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Orthodoxy: Ancient Orthodoxy and the Postmodern World
Read more: Orthodoxy: Ancient Orthodoxy and the Postmodern WorldWhen does the modern world begin – and what makes it modern? When I was a child in the 50’s, “modern” meant the world of home appliances and chrome-laden automobiles. The modern world beckoned us to a future with personal helicopters and visi-phones. Today the visi-phones are everywhere (and do things we never imagined). I’m […]
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How the Scriptures Became the Scriptures
Read more: How the Scriptures Became the ScripturesHow did the Scriptures become the Scriptures? In particular, how did early Christians decide which books would be included in the Scriptures and which books would not – for there were far more writings of the time that were set aside than those that were accepted as being Scripture? Interestingly, the process did not happen […]
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Passionately Drunk
Read more: Passionately DrunkThe Philokalia, that wonderful collection of writings by the fathers on prayer of the heart, has as its full title, The Philokalia of the Neptic Saints gathered from our Holy Theophoric Fathers, through which, by means of the philosophy of ascetic practice and contemplation, the intellect is purified, illumined, and made perfect. Little wonder it is […]
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Notes from the Underground
Read more: Notes from the Underground
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Hiding and the Hidden God
Read more: Hiding and the Hidden GodI have written a number of times about the “hiddenness” of God. It is a very important aspect of how He makes Himself known (though I know that is a paradox). His hiddenness both protects our freedom and removes compulsion from our relationship with God. There can be no compulsion where there is love. I […]
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Hate Your Father?
Read more: Hate Your Father?Do you hate your father? Do you hate your mother? Christ says: “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). Of course, any Christian with a modicum of understanding knows that such […]
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Emptiness
Read more: EmptinessOur life in the Body of Christ begins with our Baptism into Christ’s death (Romans 6:3). This phrase explains what it means to be Baptized “into the Body of Christ” (I Corinithians 12:13). To exist in the Body of Christ is to do so by existing in the death of Christ, as well as His […]
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The Greatest Generation
Read more: The Greatest GenerationA recent conversation within the comments gives the occasion for this post. The heart of the question – which is more difficult – marriage or monasticism? My own thoughts are that everything is extremely difficult. In our modern world, even the most fundamental structures of society have been eroded. In American culture we have re-imagined […]
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The Cross of Christ and the Way of Life
Read more: The Cross of Christ and the Way of LifeThe Mystery of our Salvation is contained within the Cross of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. And it is correct to say the “mystery of our salvation,” for what is contained there is more than a cosmic transaction (Christ pays for our sins): it is also the whole of our way of life. It […]
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Everything Is In Motion
Read more: Everything Is In MotionFor years I have been told that the meaning of the word hamartia (translated “sin”) means “to miss the mark.” This is certainly accurate. However, the image I have always had in mind has been an arrow aimed at a target and missing the bull’s eye. Thus I have thought of my life as a […]
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Matthew, I can see how what I said earlier might have sounded confusing. My reframing isn’t epistemic but ontological. Sometimes…
Thanks so much for the comprehensive response Christian. I understand your position much better now.
Christian, Yes. Indeed. Hauerwas famously said, “The first job of the Church is to be the Church.” When we are…
Matthew, I couldn’t agree more with your warning. The Church becoming the polis — in the Constantinian sense — has…
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Thanks Christian. Where do we find that “has always already been” reality?