernism (Grand
2208 8,4 | century and beyond. But the primitive Church of Jerusalem, the
2209 9,3 | that He was coming as the Prince of Peace. a spontaneous
2210 6,6 | humility. Humility is the principal power. The soul of the humble
2211 3,2 | communications through the printed and electronic media; the
2212 2,2 | without the benefit of printing and general education, the
2213 8,2 | him an incomparably higher priority. He welcomes converts into
2214 11,4 | Comparative Perspective” Pro Ecclesia 5 (2, 1996), pp.
2215 9,3 | Caesar!” His was an awesome procession memorialized to this day
2216 1,2 | Although Saint Paul as a proclaimer of the good news can also
2217 4,3 | violation which reached its profane zenith in both idolatry
2218 6,1 | age of thirty, Simeon was professed a monk, receiving the name
2219 10,1 | up. What kind of job or profession should I seek? Whom will
2220 2,3 | tendency toward routine, professionalism and ritualism. Worship in
2221 Pref | contemporary world of business, the professions, government, economics,
2222 4,2 | theological student and later professor of theology, I have spent
2223 6,1 | someone with whom he could profitably discuss several matters
2224 11,4 | change and renewal in a programmatic article published in 1960.[
2225 10,1 | to death. As the journey progresses new challenges arise. Significant
2226 Intro,3| without enslaving them or prohibiting them from retaining their
2227 2,2 | Testament itself such as the prologue of the Gospel of John, Philippians
2228 4,4 | evangelistic character is most prominent, indeed stronger and more
2229 5,2 | nevertheless put aside a promising career as a lawyer to concentrate
2230 9,3 | in order to preach and promote the universal Gospel and
2231 2,3 | Christ and the Gospel were promoted by His followers, not by
2232 1,3 | Christian faith which he promotes with all his pastoral and
2233 Intro,2| Basil.[4] Are we living and promoting the centrality of Christ
2234 10,3 | by means of high-sounding promotional statements or radical institutional~
2235 6,1 | wrote because of the inner prompting of the Holy Spirit. He wrote
2236 2,2 | Bible as the word of God and prompts the worshipers to engage
2237 6,6 | other faiths. He would not pronounce judgment on any person,
2238 11,3 | merely permit but actually propel me toward dialogue which,
2239 3,3 | the Graeco-Roman world. Propelled by a transforming experience
2240 5,2 | the elder, and Anna the prophetess, whose lives were filled
2241 9,3 | of the Church and speaks prophetically within it. Yet theology
2242 Intro,1| follows I present my own proposal about five characteristics
2243 10,5 | life is not a hit or miss proposition involving unclear or unknown
2244 1,2 | the Son of God (syggeneian pros ton uion tou Theou). He
2245 10,2 | has fallen from her former~prosperous days... displaying indeed
2246 4,2 | presence, the disciples prostrate themselves in an act of
2247 7,5 | be enjoyed, shared, and protected. All of these elements could
2248 5,2 | swords against the crowd protecting him, and the Church of St.
2249 3,3 | for personal security and protection from seen and unseen evil.
2250 5,2 | prayer and then words” (Proteron euche kai tote logos). His
2251 11,4 | Jews against the strong protests of the Orthodox Patriarchate
2252 4,2 | triadic” in that it gives prototheological expression to the early
2253 5,5 | for man, that everything proved the love of God for man,
2254 11,4 | would not have ironically proven themselves “superior” to
2255 8,4 | he anonymously quotes a proverbial statement of a Greek poet (
2256 Intro,1| reductionistic and narrow. It proves inadequate to the task of
2257 7,1 | decision that the law's provision had to be applied lest God'
2258 8,3 | Gentiles and (2) that it is provisional rather than final (Rom.
2259 2,4 | heresy. His teaching once provoked some of his own monastics
2260 6,5 | Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion,
2261 5,4 | living in immediate physical proximity, nevertheless experience
2262 7,4 | seek, with humility and prudence, to practices such teachings
2263 1,4 | the words of Scripture (Ps. 19:10). Yet only to those
2264 10,5 | thin” or “formal faith” (psile pistis) and there is a “
2265 10,1 | 36-37)? The word “soul” (psyche) in Jesus’ statement is
2266 7,3 | world — whether a doctor, psychologist, engineer, economist, lawyer,
2267 7,5 | on issues pertaining to psychopathology, demonology, or addictiveness
2268 2,4 | brother-loving beggar” (ptochos philadelphos), who out of
2269 1,4 | shared His very nature with publicans, sorcerers, slaves, and
2270 Pref | and task forces, or the publication of more books and programs,
2271 11,4 | Order Dialogue (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1960).~ [148]. Chrysostomos
2272 3,3 | Christianity, such as Lucian, publicly acknowledged that the Christians
2273 8,4 | insight is that “knowledge puffs up, but love builds up” (
2274 3,4 | decibels, or thump on the pulpit, in order to add value or
2275 6,6 | satisfaction: “God will punish all atheists. They will
2276 1,2 | blessings as follows: removal of punishment, remission of sins, righteousness,
2277 1,3 | tribunals, diverse kinds of punishments,~deaths innumberable and
2278 4,4 | means literally a learner or pupil, implying an activity which
2279 4,2 | this? We know it not from purely rational analysis or philosophical
2280 7,4 | ingrained habits of sin, purifying the heart, restoring human
2281 7,4 | appropriate and inappropriate, pursuable and avoidable, based on
2282 8,3 | answers. The two important qualifications he makes are (1) that the
2283 10,4 | the inner person, which qualifies everything that we are,
2284 11,4 | attention to defending and qualifying the concept of any change
2285 5,5 | existence, and yet they are also qualitatively distinct by the depth of
2286 7,3 | and power, and remains the queen of the sciences, a service
2287 1,2 | whether it be needful to quench pride, to lull desire to
2288 2,4 | Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian
2289 7,4 | Christian.~ We need not quibble about terminology. In the
2290 6,1 | externally significant. He quietly carried out his duties without
2291 Intro,1| twentieth century located the quintessence of Orthodoxy in the Nicene
2292 5,4 | of God as Santa Claus who quit spiritually because they,
2293 11,4 | our times. ~ ~ ~[143]. Quoted by Siegel (see above, note
2294 11,4 | the paradox of this sin by quoting the Orthodox religious philosopher
2295 8,4 | Hellenism as expressed by a rabbinic saying: “May the beauty
2296 3,3 | Christians, transcending racial, social, economic, and generational
2297 6,6 | heart. Spontaneous love radiated from him and embraced all
2298 6,5 | Jesus and John the Baptist radically called their hearers to
2299 3,4 | out to the world as from a radio station never going off
2300 6,5 | his mind.~ So the battle rages on and will not cease until
2301 5,5 | countenance was altered, and His raiment became dazzling white” (
2302 9,3 | the God of all comfort who raises the dead (2 Cor 1:3-10).
2303 2,4 | death of the Lord was a ransom for all. By dying Christ
2304 8,1 | the matrix of Judaism and rapidly spread among Gentiles in
2305 Intro,2| both blind faith and naive rationalism. Following the great Cappadocian
2306 7,4 | the heart, restoring human rationality and moral capacity, and
2307 6,6 | humble himself and repent, a ravaging inner struggle begins. He
2308 5,2 | Divine Ascent: “The first ray of light is lit by prayer.
2309 9,3 | enough for us to go home re-assured that we possess the superior
2310 11,4 | particular Christians ought to re-learn and be repeatedly reminded
2311 5,4 | before being blessed and re-named “Israel,” meaning “one who
2312 11,3 | conflicting interests which readily impinge on daily life to
2313 3,4 | our worship services, the readings from the Bible, as well
2314 9,1 | facts must been seen with realism.~ The radical cultural changes
2315 10,3 | recognizing our true situation realistically, a second and even more
2316 6,6 | blames others, and does not realize that he himself is at fault.
2317 3,1 | clergy and laity need to reawaken to the Gospel of Christ,
2318 3,2 | greater prominence as a way of reawakening the faithful to the treasures
2319 9,2 | who shared with his young rebel son His own property and
2320 8,3 | Maccabean Revolt to the Jewish Rebellion against the Romans (ca.
2321 6,5 | if you find fault and are rebellious,~if you want your own way,
2322 9,3 | unmasking its falsehood and rebuking sin. On the one hand we
2323 4,3 | liberation of Israel from Egypt recapitulates God’s purposeful will to
2324 6,1 | personal concerns completely recede behind the reality of the
2325 2,4 | word penetrated the deepest recesses of the soul. It stripped
2326 5,4 | dialogical relationship, reciprocity, partnership, synergy and
2327 8,4 | Jesus and His disciples “reclined” to eat the Last Supper,
2328 2,1 | mystery entails reverent recognition that the living God transcends
2329 2,3 | of the receptive will is recognized. The primacy of faith is
2330 6,5 | affliction that a human being recognizes his insufficiency and turns
2331 8,4 | cultural phenomenon: the recoil of the West from its religious
2332 5,4 | the life of the world. He recommitted Himself to this act of love,
2333 6,1 | who beseeched all to be reconciled to God (11 Cor. 5:20), Silouan
2334 6,6 | God's love which forgives, reconciles and saves.~ True humility
2335 11,2 | the mainland Greek army to reconquer Byzantine territory in Turkey
2336 4,3 | new covenant, a new people reconstituted around the person and the
2337 9,2 | Orthodoxy. The Gospel lesson recounts the conversion of the first
2338 9,3 | modern life and without recourse to special pleading.~5)
2339 2,4 | forgiveness from heaven but also recreative sharing in the divine life
2340 11,3 | suspicions, enmity, and recriminations have had plenty of theoretical
2341 Pref | without some repetitions and recurring themes. Representing a kind
2342 5,5 | with grace and glows like red-hot iron. In this radiant state
2343 9,3 | to which we are called to rededicate ourselves tonight is God’
2344 9,3 | unconditional love which alone can redeem sinners and draw them to
2345 2,5 | world. The challenge of rediscovering the centrality of the Gospel,
2346 Intro,1| justifiable. Efforts at a reenactment of “Holy Byzantium” or “
2347 2,1 | religious designation but as a referent to the classic and universal
2348 7,5 | relationship to things the critical referentials might be degree of attachment
2349 8,4 | commit a social blunder by referring to his future hosts, the
2350 3,3 | to center on Christ, to refocus on the good news, to start
2351 11,4 | the irreformable from the reformable, as time marches on and
2352 2,3 | by works of the Law. The Reformers took their stand on the
2353 8,3 | politeness in antiquity — refrains from pronouncing judgment
2354 5,2 | prayer a source of comfort, refreshment and strength to fulfil His
2355 1,3 | heels, murderers to seek~refuge in caves, pirates to disappear, . . .
2356 Intro,5| His creatures and their refusal of His love, and that God
2357 1,1 | of the good news, while refuting errors and heresies. The
2358 Intro,3| principle of one Church in one region, without enslaving them
2359 Intro,2| not only correct doctrine registered in the mind as theological
2360 11,2 | and attitudes which help regulate everyday life. To quote
2361 3,4 | priests and parish leaders reinforce this view of “obligatory
2362 3,1 | Church, as well as the mutual reinforcement of the internal and external
2363 11,4 | of the flesh,” that is, rejectable sinful deeds (Gal. 5:19;
2364 5,2 | prayer. He both needed and rejoiced in prayer. He found prayer
2365 7,2 | Christian lose all sense of relatedness to God. The obvious challenge
2366 4,2 | according to Saint Eirenaios, in relational and reciprocal terms.~ Nevertheless,
2367 8,3 | well that the Christian relativization of the Law of Moses was
2368 5,1 | become the “gift” of prayer releasing the grace and power of God.
2369 3,4 | that Christ is true and reliable, both deserving and requiring
2370 6,5 | There can be no inner relief from evil thoughts, no freedom
2371 10,2 | thought and practice that relies strictly on or is satisfied
2372 9,3 | doing so with joy, not reluctance. On the other hand we must
2373 7,1 | presence of a crowd, Jesus remained silent, scribbling on the
2374 11,4 | few comments on the three remaining major areas of faithfulness
2375 10,3 | startled the audience with the remark that the Eastern Orthodox
2376 8,3 | constitute “the faithful remnant” of the Old Testament prophecies
2377 1,2 | these blessings as follows: removal of punishment, remission
2378 10,4 | spiritual insensitivity is removed from the heart and the believer
2379 1,2 | the smallest. For he who removes himself but a little, will~
2380 5,4 | bridging the distance and removing the sense of remoteness
2381 7,3 | theological judgment is rendered impotent. Theology itself
2382 5,4 | in its more traditional rendering of “testament” names the
2383 7,2 | necessary diagnosis for repairs lest it collapse and cause
2384 11,4 | ought to re-learn and be repeatedly reminded of the welcome
2385 2,2 | accepting the Gospel, of repenting and being baptized, of celebrating
2386 Pref | whole, but not without some repetitions and recurring themes. Representing
2387 9,3 | theology is not merely a repetitive but also a critical and
2388 3,4 | as good news — affirming, rephrasing, celebrating, and applying
2389 1,1 | analytic, that is to say, reporting Chrysostom's views in diverse
2390 5,5 | Symeon the New Theologian reports in his Discourses that his
2391 10,2 | displaying indeed the repositories and caskets of her golden
2392 11,4 | roots is vital because they represent the practical and front-line
2393 7,5 | and growth so integrally representative of the essence of the Orthodox
2394 11,1 | dialogues have continued with representatives of the Roman Catholic Church
2395 2,4 | spirituality. This tradition is represented by an astonishingly rich
2396 7,3 | which Eastern Orthodoxy represents, an assessment of the nature
2397 7,4 | discipline, overwhelmed him with reproaches. Now the Elder Paphnoutios
2398 11,4 | modern Greek translation, was republished in a separate small volume
2399 5,4 | different than what was requested. When we do not receive
2400 1,4 | face of many perils; 3) the requirement of higher moral standards;
2401 8,3 | Gentiles apart from the requirements of the Mosaic Law, a Gospel
2402 11,3 | and to regard them with requisite awe and thankfulness. Should
2403 6,6 | him up until the lad was rescued. Love is in all things and
2404 6,2 | through studies, books and research, and knowing Him through
2405 9,1 | renewal of hearts and minds, resembling that of Saint Paul and the
2406 9,2 | result? We often live in resentment and anger. We find ourselves
2407 5,5 | these references counsel reserve in speaking easily about
2408 4,2 | authority in heaven and on earth resides. The words concerning the
2409 1,4 | however, are not a counsel of resignation and despair. They are part
2410 Intro,1| ecclesiastical institutions; 4) resist the temptation of viewing
2411 2,4 | Spirit”[76] against which resisters committed the unforgivable
2412 Intro,2| This theological vision, resisting all sectarian dichotomies,
2413 1,3 | weakness, fear and trembling, resolved to know “nothing . . . except
2414 4,3 | powers of sin and death, resonate in what Saint Paul has to
2415 3,3 | triumphed.~ Are we then to resort to self-criticism alone,
2416 3,3 | Indeed, if the Gospel resounded in the parish as in the
2417 2,2 | as much of 1 Peter which resounds with baptismal overtones.
2418 9,3 | triumphalism.~ Today Orthodoxy is resplendent with majestic worship, sublime
2419 6,6 | feel happy?” The hermit responded: “it can't be helped. It
2420 10,5 | 21:5). We are the joyful respondents to God’s renewing grace,
2421 3,4 | Himself and to life with Him. Responding is like turning on the lights
2422 7,3 | and diagnosis constitute responsibilities not only of the Christian
2423 9,2 | of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them” (Acts
2424 7,4 | sin, purifying the heart, restoring human rationality and moral
2425 2,2 | proclamation of the Gospel is not restricted, as it were, to Saint Paul’
2426 1,4 | his own days? The answer rests with the quality of life
2427 8,4 | lordship of Christ, and the resulting universal soteriology, were
2428 3,1 | their sense of missionary resurgence.~ The thesis of the present
2429 4,2 | died on the Cross and was resurrected on the third day for our
2430 6,1 | birth. Silouan himself is reticent about the actual vision.
2431 5,2 | stillness (hesychia), he retired to a monastery and embraced
2432 1,4 | laws of the Spirit, and on retiring~home let him write down
2433 Pref | consists of mostly published retreat talks and conference papers,
2434 4,2 | whom the Son chooses to reveal him.~ ~Full divine authority
2435 8,4 | the Protestant side, have reveled in the great variety of
2436 2,1 | Respect for mystery entails reverent recognition that the living
2437 11,4 | known, the Orthodox Church reveres Abraham, Moses, the prophets,
2438 11,4 | renounced the Old Testament and reviled all things Jewish. Orthodox
2439 6,6 | not revile. A person who reviles or despises those who are
2440 10,3 | ongoing task of the spiritual revitalization of the Church. For example,
2441 2,4 | to him who is thirsty,~a reviving drink; to him who is cold,
2442 8,3 | history from the Maccabean Revolt to the Jewish Rebellion
2443 8,2 | will bring home to us the revolutionary nature of Saint Paul's witness.
2444 6,1 | awakened full of horror and revulsion. He immediately heard a
2445 Intro,3| inspired work, and not by rhetoric or polemics against those
2446 1,2 | Antiochean Father, appealing rhetorically to his hearers, comments
2447 9,3 | still a minority Church riddled with massive inner confusions,
2448 3,2 | and have fun enjoying the ride into an uncertain future.
2449 8,3 | unbelieving Jews but also by right-wing Jewish Christians, those
2450 6,6 | monasticism but his spirit was not rigid, doctrinaire, self‑righteous
2451 2,1 | Orthodoxy has nothing to do with rigidity, narrowness, legalism, formalism,
2452 10,5 | strict observance of extreme rigors which harm the body and
2453 10,3 | hymnology, a theology which rings true to anyone who delves
2454 4,3 | under the power of sin and rises to a new life of righteousness
2455 5,4 | such a relationship seems risky to most of us because it
2456 11,4 | understanding of salvation is by Risto Saarinen, “Salvation in
2457 9,1 | always debatable in view of rival claims regarding jurisdictional
2458 7,4 | Paphnoutios, “on the bank of the river a man sunk to his knees
2459 6,5 | devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to
2460 1,4 | change suddenly like the robber on the cross.[35] Evil and
2461 5,2 | the Temple from a “den of robbers” to a “house of prayer for
2462 9,2 | he commanded: Bring a new robe, bring new shoes, bring
2463 11,4 | Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981); Roberta C. Bondi, To Love God as
2464 5,4 | He whom Christ called “Rock,” nevertheless nearly sunk
2465 1,3 | fourth century, when Arianism rocked the Church and when paganism
2466 11,4 | 1979) and in a book by the Romanian Patriarchate under the title
2467 11,4 | indebted to Father John Romanides who has regularly employed
2468 Intro,6| Gospel. We must meet in board rooms and conferences in the presence
2469 11,4 | forgetfulness of our common rootedness in and disobedience of the
2470 6,1 | Simeon was given a prayer rope (a “rosary”) and was taught
2471 6,1 | given a prayer rope (a “rosary”) and was taught the Jesus
2472 2,4 | spiritual life covering a period roughly from the fourth to the fourteenth
2473 6,6 | its wits.” Even devils can rouse its pity because they were
2474 11,4 | Press, 1993) and Philip Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley:
2475 1,3 | oracle-givings and sorceries, are routed by the sign of the cross
2476 11,4 | 77, where I endorsed A. Roy Eckardt's critique of Saint
2477 1,4 | stamp all believers with a royal seal. What can equal the
2478 Intro,2| performance of liturgical rubrics. It is also, and above all,
2479 8,4 | Hermann Gunkel, Walter Bauer, Rudolf Bultmann, and others, who
2480 8,4 | with approval, “bad company ruins good morals” (1 Cor. 15:
2481 3,3 | the allurements of a world ruled by Satan? No, a response
2482 2,4 | sacred texts, as well as rumination on their meaning, the biblical
2483 10,5 | Paul compared himself to a runner and a boxer in training.
2484 Intro,1| Holy Byzantium” or “Holy Russia,” or a type of monastic
2485 11,4 | of salvation is by Risto Saarinen, “Salvation in the Lutheran-Orthodox
2486 5,3 | Holy, holy, holy, Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth are filled
2487 6,1 | man who carried countless sacks of flour around the mill
2488 4,3 | free, no male or female, is sacramentally rooted in Baptism and Eucharist,
2489 2,4 | substitutionary offering and sacricice.[64] Similar terminology
2490 8,4 | himself as an example by sacrificing his apostolic rights to
2491 8,4 | religious groups such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Scribes, and
2492 10,5 | waiting to welcome you. The safe way is by way of deeds,
2493 9,2 | unsurpassed quality. In order to safeguard it, the family placed this
2494 9,2 | beautiful jewel box. For safekeeping, it made a larger jewel
2495 11,4 | Jesus and another Jewish sage agreed that these two commandments
2496 11,2 | him: “Every debate among sages. . . must have as its end
2497 8,3 | workings of grace but also the sainthood of numerous figures in the
2498 2,4 | doctrinal interpretation but the saintly elder as a person, a “Christ-bearer,”
2499 4,3 | power of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies all aspects of existence. “
2500 2,4 | the power to transform and sanctify life. By means of study
2501 11,3 | invested with an embracive sanctity that seems as inviolate
2502 3,4 | icon in the dome of our sanctuaries is truly the Lord of the