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- Full Table of Contents with Links, 2025 Issue
(Photo: Library at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai) Note: A few articles randomly are available for public view without subscription, and if you need a waiver of the subscription fee, please be in touch at priestpauls@pm.me. All proceeds support site maintenance and the Paideia Conference; all work on the journal is volunteer. May the Lord Read More … - The Inner Work of the Spiritual Life
By Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) This is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. (John 17:3) μεταμορφοῦσθαι εν τῇ ἀνακαινώσει τοῦ νοὸς ὑμῶν,[1] (Romans 12:2) “Be transformed in the renewal of your nous.” Metanoia The inner work of the spiritual life is the real substance of being an Orthodox Christian. Salvation, eternal life, is about Read More … - Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality, edited by Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura,and Aristotle Papanikolaou(Fordham University Press, November 2022).
A review in the form of an open letter by Dr. David C. Ford, Professor of Church History, St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary to the editors and contributors. (Editor’s note: This long-form letter is edited slightly here for length.) I would also like to affirm at the start that I share with you your deep Read More … - From the Editor: New Books Received, and Readings on Traditional Orthodox Critiques of Modern Western Society
NEW BOOKS RECEIVEDGenesis, Creation, and Early Man, 3rd Edition, by Hieromonk Seraphim Rose, edited by Abbot Christian Damascene (Platina: St. Herman Press, 2025). $45. Out of print for a number of years in its earlier versions, the 3rd edition is now out in a beautifully well-illustrated (mainly with icons) version with some updates in the Read More … - Just War vs. Necessary War: Was Ivan Ilyin Right or a Fanatic?
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University O Lord save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance; Grant victory to the Kings over the Barbarians, and by the virtue of Thy Cross preserve Thy Commonwealth. That early version of the familiar Troparion to the Cross expresses an Orthodox Christian view of symphonia between Church and State. This Read More … - Passions as Essential: The “Fordhamite” Project to Americanize Orthodoxy
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University Our golden arches do not represent our most troubling impact on other cultures; rather, it is how we are flattening the landscape of the human psyche itself. We are engaged in the grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of the human mind…. [I]n other places in the world, Read More … - Sobornost and ‘Sympathetic Comprehension’: St. Maria of Paris, Anna Julia Cooper, and Christ’s Second Love Command
By Rico Vitz, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University The depth of beauty is often concealed by the elegance with which it presents itself. This is true both of natural beauty and of moral beauty. It is also true of the spiritual beauty of Christ’s second love command: that is, the call to love one’s Read More … - Who is the New Israel?By Priest John W. Morris, Ph.D.Editor’s Note: This article is part of a two-article Paideia Forum, designed to present differing perspectives on issues of note in Orthodox Christianity around the world. These pairings are not meant to equate the differing views or to question any aspects of Orthodox Tradition and Dogmatics. For the other article Read More …
- Beyond Intellectual Dhimmitude: Orthodoxy and “The Jews”Chris Humphrey, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This article is part of a two-article Paideia Forum, designed to present differing perspectives on issues of note in Orthodox Christianity around the world. These pairings are not meant to equate the differing views or to question any aspects of Orthodox Tradition and Dogmatics. For the other article in this Read More …
- The 50th Anniversary of Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. From “It’s a Small World” to the “Synagogue of Satan”: The Role of American Civil Religion in Global Apostasy
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University A recent book on former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles displays an epic cover photo of him striding across an airport tarmac toward a plane, confidently bound for some diplomatic or covert mission against Communism, clad in a homburg hat and long coat, his uniform as a Read More …