Lecture by Fr. Robert Arida Part of the conference “The Shape of the Sacred: Eastern Christianity and Architectural Modernity,” held at Fordham University on May 30 – June 1, 2023 From panel session 1, “Sacred Space,” moderated by Dr. Peter Bouteneff
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(Book Panel) Jordan Daniel Wood: The Whole Mystery of Christ
Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor
Jordan Daniel Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (Notre Dame, 2022) provocatively re-reads Maximus as if he means what he says. Panelists explore the book’s promise for theology: historical, systematic, and beyond. Panel discussion with response by the author.
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Environmental Ethics, Religion and Science, TheologyEthics in the Book of Nature
Ethics in the Book of Nature
The Climate Crisis and Ecological Sin, Part 1
by Chris Durante With another season of creation care upon us, we should take heed of the fact that the most recent reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) respectively affirm, for the first time, that climate change is in fact the result of human activities and that the catastrophic climactic events that…
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Theology
Nomadland: The Heavenly Homecoming of the Nomads
by Dionysios Skliris | български | ქართული | Română | Русский | Српски The original Greek version of this article was published in the site “Polymeros kai Polytropos” of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies. The film Nomadland (2020) offers a spiritual glimpse into America, especially into the Western states, with the help of Chloé…
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Church Life and Pastoral Care, Ecclesiology, Liturgical LifeWhy Should Orthodoxy Remain Public in Coronavirus Times?
Why Should Orthodoxy Remain Public in Coronavirus Times?
Reflections in the Aftermath of an Unprecedented Easter
by Panagiotis G. Pavlos As a Greek Orthodox living in the Western world and experiencing this new “Corona era,” one feels that Orthodoxy needs to decide today, globally and locally, on the following: to what extent do we, as Orthodox Christians, truly believe that Christ is the Son of God, the Son of Man? For…
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Theology
Rethinking Patristic Categories? A Response to Petre Maican
by Fr. David G. Bissias If it were not well-intentioned, Petre Maican’s article “Image and Likeness and Profound Cognitive Disability: Rethinking Patristic Categories” (published on Public Orthodoxy, July 2, 2019), could be offensive. In the final analysis, it is simply misguided due to several failures: of coherency, doctrinal perspective, and a failure to grasp the…
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Bridging Voices Project, Gender and Sexuality, Theology
Would the True “Nature” Please Stand Up?
by Rev. Dr. Vasileios Thermos This essay is part of a series stemming from the ongoing research project “Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age,” which is a joint venture by scholars from Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the University of Exeter, funded by…
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Bridging Voices Project, Gender and Sexuality
Meeting Michelle: Pastoral and Theological Reflections on a Transgender Inmate
by Fr. Richard René This essay is part of a series stemming from the ongoing research project “Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age,” which is a joint venture by scholars from Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the University of Exeter, funded by the…
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Ethics, Theology
Learning to Love: St. Maximus on the Virtues
When we try to be virtuous, what are we trying to do? People have different ideas about what the virtues are, and some virtues even seem to contradict each other. Some people consider justice to be a virtue, but, as St Isaac the Syrian points out in his Homily 51, isn’t mercy also a virtue,…
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The Word of God and World Religions
By Brandon Gallaher (This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on “The Contribution of the Orthodox Church to the Realization of Justice, Freedom, Brotherhood, and Love among Peoples.”) There is no one…
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