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Five Online Works by Alexander Kalomiros

Posted in Orthodoxy on Friday, 30 September 2005 | Comments Off

Figures of Things Celestial, offers a theological basis for iconography (pdf file)
River of Fire, offers an Orthodox soteriology
Against False Union (or as a Word doc file here), offers a criticism of ecumenism
The Touchstone (pdf file; sequel to Against False Union)
The Six Dawns (a patristic understanding of Genesis)

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The Fatherhood Chronicles LXXXIII

Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Friday, 30 September 2005 | 1 Comment »

On Monasticism
The late M. Scott Peck, who died of cancer this past weekend, said about marriage that it is a monastery of two. If one has read the Rule of St. Benedict, one immediately can agree.
Our parish, well before it became Orthodox, once had a vowed community of celibate brothers. And given [...]

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Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina: On the Mind of the Fathers

Posted in Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina on Thursday, 29 September 2005 | Comments Off

“Spiritual life does not mean being in the clouds while saying the Jesus Prayer or going through the various motions. It means discovering the laws of this spiritual life as they apply to one’s own position, one’s situation. This comes over the years by attentive reading of the Holy Fathers with a notebook, [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles LXXXII

Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Wednesday, 28 September 2005 | 1 Comment »

Being Saved by My Wife and Daughters
I can’t believe it’s been a bit over two months since I last devoted any blog-attention to fatherhood–though appropriately the last Fatherhood Chronicle was a posting of some pictures of Delaina’s birth.
It has been clear to me again, recently–regrettably, I lose sight of this too often–that my salvation is [...]

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Jesus the Logician

Posted in Philosophy on Tuesday, 27 September 2005 | Comments Off

Dallas Willard makes some extremely important points about Jesus the Logician.
Few today will have seen the words “Jesus” and “logician” put together to form a phrase or sentence, unless it would be to deny any connection between them at all. The phrase “Jesus the logician” is not ungrammatical, any more than is “Jesus the carpenter.” [...]

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Audio of St. John the Wonderworker’s Voice

Posted in St John the Wonderworker on Wednesday, 7 September 2005 | 1 Comment »

From the St. John the Wonderworker website comes a brief (about three minute) excerpt from one of St. John’s sermon, which can be accessed here (opens in Windows Media). It’s in Russian, so unless you can understand spoken Russian, it will be unintelligible. But it’s incredible to hear the voice of a 20th [...]

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