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Not a Belief System – An Asceticism

Posted in Theology on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“A correct person is not one who says all the right things, but one who lives properly, in accordance with the Gospel.” – Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos

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No Orthotheologia without Orthopraxis

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , , , , on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Theology without action is the theology of demons.” – St. Maximos the Confessor
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Incomparable

Posted in Theology on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For our Creator incomparably presides over His creation from afar and
makes certain things exist but not live, and others exist and live but
not avail to discern anything about life, but others to exist, live and
discern. And the One makes all but is not divided in all. For He is
truly the Highest and never unlike [...]

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Demonic Knowledge

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , , , , on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Knowledge without praxis is the demons’ theology.” – St. Maximus the Confessor

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An Academic on Theology

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“The true Orthodox theologian is the one who has direct knowledge of some of God’s energies through illumination or knows them more through vision. Or he knows them indirectly through prophets, apostles and saints or through scripture, the writings of the Fathers and the decisions and acts of their Ecumenical and Local Councils.
…Theology is not [...]

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Orthodoxy vs. Monotheism

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , , , , on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“We confess One God not in number, but in nature. For what is one in number is not really one, nor single in nature.” – St. Basil the Great

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Theology is prayer

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“The one who has purity in prayer is true theologian.” – Evagrius Ponticus
[quoted in Orthodox Theology: An Introduction - Vladimir Lossky]
“If you are a theologian, you will pray truly and, if you pray truly, you are a theologian.” – Evagrius Ponticus
[quoted in Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, by Alexei [...]

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Theology as Theosis

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“This aspect of theology is especially emphasized by St. Maximus the Confessor. According to Maximus, theology is the last and highest “stage” of spiritual development in man; it is the accomplishing mode of a Christian’s experience of deification. Maximus interprets this experience as a liturgical one, exercised by man in the world before God. As [...]

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Theology through Asceticism

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“…Evagrius develops the ideas of his teacher St. Gregory the Theologian (Nazianzus) that the necessary condition to be a theologian is to live an ascetic life, to be virtuous and go through moral purification” – p. 41 [Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, by Alexei V. Nesteruk]

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Theology vs. Academics

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“We see that this approach to theology, based on the personal and ecclesial experience of God, makes it clear that authentic Patristic theology radically differs from what is understood by the term theology among modern academics.” – p. 42, [Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, by Alexei V. Nesteruk]
“According [...]

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