Τὴν Ἐδὲμ Βηθλεὲμ ἤνοιξε, δεῦτε ἴδομεν· τὴν τρυφὴν ἐν κρυφῇ ηὕραμεν, δεῦτε λάβωμεν
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Christ is Risen.
This is a blog some friends and I have been working on with no less than 90 posts of the life and works of Orthodox Theologians from the 12th to the 19th century, with a search bar and a catalogue listing them by century.
God bless.
anthologium.blogspot.com/
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‘Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences’ is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Like yeah that’s literally what it means
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I’d be willing to throw even my own books in the fire if it meant Orthodox Christians burned everything written, by every single person without “St.” before his name, in the last 200 years. The zealous defenders of modernism, who mistakenly believe themselves to be bastions of traditional Orthodoxy, don’t realize they’re actually defending cassocked Protestants only because they don’t read the Saints.
Throw it all away; it all deserves to die.
“Aristotle was a realist, Plato an idealist.”
“Aristotle was an idealist.”
They were both simply Scotists.
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It was actually wrong for the laity in Constantinople to reject the signing of the Union after the Prelates returned from Florence because, according to some e-apologists, they should have “submitted to their Bishops” instead.
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These guys don’t seem to grasp what the democratisation of discourse through social media entails, for better or for worse: that some random “furry”, of all the people in the world, can play his part in the exposé of their “Alpha & Omega” as little more than a deranged charlatan who spits on Orthodoxy, and tear down the idols they’ve erected around him.
The sneering, the kicking, all of the crying, all of the screaming, all of your sin: it will never stop that. It’s time to face the music, & face it in a very humiliating way at that... At the paws of some random furry. Har har!
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Complete evisceration of the modernist disease and those falsely claiming that Fr. Constantine supports their views.
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Fantastic.
‘Here is how Augustine’s theory is interpreted by A. Gaudel: “Whatever Augustine’s hesitations on how to explain the infection of the soul in the act of birth, the great doctor always held firmly to this principle: what connects us to the personal sin of Adam is the nature propagated by birth; the unity of this nature founds the solidarity of all in solidarity with one.
The person of Adam made nature sinful, then nature is what makes us soft; we are only guilty through the guilt of the nature within us, which, in turn, is only guilty through the will of the first man, in whom nature is found in its entirety. We bear our own sin because we bear our own nature; on the other hand, however, we bear the sin of another, because we did not commit it through our personal will. Ancestral sin is therefore a true sin of nature, the vitium naturae”(Dict. Theol. Catholique, XII, 1, col. 396).
This, though, is precisely the doctrine of the Eastern Fathers. We are liable, not because we personally sinned in Adam. The ancient Christians did not lack this legal basis for accepting liability for Original Sin. We are liable for the sinful human nature, which we receive from Adam. Receiving existence as we receive it, we also receive the blame for its sinful character. It is not just because we have sinned that we bear blame, for if we are without a sinful nature, as the three theories maintain, we do not bear blame. In truth, we bear blame for a truly sinful nature, although we did not make it sinful, yet we received it as such.’
‘God, in His goodness, took care that by making us all guilty for the sin of the first man—from whom we all descend—He might thereby establish the very possibility of freeing us all from this guilt, again through one man, namely the second Adam. For just as God, in His foreknowledge, included us all in Adam, who was to fall, so also He included in Christ all those who would believe—Christ who was to come as a second Adam without sin. If we had each been brought into existence individually, without bearing the guilt of another's sin, we would not have had the possibility to all partake together in the grace that comes from the obedience of one.’
–St. Demetrius (Stăniloae), On How the Guilt of Ancestral Sin is Transmitted.
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Fr John Romanides requested that St Augustine not be called "Blessed" or "Saint" in the English translation of his book 'The Ancestral Sin'
St Gennadios Scholarios says: "And if any does not think and say Augstine is a Saint and Blessed, let him be anathema."
There's nothing worse than seeing the dumbest, most horrific post of all time and when you click on their profile you see “followed by [friend]”. I'm starting to worry that some of my friends confuse the follow button with the block one.
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If you hate the Father of Europe - Charlemagne, then you are not a child of Europe.
If you hate the Roman Rite then you are not an advocate for Western culture, you’re a deracinated, post-enlightenment hyper individualist who thinks your preferences for foreign rites redefine what Western culture is.
If you tolerate the slander of St. Augustine and champion those who do, then it is dubious to even call you Orthodox.
You’re not white, you’re spiritually indistinguishable from resentful immigrants.
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“Hey so Isaiah 53 says Jesus was punished in my place what do you think about that?”
“Well you aren’t orthodox so you aren’t able to interpret that passage”
“I’m orthodox now and here is *insert saint here* that agrees with me”
“You aren’t able to interpret saints not to mention they can be wrong”
“Here’s a synod vindicating that saints opinion, not to mention this synod is universally received so if you are orthodox you have to believe it”
“Well only the bishops can interpret synods so you can’t actually know what it means unless your bishop says so”
“Here is my bishop agreeing with me”
“Well only your priest can interpret your bishop”
“If we go down this rabbit hole then we actually can’t interpret or understand anything about the faith at all using reason. Who’s to say I’m going to be able to interpret my priest at this point? So I have to be able to use rationality to interpret Isaiah 53 in the first place”
“Well you don’t have the phronema so that’s why you can’t interpret these things”
“How do I know if I have the phronema?”
“You disagree with me, that’s how I know you don’t have it”
“So let me get this straight, I can’t interpret anything I perceive unless I have this phronema which can only be confirmed if I have it, if I agree with you. Seems like a really convenient unfalsifiable claim for you to make so it’s impossible for you to be wrong.”
“LATINIZER! I GIVE IT 3 MONTHS BEFORE YOUR APOSTASY”
I thank God every day that when I was inquiring I never ran into people like this. Everyone always encouraged me to read and see the saints and the truth speak for themselves. If you think becoming orthodox means relinquishing all rational faculties that is not true Christianity THAT IS A CULT. Orthodoxy means holding fast to tradition which was given by Christ to the apostles. Which means using our rational faculties to discern the truth which is Christ Himself. This is not to say you shouldn’t rely on the wisdom of your elders. Respect the clerics who know a lot more than us on the internet, they went to seminary after all. But respect doesn’t mean you can’t understand the words of the saints by the grace of God. We should aspire to acquire the Holy Spirit so we can be illumined to the grace-filled words of the saints and the scripture.
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
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All abortion should be illegal.
"What about rape and incest?"
Good point. Rape, incest, and all abortion should be illegal.
