Comments on: When Tradition Fractures http://silouanthompson.net/2008/10/when-tradition-fractures/ Why a nice Protestant guy became Orthodox... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:42:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Silouan http://silouanthompson.net/2008/10/when-tradition-fractures/comment-page-1/#comment-6254 Silouan Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:20:20 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=446#comment-6254 Hi Ben! If you go to <a href="http://www.sjkp.org" rel="nofollow">www.sjkp.org</a> and search for <strong>Augustine</strong>, about the third item down will be his service from the Menaion. Hi Ben! If you go to http://www.sjkp.org and search for Augustine, about the third item down will be his service from the Menaion.

]]> By: Ben http://silouanthompson.net/2008/10/when-tradition-fractures/comment-page-1/#comment-6249 Ben Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:42:12 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=446#comment-6249 Thank you very much for this spectacular article. I myself was actually aquainted to the Orthodox Church through St. Augustine and in two weeks am to be chrismated (having been raised Evangelical Non-Denominational/Baptist Protestant). I plan to choose Augustine as my name because I find myself identifying with him and know that he prays for me. Do you know where one might find those services St. John commissioned? I'd be very interested in reading them. Thank you very much for this spectacular article. I myself was actually aquainted to the Orthodox Church through St. Augustine and in two weeks am to be chrismated (having been raised Evangelical Non-Denominational/Baptist Protestant). I plan to choose Augustine as my name because I find myself identifying with him and know that he prays for me.

Do you know where one might find those services St. John commissioned? I’d be very interested in reading them.

]]> By: TKB http://silouanthompson.net/2008/10/when-tradition-fractures/comment-page-1/#comment-445 TKB Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:23:58 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=446#comment-445 Fantastic article, thank you so much. "The real problem we Eastern Orthodox have with St. Augustine is perhaps not so much his theology as our sheer lack of spiritual acquaintance with him. Since Eastern Orthodox theologians don’t write summas anyway, we Orthodox aren’t really interested in an intellectual synthesis of East and West. Worship and prayer drive the engine of Eastern Orthodox theology. Both Fr. Seraphim Rose and St. John Maximovitch of San Francisco understood this, which is why they encouraged regular celebration of so-called “Western saints” and their feast days by Orthodox Christians. In 1955 St. John Maximovitch commissioned a complete liturgy, including Vespers and Orthros, to Blessed Augustine. Eastern Christianity subscribes heartily to Prosper of Aquitaine’s axiom, Lex orandi lex credendi: If you want to know what we believe, look at the way we worship. Until we Orthodox sing Augustine’s troparion and kontakion on his feast day in his honor, and until we ask St. Augustine himself to intercede with Christ God for us sinners, we will be hopelessly unacquainted with him, at least in any way that truly matters." Lovely! Fantastic article, thank you so much.

“The real problem we Eastern Orthodox have with St. Augustine is perhaps not so much his theology as our sheer lack of spiritual acquaintance with him. Since Eastern Orthodox theologians don’t write summas anyway, we Orthodox aren’t really interested in an intellectual synthesis of East and West. Worship and prayer drive the engine of Eastern Orthodox theology. Both Fr. Seraphim Rose and St. John Maximovitch of San Francisco understood this, which is why they encouraged regular celebration of so-called “Western saints” and their feast days by Orthodox Christians. In 1955 St. John Maximovitch commissioned a complete liturgy, including Vespers and Orthros, to Blessed Augustine.

Eastern Christianity subscribes heartily to Prosper of Aquitaine’s axiom, Lex orandi lex credendi: If you want to know what we believe, look at the way we worship. Until we Orthodox sing Augustine’s troparion and kontakion on his feast day in his honor, and until we ask St. Augustine himself to intercede with Christ God for us sinners, we will be hopelessly unacquainted with him, at least in any way that truly matters.”

Lovely!

]]> By: The Faith of Saintly Augustine « OrthoPraxy http://silouanthompson.net/2008/10/when-tradition-fractures/comment-page-1/#comment-352 The Faith of Saintly Augustine « OrthoPraxy Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:23:26 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=446#comment-352 [...] the Saints in an Orthodox manner, wherever even remotely possible. After all. St. Gregory Palamas draws heavily on De Trinitate, a book that makes me more than cringe in my futile understanding of it, for his [...] [...] the Saints in an Orthodox manner, wherever even remotely possible. After all. St. Gregory Palamas draws heavily on De Trinitate, a book that makes me more than cringe in my futile understanding of it, for his [...]

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