Here we present an excerpt from Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ book ‘The Roman Antiquities‘ (The Loeb Classical Library). Dionysius informs us here about how and why Numa Pompilius erected a temple to Faith. Continue reading “The enforcement of Justice through Faith by Numa Pompilius”
Knowledge and Vision of God in Cappadocian Fathers
by Anita Strezova – Macquarie University, Sydney
The recurrent charges of atheism carried by the Cappadocian fathers against the neo-Arian Eunomius, show to what extent the Byzantine theologians of the fourth and fifth centuries were faced with the possibility of intellectualism in the knowledge of God. Continue reading “Knowledge and Vision of God in Cappadocian Fathers”
Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith?
We would like to acquaint you with the lecture “Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith,” delivered on September 13, 2000, at the Meeting of the Sretenskaya Lord’s School in Moscow by A.I. Osipov, a professor of the Moscow Theological Academy. Continue reading “Why Orthodoxy is the True Faith?”
The importance of our thoughts
Saint Mark the Ascetic offers us an inspired answer on the importance of the way we think: Continue reading “The importance of our thoughts”
Theology and Science: A Shift towards the Human Person
In science, in the past, the necessity for this movement was indicated in three different ways which might prove useful in an anthropocentric shift in the dialogue between Science and Theology: Continue reading “Theology and Science: A Shift towards the Human Person”
Be True to Yourself
by Fr. Stephen Freeman
I recall the excitement that I felt every year as a child and as a teenager as the signs of summer’s end came. Looming ahead was the beginning of a new school year. It never felt like a return to what I had known the year before, but as an opportunity for something new. In my teen years, the secret something new that felt exciting was a “new” me. Of course, that guy never appeared. Continue reading “Be True to Yourself”