The teachings of the Holy Orthodox Church

This is the first publication of the Dormition Skete Monatery, printed in 1986, with the Blessing of Archbishop Alypy of Chicago and Detroit of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia A popular comprehensive study concerning the teachings of Orthodoxy.

Azkoul, Michael

Dormition Skete

Solov'Ev and His Successors

Studion Pub

The new atheists criticize Christianity according to assumptions that are native to the Western understanding of religion. Those assumptions—theological, ecclesiological, and even anthropological and cosmological—originate in the occidental Middle Ages. The new atheists (and all atheists) are unwilling to confess that their worldview is indebted to Western Christian thought; indeed, their atheism is product of this religion.There would be no science without it.Moreover, the new atheists are ignorant of what we call Eastern Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy). If they knew that truth was not the product of reason, they would have encountered God, the one true God, not the abstract deity (supreme being) of Western thought. Unfortunately, the argument of theists delineated in public debates only strengthens the position of the new atheists. In himself, God is unknown and unknowable. We know him because he reveals himself to those who seek him, that is, the Holy Trinity. Of course, the knowledge of God is not cognitive but gnostic, spiritual knowledge—something impossible for materialists.Also, the new atheists examine the nature and history of the church with false assumptions derived from the history of the West. They a priori deny the existence of the supernatural and, therefore, the validity of the gospel, spoken and written. Into all this is thrown a false theology and, therefore, of Incarnate Lord and his place in history.And, of course, the new atheists have no knowledge of the Eastern Church for no other reason than that they deny the supernatural, holding that all forms of Christianity are fundamentally the same and that access to God and his will comes to the holy.

The New Atheists

Religion & Spirituality

Atheism

Xlibris

A refutation of the Juridical notion of Justification and Atonement, and a presentation of the Orthodox Christian doctrine.

The Dogma of Redemption: Atonement or Theosis: Refutation of Juridical Justification

Anstall, Haralambos

Khrapovitsky, Antony

Grabbe, Gregory

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

To repeat, as it has been repeated many times before, Christian unity is possible only when all those who call themselves Christian embrace common doctrine bearing common definitions. Thus far, there has been only one church that has not changed its beliefs--the Eastern Orthodox Church. She should be the apex of unity. That is not the direction in which the ecumenical movement is moving; therefore, unaware of its ecclesial need, the ecumenical movement has lost its horizon. --Father Michael

The Lost Horizon: The Pursuit for Christian Unity

A discussion of the differences between the Orthodox Christian Doctrine of Redemption and the Western doctrine of atonement.

Juridical Atonement:: An Orthodox Christian Refutation

Thinking Theologically explores the difference between Mystical/Eastern and Juridical/Western Christianity. The authors summarize it this way: The authentic patristic theologizing of the Orthodox Church is not an intellectual enterprise, but the struggle for the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, as the Holy New Testament Prophet, St Seraphim of Sarov, reminds us. This acquisition of the Holy Spirit leads to union with God in Christ (theosis); thus, Orthodox theologians have been neither academicians nor lawyers but "mystics," though in an Orthodox Christian understanding of the word. In the West, theology has been primarily a dialectical exercise, while in the East, it has been perceived primarily as an ontological process, an existential experience, that is, the theology must be shaped by a living encounter, an actual experiencing in contemplative prayer (theoria) of the object of the theologizing.

Thinking Theologically: 'The Mystic' and 'the Lawyer

Puhalo, Lazar

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