About Hypatia, here's a post by Orthodox philosopher David Bentley Hart:
http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2010/06/the-perniciously-persistent-myths-of-hypatia-and-the-great-library
Also this very good historical analysis by a rather bri…
"Orthodox teenagers were speaking disparagingly about forms of worship they had experienced at an ecumenical service.
Girl: 'They even had guitars in church.'
Another girl: 'We had to sing - and mime! - a "harvest" thanksgiving chorus about MacDona…
Here's also an aggregated list of the topic on Tasbeha Forums:
http://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/14739/oopnevma-vs-pipnevma/p1
http://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/14084/theosis-in-the-liturgy
http://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/56…
Wow, so someone sent me a link to ElKeraza and Anba Epiphanius has a beautiful article entitled "Children of God" that was published last year:
"When Jesus desired to explain the extent of our relationship with him, after blessing us with adoption …
Here's another except that also questions Theosis (indirectly):
(18) THE BODY OF THE LORD CHRIST IN THE CHURCH AND EUCHARIST.
Question:
Is it true that the body of the Lord Christ, i.e., the Church, is the same body on the altar and the same body…
There are a few other books (other than Man's Deification) that also speak out against Theosis. In "MANY YEARS WITH PEOPLE’S QUESTIONS PART II:Theological & Dogmatic Questions":
(27) WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE?
Ques…
Btw (part 2) The reason I mention the change to lex credendi is because Stephen Davis seems to suggest that we're at a watershed moment (maybe we've already passed the point of no return):
"While it is unclear how this debate will resolve itself i…
Thanks @ophadece I think if a change is required it would mean drawing from all the other Orthodox Churches...the thing is that change has already occurred but we have drawn influences from islam and in modern times, evangelicalism. Synodically we a…
Mention in hymns might exist in a handful but I think three things also contribute to their incoherence and their ability to transmit Orthodox Theology:
1) The frequency of use and emphasis. We might hear a few hymns or snippets that could be inter…
From Febe Armanios' book "Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt":
As Huda Lutfi argues for the Mamluk period, by the fifteenth century, it appears that many Coptic popular rituals, which were often celebrated by Muslim Egyptians as well, had been di…
Also it also seems that unless we hear about Theosis in our liturgical life, in our liturgical poetry, and in all the expressions of the Church's life, we might still deny the teaching even if it's actively taught in classrooms and sermons.
If you do a google search on Deification in the Coptic Orthodox Church, you'll find a few links to HH's book "Man's Deification". Seeing that the books are widely available and even promoted by most Coptic Orthodox Parishes, it seems that most of th…
Please don't let the following links inflame your passions. Strangely, It seems that there are some (not all) Evangelical groups which seem describe our Church and all Orthodox Churches as non-Christian. As others have mentioned in this thread, we c…
Maybe he's hinting at all of Creation being transfigured and restored because of the human being living out the priestly call? Like maybe the consequence of deification is that even nature is restored and given life.
Saint Isaiah says something cur…
We also tend to think of "kataphatic" West vs "Apophatic" East, or Scholastic West vs Mysterious East. St Thomas also gets a bad rep for "Scholasticism" but here are two quotes that show that he was not ignorant of apophatic theology:
And yet the…
Aquinas and Orthodoxy
by Fr Andrew Louth
also
"The oppositional theologizing that had dominated Orthodox discourse in the twentieth century is...a sign of weakness rather than strength - in Plato's words, a 'failing of the wing' (Plato, Phaedrus,…
Jean Vanier, Untiring Advocate For People With Disabilities, Wins Templeton Prize
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/jean-vanier-templeton-prize_n_6842884.html
"People are healed and become more human as they enter into real relationships wit…
http://www.stsilouan.org/priestmusings/Lenten Diary 2015 Week One.html
[Continued]
Friday in Clean Week. The first Akathist Hymn of this Great Lent. At first a sprinkling of people but as the Hymn progresses, they gather. The Mother of God. I hea…
http://www.stsilouan.org/priestmusings/Lenten Diary 2015 Week One.html
Lenten Diary 2015 Week One
Forgiveness Sunday. Golden cloths and shimmering candle-light. People standing together, a few, then many; intimately, quietly. Many faces, many name…