ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
by Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
It’s certainly difficult to get rid of the mistaken assumptions about interpersonal relationships, our connection to God and also our view of our self when we’ve been fed these from childhood. Because the soul of a child soaks up whatever ‘lessons’ are offered as blotting-paper does ink. It keeps them, absorbs them and lives with them. Continue reading “In the end, are we wrong about life?”
by Metropolitan Athanasius of Limassol, Cyprus
Having promised yesterday that we would say a few words on the topic, I will say a few things, just so that I won’t be untrue to yesterday’s promise.
As a follow-up to all those things, one wonders: all these things that take place – everything that we do – our pilgrimages, our candles, our night-vigils, our prayers, our fasts, our gestures of charity – everything that we do in our life – are for what purpose and what is the reason that we do them? The answer to this question is very important, because our correct or incorrect spiritual life is dependent on it. Continue reading “Curing the sickness of Pharisaism”
By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
1. The Human Body according to Ancient Greek Philosophy
From ancient times, the mystery of man engaged philosophers who, as expected, studied man in relation to the He who Is, God. The questions of what man is, what the body is and what motivates the body are questions of utmost significance and importance. Continue reading “The Human Body: Ascesis and Exercise”
Here we present the same-titled chapter of the book “An Orthodox Handbook“, by Fr. Anthony Alevizopoulos. Continue reading “The Salvific Truth”
The position of Orthodox Dogmatic teaching is that heaven and hell are not two limited places where the righteous are rewarded and the unrighteous punished after death, nor that hell is a region of concrete instruments of torture. Heaven and hell are states and forms of relationship with our life-giving God. We ought to clarify that there is only one energy of God, just as there is one essence and one will. This creative and recreative energy multiplies through the diversity of created operations. Thus, because of differences in receptivity and faith, as well as variations in people’s conceptual powers, some will perceive God’s single energy as love, others as mercy, punishment, justice or hatred. Continue reading “Hell and Heaven”
OBJECTIONS TO GENUINENESS
THE most plausible objection to the genuineness of these [Areopagite] writings is thus expressed by Dupin: “Eusebius and Jerome wrote an accurate catalogue of each author known to them, with a few obscure exceptions, and yet never mention the writings of the Areopagite.” Great is the rejoicing in the House of the Anti-Areopagites over this PROOF; but what are the facts? Continue reading “The Authenticity of Dionysius the Areopagite’s Writings (Part 2)”
Novo Scriptorium 