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God not being responsible for evil [2]

Author: St. Basil the Great (330-378) But still evil exists and it is obvious how much it is spread throughout the world. Therefore, they say: "Whence is it, if it is not without beginning and...

Bible, Philippoi or Philippopolis, Nicopolis Epirus or Nicopolis ad Nestum

In the science of the Bible, including New Testament research, assumptions and hypotheses are often expressed, and great efforts are made to defend opinions that differ from traditionally accepted facts about biblical personalities or...

The Pope comments on the murder of Daria Dugina, calling her an “innocent victim”

During his regular general audience on August 24, Pope Francis condemned the car bomb murder of Daria Dugina. She was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher and associate of Putin with extreme...

On Priesthood

By St. John Chrysostom Priests are the men entrusted with spiritual birth and regeneration through Baptism. Through them we clothe ourselves in Christ and are buried together with the Son of God in order to...

God not being responsible for evil

St. Basil the Great (330-378) Much wisdom is shown to us through the holy psalmist king David by the Spirit working in him. Sometimes the prophet, describing his own sufferings and the courage with which...

Interpretation of the First Psalm of David

Author: Alexander Belyakov Blessed is the man who does not go into the assembly of the wicked, does not stand in the way of sinners, and does not sit in the assembly of reprobates, but in...

From the teaching of Saint Basil the Great about the Holy Spirit

Saint Basil's book "On the Holy Spirit", written for Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium, is of exceptional importance for Orthodox theology. In this book, St. Basil polemicized with the heretics who rejected the personal nature...

An American museum returned to Greece a precious exhibit stolen by the WWI Bulgarian army

Washington, USA 30 Aug 2022, 03:53 Author: BLITZ It was seized from a Greek monastery during the First World War The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., which is working to restore trust by returning...

Onomatodoxy (the Russian heresy of “Imyaslavie“)

Name worship (Gr. Onomatodoxia) - a teaching that asserts that God's name is God Himself, condemned by a Synodal Definition from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). It arose in 1907 as a movement among...

What do the Christian cross and stavropegial monasteries have in common?

The Cross is the main symbol of Christianity. And what they have in common is that both there and there, the ancient Greek word ὁ σταυρός (stavros) is used in the name - cross. And...

Open letter regarding the endangered monuments of Hagia Sophia and the Chora Monastery

The Association of Greek Archaeologists on 22.8.2022 published an open letter to the UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, sounding the alarm about both Hagia Sophia and the Chora Monastery, which was also recently turned into a...

The freedom of man

Salvation and, in particular, justification for the Orthodox is a free-moral state, although it can be accomplished only with the help of the grace of God. In order to be regenerated by grace, a...

Angels: Nine Ranks

According to Orthodox doctrine, God created not only the visible world, but also the invisible, spiritual world. What do we know about the world of "Powers of heaven"? From ancient Greek, the word ὁ ἄγγελος...

Notes on the Council of Florence, 1438-39

From Anonimous Byzantine Chronicle #104: The translation is based on the edition of P. Schreiner - "Short Byzantine Chronicles" (Peter Schreiner. Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken. Teil I-III. Wien. 1977-79) - item 1 p.661-663 (Greek text) and...

The icon – an image of the prototype

Written by Yuriy Pushtaev for Foma.ru The word "icon" has a primarily sacred meaning for us today. This is what we call a pictorial representation of the Holy Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy...

The agreement with the Serbian Church overthrew the Montenegrin government

The Serbian Orthodox Church has proven to be an unavoidable factor in the political and social processes of the last nearly three years in the small Adriatic republic of Montenegro. It all started in...

Divine order and beauty of the world – revelation about the Creator  [2]

Truly vain by nature are all people who had no knowledge of God, who, out of visible perfections, could not know Jehovah, and, looking at the deeds, did not know the Creator, but revered...

The Meaning of the Arian Controversy

Author: protopresbiter Alexander Schmemann In the Arian controversy, as in a knot, many threads are gathered, many questions are joined. This is the beginning of the great theological controversies in which almost five centuries of...

Soul-beneficial teachings of St. Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev [2]

51. Beware of signing contracts that bind them, especially if there are any benefits and lures on the fishing line. This can involve you in an organization that will limit and force your freedom...

Divine order and beauty of the world – revelation about the Creator

The Highest Artist-God-in everything that had to be done, using His almighty power, that is, the Son, for "through Him everything came into being, and without Him nothing came into being" (John 1, 3),...

Creation of life

Creation of life - God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs...and fruitful trees, bearing fruit after their kind" (Genesis 1:11). Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures... cattle... and...

Christianity in the Balkans from the 1st to the 4th century

The Balkan Peninsula, as a crossroads between the Middle East and Europe, as well as a center of cultural interaction between the peoples of the East and the West, is the subject of serious...

The meaning of the icon

Written by Archim. Zinon (Theodore) The icon does not depict, it manifests. It is the manifestation of Christ's kingdom, the manifestation of the transformed, deified creature; of that transformed humanity itself, which Christ reveals to...

Write the good on stone tablets, and the insult – on a water

"And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors...if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you" (Matt. 6:14); "If you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will...

The Church and the State in the contemporary social teaching of the Orthodox Church

Author: Associate Professor Dr. Kostadin Nushev, Faculty of Theology, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski" When building its attitude towards the state in the modern world, the Orthodox Church turns to the classic Gospel truths about the...
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