From St. Gregory Palamas (The Homilies Vol. 1, Homily Four para. 8; St. Tikhon's Seminary Press pg. 40): "As in the days of Noah He [Christ] flooded sinners...
A mo Athair Aiden agus uile, The Apostle readings for the Vigil and for the Nativity Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, According To The Flesh. From:"The New Testament...
Francis (Edwin Bede)T...
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Jan 1, 2003 8:25 pm
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... People don't lead a ... Dear Father Aidan: Bless! Could you go into a little more detail regarding the statement you made above? In Christ, Isidora ...
Dear Friends: I've been struggling to understand the nature and practice of love. We use the word love to express how we feel about trivial things as well as...
Dear in Christ, Isidora, ... This is, in fact, the precise definition of agape, or as you say, the purest, love. ... There are, actually, three kinds of love:...
From St. Symeon the New Theologian (The Discourses: XXIV sect. 4; Paulist Press pg. 264): "...just as the illiterate cannot read books like those who are...
A mo Athair Edwin, If the husbandman's seed is sent forth fourfold, what lucre then shall be his, when harvest hour draweth nigh? Fr. Aidan+ sinner Celtically...
Dear in Christ, Isidora, ... The Lord bless. ... I could go in a number of directions about "churchliness," "tserkovnost," but let me settle on the most...
... You make an _excellent_ point. It's often been said that Orthodoxy is not as much believed as _lived_; it's a way of life even more than it is a system of...
ruhl@...
Jan 2, 2003 9:04 pm
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... That's a fair assessment. In my view, reason is a useful tool, but not the supreme tool. ... I would agree with the first statement--one should always be...
ruhl@...
Jan 2, 2003 9:26 pm
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Dear in Christ, Isidora, Fr. Jim is right about the nature of love. The best thing to read on this topic is, I think, the Centuries of St. Maximus the...
In a Chestertonesque observation, how can those who propose that reason is over belief propose such a thing when they are proposing a belief. Go figure. The...
... Well, I would consider agape to be that love which is felt as a result of one being Christian and in communion with God. That is, an idiot or cretin is no...
ruhl@...
Jan 2, 2003 10:40 pm
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... Well, if one thinks about it: in English we link all to 'Love' which is our word for Agape, and differentiate the others as derivatives, using adjectives....
I feel I know just what Fr. Jim was saying about choice and decision and action in love, though--it is just a paraphrase of the saying of our Lord: "If ye love...
And so, knowing that God is Love, then God is: "long suffering, kind, gentle, not envious, does not parade (Himself), is not arrogant, does not act rudely,...
I would say that feelings and emotion do play a role in the works of love, but are not the guiding principle. They can get things rolling somewhat, and they...
... I'd look to the insights that Durkheim, among others, has worked on: the matter of human identity, and fellow-feeling. In a Christian sense, our identity...
Jim Rankin
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Jan 3, 2003 7:15 am
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... I find that things are best examined within their limits. My little 1993 Ford Festiva cannot go 0-60 in three seconds. It's an automatic, so it can't...
... But did they, actually? David ran naked through the streets of Jerusalem, in ecstasy before God. Jeremiah shed his clothes, perched upon a wall and railed...
From St. Makarios of Egypt (The Homilies, II: Prayer, The Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 295): "God's will is done...
I wrote Parts II and III before reading this reply, and see we are moving closer to mutually explaining how in the world we manage to come so close to ...
I was a fan of this thread but now it seems that we're trying to resolve the paradox. Yawn... Discussioni ista multum mihi interfuit sed nunc ut videtur...
... On that there can be no disagreement. But isn't _true_ feeling always expressed in action? I'm not persuaded that there is a difference. The conflict...
ruhl@...
Jan 4, 2003 2:49 am
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... [snip] ... But I've never argued that reason is useless! Quite the opposite, really. It is useful within its sphere--indeed, nothing succeeds at logic...
ruhl@...
Jan 4, 2003 2:58 am
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Dear in Christ, Robert-- Fr. Aidan said, ... You see, that's not the point. In love, only eros belongs to the belly--the realm of feelings. In erotic love,...
Dear Robert, ... That's what's so great about Orthodoxy! There is no conflict between faith and works! Many God-loving people see faith and works as if they ...
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