tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post7458501635753594378..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Fr. Wells bulletin insertsFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-71288520638343487062011-03-12T08:50:56.504-05:002011-03-12T08:50:56.504-05:00" And, ultimately, through the ascetic strugg..." And, ultimately, through the ascetic struggle to die to our own desires, we enter into true union with God."<br /><br />How does this differ from the Pelagian heresy? I would rather say that our "true union with God" is estabished firmly in our regeneration, signified by Holy Baptism, and that "true union" is what enables our mortification.<br /><br />LKWFr. Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00842080747345893229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-61546735213805766172011-03-11T14:21:03.652-05:002011-03-11T14:21:03.652-05:00The issue was not whether or not the Orthodox beli...The issue was not whether or not the Orthodox believe in the Atonement, but rather that a school exists among <i>modern</i> Orthodox people (especially converts) that teaches very disturbing things. I fully expect some of them to get enraged simply because Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon said, in the current Touchstone, that St. Anselm was not a heretic. My own position has been, all along, that this new school does not represent the authentic doctrine of the OC.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-53173397707723417462011-03-11T13:24:28.304-05:002011-03-11T13:24:28.304-05:00Wonderful excerpt from the conference on the Atone...Wonderful excerpt from the conference on the Atonement. <br /><br />Those concepts should be taught more widely and more often than they are.Allen Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00853861649876959271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-84087981271978334022011-03-11T08:51:36.023-05:002011-03-11T08:51:36.023-05:00Not so long ago there was some discussion about th...Not so long ago there was some discussion about the Atonement. Against the suggestion that the Orthodox do not have sound understanding of the atonement, or a place for it in their thinking, I argued that it is part and parcel of our use of scripture in worship and devotion, citing a number of liturgical texts. Neophyte academics are one thing, but the lived theology of worship are another.<br /><br />At a recent conference on the Atonement (see oca.org) there was much said of interest, for example:<br /><br /><i>... as Father Florovsky wrote, “The redeeming death is the ultimate purpose of the Incarnation.” .... the Fathers ... see Christ’s salvific work as an organic whole -- Incarnation, Crucifixion Resurrection, Ascension, and the sending of the Spirit to establish the Church.... Christ’s death on the cross is still a central reality in Orthodox theology. As Saint Gregory the Theologian says, “We needed an Incarnate God; God put to death, that we might live” (Oration 45.28). Here we see the profound place of the cross within the larger “divine economy” of salvation. In his essay, “The Lamb of God,” Father Florovsky puts it this way: “Death is vanquished not simply by the appearance of Life in the mortal body, but rather by the voluntary death of the Incarnate Life. The Word became incarnate on account of death in the flesh, Saint Athanasius emphasizes. ‘In order to accept death He had a body,’ and only through His death was the resurrection possible.” .... we experience the redeeming power of the cross in our liturgical life and spiritual struggle. In Baptism, we die and rise with Christ. We receive the Eucharist for forgiveness of sins. And, ultimately, through the ascetic struggle to die to our own desires, we enter into true union with God. This sacramental and ascetic reality is essential... </i>Священник селаhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08182325210748920363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-17033983227198389672011-03-09T09:33:46.440-05:002011-03-09T09:33:46.440-05:00Amen.
BigTex ACAmen.<br /><br />BigTex ACAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com