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Pelagius: To Demetrias(4)
Few churchmen have been so maligned as Pelagius in the Christian West. For nearly 1,500 years, all that anyone has known of the British monk’s theology has come from what his opponents said about him — and when one’s opponents are as eminent as Augustine and Jerome, the chance of getting a fair hearing is not great. Consequently, it has been easy to lay all manner of pernicious heresies at Pelagius’s doorstep.
With My Own Eyes
A pastor’s firsthand account of prison life: I am a Christian from an Orthodox country — the country of Romania. Having been in prison for fourteen years for my faith, it is now my missionary work to help persecuted Christians in Communist countries. I would like to tell you the stories of several Orthodox Christians with whom I was privileged to come into contact during my time in prison. Their examples and their deeds have been a constant source of encouragement to me throughout the years.
Identity in communion
The only way we can find ourselves is to deny ourselves. That’s Christ’s teaching. If you cling to yourself, you lose yourself. The unwillingness to forgive is the ultimate act of not wanting to let yourself go. You want to defend yourself, assert yourself, protect yourself. There is a consistent line through the Gospel — if you want to be the first you must will to be the last…
Justice and forgiveness
If a person is inspired by the spirit of God, he or she can forgive. But I’m not sure you can say that in general there is the feeling that forgiveness is of value. I have met people who would say, “I don’t care. I can go on and live my life; it really doesn’t matter to me. If I’m not bothering you and you aren’t bothering me, why be reconciled?” This is plain indifference…
More in this category:
- How about some Advent?
- The geography of hell
- Hallowe’en: An Orthodox approach
- Icons and Truth
- A Glimpse into Eastern Orthodox Christian religion
- The Communion of Prayer
- Juneteenth
- Why does God sing?
- Augustine’s Origin of Species
- Perfection in pain
- The nature of things
- Can a scientist believe in the Resurrection?
- An Interview with Sister Aemiliane
- The Crucifixion of the Paschal Lamb
- What did Christ do for us?
- It’s nothing personal
- Dude, where’s my God?
- At the beginning of Lent
- Cold-Blooded Christianity
- What happened at Whitby?
- Ancestral Versus Original Sin
- In the Temple of Broken Hearts
- The Lost Gospel of Mary
- When Tradition Fractures
- Perichoresis: God and His mother
- Monasticism in the 21st Century
- September 24: The Feast of Saint Silouan
- The Monastic Call
- The Old Testament and Rationalistic Biblical Criticism
- Under the Heaven Tree
- The Way into the Kingdom of Heaven
- Deacons and bishops at the end of the first century
- The Spirituality of the Celtic Church
- Star Wars: Another Point of View
- Pietism as an ecclesiological heresy
- Personal Experience Of The Holy Spirit According To The Greek Fathers
- Call no man “Father”
- God the Logos
- The Fundamental Difference Between East and West
- What’s Wrong with “Spirituality”?
- Sola Scriptura
- Facing up to Mary
- Original sin according to St Paul
- Orthodox Monasticism
- The Pain of the Earth: A Cry for Change
- Kissing: An Act of Religious Devotion
- Why did Christ become Man? (Athanasius, 318AD)