Gentlemen, I'm interested in any thoughts and especially resources from an Orthodox point of view that address the Lutheran perspective on Sola Scriptura and...
Greetings: As a Lutheran pastor with no desire to swim the Bosphorus, but a huge desire to learn from other the help overcome "blindspots," I am wondering...
Hi friends. At a recent pastor's retreat, we got into theological discussion about a variety of things (see the other post on the theology of glory). One of...
Howdy! It's been a while so I thought that I would bring you up to date. I got turned down by New Skete Monastery in NY after making my Formal Application for...
Regarding the term "wrath", which can find itself a loaded word in theological circles in the same way "pray" and "save" can: Wrath's archaic definition is...
Hi friends. I was recently at a Pastor's retreat and I started bringing up Orthodox stuff for discussion around the wobbly pops in the evening. I was ridiculed...
I'm currently reading Timothy Ware's "The Orthodox Church." One of the footnotes in the book, p.218, says: "The opening chapters of Genesis are of course...
Was Easter Borrowed From a Pagan Holiday?<http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/04/was-easter-borrowed-from-pagan-holiday.html> *The historical evidence...
I tried searching the forum for this but didn't come up with much, hence I will post this now. As I have mentioned previously, the cardinal strength of...
*Expiation, Blood and Atonement * by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Among the biblical concepts supporting St. Paul’s theology of atonement, one of the most...
Someone in my congregation had a question from Titus 1. This was my long-winded reply. I'd like an Eastern Orthodox understanding/view to my response if...
Theorists are greatly occupied by the question of the relationship between grace and free will. For anyone who has grace within him, this question is resolved...
Hi, I don't come on here very much anymore, since I'd been immersing myself in the Orthodox Church and its life over the past year. Wanted to just say that I...
I have only recently stumbled across this name and school of Lutheran thought, and was curious as to how well studied and received he is in Lutheran...
There have been a few posts on the "Concordia Series" on Orthodox Christianity taught by Fr. Oliver Herbel that I posted about previously. If anyone is...
Although what I will teach is not typical within current-day Lutheranism, I do see this as being fully Lutheran. Please comments as you wish. How much of...
As a Lutheran, I have struggled in recent years with the Lutheran teaching on such things as "Just War". I'm curious, what does the Orthodox Church teach...
Here is what Bishop Ignatius (Ignaty) Brianchaninov, a renowned spiritual writer and monastic guide of nineteenth century Russia, has to say aboutThe...
Greetings: I was talking to an Orthodox Priest (Andrew Moore) and he shared with me that one of the main purposes of marriage is for the husband and wife to...
Hello all, I would have just continued the third use thread, but it was not allowing me to reply... Randall Hay just wrote what follows (except that great...
