We recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday in the Orthodox Church. You all know it. In the original version it reads: We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten, begotten of […]
The Reformation and popular religiosity
Let me continue on with popular religiosity. The Reformers were reacting against a Church that had gone rogue in some areas. The Radical Reformers (the Anabaptists) reacted so strongly that they threw history away. A fiction was created of a culture-free Christianity which could be recreated if only we cleaned out the supposed cultural elements […]
On us and popular religiosity
When I was a missionary with the Anglican Church, we prided ourselves on having a “rational” faith. Now, rational did not mean that there were no mystical elements to what we believed. Neither did it mean that we had figured out all mysteries. Neither did it mean that we had no traditions, rather we prided […]
On Thanksgiving and popular religiosity
Well, yesterday Father Orthoduckâ„¢ gave a real-life example of the negative side of popular religiosity, that is, he showed how our popular religiosity with regards to ex-cons actually contradicts and goes against both our official religiosity and even what we declare and believe about ourselves as Christians. In fact, when most people think about popular […]
What is popular religiosity?
OK, so what is popular religiosity and why is it important that we know what it is? Well, first let me print a couple of quotes that will help you begin to understand it. You need not read the quotes to understand the posts that will come out after this one. [Warning: the quotes are heavy going.] Today I am […]
The unholy trinity
An evangelical blogger that I read every day just posted an article in which he speaks about the unholy trinity. He says: Someone wrote me the other day using the phrase “the other Trinity,” referring to evangelicals’ obsession with homosexuality, abortion and evolution. All are important issues, but does anyone else have the suspicion that we are […]
To God be the glory
Below is a comment I made on another blog. It had to do with the phrase sola Dei gloria, which means only to God be the glory. ========= Steve, Curtis, Matt, and Jan point out that the Scriptures themselves talk about humans having glory. We are being changed from glory to glory. Glory has come […]
On Venn diagrams and commonalities
Warning: the forecast calls for continuing rains of philosophical musings today! Yesterday I wrote a strongly theoretical/philosophical discussion of set theory, Venn diagrams, and their application to theology. I had commented that the more sets of beliefs that one adds, the more complex that the diagram would become, to the point where, I think, it would […]
On theology and set theory
Warning strong symbolic logic and philosophical content ahead. We all know that there are areas of commonality and divergence between all who call themselves Christian. The problem comes in how to describe those convergences and divergences. There is no simple way to describe it. All Christians overlap in the area of the First through the […]
On learning humility
Abba David said, “Abba Arsenius told us the following, as though it referred to someone else, but in fact it referred to himself. An old man was sitting in his cell and a voice came to him which said, ‘Come, and I will show you the works of men.’ He got up and followed. The […]
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