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Saint Athanasios the Athonite
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
5 July 2015
According to his biography, St Athanasios hailed from the east, from Trapezounta. After concluding his education- as a teacher of literature- while still very young he was touched by the Divine Grac...
Comparing Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard and Mantzarides’ perspectives on Sin
Nele Weduwen, Postgraduate student at Theology
5 July 2015
This paper intended to examine the theologian understanding of the term sin from the perspectives of Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard and Mantzarides in order to work out their differences and similariti...
A Holy Nation
Fr. Brendan Pelphrey
4 July 2015
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were...
Prof. G. Mantzarides: The Orthodox teaching on sin
Nele Weduwen, Postgraduate student at Theology
3 July 2015
Second I examine Mantzarides` comprehension of sin throughout his work “Grundlinien christlicher Ethik”, which is also meant to be good for a non-Orthodox publicity. Within that work he deals with d...
Prof. George Mantzarides’ perspective on sin
Nele Weduwen, Postgraduate student at Theology
1 July 2015
3.3 Mantzarides
We now leave the protestant understanding of the term sin, which was examined by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Sören Kierkegaard. We change our perspective in order to analyse the Or...
Jonathan Jackson: The Traditional Value of Family
30 June 2015
Holywood actor Jonathan Jackson, recipient of five Emmy Awards, at an interview given in "Pemptousia" during his recent visit to the Monastery of Vatopaidi - Mt Athos, speaks on the value of family nowadays...
The Apostle Paul
29 June 2015
Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria reflects on the Apostle Paul...
S. Kierkegaard’s teaching on Sin and Desperation
Nele Weduwen, Postgraduate student at Theology
29 June 2015
Afterwards Kierkegaard analyses the different kinds of being desperate, which would always be visible by observing the self-relation towards the two qualities of eternity and finitude or analogue to...
Sin’s meaning according to S. Kierkegaard
Nele Weduwen, Postgraduate student at Theology
27 June 2015
3.2. Kierkegaard
The work of the Danish philosopher and theologian Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855) could be best understood by his distinction towards the speculative philosophy and within that, best...
The Apostle Peter
26 June 2015
Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna in Austria reflects on the Apostle Peter...





