300

Went and saw the movie 300 with my friends, Tripp and Trish, and Justin and Mae, and Sarah.  They had reconstituted the Justice League of Nerdy Geeks (or is it Needy Gerks, I can’t remember) for an outing to the movies, but unfortunately I did not get the email till I got home (can’t access [...]

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Photios (the Lesser [wink]) on the Divine Persons-Essence Distinction and Orthodoxy

Photios may object to my posting his reply (as opposed to a polished paper) in a comment thread on Dr. L’s site, but he summarizes quite nicely I think the Orthodox understanding of Person and essence:
Are you clear, from an Orthodox perspective, that there is no divine essence abstraced from person? That the divine nature [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles CX

The Power of the Cross
I am reminded of my daughters’ mortality these past several days as they struggle with colds and illnesses.  While we’ve taken them to see the doctor, and they’ve gotten some antibiotics, I also sign the cross on and over them each night.  Last night, when I got home from teaching logic, [...]

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Benedict Seraphim Replies (He Says in the Third Person)

Dr. Michael Liccione’s ecumenical project has recently centered on a couple of things: that the filioque can be retained within Orthodox norms, and that the Roman Catholic understanding of the development of doctrine (DD) can be mapped on to Orthodox theological understandings without contradiction. He argues the latter thusly .
In terms of authentic DD, as [...]

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Dr. Liccione Replies

Quite frankly I was rather surprised not only that Dr. Liccione actually replied so quickly to my post from earlier this afternoon, but even that he replied at all in his: Essence/energies: a reply to Benedict Seraphim. After all, this blog is a little-visited backwater of the blogosphere, and well, I figured he would [...]

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The DD Dog That Just Don’t Hunt, or Why the DD Ecumenical Overture Doesn’t Work

In a previous post, I referenced the first installment of Dr. Michael Liccione’s two-part post on the development of doctrine and how, in his view, Roman Catholics and Orthodox can find common ground on this matter without, he thinks, giving up their distinctives.
Well, several days ago, Dr. L followed up with his second post on [...]

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Bow Your Heads Unto the Lord, Ye Catechumens

Due to circumstance and illness, since our family entered the catechumenate on the afternoon of the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we’ve not been at the Divine Liturgy as a whole family at All Saints. My wife and daughters spent a bit more than two weeks with family and upon their return the girls brought home [...]

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Herodotus’ Account of the Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae

For you 300 fans (whose ranks I hope to join soon once I see the flick), the account of the Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae.  From Herodotus’ The Persian Wars (Bk VII.201-234)
[7.201] King Xerxes pitched his camp in the region of Malis called Trachinia, while on their side the Greeks occupied the straits. These [...]

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Classicist Victor Davis Hanson on the Movie “300″

VDH’s Private Papers::History and the Movie “300″
300, of course, makes plenty of allowance for popular tastes, changing and expanding the story to meet the protocols of the comic book genre. The film was not shot on location outdoors, but in a studio using the so-called “digital backlot” technique of sometimes placing the actors against blue [...]

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The Akathist Hymn

Archimandrite Ephrem has a translation of The Akathist Hymn as well as other translations of St. Romanos’ kontakia that are worth checking out.

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