Tag: Maximus the Confessor
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Nomadland: The Heavenly Homecoming of the Nomads
by Dionysios Skliris | български | ქართული | Română | Русский | Српски The original Greek version of this article was published in the site “Polymeros kai Polytropos” of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies. The film Nomadland (2020) offers a spiritual glimpse into America, especially into the Western states, with the help of Chloé […]
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Rethinking Patristic Categories? A Response to Petre Maican
by Fr. David G. Bissias If it were not well-intentioned, Petre Maican’s article “Image and Likeness and Profound Cognitive Disability: Rethinking Patristic Categories” (published on Public Orthodoxy, July 2, 2019), could be offensive. In the final analysis, it is simply misguided due to several failures: of coherency, doctrinal perspective, and a failure to grasp the […]
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Would the True “Nature” Please Stand Up?
by Rev. Dr. Vasileios Thermos This essay is part of a series stemming from the ongoing research project “Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age,” which is a joint venture by scholars from Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the University of Exeter, funded by […]
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Meeting Michelle: Pastoral and Theological Reflections on a Transgender Inmate
by Fr. Richard René This essay is part of a series stemming from the ongoing research project “Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age,” which is a joint venture by scholars from Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the University of Exeter, funded by the […]
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Learning to Love: St. Maximus on the Virtues
by Emma Brown Dewhurst When we try to be virtuous, what are we trying to do? People have different ideas about what the virtues are, and some virtues even seem to contradict each other. Some people consider justice to be a virtue, but, as St Isaac the Syrian points out in his Homily 51, isn’t […]
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The Word of God and World Religions
By Brandon Gallaher (This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on “The Contribution of the Orthodox Church to the Realization of Justice, Freedom, Brotherhood, and Love among Peoples.”) There is no one […]