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3004 8,4    |             Gentiles,” the Gospel to the uncircumcised “entrusted” to him by God (
3005 8,1    |                 counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation” (Gal.
3006 9,3    |          prideful self-righteousness and unconcealed disdain for sinners and
3007 9,3    |                  love evil-doers with an unconditional love which alone can redeem
3008 Intro,1|                  of hypostatized entity, unconnected with how we actually think
3009 8,3    |                 tradition consciously or unconsciously embraced numerous individual
3010 11,4   |             during Holy Week which long, uncritical tradition has carried with
3011 11,4   |              utter humility and freedom, undefiled by proselytism, their mutual
3012 8,4    |               shows that, along with the undeniable diversity, Pauline Christianity
3013 1,4    |               clear view of Chrysostom’s underlying supposition, despite his
3014 Intro,1|                 In fact the modern world undermines Christianity at every turn,
3015 3,2    |                    all powerful currents undermining the sociological soil of
3016 5,3    |                 act of invocation, often underscored by the explicit use of verbs
3017 4,3    |                commanded in the Gospel — underscores the reality of the Church
3018 8,2    |              which for them is a single, undifferentiated unity. Their ties with Greece
3019 6,1    |           published in 1958 entitled The Undistorted Image.[93] Later a revised
3020 Pref   |                and programs, or even the undying hope of the rise of future,
3021 2,3    |                tradition that is largely unencumbered by the dichotomies of Scripture
3022 2,3    |               and works, with the accent unerringly falling on grace and faith.
3023 10,5   |           existence of God to a deep but unexamined commitment to our ethno-religious
3024 6,5    |               enemies are. Without God's unfailing guidance, the soul stumbles
3025 2,4    |                  resisters committed the unforgivable sin of blasphemy. According
3026 3,2    |               Orthodoxy in America.”[85] Unfortunately, his call was a voice in
3027 6,5    |                 dejection, emptiness and unfulfillment. It often finds itself in
3028 6,6    |                make ourselves and others unhappy. The humble soul enjoys
3029 5,4    |                 takes out the weeds, the unhelpful attitudes and destructive
3030 9,3    |            Soldiers and officers in full uniform marched ahead of him. Behind
3031 8,3    |            beyond the sense of necessary uniformity and see that new cultural
3032 3,2    |                activities in a vital and unifying way. To quote the theological
3033 Intro,1|     theologically indefensible. They are uninformed about the interplay between
3034 6,4    |               Name of Jesus Christ. This uninterrupted calling upon the Name of
3035 6,1    |                  works spontaneously and uninterruptedly in the heart by the action
3036 Pref   |                  express a truth perhaps uniquely applicable to Christianity
3037 8,4    |                powerful sense of its own uniqueness, an invincible conviction
3038 8,4    |           detailed case for the powerful unitive forces in the Pauline congregations
3039 8,3    |               fateful passage toward the universalization of essence of the Jewish
3040 11,4   |             Jewish spiritual heritage is universally spread to the nations through
3041 6,1    |                  seemed like a key which unlocked a deeper knowledge of the
3042 Intro,1|      obscurantism. It tends to foster an unloving, cultic and fanatical religiosity
3043 8,4    |                  would do better to stay unmarried but if they cannot exercise
3044 9,3    |               with error and evil, while unmasking its falsehood and rebuking
3045 1,3    |                 sings the praises of the unpolished and illiterate apostles
3046 4,3    |            Temple and leaving the people unprotected. Yet Ezekiel, as much as
3047 2,3    |                reality of truth in which unquestionably the revealed initiative
3048 2,3    |                authority of Scripture is unquestioned, but the obvious necessity
3049 10,1   |                must wage war against our unredeemed self, the power of sin,
3050 2,3    |         traditional Protestantism is the unremitting focus on Scripture, the
3051 11,4   |               renewal in this area means unreserved Christian affirmation of
3052 11,4   |          Damascus road), nevertheless he unreservedly affirmed their continued
3053 7,4    |                  evil passions.~ Because unruly human nature easily follows
3054 1,2    |               God, and to deem no season unseasonable. . . Let food and~baths
3055 3,3    |            honest business dealings, and unselfish service to others. Even
3056 1,4    |                  Saint John possessed an unshakable confidence in the divine
3057 11,2   |                 people to commit acts of unspeakable injustice and cruelty against
3058 5,4    |                    Gen. 32:24-30). Jonah unsuccessfully tried to escape his task
3059 6,1    |                  which the Saint was not untouched, diminished the divine calling
3060 11,2   |                the early 1920s. After an unwise and futile attempt by the
3061 11,4   |           ultimately derived from either unwitting or willful forgetfulness
3062 Intro,4|            difficulties of language, all unwittingly discourage congregational
3063 1,2    |                 recorded revelation, the unwritten and written word of God.
3064 8,4    |                 her or his rights if the upbuilding of another is at stake.
3065 10,3   |           faithful. We certainly need to update the canons or at least to
3066 8,4    |              times, given the historical upheavals of that period, is that
3067 7,4    |                had a legitimate claim to uphold their respective traditions.
3068 7,1    |             leaders were concerned about upholding the authority of the law
3069 6,5    |                  habits. It is easier to uproot a blade of grass than a
3070 11,2   |                spite of my trying not to upset you, I see that the last
3071 3,2    |             purpose, and direction.~ The upshot of all the above is an enormous
3072 10,4   |           trimmed, straight and reaching upward to receive the light. The
3073 8,4    |                by Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians (1983), builds
3074 5,4    |                 need. We invoke God when urgencies or dangers arise without
3075 11,3   |            spiritually and ecologically, urgently needs the sacred treasures
3076 11,4   |         treasures may shine brightly and usefully for the urgent issues of
3077 4,3    |            ancient Church because of its usefulness, particularly its systematic
3078 9,2    |               from these evil forces and ushered in the new age of grace —
3079 3,4    |            announcement of the good news ushers the same blessings today
3080 8,4    |                of Saint Paul who did his utmost to maintain the unity of
3081 10,5   |             faith which can range from a vague sense of belief in the existence
3082 11,3   |                reason has to do with the vagueness of the term “past” and the
3083 6,6    |               can fall prey to pride and vainglory. He especially emphasized
3084 11,3   |           religions. Significant reasons validate the dialogue. Above all,
3085 8,4    |             understood themselves as the vanguard of a restored Israel and
3086 11,4   |                 Muslims, edited by N. M. Vaporis (Brookline: Holy Cross Press,
3087 11,4   |           Tradition,” pp. 56-69 explains variegations within the larger Jewish
3088 2,3    |               whole of life, despite its vast troubles, as a continuous
3089 1,3    |              itself, length of time, the vehement~resistance of inveterate
3090 8,3    |               the scribal teachers would vehemently disagree, viewing the christological
3091 7,3    |            either sectarian or a coopted vehicle of a culture's latest wisdom
3092 10,4   |                 grace of the Spirit, the veil of spiritual insensitivity
3093 7,4    |               meditative cogitation on a verse of Scripture, a Christian
3094 8,4    |                given to him in its Greek version and most always was used
3095 4,4    |             Gospel (euangelion), nor the vert “to evangelize” (euangelizesthai),
3096 9,3    |                 Roman general and son of Vespasian Caesar. He had returned
3097 Intro,2|                 deed, will determine the viability of Orthodoxy and the success
3098 7,5    |        instructions on basic virtues and vices, making various diagnoses,
3099 11,4   |                  the Jews, and used them viciously against Jews, but have forgotten
3100 11,3   |                  Whatever the historical vicissitudes, doctrinal differences,
3101 8,4    |                that period, is that they vigorously maintained a distinctive
3102 11,4   |        Christians whose human rights are violated on a daily basis, a major
3103 11,4   |                 up audaciously a hand of violence, injustice, or exploitation —
3104 8,4    |          institutional signs of a highly visible apostolic and catholic Church
3105 8,3    |              other religious signs which visibly identified Jews as Jews (
3106 3,4    |             tonight? Is there a pastoral visitation at a home or in the hospital
3107 8,2    |                  in Greece the young man visits the Holy Mountain of Athos
3108 7,5    |                  life? First, we must be vitally concerned with our own continued
3109 2,1    |                 mystical body of Christ, vivified and guided by the Holy Spirit (
3110 11,4   |                  America (Crestwood: St. Vladminir’s Seminary Press, 1974).~  [
3111 Intro,2|               society, family, marriage, vocations, and so on. This theological
3112 1,2    |                 unity; and they allow no~void interval, not even the smallest.
3113 11,4   |               Symeon the New Theologian, Vols I-II, submitted to the University
3114 4,2    |                  this position was Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) who
3115 Intro,1|                and 5) be wisely open and vulnerable to the world, both witnessing
3116 6,6    |                  whole spiritual warfare wages around humility because
3117 9,2    |                  Father is waiting as He waited for the Prodigal Son. When
3118 10,5   |                case of the prodigal son, waits to welcome our homecoming
3119 11,2   |                 the knock at the door to wake us~and to take us away.
3120 7,3    |                  truth applicable to all walks and areas of life. We have
3121 3,3    |         faltering, their spiritual focus waning, their identity unclear,
3122 Intro,1|                 in order not to be found wanting while appearing to instruct
3123 7,4    |              signified by the occasional warm and joyful stirrings of
3124 6,1    |               may I hide this fire which warms my soul? How shall~I hide
3125 6,4    |                  which, by its depth and warmth, measures a person's spiritual
3126 11,4   |                against them — a critical warning largely and shamefully forgotten
3127 7,1    |            sinners. Religious values and warrants were being used in an attempt
3128 3,3    |               and religions, of constant wars and migration of peoples,
3129 10,5   |             through the Prophet Isaiah: “Wash yourselves: make yourselves
3130 11,4   |                 Clergy-Laity Congress in Washington, D.C. (1990) under the title:
3131 10,1   |             although our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is
3132 5,2    |        admonished the sleepy disciples: “Watch and pray that you may not
3133 6,4    |                 The Lord, who mercifully watches over us, will not lead us
3134 6,5    |                 Therefore, “be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil
3135 5,4    |                 a plant. If the plant is watered, it lives and thrives. If
3136 3,2    |              upon us like a mighty tidal wave.~ Archbishop Iakovos, former
3137 9,3    |                 crowd of ordinary people waved palms and welcomed him with
3138 5,4    |               relationship with God, our waverings between faith and doubt,
3139 1,2    |              uion tou Theou). He goes on waxing eloquent about the blessings
3140 8,4    |               the comprehensive study by Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians (
3141 11,4   |                  Order Dialogue (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1960).~  [
3142 11,2   |               Bulgarian soldiers in full weaponry! “Are the Bulgarians Orthodox?”
3143 2,4    |                 a garment; to him who is weary, rest; to him~who prays,
3144 1,4    |                  like “webs of spiders,” weaving such madness as to say sometimes
3145 1,4    |          reasonings left alone are like “webs of spiders,” weaving such
3146 Intro,1|                 we are guides us in what wee are to do and how to do
3147 5,4    |          Gardening involves planting and weeding. Left unattended, a field
3148 9,3    |                  splendor, institutional weight, and self-glorification
3149 11,4   |             lines of thought rather than well-defined principles. In view of the
3150 8,2    |                   Phil. 3:5), apparently well-established, and possessing Roman citizenship (
3151 2,2    |               worship as mere ritual are well-known and still crop up in Protestant
3152 Intro,1|             culture of Mount Athos.~ The well-meaning monastic’s vision of Orthodoxy
3153 11,4   |          Fullness of Life (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981); Roberta C. Bondi,
3154 11,4   |           Religion, and Ethics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).~  [83]. Henderson,
3155 10,4   |                  out of the belly of the whale, bring me also out of the
3156 2,2    |                  to the end of all ages. Wherefore, we, the faithful, rejoice,~
3157 1,2    |                 perishes, having nothing whereon to support itself. Let us
3158 7,4    |       environment. The way to health and wholeness is through the grace of
3159 Pref   |                worship, the balanced and wholesome vision of Orthodox theology
3160 Intro,3|                 of Christ. The Church is wholly centered on Christ and the
3161 9,2    |                pride, or greed, or other wicked passions and evil imaginations.
3162 10,3   |                  Archdiocese published a wide-ranging report, a kind of theological
3163 8,4    |                of the word “Hellene” has widened by the first century. There
3164 8,4    |                 Rom. 14). The Corinthian widows would do better to stay
3165 Intro,1|                    Leave your work, your wife and your children, and come
3166 1,4    |                distort human beings into wilful beasts and many-faced monsters.[
3167 2,2    |               were nailed upon the cross willingly, O Merciful One, and were
3168 9,2    |                like the rush of a mighty wind . . . and there appeared
3169 5,3    |           covered their faces with their wings as they hovered around God’
3170 6,1    |                  to school for only “two winters,” as he said, probably just
3171 7,4    |                  came many brothers who, wishful to restore him to proper
3172 2,4    |                 following declaration:~ ~Wishing to show that to fulfill
3173 6,5    |                  into self‑reliance, God withdraws from him and delivers him
3174 6,6    |                  love that it “loses its wits.” Even devils can rouse
3175 11,4   |                  Schaff and reprinted by Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
3176 5,3    |        spontaneous reaction was to say: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for
3177 4,4    |               holy people declaring “the wonderful deeds of him who called
3178 6,1    |                and for all creatures and wonders of creation.~ One of the
3179 1,2    |                 to time, place and exact wording. But such discrepancies
3180 3,1    |             fastest growing parts of the worldwide family of the Orthodox.[
3181 5,4    |         spiritual treasure and turned to worse wickedness because of immaturity,
3182 6,6    |               states that the soul is so wounded by divine love that it “
3183 11,3   |                  communities are closely woven theologically and sociologically.
3184 8,3    |                  the greatest magnitude, wrapped in the mystery of God's
3185 8,3    |                that they are “vessels of wrath,” who stand over against
3186 Intro,1|                 great Church Fathers who wrestled with Hellenism in order
3187 5,4    |             tried manipulation but ended wrestling with the heavenly Stranger
3188 9,2    |                have been enslaved by the wretchedness of evil — there is the path
3189 10,3   |                   or complain and merely wring our hands while doing nothing
3190 Pref   |       post-modern life.~ Apart from hand wringing and finding blame, however,
3191 10,5   |                   Moreover, obedience to wrongdoers who violate the spirit and
3192 11,4   |     Christian-Jewish Relations (Bristol: Wyndham Hall Press, 1990). I take
3193 11,4   |               The Jewish scholar Michael Wyschogrod, “Tradition and Society
3194 11,4   |              from W. A. Elwell and R. W. Yarbrough, Encountering the New Testament (
3195 10,4   |                  the earth, bridging the yawning gap between what we preach
3196 6,1    |                 out of the grace of God. Yea, this is truth. The Lord
3197 3,3    |            countless men and women today yearn for an authentic message
3198 5,4    |               way down. “Help, help!” he yelled. From above, a voice answered: “
3199 5,5    |                  the darkness inevitably yields to light, because God is
3200 10,5   |             burden is also light and the yoke is easy (Mt 7:13-14; 11:
3201 8,4    |             prophet Daniel and the three youths had adopted Babylonian names
3202 3,4    |              Christ’s encounter with the Zacchaeus, or the blind man, or the
3203 6,6    |                    I shall continue thus zealously all my life long,' and at
3204 4,3    |                which reached its profane zenith in both idolatry and flagrant
3205 4,2    |                 gods bearing many names, Zeus, Apollo, Baal, Serapis,
3206 11,4   |            edited by P. Christou and Th. Zisis, The Greek Fathers of the
3207 10,5   |               there is a “living faith” (zosa pistis) which is an energizing
3208 11,4   |                  1, 1977), pp. 6-16, and Zvi Ankori, “Greek Orthodox-Jewish