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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Vladimir ShokhinInstitute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences It was not until the mid-20th century with the provocative challenge from Charles Hartshorne (1948, 1984)[1] that the timelessness of God became a general topic of discussion in Western theology. St. Augustine had insisted that time was created with the world[2] and therefore cannot not be Read More …
By the Very Rev. Maximos Constas 1. On the Nature of Christian Teaching Authentic teaching is a vocation. It is a calling. To teach seriously is to lay hands on what is most vital in another human being; it is to seek and engage the student’s innermost life. There is no craft apart from Read More …
By Jesse Cone The “Inimical” Claim In 1986 the Catholic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe described the idea of “the self” as “inimical to Christianity.”[1] This idea, that we human beings “aren’t (mere) members of a biological species, but selves,” is not only common today, but assumed. In our everyday discourse we talk of discovering our selves, Read More …