Jun

10

Back from Eastern Orthodoxy.

June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

Posted by ben hind · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy 

I’m back!
Although I didn’t get chance to see an Orthodox Sunday service (unfortunately), I did get to see a lot of Churches and Museums.
One thing that struck me straight away after walking in all of the Churches were the icons. Huge dark paintings on the walls, 15th Century Byzantine artwork, and lots of different saints. […]

May

29

Going to an Eastern Orthodox church

May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments

Posted by ben hind · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy, General Discussion, Personal 

I’m going for a one week holiday to Corfu (Greece) on Monday (so I won’t be posting next week), and plan to go visit an Eastern Orthodox church. I haven’t got a clue what it’s going to be like, and look forward to see how they do things. I have a couple of things I’d […]

Jan

30

Gregory of Nyssa

January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Christian Philosophy, Salvation 

I didn’t want to just take it from one place on the internet about what Gregory of Nyssa believed about “universal reconciliation” so I did read this paper on the internet by a Donald L Ross at http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/gregoryn.htm and part of what he writes is:”The freedom of the nous provides a necessary condition for […]

Nov

15

A Response to an Orthodox Concerning Calvinism and Romans 9

November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy, Evangelicalism, Calvinism/Arminianism, Christian Traditions, Church History 

I received this from an Orthodox gentleman: 
If Romans 9 teaches Calvinism so clearly, why didn’t the Greeks, who spoke in the koine dialect for more than a thousand years after Christ (and who still speak modern Greek) understand Paul in this way?  The prophets of the Old Testament, and even the Roman Jews to whom […]

Oct

21

Appeal of Orthodox church to Males

October 21, 2007 | 5 Comments

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy, Christian Traditions 

Frederica Mathewes-Green has written an interesting article called “Men in Church” explaining why a lot of men are now joining the Eastern Orthodox church. Some of what she writes is:
“Several used the term “martial” or referred to Orthodoxy as the “Marine Corps” of Christianity. (The warfare is against self-destructive sin and the unseen spiritual powers, […]

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