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Participation in the Divine Life.doc
Date Posted: 5/4/2010
Description: Commentary on The Incarnation And Our Participation in The Divine Life.
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Predestined and Predestination
Date Posted: 5/3/2010
Description: Commentary on Predestined and Predestination Biblical and post biblical concept..
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On Conciliarity, the Emperor and the Laity
Date Posted: 3/23/2010
Description: Commentary on the role of the clergy and laity in the Church.
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Commentary on the liturgy of St John Chyrsostom
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: Commentary on the liturgy of St John Chyrsostom.
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The Eucharist makes the Church
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: What is the Church?.
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Grace - An Exchange
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: Grace - An Exchange Between Our Fallen Humanity And The Redeemed Humanity in Christ.
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Grace - A Participation
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: Grace - Our Participation in the Redeemed Humanity in Christ.
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Participation in the Divine Life
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: The Incarnation And Our Participation in The Divine Life.
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Atonement
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: The Orthodox Appraisal of the Doctrine of the Atonement.
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A Relationship With God?
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: What is the nature of a relationship with God? It is commonplace in our modern parlance to speak of a �personal relationship� which is either redundant, or a way of weakening the true meaning of �personal.�
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Reflections in Christ - Disease and Holy Communion
Date Posted: 12/3/2009
Description: A huge amount of controversy has arisen recently over the way Christians receive Holy Communion, particularly in the wake of what some are calling the "H1N1 pandemic."
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Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev - Christ the Conqueror of Hell
Date Posted: 10/19/2009
Description: The Descent of Christ into Hades in Eastern and Western Theological Traditions A lecture delivered at St Mary�s Cathedral, Minneapolis, USA, on 5 November 2002.
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On The Fullness of The Faith
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: "I prefer to use the term �fullness� when describing the Orthodox faith because it is far more explanatory than simply saying that we are the �true Church,� etc. �Fullness,� of course does not deny this, but it moves us onto more fruitful ground."
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The Death of Christ - Fr Stephen Freeman
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: A recent comment posed a fundamental question with regard to the Christian faith: Why do we believe that Christ had to die? What is the purpose of His death on the cross?
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Essence and Energy
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: "If you have been disturbed in the past by this debate that has taken place long time ago before St Gregory of Palmas, be sure that you are not the first because you are in a long line of people who asked this question: What is it all about?"
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The Incarnation
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: The Incarnation of the Son the Logos, has provided us with our knowledge of the Father, and rooted us in the Divine Life.
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The Full Humanity of Jesus
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: The Logos took flesh to be in us (Jn 1:14), and ҩn usՠmeans in our human life here on this earth.
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One Storey Universe
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "I 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 we believe in is removed from our everyday affairs. Often what we are left with is a collection of doctrines to which, for one reason or another, we have given allegiance. But there remains the two-storey universe."
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The Judgement of a Merciful God
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: Archbishop Lazar Puhalo points out that much modern American piety toward God is based in a misconception of God as a ruthless judge.
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The Orthodox Appraisal of the Atonement
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: The most eloquent statement of this appeal of God�s love is contained in the wellknown passage from the Epistle to Diognetus. (2nd Century)
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The Witness of the Fathers to the Doctrine the Holy Trinity
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: From the first three centuries it is clear from tradition that God is triune.
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DR George Bebawi: Biography
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: Dr. Bebawi was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1938. Dr. Bebawi studied theology, Bible, church history and more at the Coptic Orthodox Theological College and received his Bachelor�s of Divinity in 1961. He was awarded a scholarship and studied at Cambridge University, where he received his M.Lit. and PhD in 1970.
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Prospects, part 1: Ebb Tide
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "It was 8 years of some objectives that were fulfilled, but also � in his own words � 8 years of many hopes that were disappointed."
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Prospects, part 2: Bad News before the Good
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "It is this loyalty, this old-fashioned love of people and the land, and this devotion to the native Natural Law written in America�s past and her majestic landscape that stand, as the man from Macedonia, as the modern call to the Orthodox Church: �Come and help us!� It is this love of the American people and the American land that the Orthodox Church must travail toward before the Church can lead American sinners to Jesus."
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Prospects, part 3: The American Genius
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "When Orthodoxy arrived here, what it tried to do, in a sort of naﶥ optimism or friendliness, was to look for commonalities and similarities with the native American religion, its peculiar Protestantism. In doing so, Orthodox missionary-immigrants discovered certain beliefs that appeared to be articles of the Nicene Creed, and certain cultural manifestations (e.g., crosses in the churches) that appeared to sound familiar from Holy Tradition"
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Prospects, part 4: The American Gospel � Orthodoxy at the end of the Sawdust Trail
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "The American Gnostic experience is not harmless, as much as our modern unaffiliated, anti-authoritarian spiritualists fervently believe. It always turns out to be full of peril and jeopardy, and is the culprit for much of the nation's anxiety, depression, immaturity and irrationality."
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The Presentation of The Orthodox Gospel to the American Genius (Parts 1 - 4)
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: The accumulation of the four part series of American orthodoxy.
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The Orthodox Christian
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: Excerpts from The Faith We Hold by Archbishop Paul of Finland
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The River Of Fire
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "The River of Fire" was the keynote address delivered at the Orthodox Youth Conference sponsored by the parish of St. Nectarios American Orthodox Church at Seattle, Washington during July 22-25, 1980.
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My God, My God Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "The mystery of Christ cannot be explored by using Old Testament texts alone. If the OT is used alone, we miss the very heart of the New Testament."
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Christ's Death: A Rescue Mission, Not a Payment For Sins
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "Because we don't owe a debt of guilt for Adam's sin, Jesus' suffering wasn't a payment to the Father. Every day, Christians pray "deliver us from evil," not knowing that the Greek original reads "the evil," that is, "the evil one." The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins. The whole drama takes place between Him and the Father, and there's no role for the evil one."
Lectures
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The Fatherhood of God
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "The Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is the divine revelation of divine love, and the inner movement of this love:"
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The Trinity � The Ground of Our Being
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "How did the word �person� come to theology?"
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Trinitarian Love
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "What You Must Know About the Trinity."
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The Paradox of the Mystery of the Incarnation
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "The Son by whom all things were made became one among what He created. The Son of God by the Father without a mother became the Son of man by a mother without a father. The Word who is God before all time became flesh to live under time. The maker of the sun came to live under the sun. He Who fills the world lays in a manger, infinite and great is God but became a tiny human and in the form of a servant; this was in such a way that neither was His greatness diminished by His tininess, nor was His tininess overcome by His greatness:"
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The Passions: enemy or Friend?
Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: "Consider the word �wonder.� We have come to a place full of wonder, this ancient pilgrimage town of Vezelay. I can recall very vividly my first visit here when I was a student at university. It was in the year 1954. I was traveling with a party of fellow students in a lorry. It was from the back of that lorry that I had my first view of Vezelay � a city set on a hill � and at the heart of the summit of the city, a great church. Each time I saw Vezelay, as I happened again last night when I came up from the railway station, my spirits rise, and so does my sense of wonder. I have been back ten or twelve times since 1954. Then on entering the basilica, standing in the narthex, you are faced with the marvelous sculpture of Christ in glory, which surely awakens wonder in the many pilgrims who come here."
Blogs, Columns and Misc. Writings
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Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: Fr. Ted Bobosh is a priest in the Orthodox Church in America. He has degrees from the Ohio State University, St. Vladimir�s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Fordham University. He is the parish priest of St. Paul the Apostle Church in Dayton, OH. He has authored several books, and was for 12 years an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton, Religious Studies Department. The blogs which are posted here are his meditations and observations as well as offering some materials from others which have influenced his thinking. He welcomes you to engage in reflecting on these topics by offering your thoughts as a fellow sojourner in this God�s beloved world.
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Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: Glory to God for All Things is a blogsite written and maintained by Fr. Stephen Freeman. All unsigned posts are written by him. Fr. Stephen is an Orthodox Priest who lives and serves in East Tennessee. A convert from Anglicanism, where he was a priest for 18 years, he was ordained to the Orthodox priesthood in 1999. The priest on the left of the picture is Fr. Stephen.
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Date Posted: 6/3/2009
Description: A blog with articles covering topics that include American prospects for Orthodoxy, Art and Literature, Books, Christendom, Current Affairs, Ethics, Lenten Questions, Modernity, Pop Culture, Prayer and Religion.
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Date Posted: 9/9/2009
Description: This summer we started a internet ministry at Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Greenville, SC putting together a comprehensive web site on Orthodox Prayer. It is has material for the beginner as well as one who is exploring deeply Orthodox Prayer life. We have focused primarily on the teachings of the Church Fathers and included numerous articles and books. It also includes prayers for special occasion, commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, the Jesus Prayer and more. It is more than an indexing of materials as it provided guidance, from an Orthodox perspective, about how to pray. We did this because we saw prayer as one of the important elements for the spiritual development of our parish. We welcome you suggestions and additions.
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Orthodox Christianity.org
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: A directory of Orthodox Internet resources.
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Orthodox Search.com
Date Posted: 10/3/2009
Description: Full text search on the Orthodox Internet.
