Fr John Romanides was one of the last century’s most important Orthodox theologians, and this essay anticipates many of his later formulations. He argues here that we cannot understand the remedy for sin unless we correctly understand sin itself, and to do this we must abandon the narrowly “moral” understanding of sin that has been predominant in the West, … [Read more...] about Original Sin According to St. Paul
In Depth
The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience
Read at a conference on “Philosophy and Mysticism,” Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, May 2014, and the first annual meeting of the Society of Orthodox Philosophers in Europe, Fulda, Germany, June 2014. Worship as the Repository of the Faith Eastern Orthodoxy holds what may appear to the non-Orthodox to be a remarkably exalted view of the status and … [Read more...] about The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience
Nature and City in the Greek East
The poet seems to suggest that we can now find the natural city only in the imagination. The bridge for the modernist poet is now an interior, and even a psychological function. It was not always so. Source: Πεμτουσια (Pemtousia) By Bruce Seraphim Foltz The beauty of the city is not as heretofore scattered over it in patches, but covers the whole area like a robe woven … [Read more...] about Nature and City in the Greek East