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2503 5,4 | superficial view of God as Santa Claus who quit spiritually
2504 2,2 | Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses, King David, the
2505 11,2 | life.~ For two nights we sat on the bed dressed, waiting
2506 11,4 | perverted into a kind of satanic force to hate, slander,
2507 11,4 | Orthodoxy and Culture, ed. Ioan Sauca (Geneva: World Council of
2508 7,1 | not sin again.”~ Although scant in historical detail, this
2509 9,2 | relationships, and social ties are scarred by human petty weaknesses
2510 5,4 | also point to the dramatic scene of Christ at Gethsemane.
2511 9,3 | Titus — and depicting carved scenes of his victory. His triumph
2512 11,4 | Fathers, edited by Philip Schaff and reprinted by Wm B. Eerdmans
2513 3,4 | or a counseling meeting scheduled the next day? Is there a
2514 10,2 | widespread conflict and schism in the Church, Saint Basil
2515 Pref | Fathers, and amidst heresies, schisms and conflicts, Saint Basil
2516 11,2 | theories in the form of a scholastic exercise, but should — at
2517 6,1 | education, he became well‑schooled in the liturgical texts,
2518 6,3 | According to the Saint, the Lord schools us through His Word and
2519 3,2 | cities; the astonishing scientific and technological progress;
2520 2,1 | rank-and-file believers. But it also scores the presumptuousness of
2521 7,5 | kept stealing and hiding scraps of bread, dates, figs, and
2522 7,1 | And again he bent down to scribble. Hearing his words, the
2523 7,1 | Jesus remained silent, scribbling on the ground. When the
2524 8,4 | the Sadducees, Pharisees, Scribes, and Essenes — , virtually
2525 8,3 | opposed to a Roman, Greek or Scythian identity. Nor does he suggest
2526 11,2 | topic, walk down a beautiful seashore, as it were, witnessing
2527 Intro,4| huge part of hymnology and seasonal services are never heard
2528 10,5 | of the heart, the deepest seat of good and evil. Christ
2529 7,4 | gift of the Holy Spirit and secondarily because the Christian through
2530 1,2 | therefore to consider all things secondary (parerga) to the~hearing
2531 Intro,1| Orthodoxy, surrendering it to sectarianism, legalism, authoritarianism
2532 4,3 | Patrick D. Miller includes a section on “The Trinitarian Character
2533 5,2 | and prayerfulness. Large sections of his Epistles read like
2534 8,4 | wild variety of Gnostic sects hopelessly syncretistic,
2535 8,4 | identity as His Body, the more securely we can be “all things to
2536 8,3 | Christian Gentiles, succeeded in securing the unity of the Church
2537 3,3 | profound longing for personal security and protection from seen
2538 9,3 | We must die — as the seed dies in the ground to bring
2539 5,2 | strictures and toils, Saint was a seeker of God’s love and of how
2540 5,2 | Mt. 15:23). Prior to the selection of His disciples, He withdrew
2541 3,4 | familiar routine partaken selectively, with little effect on daily
2542 9,3 | adequately? Or is Orthodoxy self-absorbed with its identity problems,
2543 7,5 | Christian the degree of honesty, self-acceptance, willingness to take responsibility,
2544 5,5 | within him as he attained to self-acting prayer of the heart. Inexpressible
2545 9,1 | make the Church’s need for self-assessment more urgent. The task belongs
2546 8,4 | of a stretch limousine, self-conscious about its image and using
2547 Intro,6| merely to “Orthodoxy” as a self-contained ideology or a religion of
2548 Intro,1| with a sense of genuine, self-critical integrity.~ ~
2549 3,3 | Are we then to resort to self-criticism alone, blaming ourselves
2550 7,5 | to take responsibility, self-critique, participation in the sacraments,
2551 2,3 | righteousness, to practice self-denial and serve others in his
2552 8,4 | Their World Mission and Self-Discovery (1986), Ben Meyer convincingly
2553 8,4 | Hellenism.~ As part of his self-introduction to the Christians in Rome,
2554 6,5 | does not easily abandon self-love nor quickly surrender the
2555 5,2 | of personal complaint or self-pity is found in it. Rather,
2556 11,4 | communities of God, not self-righteous critics or exploiters of
2557 11,4 | who are fanatically and self-righteously blind to God's love and
2558 9,3 | the liturgical gathering self-satisfied that we have done our part
2559 7,4 | as well renouncement of self-will, egomania, and indulgence
2560 7,5 | detachment, use or abuse, whether self-worth is derived from things,
2561 11,2 | take us away. Everyone is selling their things in the street.
2562 4,2 | judgment, including the sending forth of the Spirit who
2563 4,2 | Scripture, it is the Father who sends the Son to the world and
2564 11,2 | lived in Thessalonike and, sensing the danger of the Germans,
2565 10,2 | awareness, we must heighten our sensitivities at several levels. The first
2566 10,5 | in faith as a subjective sentiment, a kind of admirable but
2567 11,4 | pp. 283-306, and also separately under the title Report to
2568 11,4 | paradoxically both binds and separates us. It is said by scholars
2569 4,2 | same level and in the same sequence along with the Father and
2570 4,2 | Athanasios in his Letters to Serapion mainly intends to demonstrate
2571 4,2 | names, Zeus, Apollo, Baal, Serapis, and numerous others, but
2572 6,6 | it will find forgiveness, serenity and holiness in God.~ Silouan
2573 7,3 | presence is taken with utter seriousness, talk about spiritual or
2574 11,2 | and Bulgarians could not settle their affairs peacefully
2575 1,4 | receptive hearts.~ In his seventh homily on 1 Corinthians
2576 3,1 | during the sixties and seventies, as “a rekindling of missionary
2577 2,2 | Timothy and Silas, and the seventy apostles. All these are
2578 11,4 | Jewish heritage. Saint Paul severely warned Gentile Christians
2579 4,3 | Christians, whether in matters of sexual purity (1 Cor. 5:1,6-8;
2580 11,4 | freedom and far from any shades of proselytism. Saint Paul
2581 Intro,5| Lord, how can I let even a shadow of evil into my heart?”
2582 10,5 | a kind of admirable but shallow optimism, nor is it a leap
2583 1,2 | nature, the devil brought to shame, demons in flight, death
2584 11,4 | 54]. One of Chrysostom's sharper critiques of the Church
2585 9,3 | smashing the gates of hell, shattering the power of death, and,
2586 2,2 | logiken) worship~without the shedding of blood, and we ask, pray,
2587 1,2 | He the Shepherd, we the sheep;~He is the Way, we they
2588 1,3 | make the wild beasts~seek shelter and rest, causing thieves
2589 1,2 | Bridegroom, we the bride; He the Shepherd, we the sheep;~He is the
2590 Intro,3| congregationalism. It is shepherded by a hierarchy defined by
2591 11,4 | David W. Henderson, Culture Shift: Communicating God’s Truth
2592 3,2 | all passengers on the same ship, the impact being greatest
2593 11,2 | discovered, to my great shock, that Bulgarians were Orthodox
2594 2,4 | monastery in Constantinople who shook the religious establishment
2595 8,3 | accurate horticulture — a wild shoot is not grafted on a good
2596 8,3 | Gentile Christians, formerly shoots of a wild olive (agrielaios),
2597 7,3 | or even a consumer in a shopping mall — cannot leave his
2598 9,2 | Compassion is hamstrung by short-lived emotions. Forgiveness seems
2599 9,2 | evil imaginations. Love is shortchanged by selfishness. Compassion
2600 9,3 | on his arrival, all Rome shouted with one voice as to a god: “
2601 8,4 | The Roman Christians must shun drunkenness and debauchery (
2602 2,4 | sickness, a blight on humanity. Sick humanity needs divine healing
2603 1,4 | mystical silence” (mystike sige).[33]~ A second element
2604 2,5 | institution it can lose sight of the immediacy of God.
2605 8,1 | new creation” (Gal. 6:15), signaling his conviction about the
2606 4,4 | what has been called the “signature” of the author of the Gospel
2607 3,1 | mission of the Church, will significantly depend on the effective
2608 2,2 | Paul such as Timothy and Silas, and the seventy apostles.
2609 6,5 | God. After repentance, the simplest path to spiritual life is
2610 9,1 | principles and themes are simplified and applied to daily life
2611 8,4 | thought but nevertheless was a sincerely observant Jew who chided
2612 11,4 | II, the article by Israel Singer, “The Individual and the
2613 1,3 | of God.” The Antiochean sings the praises of the unpolished
2614 4,2 | of God not as an isolated singularity or exclusive monad. God
2615 6,6 | the surface. But then it sink to the bottom. We are not
2616 5,5 | world. It reaches virtual sinlessness, a state rarely achieved
2617 11,4 | sins of Jews. Who has not sinned? Who has not been not disobedient?
2618 10,3 | we love our brother and sister, and then stand apart in
2619 11,4 | an Orthodox monk at the site of the Well of Jacob some
2620 11,4 | A hymn taken from the sixth canticle of Mattins of the
2621 3,1 | what he saw, during the sixties and seventies, as “a rekindling
2622 1,1 | understanding of preaching as a skilled and disciplined ministry
2623 11,2 | and revelation showing how skin deep Orthodox Christianity
2624 5,2 | Returning, He admonished the sleepy disciples: “Watch and pray
2625 10,5 | correctly interpreted, is not a slogan for extreme asceticism as
2626 9,3 | superior Faith. Such sentiments smack of triumphalism. The true
2627 2,4 | Symeon’s apostolic message smacked of heresy. His teaching
2628 1,2 | void interval, not even the smallest. For he who removes himself
2629 9,3 | raised Him from the dead, smashing the gates of hell, shattering
2630 10,2 | extinguished, perhaps only smoking, or the ashes need to be
2631 11,3 | Future” in order to achieve a smoother historical and linguistic
2632 10,4 | life, the wick would soon smoulder and die out. Without the
2633 11,2 | time, lingered behind as Smyrna was being emptied by fleeing
2634 6,5 | love humility, then all the snares of our enemies are overturned
2635 10,4 | the wick is trimmed and soaked with oil. Where the Spirit
2636 9,3 | long to celebrate a true, sobering triumph on behalf of Orthodoxy,
2637 10,3 | also knows conciliarity (sobornost) — praying, thinking, and
2638 3,2 | being made to enhance the socially supportive environment of
2639 2,1 | is meant not merely as a socio-cultural religious designation but
2640 7,2 | religion, philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, and physics,
2641 1,4 | hard and stubborn hearts soft and yielding to divine grace.~
2642 3,2 | undermining the sociological soil of the Christian faith and
2643 11,2 | froze in their tracks. One soldier said: “Let’s kill them!”
2644 8,3 | astonishing solidarity with them, solemnly stating that he would be
2645 6,6 | there looked down and saw somebody in hell‑fire, would you
2646 11,2 | t you know?” he replied somewhat impatiently. I did not say
2647 | somewhere
2648 6,4 | thanksgivings, spiritual songs and praises can go on in
2649 5,2 | him, and the Church of St. Sophia began to burn. He was exiled
2650 1,3 | philosophers,~orators, sophists, historians, laws, tribunals,
2651 1,4 | very nature with publicans, sorcerers, slaves, and those suffering
2652 1,3 | deceits and oracle-givings and sorceries, are routed by the sign
2653 5,2 | At Gethsemane, Christ was sorrowful and distraught. He asked
2654 9,3 | describes how, amidst pain and sorrows unto death, he nevertheless
2655 6,6 | has learned to love feels sorry for every~created thing.
2656 1,3 | innumberable and of all sorts.[25]~ ~How could the apostles
2657 3,2 | s Theological Seminary, sounded a clarion call some forty
2658 11,4 | self-interests, and you have the ugly soup of the painful tragedies
2659 3,2 | Archdiocese of North and South America, issued a similar
2660 11,2 | town of Gargalianoi in the southwestern Peloponnese, we used to
2661 4,2 | things — existence, essence, sovereignty, kingdom, will and activities
2662 1,2 | of godliness everywhere sown, and flourishing in its~
2663 1,3 | against~them in a short space of time; in the midst of
2664 5,2 | Rome and even as far as Spain (Rom. 15:17-29). He candidly
2665 11,2 | two Christian boys were spared on that day because one
2666 3,4 | not have to be eloquent speakers, although they must be willing
2667 9,1 | for example fasting, is specified down to minutiae. Its canonical
2668 Intro,4| position of observers and spectators. Much work is needed in
2669 Intro,1| the opposite end of the spectrum are those who would advocate
2670 9,2 | again. He had prepared a speech of repentance, but his very
2671 7,3 | appropriately applied to all spheres of life. Therefore, theological
2672 1,4 | alone are like “webs of spiders,” weaving such madness as
2673 11,2 | children:~ ~Dear Children,~ In spite of my trying not to upset
2674 11,4 | 131]. The first officially sponsored dialogue between Jewish
2675 Pref | economics, entertainment, sports and various forms of family
2676 7,1 | say about her?” Put on the spot in the presence of a crowd,
2677 5,4 | remoteness. Sometimes even spouses and family members, living
2678 9,3 | thriambeuonti hymas) and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge
2679 4,3 | to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood” (1 Pt 1:
2680 9,2 | though He knew it would be squandered. What an unusual Father,
2681 3,3 | faith and commitment, for squandering our sacred treasures, and
2682 1,4 | words can tame a beast. Staint John exhorts:~ ~Let then
2683 4,2 | Christianity has now grown stale. One reason is the fact
2684 1,4 | Spirit remove inequality and stamp all believers with a royal
2685 9,3 | account of his courageous stance, the Apostle was himself
2686 1,3 | temples came to a complete~standstill . . . The flame of truth
2687 11,4 | 1998), p. 16. See also Stanley J. Grenz, A Primer on Postmodernism (
2688 3,3 | message with which Christ started, to repent and embrace the
2689 9,2 | risen Christ became a fire starter and His Church became a
2690 6,5 | soul is incapable even of starting out upon the race. The soul
2691 10,3 | personal charm, Pelikan startled the audience with the remark
2692 9,3 | able to help a spiritually starving world?~ In his article on
2693 7,3 | suggested what now may be stated directly, namely, that theological
2694 8,4 | be defined as something static and fixed in order then
2695 8,3 | solidarity with them, solemnly stating that he would be willing “
2696 3,4 | the world as from a radio station never going off the air.
2697 11,2 | confrontations. We had a statue of him in our town and celebrated
2698 4,3 | cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe
2699 8,4 | widows would do better to stay unmarried but if they cannot
2700 11,3 | Alternate terms are fidelity, steadfastness, loyalty, reliance, unwavering
2701 11,4 | branch out of the Jewish stem as the most momentous event
2702 3,2 | of the entire Church in stemming the tide of drifting membership
2703 9,3 | decomposing and bears the stench of death exuding from its
2704 6,6 | who crucified Him. Saint Stephen the First Martyr prayed
2705 6,4 | except by taking his first steps. Prayer comes with praying.
2706 5,2 | of Divine Ascent. It is a stern and yet compassionate book.
2707 3,2 | compassion, rather than with sternness and rejection, is a typical
2708 7,5 | eat. Dorotheos asked the steward to give the man all the
2709 6,1 | also one of the monastery stewards serving in the kitchen and
2710 2,1 | fosters unity which does not stifle variety and rejoices in
2711 10,5 | freedom for service, not of stifling self-righteousness but of
2712 5,2 | However, drawn to the life of stillness (hesychia), he retired to
2713 2,4 | O death, where is your sting?”~ Saint Athanasios brings
2714 11,4 | Relevance of Orthodoxy (Stirling: Drummond Press, n.d.),
2715 8,4 | moralist. He even uses a Stoic term such as syneidesis (
2716 10,3 | fireplace. She needs you to stoke the fireplace, to furnish
2717 10,5 | of the living Christ. It stokes the fire of holy love. It
2718 10,2 | that the firewood needs stoking. In some instances, the
2719 7,5 | confessed that he constantly stole food to eat. Dorotheos asked
2720 8,3 | tree, chose many times to stomp on the broken branches rather
2721 1,4 | compulsion, nor will penetrate stony hearts. Divine grace requires
2722 9,2 | In the Old Testament, God stopped Abraham from offering his
2723 1,4 | thing only from your own store, believing.”[30] Here again
2724 10,5 | and take the kingdom by storm. Saint Paul compared himself
2725 10,5 | shines even when clouds and storms appear. It is up to us to
2726 11,4 | pp. 271-289, and Basilios Stoyiannos, “The Law in the New Testament
2727 7,5 | lift an example, there is a strange case reported by Dorotheos
2728 9,3 | in Corinth (2 Cor. 2:4). Strangely, those who are closest to
2729 5,4 | wrestling with the heavenly Stranger before being blessed and
2730 5,5 | sweetness filled his soul. Strangers appeared to him as if they
2731 11,3 | does not signify merely strategic interests to win them over
2732 11,2 | selling their things in the street. The cries, the moans,~the
2733 10,3 | responsibility to recover and strengthen Orthodox identity both as
2734 3,2 | personal faith in Christ, strengthens faith, energizes people
2735 2,4 | similar way. Saint Athanasios stresses the reality and tangibility
2736 8,4 | presents more the image of a stretch limousine, self-conscious
2737 8,3 | maintain Jewish customs in strictness. When Saint Paul speaks
2738 5,2 | compassionate book. Beyond ascetic strictures and toils, Saint was a seeker
2739 11,1 | significant contributor to human strife causing great loss of life
2740 11,4 | Christian community. It also strikes at the heart of the enduring
2741 2,4 | recesses of the soul. It stripped away layers of ego-centric
2742 9,3 | Epistle to the Colossians, stripping “the principalities and
2743 8,4 | in Alexandria, where they strived for citizenship, translated
2744 5,4 | Israel,” meaning “one who strives with God.” He called the
2745 8,1 | thought and worked with the strongest, albeit paradoxical, sense
2746 6,6 | righteous or triumphalistic. He strove to understand and to serve
2747 7,5 | things. These can serve as structural categories for the development
2748 8,3 | 165BC-73AD), when the Jews were struggling to preserve their identity
2749 11,4 | of a religious community stubbornly set to diminish, control,
2750 7,5 | these resources need to be studied, compared, interpreted,
2751 8,3 | 26). The Jews have indeed stumbled but they have not ultimately
2752 6,5 | unfailing guidance, the soul stumbles and falls at every turn.
2753 5,3 | Christ painted in various styles. In all of the icons the
2754 11,3 | according to the fourth sub-theme of the consultation, we
2755 3,2 | meeting of religions and subcultures in the neighborhood, school
2756 Intro,1| elderly monastic who seemed sublimely innocent of Church and family
2757 11,4 | and future generations. I submit that faithfulness, too,
2758 11,4 | New Theologian, Vols I-II, submitted to the University of Chicago (
2759 6,1 | life and writings which was subsequently published in Paris under
2760 4,2 | substance), hypostasis (subsistence, person) and homoousios (
2761 7,5 | demonology, or addictiveness to substances such as alcohol. To lift
2762 2,4 | sufficient exchange for all, a substitutionary offering and sacricice.[
2763 6,6 | Staretz Silouan knew well the subtleties of the spiritual struggle
2764 7,1 | crowd either as advocating subversion of God's law or contradicting
2765 8,1 | faith was seen as a new, subversive force threatening both Jewish
2766 Intro,6| heard.” Orthodoxy cannot successfully preach love, righteousness,
2767 2,1 | no other foundation can suffice than that laid by the apostles —
2768 6,2 | and a false sense of self‑sufficiency.~ How is the Lord to be
2769 7,3 | areas of life. We have also suggested what now may be stated directly,
2770 Intro,1| of casting the issue and suggesting the groundwork for further
2771 10,3 | the board.~ The report’s suggestion for a solution to this problem
2772 5,4 | God. Prayer as dialogue suggests a continuous relationship
2773 Intro,5| lukewarm Christianity to suit our selfish interests and
2774 10,2 | Church’s table whatever suits our interests and convenience,
2775 4,2 | is a confession of faith summarizing what the Scriptures proclaim.
2776 5,2 | wrote in our own days. A summary of his teachings on prayer
2777 4,1 | to the Gospel of Matthew, summing up central themes of the
2778 10,5 | s sunshine, to allow His sunbeams to burn away the dark clouds
2779 3,3 | spread of the gospel to a sunrise which is the work of the
2780 10,5 | our inner world to God’s sunshine, to allow His sunbeams to
2781 1,3 | order to underscore the supernatural power (hyper physin ischyn)
2782 3,2 | ministries, and vigilant supervision and direction. The whole
2783 5,3 | pray, we come to God as supplicants. We approach God as those
2784 5,2 | everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your
2785 3,3 | most powerful convert and supporter.~ Historians have long reflected
2786 8,3 | Council (Acts 15; Gal. 2) by supporting Saint Paul's position on
2787 Intro,1| secular society no longer supports Christian existence in any
2788 6,6 | Silouan replied: “Tell me, supposing you went to paradise and
2789 1,4 | Chrysostom’s underlying supposition, despite his emphasis on
2790 2,1 | God's truth has not been suppressed. And the struggle continues.
2791 6,6 | expression of love, and the surest criterion of Christian truth,
2792 6,6 | for a moment it will the surface. But then it sink to the
2793 1,3 | cure them like a skilful surgeon, to use one of his favorite
2794 1,4 | becomes a place of “spiritual surgery” (iatreion peumatikon).[
2795 1,4 | Antiochean Father, rightly surnamed “Chrysostomos” (“Golden-mouthed”),
2796 3,2 | years, and then seem to be surprised by the Church’s disapproval.
2797 8,4 | Jews.” Again, it is not surprising that Jews would embrace
2798 6,5 | imply passivity. What is surrendered is not action but self‑will,
2799 7,4 | profound sense of being surrounded and penetrated by the divine
2800 10,5 | away the dark clouds of sin surrounding the soul, and thus let the
2801 8,3 | presents a christocentric survey of universal history which
2802 1,2 | one thing they dispel any suspicion of pernicious collusion
2803 11,3 | Land.[137] Past conflicts, suspicions, enmity, and recriminations
2804 1,3 | end of his work, after a sustained exposition on the success
2805 6,1 | you found it loathsome to swallow a snake in your dream, so
2806 2,4 | that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death,
2807 1,4 | swine (Mt. 7:6). Nothing is sweeter nor more precious than the
2808 6,1 | inexperience; and the Lord was swift to forgive me.~But the second
2809 1,4 | nor to cast pearls to the swine (Mt. 7:6). Nothing is sweeter
2810 1,4 | desire to be freed from a “swinish life.” Christ instructed
2811 11,4 | Patriarchate in Geneva, Switzerland.~ [126]. Fr. Thomas Hopko, “
2812 5,2 | finally soldiers drew their swords against the crowd protecting
2813 4,3 | keeping the oath which~he swore to your fathers, that the
2814 11,4 | Discourses, p. 298.~ [78]. St. Syemon, Discourses, p. 354.~ [
2815 1,2 | closeness to the Son of God (syggeneian pros ton uion tou Theou).
2816 Intro,1| to Orthodoxy through the symbol of the icon. The Orthodox
2817 9,2 | veneration of icons, our symbolic windows to heaven that unite
2818 5,3 | In the Divine Liturgy we symbolize the Cherubim in Isaiah’s
2819 9,3 | Christ. The icon of Christ symbolizes His incarnation by which
2820 11,4 | Metropolitan graciously sympathized with the question and used
2821 1,2 | en tois kephalaiois tois synechousin hemon ten zoen kai to kerygma
2822 8,4 | uses a Stoic term such as syneidesis (Rom. 12:15; 1 Cor. 8:7;
2823 1,2 | ten zoen kai to kerygma synkrotousin). What are these central
2824 Intro,3| by conciliarity and the synodical system. The Church lives
2825 8,4 | most Jews was to create a synthesis between Judaism and Hellenism
2826 3,2 | neglect; the failure of systems of government, education,
2827 8,3 | of “the oracles of God” (ta logia Theou), the Scriptures,
2828 7,4 | repented of their overzealous tactics, and restored the erring
2829 5,4 | a serious aspect to this tale. Our relationship with God
2830 1,1 | preaching, a task requiring talent as well as diligence. In
2831 Pref | mostly published retreat talks and conference papers, all
2832 11,4 | Iakovos and the late Marc H. Tanenbaum. The papers of this meeting
2833 2,4 | stresses the reality and tangibility of the incarnate Word who
2834 3,4 | Christ-centeredness. The treasure is not tapped if preaching and teaching
2835 10,5 | to Christ. True obedience taps the well of the heart and,
2836 10,3 | this problem is still on target and applies to all Orthodox
2837 6,5 | boastful and grace leaves you. Tarry with evil thoughts and you
2838 6,4 | the Lord will grant him to taste the fruits of prayer.”[113]~
2839 4,3 | 16/Lev. 11:44-45). Having tasted the kindness of the Lord,
2840 11,3 | the present topic would be tautological! These are brothers and
2841 9,3 | extortioner, nor unjust like the tax collector. He fasted according
2842 3,2 | Christian author described the tectonic cultural changes of recent
2843 7,4 | photisis), and © perfection (teleiosis). One might use this three-stage
2844 8,3 | 7; 10:4). That the term telos (Rom. 10:4) should not be
2845 11,4 | demonization of, the Jew.” I tend to agree with this view
2846 11,4 | greatest commandments. We have tended too easily to put “our religion”
2847 2,5 | also has long exhibited tendencies toward “institutionalization.
2848 Intro,1| authoritarianism and obscurantism. It tends to foster an unloving, cultic
2849 3,1 | whatever our mutual gifts and tensions, the substantive task is
2850 8,4 | Christian evangelizing and tent-making involved him for at least
2851 1,3 | him:~ ~The fisherman, the tentmaker, the publican, the ignorant,
2852 8,4 | the Greeks dwell in the tents of the Jews.” Again, it
2853 8,3 | have it, but rather as “termination” or “end” is indicated by
2854 1,4 | for it would be nothing terrible~if it were this only, but
2855 5,2 | Armenia while suffering terribly physical hardships. But
2856 11,2 | army to reconquer Byzantine territory in Turkey following World
2857 5,4 | truly be a beautiful garden testifying to God’s presence and glory.
2858 5,4 | includes times of pain and testing. I do not refer only to
2859 11,4 | Clergy-Laity Congress in Dallas, Texas, entitled “Rekindling an
2860 11,4 | edited by P. Christou and Th. Zisis, The Greek Fathers
2861 4,2 | Jesus in Mt. 11:25-27:~ ~I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven
2862 11,3 | them with requisite awe and thankfulness. Should we fail to honor
2863 6,4 | says Silouan. Unceasing thanksgivings, spiritual songs and praises
2864 2,3 | the chariot races and the theater. He is also the heir of
2865 | thee
2866 10,5 | adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander [
2867 Pref | this work in character is thematic rather than analytic, suggestive
2868 1,4 | weakness of these truths themsevles but because heavenly matters
2869 5,2 | God for all things” (Doxa Theo panton eneken).~ The second
2870 11,4 | dissertation by Helen Criticos Theodoropoulos, Love of God and Love of
2871 8,4 | ministered, organized, and theologized. The Church Fathers correctly
2872 8,3 | works! Where Saint Paul theologizes about the Law, the Apostle
2873 2,4 | we may become deified” (theopoiethomen).[62] This is a bold and
2874 7,2 | the question of truth both theoretically and functionally, truth
2875 11,2 | the mere elucidation of theories in the form of a scholastic
2876 7,4 | etymology of the term theoria (theoro=“see God”)indicates. However,
2877 4,4 | reconciling the world to Himself (Theos en Christo kosmon katalasson,
2878 11,4 | taking flesh from the holy Theotokos and ever virgin Mary and,
2879 7,5 | theologians, pastors, doctors, therapists and others, all can cooperatively
2880 | therein
2881 | thereof
2882 5,2 | God” (Rom. 15:30). To the Thessalonians, he writes: “Rejoice always,
2883 3,4 | Samaritan woman, or the thief on the Cross as encounters
2884 1,3 | shelter and rest, causing thieves to take to their heels,
2885 10,5 | from our parents called “thin” or “formal faith” (psile
2886 | thine
2887 5,5 | perhaps the greatest Christian thinker of all time. In his work
2888 8,3 | 11:17-20. In vain modern thinkers involved in the Jewish-Christian
2889 5,3 | listened to Him: “If anyone thirst, let him come to me and
2890 9,3 | today, much as they did thirty-five years ago when Father Schmemann
2891 2,4 | aphtharsian) and this mortal (thneton) must put on immortality (
2892 5,4 | Paul who suffered from “a thorn in the flesh,” probably
2893 8,4 | encountered the writings of “thorough-going diversity scholars” over
2894 6,1 | became quiet and deeply thoughtful. Another monk engaged him
2895 7,1 | undoubtedly appeared the greater threat to the religious tradition.
2896 8,1 | a new, subversive force threatening both Jewish and Gentiles
2897 9,2 | mystery of God, the eternal three-foldness of the one, true and living
2898 7,4 | teleiosis). One might use this three-stage pattern as a heuristic model
2899 9,3 | always leads us in triumph (thriambeuonti hymas) and through us spreads
2900 9,3 | powers [of evil], triumphing (thriambeusas) over them in Christ” (Col.
2901 9,3 | ancients called triumph (thriambos), was prepared in his honor.
2902 2,1 | salvation abides and has always thrived in challenging times, provided
2903 5,4 | is watered, it lives and thrives. If it is neglected, it
2904 8,4 | he was born in Tarsus, a thriving Greek city. He received
2905 6,1 | a snake crawled down his throat. He awakened full of horror
2906 6,6 | person is like the sea: throw a stone into the water and
2907 3,4 | voices to high decibels, or thump on the pulpit, in order
2908 10,2 | Chrysostom, whose prophetic voice thunders across the centuries to
2909 3,4 | salvation and somehow obtain a ticket to heaven, one must accomplish
2910 3,2 | crashing upon us like a mighty tidal wave.~ Archbishop Iakovos,
2911 3,2 | entire Church in stemming the tide of drifting membership and
2912 1,2 | message is finally not to be tied in a literalistic way to
2913 1,2 | but a little, will~go on till he has become very far distant.[
2914 11,3 | modernistic critical viewpoint, time-honored expressions of faith, however
2915 Pref | commitment. What are the timeless and vital resources within
2916 2,2 | co-workers of Paul such as Timothy and Silas, and the seventy
2917 5,2 | and drink, when He became tired and needed to rest, when
2918 5,2 | Beyond ascetic strictures and toils, Saint was a seeker of God’
2919 3,2 | truth, do your own thing, be tolerant of the choices and lifestyles
2920 11,3 | have also been periods of tolerated co-existence.[136] The reality
2921 2,2 | granting life to those in the tombs.~ ~This liturgical proclamation
2922 3,4 | home or in the hospital tomorrow? Is there a confession to
2923 1,2 | of God (syggeneian pros ton uion tou Theou). He goes
2924 9,2 | Creativity becomes the tool of pride, or greed, or other
2925 5,5 | continuously on the mountain top. We must return to the plains
2926 8,4 | able to travel the cultural topography of the time with power and
2927 11,4 | 134]. Shemaryahu Talmon, “Torah as a Concept and Vital Principle
2928 6,5 | finds itself in darkness, tormented by fantasies, and beset
2929 5,2 | words” (Proteron euche kai tote logos). His last words were
2930 10,4 | and life, letting heaven touch the earth, bridging the
2931 6,1 | Apostle Paul, Saint Silouan touches on the essence of Christian
2932 1,2 | and hope abundant touching future things.[10]~ ~All
2933 1,4 | clear that he had given much tought to the ongoing encounter
2934 1,3 | splendor over the ashes and towered to~to the heavens.[20]~ ~
2935 9,3 | theologians descend from our ivory towers to look at the actual life
2936 8,1 | Jewish culture of Palestinian towns and villages to the cosmopolitan
2937 5,4 | carbon dioxide, eliminating toxicity and receiving renewing power.
2938 11,2 | The boys froze in their tracks. One soldier said: “Let’
2939 9,3 | it a house of prayer, not trade. He faced arrest, beatings,
2940 11,4 | ugly soup of the painful tragedies of history insofar as abuse
2941 11,1 | traditions. A sad aspect of this tragic story is that religion,
2942 8,3 | According to Saint Paul's train of thought in Romans 9-11,
2943 2,2 | dead, O Giver of life. You trampled the power of death by Your
2944 2,2 | from the dead, by death~trampling upon death, and granting
2945 Intro,4| because of the beauty, the transcendence, and experienced holiness
2946 6,5 | allow grace to control and transfigure all thinking, decisions
2947 5,4 | illuminating, cleansing and transfiguring. Prayer does not diminish
2948 10,5 | Repent and turn from all your transgressions... and get yourselves a
2949 8,1 | entire history, a remarkable transition from the Aramaic-speaking
2950 10,3 | use better and standard translations of our liturgical texts.
2951 3,4 | event; it is not merely the transmission of theological information
2952 8,4 | drive, efficient and able to travel the cultural topography
2953 8,4 | conscious of the road he traveled in pagan society. He nowhere
2954 1,2 | lull desire to sleep, to tread under~foot the love of money,
2955 5,5 | that we must rely on our treasured experiences of moments of
2956 1,2 | the divine oracles are a treasury of all manner of medicines,
2957 8,4 | master, but Philemon must now treat him no longer simply as
2958 11,3 | admit, certainly informs the treatment of my whole topic but especially
2959 2,4 | It is a soteriology which treats the problem of sin primarily
2960 5,5 | delightful and~marvelous. The trees, the grass, the birds, the
2961 2,2 | Mighty One. The gates of hell trembled before You and You raised
2962 1,1 | has been entrusted. The tremendous success of early Christianity
2963 8,3 | concerns in the future and tremendously important for our mission
2964 9,2 | in Jesus Christ — neither tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
2965 1,3 | sophists, historians, laws, tribunals, diverse kinds of punishments,~
2966 8,2 | free and open society. He tries to arouse local Greek Orthodox
2967 9,3 | shining chariot with all the trimmings of worldly pomp and military
2968 2,2 | Lenten hymn book called Triodion (literally, “Book of the
2969 3,4 | Trinity and have chanted the triple Kyrie Eleisons. Parishioners
2970 5,3 | Isaiah’s vision singing the Trisaghion: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord
2971 2,2 | worship. One of these is the Trisagion — “Holy God, Holy Mighty,
2972 4,2 | dangerously leaning toward tritheism, and thus departed from
2973 8,4 | with Jews and Gentiles, to triton genos, the third race.~
2974 9,3 | powerful prophetic word to triumphalists in all ages: “Do not presume
2975 9,3 | principalities and powers [of evil], triumphing (thriambeusas) over them
2976 7,4 | transgression, as sin is often trivialized by some, but the power of
2977 6,6 | he can not find peace, is troubled, blames others, and does
2978 2,3 | of life, despite its vast troubles, as a continuous festival
2979 9,3 | the parable for those who trusted in themselves that they
2980 5,3 | 20). Christ’s words are trustworthy. Because He is accessible
2981 8,4 | a hidden resistance to truth-claims and dogmatic teaching (Meyer,
2982 3,4 | on what have been called “try-harder sermons,” thus crushing
2983 11,3 | Justin's Dialogue With Trypho in which the Christian and
2984 8,1 | challenging insights into the tumultuous interaction of faiths and
2985 6,1 | the cause of his soul's turmoil:~ ~Twice was I beguiled.
2986 5,2 | zealous young Christian in his twenties, he spent several years
2987 6,1 | of his soul's turmoil:~ ~Twice was I beguiled. The first
2988 1,3 | said and did.[22]~ These twin foci of revelation, the
2989 Intro,1| or “Holy Russia,” or a type of monastic culture in the
2990 4,4 | training in a communal setting. Typically Matthean, the verb undoubtedly
2991 1,4 | 1) the overcoming of the tyranny of ancient custom through
2992 1,2 | God (syggeneian pros ton uion tou Theou). He goes on waxing
2993 5,5 | of His disciples who were unable to heal the epileptic boy.
2994 2,4 | not firmly established if~unaccompanied by works. For everything
2995 1,4 | megale mache), this is the unanswerable argument, the~argument from
2996 5,4 | planting and weeding. Left unattended, a field grows weeds and
2997 11,4 | information about them is unavailable. In previous centuries,
2998 6,5 | physical hardship, which are unavoidable in life. But suffering is
2999 3,2 | young. It is our youth who unavoidably breathe the air of the post-modern
3000 1,3 | grounds that he argues with unbelievers in rhetorical fashion in
3001 8,4 | background of Graeco-Roman unbridled religious syncretism.~ The
3002 3,2 | enjoying the ride into an uncertain future. The following words
3003 5,4 | faith and doubt, trust and uncertainty, hope and despair as we