Christianity
We have said that the present world—the earthly world—is in union and relationship with the afterlife—the spiritual world, and we have shown the nature of this union and communion. Now…
Christianity
By St. Symeon the New Theologian Fourth Word. How creation is to be renewed again and new heavens and a new earth will be created, as the divine apostle says…
Christianity
By St. Gregory of Nyssa Indeed, this great and priceless good, man, did not yet exist in the world of created things. It would not, of course, be natural for…
Christianity
By Prof. Sergey Averintsev The literature of the Old Testament elaborates and develops a completely special type of ideology, fundamentally different from the mythological systems of other peoples of that…
Christianity
By Archimandrite Cyprian (Kern) Only the Christian, Orthodox worldview offers a correct, and therefore calming and soothing, perspective on this issue, guiding us along the path of even more fervent...
News
Yahweh is the personal name of God in the Old Testament. It conveys the biblical pronunciation of the Hebrew name יהוה – YHWH, known as the Tetragrammaton, that is, the...
History
Canaan (Hebrew: כְּנַעַן Kəna‘an – “submissive, subject”) was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah (Gen. 9:18). After Ham’s disrespect for Noah, the latter pronounced a curse not on...
Christianity
The creation of the world by a single God, as depicted in the Bible, is one of the central tenets of Judaism and Christianity. The primary creation narrative is the...
History
What Jesus Probably Ate in First-Century Galilee No historical source gives a complete list of what Jesus of Nazareth ate. Yet the Gospels, Jewish texts, archaeology and food historians offer...
International
The Ark of the Covenant [Hebrew: κιβωτὸς τῆς διαθήκης], according to the Old Testament, is the most important sacred object symbolizing the presence of God and located within the Tabernacle...
