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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Searching for Our Human Face: The Nihilism of the Voluntarist Will
Originally posted on Eclectic Orthodoxy:
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. One gets the sense from contemporary pedagogy that freedom and rights are the most precious things that a culture can bestow on its people. Young people know all about MLK…
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Sola Scriptura, Holy Tradition, and the Hermeneutics of Christ
by Robert F. Fortuin It is not uncommon to hear Eastern Orthodox Christians assert that ‘holy tradition is the context of scripture’—by this is meant that the Bible cannot be separated from the practice and theology of the community of … Continue reading
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“But our true Mother Jesus, he alone bears us for joy and for endless life, blessed may he be”
Our Mother in nature, our Mother in grace, because he wanted altogether to become our Mother in all things, made the foundation of his work most humbly and most mildly in the maiden’s womb. And he revealed that in the … Continue reading
“For when our love for this present world dies, its sufferings increase”
Dearly beloved, the reading from the holy gospel about the sower requires no explanation, but only a word of warning. In fact the explanation has been given by Truth himself, and it cannot be disputed by a frail human being. However, … Continue reading
“For in our Mother Christ we profit and increase, and in mercy he reforms and restores us”
God the blessed Trinity, who is everlasting being, just as he is eternal from without beginning, just so was it in his eternal purpose to create human nature, which fair nature was fist prepared for his own Son, the second … Continue reading
Searching for Our Human Face: The False Selves of Modernity
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by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In A Secular Age, Charles Taylor draws a distinction between the modern and pre-modern self. Here is how he describes a possible experience of falling in love for the pre-modern…
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“Our Lord God cannot in his own judgment forgive, because he cannot be angry—that would be impossible”
For it was a great marvel, constantly shown to the soul in all the revelations, and the soul was contemplating with great diligence that our Lord God cannot in his own judgment forgive, because he cannot be angry—that would be … Continue reading
