Friday, August 30, 2019

Moral Heresy?

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Balaam and his Ass (Numbers 22:21-38) We have previously discussed Aristotle Papanikolaou's strange notion that, unlike the dogm...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Stump the Priest: Sacraments and Sinful Priests

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St. Augustine arguing with Donatists Question: "I have a recent convert friend who is worried about the validity of his chrismatio...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Stump the Priest: Did Christ quote from the Septuagint?

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Question: "I have heard that Christ quoted the Septuagint. Is there a listing of these quotes?" It is a generally recognized ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Recommendations on Editions of the King James Version

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The first question to ask before you get a Bible is what translation you should use. For an article on that question, see  An Orthodox Lo...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Beauty and the Bible

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A Cambridge Cameo King James Bible, produced in the 70's Beauty in a Translation Matters For a number of years now, the best se...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Stump the Priest: The Deuterocanonical Books in the New Testament

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The Maccabean Martyrs, which we read about in 2 Maccabees 7 ,  who are also referenced in Hebrews 11:35 Question: "Does the Ne...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Stump the Priest: What is the "Apocrypha"?

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Question: "What do the terms "apocrypha" and "deuterocanonical" mean, and how does the Orthodox Church view them...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

Is Bible Study Orthodox?

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Augustine's conversion as depicted in a fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1465) It is unfortunately not uncommon to find Orthodox people w...
Monday, June 17, 2019

2019 Moscow Trip -- Part 5

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Thursday, February 28th Optina As I said in the previous post, the plan for this day was to get up early enough to drive out to the ...