Tag Archives: Eastern Orthodox

The Eucharistic Dogma as Sacramental Identification

Posted on 25 March 2020 by

It is remarkable that for hundreds of years the Church did not find it necessary to formally dogmatize a particular definition of the Holy Eucharist. Despite real differences of expres­sion, significant conflict between theologians and churches did not arise. The … Continue reading →

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Transubstantiation: Maybe Dositheos Got It Right

Posted on 23 March 2020 by

by the Very Rev. Christiaan Kappes, S.L.D., Ph.L., Ph.D. Just out of curiosity, I tried my search engine on googlebooks with the word “transubstan­tiation.” Number two in my search was a howler: The History of Popish Transubstantia­tion (1840). Again, number … Continue reading →

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St Mark Eugenicus and the Immaculate Burning Bush

Posted on 18 November 2018 by

We jump from St Gregory the Theologian in the 4th century to two Byzantine theologians in the 15th century—Joseph Bryennius, a vigorous supporter of hesychastic theology, and St Mark Eugenicus, the resolute voice of Orthodoxy at the Council of Florence. … Continue reading →

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Christian Marriage in Byzantium

Posted on 16 October 2014 by
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Dumitru Staniloae: The Knowledge of Faith

Posted on 25 September 2014 by

Dumitru Staniloae begins his chapter on the knowledge of God by distinguishing between rational knowledge and apophatic knowledge; and over the course of the chapter he unpacks, contrasts, and synthesizes these two forms of knowledge. I was surprised, therefore, when … Continue reading →

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St Vincent of Lérins: Doctrine Grows to Remain the Same

Posted on 24 August 2014 by

“One only understands the Vincentian canon,” Thomas Guarino writes, “if one sees that the truth of semper, ubique, et ab omnibus is known and preserved in actu ecclesiae, in the living and dynamic life of the church in all of … Continue reading →

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