they would have found little reason to write of him. Now the scriptural authors employ various terms to declare the unique intimacy of Christ with God. In these expositions Jewish and Greek and even Roman thought terms play their part. Passages like the opening sentences of the fourth Gospel,...
Those who remained within Christianity chose the Russian or Greek Orthodox churches, or isolated themselves on the extreme wing of traditional Catholicism. Protestantism was not an option, being by definition anti-traditional, though with the example of Eliot’s high-church Anglicanism, a chance was...
Welcome We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding to lead a life worthy of the Lord, f
A number of Greek and Latin Church Fathers wrote commentaries on the Hexaemeron, preceded by the mediating work of Philo with his synthesis of Judaic theology and Hellenistic philosophy. Their insights are elaborated by comments from more recent Orthodox theologians. Although a variety of readings ...
4.On Union with God and the Life Theoria, 3 (www.greekorthodoxchurch.org). 5. The Four Hundred Chapters on LoveI, 86 (inSt Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings.Trans. by G.C. Berthold. New York, 1985). 6.Philokalia(vol. 3). He cites Proverbs ...
Aim to be excellent in all areas of life — spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally.The Greek word for excellence in the Bible is areteand is traditionally associated with manliness. Obviously, the physical aspect of losing fat and gaining muscle is the most noticeable and effective, but ...
Last week, a few colleagues and I had the opportunity to assess how true this may be. On Sunday morning we visited the Sretenskii Monastery in downtown Moscow. Like many other institutions of the Orthodox Church, it was destroyed during the Soviet era. In November 2013, a decision was mad...
a name for rock. It is a Greek word for rock. It’s so common to us because there’s so many. Everybody knows people named Peter, but there was no name Peter then. This is an invention of a new name, and the word for rock is Petra in the Greek, and it’s a feminine noun....
In New Testament Greek, a language that was used widely throughout the Roman Empire of St. Valentine’s life, there werefour types of love:eros(romantic love),storge(familial love),philia(deep friendship love), andagape, the deep, sacrificial love for all humans, all of humanity (the kind...
The young Mill learnt the classics, classical utilitarianism 19 logic, political economy, jurisprudence and psychology – starting with Greek at the age of three. Mill suffered a deep depression in his twenties. He recovered partly through reading poetry. Like his father, Mill worked for the East...