tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post115385137018513960..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: More on "East and West"Fr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1154044360701504102006-07-27T19:52:00.000-04:002006-07-27T19:52:00.000-04:00Excuse me. I meant "crowd."Excuse me. I meant "crowd."Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1153944770292121052006-07-26T16:12:00.000-04:002006-07-26T16:12:00.000-04:00Dave:I am sorry to hear that you have fallen into ...Dave:<BR/><BR/>I am sorry to hear that you have fallen into that kind of Orthodox croud. I assure you that they are not all like that. In fact, if you're in Chicago look up All Saints and Fr. Reardon<BR/><BR/>The reason we have this blogsite is because many of the churches of the offical Canterbury Communion have rejected orthodox Anglicanism, and everything truly Christian. Real Anglicanism has been forced to survive by accepting a sort of Athanasian style exile, ignoring the heretical bishops and going with the orthodox ones. That is what the idea of Continuing Anglicanism is about. <BR/><BR/>To answer your question we would need to know where you reside, that is, town and state if in the U.S., or town, province or whatever applies if in another country.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1153890383347180862006-07-26T01:06:00.000-04:002006-07-26T01:06:00.000-04:00A post I really enjoyed reading and can totally sa...A post I really enjoyed reading and can totally say Amin to. My journey into Eastern Orthodoxy has been bumpy. Partly because I have been told sooooo often not to judge the faith of the Orthodox while all the while hearing how Western Christians may or may not even be Christians (this sometimes exends to those "liberal" Antiochians). For all the research and studying I have done on my own it seems apparent that Orthodox Anglicanism is the best expression of Orthodox Christianity, it embraces both East and West vs. Roman Catholicism and Reformed Protestantism. Now where do I find a spiritual father? Are there still Anglican Bishops left that guard the faith once and for all delivered?The Lemontshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326043006284437751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1153874356122647472006-07-25T20:39:00.000-04:002006-07-25T20:39:00.000-04:00The only problem with Saint Anselm is that he wrot...The only problem with Saint Anselm is that he wrote about only one aspect of the Incarnation. If the title had been more narrow than "Why God Became Man" the book would not seem so incomplete.(If it had been one volume in a larger work, <I>Cur Deus Homo:</I> Volume One: Atonement, that would have seemed better.) But, to object to the content and then make it a point of division, is criminal. <BR/><BR/>On the subject of balance, it is clear that "Western" Christians need a better understanding of Theosis than is normally found among them. But, the "Eastern" Christians need a better understanding of the Atonement than what has become fashionable in the last two centuries. <BR/><BR/>It reminds me of the alleged tension between word and sacrament (which is a decidedly "Western" problem). Clearly, there is no real tension between God's word and the sacraments He has instituted in His Church; but there is a <I>perceived</I> tension created by theological confusion. As a result the Protestants reduce the sacraments to two, and almost never pay even those any attention. The equal and opposite reaction to this is the short, empty homilies created by the Catholic effort (in many cases) to distance themselves from the Protestant error, and to reduce the importance of preaching. <BR/><BR/>In both of these examples (Word and Sacrament, Theosis and Atonement) the Anglican <I>Via Media</I>, when correctly understood as a road between unfortunate extremes, is our gift to the other two branches of God's Holy Catholic Church.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1153855312027224812006-07-25T15:21:00.000-04:002006-07-25T15:21:00.000-04:00Father,Thank you for leading us into an interestin...Father,<BR/>Thank you for leading us into an interesting and valuable discussion. It seems a pity that some would use insights of this nature as clus with which to beat one another, and it seems especially sad that such a concept as theosis, as recovering the image of God, be dicorced from its ultimately unitive direction as an excuse for disunity.<BR/><BR/>It has long seemed to me that Anselm without theosis results in a mechanical and rather ungodlike God, while theosis without Anselm's insights fades off into a strange and ineffectual mystical weirdness.<BR/><BR/>Can both be true? Well, yes, both MUST be true or the wholeness of the Faith is badly compromised and our salvation placed in doubt.<BR/><BR/>edpoetreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613032927883843078noreply@blogger.com