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What is the nous?
Monday, September 29th, 2008It has been pointed out to me that many may not understand the term “nous,” from whence the term “noetic” comes. Here are some quotations to begin the discussion.
Met. Hierotheos
“all who pray with the nous have communion with God, and this communion is man’s spiritual knowledge of God”
“St. Maximus goes on to say that man [...]
Praise for Fr. John Savvas Romanides, of blessed memory
Thursday, September 11th, 2008May your memory be eternal,
Most honored and holy noetic athlete,
Protopresbyter John Savvas Romanides.
Your memory is ever-blessed.
May we have a joyous meeting when we see each other in glory
At the Lord’s Heavenly Altar!
Memory eternal!
Memory eternal!
Memory eternal!
Fr. John Romanides has restated the central teachings which the Holy Fathers learned through lives of noetic martyrdom. Fr. John [...]
Is Fr. John Romanides a semi-Pelagian?
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008In a positive, loving spirit, I wanted to offer some explanation for what may seem to be a denial of God’s “total sovereignty” in Orthodox theology. Please, anyone, correct my errors, since I have never written on this before. Also, this post is hopefully not seen as a “refutation” of Mr. Jay Dyer’s [...]
Jay Dyer at www.nicenetruth.com, tries to refute Fr. John Romanides
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Hey, gang, respond to any of these points, and cite sources, esp. if you quote Ancestral Sin. I’ll handle this soon. Jay, the author of this critique of Fr. John, is at www.nicenetruth.com
Oh, yeah. The formalities:
Hello Jay, if you’re reading this. My name is James Kelley. We have nothing but time to discuss your conclusions. It [...]
Anti-Romanides Sentiments On OrthodoxWiki Will Not Go Unanswered
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008I posted an ‘edit’ to the Romanides entry in Wiki. In case they do no accept it (quite possible), you can comment here, of course. Maybe you will see it [here].
You obviously have no idea what Fr. John Romanides means when he says “Franks.” He means exactly what Greeks and Ottoman Turks [...]
James has officially entered the “westernorthodox.blogspot.com” fray
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Here’s my recent comment to a post on: http://westernorthodox.blogspot.com/2006/02/most-unique-orthodoxy-ever.html
I think you guys should chime in, because I think the westernorth. crowd needs to see that I am not a lone nut, preachin’ sola barbe.
Hey “Ille,” just though you would like to know that any first-year seminarian in any Orthodox seminary knows that we [...]
Jeffrey D. Finch’s “Neo-Palamism, Divinizing Grace. . .”
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008I recently read Jeffrey D. Finch’s anti-Orthodox essay “Neo-Palamism, Divinizing Grace, and the Breach between East and West,” p. 233-249 in Christensen and Wittung (eds.), Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions (Madison 2007).
The theological errors are so numerous that it is truly difficult to know where [...]
Second Adam: Beginning and End
Saturday, July 5th, 2008This is an excerpt from the thesis I’m writing.
Candid comments are always welcome.
A SURVEY OF THE RELEVANT TEXTS: THE SECOND ADAM AS THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THEOLOGY.
“The fact that Christ did not exist historically at the time of Adam’s creation is of no significance. It is a fundamental biblical teaching that on [...]
The Eolian harp
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 What I found strange in my former realm of study is the fact that English Romanticism is actually Naturalistic, at least as C.S. Lewis defines “Naturalism” in Miracles. If you read poems such as Coleridge’s “Eolian Harp”, you find such passages as:
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That [...]