St. Gregory The Theologian (329-389) In Defense Of His Flight to Pontus De Fuga The Second Oration Introduction In 325 AD, the year of the First Ecumenical Council, a Christian woman in Cappadocia managed to convert her husband to the Orthodox Christian faith. Her name was Nonna. Her husband’s name was Gregory. Gregory had belonged [...]
Word Magazine February 1966 Page 8-9 EASTERN ORTHODOX VERY REV. ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN The National Broadcasting Company presents FAITH IN ACTION, a program designed to bring the viewpoints of those of many beliefs. In the first two programs concerned with Eastern Orthodoxy, the Very Reverend Alexander Schmemann, Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, [...]
Word Magazine January 1986 Page 7 THE ANTIOCHIAN SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS By Father Paul Tarazi Beloved brothers and sisters in the Christ and Lord Jesus: Besides the great names you already know about and you will hear in the Church from time to time, Antioch became known in the fourth and fifth centuries for [...]
Word Magazine May 1976 Page 6-9 Bicentennial Thoughts: Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western Ethos Part I: Culture, Celebration and Expression by philotheos faros It is difficult to figure out how the prevailing assumption developed that Western cultural tradition is more refined and civilized than is the Eastern. Nevertheless, whatever the origin of this assumption might [...]
Word Magazine March 1976 Page 12 “GOD IS” Homily by Archpriest James C. Meena It seems imperative to me that we, as Christians, understand a basic fact. Though Christ gave us an overriding Commandment of love for God and for our neighbor which seems to obviate the necessity to adhere to the Commandments as they [...]
Word Magazine June 1990 Page 29 ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES Belief is not belief unless it is lived If we consult a Bible concordance for the words “belief” and “faith”, we find many pages of Biblical references. So very much has been said in the Scriptures and by the Fathers, yet [...]
Word Magazine November 2000 Page 13-14 THEOCRACY: AN ANCIENT FORM FOR CONTEMPORARY TIMES? By Fr. Joseph Allen The Orthodox tradition in the Christian East has always held the concept of “Theocracy” as a fundamental principle by which governmental policy is motivated. Theokratia, or Theokratos, meant “ruled or headed by God.” In Byzantium and Imperial Russia, [...]
Word Magazine January 2001 Page 34-35 AND HE SHALL COME AGAIN By Very Rev. Robert M. Arida Fundamental to Christian faith and life is the expectation of the Lord’s coming again. Indeed, Saint Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians written in the mid first century — describes the celebration of the eucharist which climaxes with [...]
Word Magazine September 1970 Page 18-19 “AND THEY WERE FIRST CALLED CHRISTIANS IN ANTIOCH…” By REV. ELIAS AUDI ANTIOCH was the second most-mentioned city in the Acts of the Apostles and the third city of importance in the Roman Empire. It was founded by Seleucus I in 300 B.C. on the Orontes, and was named [...]
Aphrahat, The Persian Sage +345 Select Demonstrations Number 10 “Of Pastors” Introduction The second of our patristic sources on the pastoral life is taken from the writings of a man known as Aphrahat, the Persian Sage. Who was he? Aphrahat was a Persian. He is called the Persian Sage. However, he wrote in the Syriac [...]