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Death in a Two-Storey Universe
Read more: Death in a Two-Storey UniverseI have written before about the two-storey universe that is part of our cultural inheritance in the modern world. I have noted that the default position of our culture is secular protestantism. I have explained that I mean not that we do not believe in God, but that in our dominant cultural metaphor the God […]
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More on the Mystery of Salvation
Read more: More on the Mystery of SalvationI am almost always caught off guard by the number of readers an article on very simple (from an Orthodox point of view) matter of our salvation seems to generate. I forget that the treasury of doctrine that we live in is not part of the daily treasure that others know. I find tremendous comfort, […]
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The Mystery of Salvation
Read more: The Mystery of SalvationThere is a song I recall from my childhood – sung by John Hartford – in which the operative phrase is, “I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t been there…” It runs the permutations on life’s possibilities. One thing leads to another. It is this connectedness that always seems to trump the power of choice […]
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Akathist Hymn: Glory to God for All Things
Read more: Akathist Hymn: Glory to God for All ThingsI have seen several translations of this hymn. This one comes from the site of St. John the Baptist Cathedral (ROCOR) in Washington, D.C. I have edited it only typographically. It was composed by Metropolitan Tryphon (Prince Boris Petrovich Turkestanov) +1934 – but frequently attributed to Father Gregory Petrov, who died in a Soviet prison […]
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Finding the Problems at Home – Its All in Your Mind
Read more: Finding the Problems at Home – Its All in Your MindIf you like history (as I do) then there is always a temptation to look to history for answers. It is certainly the case that the present has much of its situation from the givens it inherited in its history. But we are none us completely explained by our forebears. I certainly have aspects inherited […]
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Theology, the Slavophiles, and the Parish Church
Read more: Theology, the Slavophiles, and the Parish ChurchIvan Kireevsky was born on April 3, 1806, and became in the course of his lifetime one of the leading intellectual forces in the group who would later be called the Slavophiles. They were interested in a revival in Russian thought, particularly along lines they considered distinctly Russian – in comparison to Western thought. Many […]
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A Good Word on the Feast of the Transfiguration
Read more: A Good Word on the Feast of the TransfigurationThe following excerpt is from Ocholophobist’s Website, as always well-written. It’s an excellent meditation for the feast. Fr. Hopko speaks of the fact that when one encounters holiness, if it is indeed holiness one is encountering, one will be filled with both fear and a desire to stay in the presence of that holy place, […]
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Another Wall Street Journal Article on Belief in the Modern World
Read more: Another Wall Street Journal Article on Belief in the Modern WorldThis article also recently appeared in the WSJ. It is an interesting take on Christianity in Europe, where, we are constantly told, it is almost completely dead. Perhaps the obituaries are premature. Comments are off for this article.
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An Interesting Read on the “New New Atheism”
Read more: An Interesting Read on the “New New Atheism”David Berkowitz, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has an interesting article on the “New New Atheism” worth a read for any who have been following discussions on belief and atheism here on Glory to God for All Things. Comments are off for this article.
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Via Negativa
Read more: Via NegativaOne of the strongest hallmarks of Orthodox theology is its preference for the apophatic approach to God. By apophatic is meant, “that which cannot be spoken.” There are certain positive affirmations we can make about God, but there are many more things that we can affirm by what we do not say. Fr. Thomas Hopko […]
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