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On the Peculiar Way Christ Saved the World
Amir Azarvan
5 August 2017
If you were God and chose to be incarnate for the purpose of redeeming fallen humanity, what method of redemption would you choose? What sort of earthly life would you ordain for yourself? If (you f... 
Dr Andreas Andreopoulos: The effect of hesychasm on the icon of the Transfiguration
5 August 2017
Dr Andreas Andreopoulos speaks on the effect of hesychasm on the icon of the Transfiguration. Speech gaven on International Conference on St Gregory Palamas "The Theological and Philosophical Sifnificance of his Work", Thessaloniki, March 7-15, 2012....
Soliloquy of Light
Magnus Frangipani
5 August 2017
Before I read of You
In charts of the night,
Oh, soliloquy of light,
Everything was dark as rye, silent and deaf and dry.
I belonged to someone else,
To a king of charcoal and eucalyptu...
‘Word and Sacrament, Sermon and Mass all Interact’
Professor Dimitra Koukoura, School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
5 August 2017
b) Sermon, mass and hymns
There is a wide-spread impression that Luther gave prominence to the sermon to the detriment of the mass, but in fact he restored the latter, which had been completely mar...
The great adversary of truth
Saint Maximos the Confessor
4 August 2017
The great adversary of truth, which today brings people to perdition, is delusion. Because of delusion, dark ignorance reigns in the souls of those who are idle, alienating them from God.
They don’...
Holy Tradition vs. Sola Scriptura: The Witness of the Liturgy (2)
Pedro O. Vega
4 August 2017
Post-Apostolic Development
Again, it is not the purpose of this essay to provide a detailed narrative of the development of the Orthodox Christian liturgy. Such a task would be, of itself, a very...
It’s all a gift from God
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
3 August 2017
Everything benign and good comes from God. There’s no kind thought which isn’t from God, and no evil thought that’s not from the devil. So, whatever good thing you think or say or do, is all courtes...
Mysticism (Part III)
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
3 August 2017
Eastern Orthodox mysticism
Two great artesian wells of mystical experience, upon which Orthodox Byzantine mysticism drew in its first phase, were Saint Gregory of Nyssa (335/340-394) and the monk E...
