I was recently asked a question concerning art and Christianity. I made some comments in a couple of e-mails. I reprint those e-mails here, having removed all identifying information, and having done some mild editing because I think it expresses a small part of what icons are to us. ===== The Eastern Orthodox do tend […]
Please Lord, do not let me repeat today!
Have you ever had one of those days where it seems as though the words in your mouth as you go to sleep are the simple prayer, “Please Lord, do not let me repeat today!”? Well, yesterday was certainly one of those days for me. I am on a trip to one of my diocese’s […]
A small non-charismatic aside
Because of a couple of questions, let me take a moment for a little aside before I return to my being a no-longer-teenage charismatic. It has been mentioned that first I say that Radical Reformation Protestants and Calvinists form part of the philosophical background of today’s progressive/liberal Christians and then I say that extreme ecstatics […]
I am a no-longer-teenage Orthodox charismatic
When I first began to serve the Lord, as an older teenager, I returned to Christianity through a charismatic group. Actually, at first through a Pentecostal group, but that was of very short duration. I do know that out of that hothouse situation came a life-long desire to experience the Lord. Mind you, I am […]
Immigration aside
From a newspaper article today comes the following quote: Immigration prosecutions have steeply risen over the last five years, while white-collar prosecutions have fallen by 18 percent, weapons prosecutions have dropped by 19 percent, organized crime prosecutions are down by 20 percent and public corruption prosecutions have dropped by 14 percent, according to the Syracuse […]
The scandal of Church history
In 1 Corinthians 15, St. Paul says: Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. . . . And if […]
To adiophora or not to adiophora – the Calvinist response
Huldrychus Zwinglius, the famous Swiss Reformer known to us as Uldrych Zwingli, and Jean Cauvin, the famous French Reformer who fled to Switzerland, known to us as John Calvin, are considered the fathers of the Reformed family of churches [shhh, and, of course, John Knox]. They, like all the Reformers, had to deal with the problem of […]
Adiophora, just a little dab will do you!
There is a major difference between the way in which the Lutheran and Anglican Reformers looked at history, and the way in which the Radical Reformers looked at history. But, that difference is important. And the key difference was stated by the Lutherans in one word they called, “adiophora.” So, what is adiophora? This may […]
Radical Reformers, the ancestors of today’s progressive/liberal Christians?
Were the Radical Reformers, by their philosophical attitudes, the ancestors of today’s progressive/liberal Christians? Or, to put it in more Francis Schaeffer type of writing, were the Radical Reformers the continuation of a philosophical trail that led to today’s progressive/liberal hermeneutic? [Note: There is a difference between the Reformers and the Radical Reformers.] I already […]
Francis Schaeffer helped lead me to Orthodoxy
In an earlier post I commented that it was because of Francis Schaeffer that I came to love philosophy. Now, by the time I first returned to the Lord, I had already had a course in college philosophy. Frankly, I had found it boring and received a D in it. But, Francis was different. I […]
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