Dec 27, 2011

“Of the beliefs and practices which are preserved in the Church, some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force.”

Jun 13, 2010

Regarding the filioque: Fr Paul Evdokimov has suggested adding a spiritusque to the western creed: To render the western conception of the Filioque as acceptable as possible to the Orthodox, we can say that the Father gives to the Son the energy of spiration, not of origin but of manifestation. But in this case, the perfect balance of the Trinity requires...

Aug 5, 2008

No one can be a Christian at second-hand: such is the frequently repeated teaching of the Fathers. Holy Tradition does not signify merely the mechanical and exterior acceptance of truths formulated in the distant past, but it is in the words of the Russian theologian Vladimir Lossky — nothing else than ‘the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church here and now, at this present moment...