Using a case study of marital infidelity, this paper will explicate a theology of marriage as the path of acquiring the Holy Spirit: becoming partakers of the divine nature, as a process of acquiring divine love for the person of the spouse.
Professor Metallinos from the University of Athens, states that the “The scientist and professor of the knowledge of the Uncreated, in the Orthodox Tradition, is the Geron/Starets (the Elder or Spiritual Father), the guide or "teacher of the desert". These are the ones that speak experientially about God from within the context of the Church, which means it moves beyond individual experience
At the 1970 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Clergy-Laity Congress Archbishop Iakovos proposed that a standard English translation of the Divine Liturgy be developed for use in parishes. While the Congress ultimately approved the proposal, it was never implemented because the reaction outside of the Congress became a public storm of opposition.
In Divine Names I.4, Dionysius the Areopagite writes that in the next life, we will be “filled with the visible theophany” of the Lord “which shall illumine us…as the disciples were in that most divine transfiguration” (PG 3 592C).
The evocative title "servant of the servants of God", first employed as a papal title by Gregory the Great (590-604), invites consideration of the rich and diverse means of constructing and representing primatial authority in the late antique church. In this paper I will argue that this title is an excellent example of a broad tendency in late antiquity to theorize power primarily in terms of
Within Roman Catholicism today, there are competing accounts of what the dogma of papal infallibility promulgated at Vatican I means and does not mean. This paper contends that it is by taking stock of what is best among current mainstream Catholic interpretations of the dogma that Orthodox theology can be most fruitful in its own contribution to the still unclarified question of what, if any
