Theology

God does not Explain Things; Things Explain God

21 December 2009

So, difficult though it may be for all of us in varying degrees to accept, God does not explain anything at all. We do not believe in God to satisfy our ignorance about the world; in short to give us ...

Virtual Reality and Virtual Irreality On Noh-Plays and Icons (Part II)

16 December 2009

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

First it must be said that in Eastern art the virtual is not destructive or negative for human culture, but that any search for a virtual quantity able to transcend purely realistic interpretations ...

Virtual Reality and Virtual Irreality On Noh-Plays and Icons (Part 1)

14 December 2009

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

The creation of Virtual Reality or cyberspace is not a matter of creating an artificial space in the same way in which one would create an imaginary universe. The creation of Virtual Reality aims at ...

Economy and Canon Law

16 October 2009

Edward Moore

As Christians, we must respect the fact that not all of our fellow human beings are inclined toward the Christian life. The challenge, for us, is to respect and even love those who have different ...

Faith Alone and Faith and Works in the Scriptures An Orthodox Christian Approach

14 July 2009

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So, if James 2:24 is the only place in the New Testament where the phrase "faith alone" is actually used and it has the opposite meaning than what is normally given it by, for example, many ...

About Communion

30 April 2009

All too often, the modern ecumenical rhetoric seeks to minimize our differences by saying that they are only “skin-deep,” or that we are all climbing toward the same mountain top, albeit from a ...

The Impact of Orthodox Theology

25 February 2009

Jason Byassee

This vision of doxological theology is at odds with the standard fourfold division of seminary education in the West, which keeps "Bible," "church history," "theology" ...

Gender as Prophecy and Revelation

15 February 2009

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

It cannot be that God created male and female simply in order to complicate our lives, visit us with consuming passions or distract us from contemplating paradise. Rather the mystery of human gender ...

Contemporary Orthodoxy is the Field of Grace’s Action

04 February 2009

Archimandrite Kirill (Govorun)

It has been stated some decades ago that the ecclesiology would be in the focus of the theological thought for many years ahead. This prediction appears to be true. The issues discussed below are ...

Freedom of Thought in the Orthodox Church

22 December 2008

I do not wish to consider the actual question of my own particular case. I will only try to explain to you the general principles of freedom in the Orthodox Church. Can freedom of thought exist in a ...

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