From my favorite Orthodox blog, Prof. Peter Gilbert’s De Unione Ecclesiarum –
I finally have some good news to report. Today I received an e-mail from the Managing Editor of the journal Communio, informing me that the Summer 2009 issue is now, at last, in print, and that they have decided to feature my article on [...]
Archive for the ‘dogma’ Category
‘Not an Anthologist: John Bekkos as a Reader of the Fathers’
Posted in Articles, Church History, East/West, Ecclesiology, Fathers, Filioque, Links, Orthodox Ecumenism, Polemicism, Quotes, Reunion, Rome, Saints, Schism, Theology, dogma on October 30, 2009 | 97 Comments »
Fr Alvin Kimel on the “Twelve Differences”
Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, East/West, Ecclesiology, Links, Orthodox Ecumenism, Palamism, Primacy, Quotes, Rome, Soteriology, dogma on August 12, 2009 | 58 Comments »
Orrologion has posted the original text of the “Twelve Differences between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches” by Teófilo de Jesús along with excellent responses to each of the twelve points from Fr Alvin Kimel, of Pontifications* fame, who in his extended period of discernment after leaving the Episcopal Church studied the claims of both Roman [...]
Benedictine Ecumenical Calibration
Posted in Articles, Catholic Ecumenism, Ecclesiology, Rome, Theology, dogma on August 5, 2009 | 12 Comments »
From the blog Gregorian Rite Catholic:
Benedict XVI is “on board” with ecumenism, but he calibrates it carefully. It is a refreshing change from the near-indifferentism that characterized the previous pontificate.
The first substantial ecumenical address he gave was in Cologne. And everyone was all aflutter when he said this: “On the other hand, this unity does [...]
In other ecumenical news …
Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, Joint Documents, News, Orthodox Ecumenism, Rome, Schism, dogma on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has decided to bow out of the Meeting of the Combined International Theological Committee for the Dialogue between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Church, which is to be held in Cyprus in October.
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church reached its decision, according to the Greek Orthodox news agency Romfea, [...]
“A Confession of Faith Against Ecumenism”
Posted in Church History, East/West, Ecclesiology, Links, Orthodox Ecumenism, Polemicism, Quotes, Schism, dogma on July 18, 2009 | 69 Comments »
Via Fr Anthony Chadwick, I present “ΟΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ Κατά του Οικουμενισμού” (“A Confession of Faith Against Ecumenism” (original Greek text and unofficial English translation), signed by a number of metropolitans, bishops, clergy and monks of the Orthodox Church of Greece.
I tend to agree with Fr Chadwick’s commentary on the text (link, see July 18) [...]
Fr Reardon on “Anselmian soteriology”
Posted in Articles, Church History, East/West, Fathers, Saints, Scripture, Soteriology, Theology, dogma on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
From Fr Pat’s Pastoral Ponderings, June 28, 2009:
Saint Anselm, as we have seen, begins his reflections on soteriology—the theology of salvation—by addressing the question: What is sin? This he identifies as the affront to the honor of God. He then goes on to inquire: What is required to satisfy the offended honor of God. This [...]
“The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church” (4)
Posted in Articles, Church History, Mary, Saints, Soteriology, Theology, dogma on August 1, 2008 | 287 Comments »
By Father Lev Gillet
From Chrysostom, Vol. VI, No. 5 (Spring 1983), pp. 151-159.
(Continued from Part I, Part II & Part III)
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V. There are three principal causes which provide an explanation for the opposition with which the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception has been met in the Orthodox Church.
First and foremost, there is the mistrust felt a priori by many Orthodox about any doctrine [...]
“The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church” (3)
Posted in Articles, Church History, Mary, Saints, Soteriology, Theology, dogma on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Father Lev Gillet
From Chrysostom, Vol. VI, No. 5 (Spring 1983), pp. 151-159.
(Continued from Part I and Part II)
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IV. Let us now consider more closely the attitude of the Russian Church towards the question of the Immaculate Conception.
Every Russian theological student knows that St Dmitri, metropolitan of Rostov (17th century), supported the Latin ”theory of the epiklesis” (10); but young Russians [...]
“The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church” (2)
Posted in Articles, Church History, Mary, Saints, Soteriology, Theology, dogma on July 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
By Father Lev Gillet
From Chrysostom, Vol. VI, No. 5 (Spring 1983), pp. 151-159.
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(Continued from Part 1)
III. I shall begin by quoting several phrases which cannot be said with absolute certainty to imply a belief in the Immaculate Conception but in which it is quite possible to find traces of such a belief.
First of all – the patriarch Photius. In his [...]
“The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church” (1)
Posted in Articles, Church History, Mary, Saints, Soteriology, Theology, dogma on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By Father Lev Gillet
From Chrysostom, Vol. VI, No. 5 (Spring 1983), pp. 151-159.
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I. It is generally agreed, I think, that the dogma of the Immaculate Conception is one of the questions which make a clear and profound division between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Is this really the case? We shall try to examine quite objectively what Orthodox [...]