Designed Orthodox churches around the United States. Translated a number of Russian works by Alexander Schmemann and Alexander Men. Retired rector of the Church of St. Gregory the Theologian in Wappingers Falls, New York.
The Mystery of Confession in the Church is far from being a well-described science, with universally accepted rules and guidelines—hence the term mystery. We have, however, perhaps far too long acted as if the science and its application were indeed clear. After forty-two years as a pastor, and some twenty five years prior to that[…..]
Christian anthropology cannot arise out of a theoretical intellectual vacuum. It is rooted in the one, true anthrōpos, Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, the Son of God; in him and in his relation to the world and to God. True to him, his ecclesial body, the Church, is commissioned to manifest that anthropology to[…..]
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The liturgy of the Early Christian era was about doing rather than saying. This distinction is borrowed from Dom Gregory Dix by Fr. Kyprian Kern, who was responsible for the first major Orthodox investigation of the sources and practices of the Christian ecclesia.The Jesuit scholar Marcel Jousse reinforces this assertion in writing of the early[…..]
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