Posted in Why Orthodoxy? on Monday, 31 October 2005 | Comments Off
[Previous post: Part I]
The Orthodox Church is the fulfillment of the doctrine in which I’d been raised and educated.
There is an oversimplification of Orthodox doctrine which runs something like this: Orthodox hold to the ancient, unchanged doctrine of the apostles without addition (Roman Catholicism) or subtraction (Protestantism). Orthodox claim that with purgatory, the immaculate [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 26 October 2005 | 4 Comments »
Any person who is on the road to becoming Orthodox will have to eventually come to grips with the place of icons and the practice of their veneration. There are, of course, many biblical and theological arguments to be made in favor of the practice and its theology. Two important such arguments are [...]
Posted in Why Orthodoxy? on Tuesday, 25 October 2005 | Comments Off
I have recorded my peregrine spiritual journey elsewhere (see also here and here), so I will not attempt to recreate yet another account of my Orthodox journey. Rather, I want to simply speak to some of the things that Orthodoxy means to me, who am still as yet just outside the doors. I’ve [...]
Posted in Kansas on Monday, 17 October 2005 | Comments Off
Although not necessarily known for their cantankerousness or rowdiness, Kansans are not to be messed with. Heck, we even require gun ownership in some parts. And it definitely means you can’t dress up like an idiot and try to rob a store, or you will be mocked and ridiculed by old ladies [...]
Posted in Scripture on Friday, 14 October 2005 | Comments Off
Al Kimmel, recently received into the Catholic Church from ECUSA, has written a post, “Finding Eucharist in the Bible” in which he takes to task a Protestant blogger who rejects the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist because “it’s not in the Bible.” Says the erstwhile “Fr. Al”:
The problem, of course, is that Steve is [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy on Friday, 14 October 2005 | 2 Comments »
In my interaction with other bloggers, I find myself coming again and again to the Protestant dogma of sola scriptura. As can be seen on this blog, this is something about which I’ve thought often and wrote about almost as often.
But one problem of sola scriptura that I touched on in a previous post [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Wednesday, 12 October 2005 | 2 Comments »
What a morning. I woke–wide-eyed, mind-racing awake, mind you–at three a.m. My normal start is five a.m., but I needed to get up at four today to do some school work. So after laying awake for a bit, I realized it wasn’t going to do me any good to try to roll [...]
Posted in Theology on Wednesday, 12 October 2005 | Comments Off
From Fr. George Florovsky, St Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers (also here):
Actually the whole teaching of St. Gregory presupposes the action of the Personal God. God moves toward man and embraces him by His own “grace” and action, without leaving that φος απροσιτον [light unapproachable], in which He eternally abides. The [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Tuesday, 11 October 2005 | Comments Off
Mary Midgley’s Proud not to be a doctor (hat tip to Jason), is a good reminder of what the heck I’m doing at Loyola anyway.
I am not saying that the PhD training isn’t useful. It provides the indispensable skills of the lawyer. It shows you how to deal with difficult arguments, which is necessary in [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Monday, 10 October 2005 | Comments Off
Changes and Sameness
With the onset of the autumnal weather, out came the fall decorations (including some Halloween items like the string of pumpkin lights currently adorning the railing of our front porch). Also with this seasonal change in schematic decor came a little bit of my wife’s OCD with regard to “minimalizing” in our [...]
