About Preaching
St. Vladimir’s Seminary Implements Fully Paid Tuition Plan
This just in from the St. Vladimir Theological Seminary Website. Just a reminder - St. Vlad's is the only Orthodox seminary in America which employs a professor of homiletics - they are beginning to take preaching seriously. Kudos to St. Vladimir's leadership for starting this, which will … [More...]
Preaching: Intelligible and Effective – An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
This interview, with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) is not all about preaching, but he makes the profound and necessary connection between preaching and mission (without which there would be no Church). I've republished the article in its entirety. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the … [More...]
Patristics
On The Bread And Wine
St. Ambrose of Milan Perhaps you will say, I see something else, how is it that you … [Read More...]
Stand Fast and Watch
by St. John Maximovitch Stand fast on spiritual watch, because you don't know when the … [Read More...]
Biblical Resources
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Conclusion
by Maurice A. Robinson Concluding Observations Every variant unit can be evaluated … [Read More...]
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Part 9
by Maurice A. Robinson Inaccuracies and misleading claims The Byzantine Textform has … [Read More...]
The Case For Byzantine Priority: Part 8
by Maurice A. Robinson Selected Objections to the Byzantine-Priority Hypothesis While … [Read More...]
Sermon Resources
The Septuagint and Textual Criticism
from On Behalf Of All blog Some terrific points are made in this article, making it very worth your time! Enjoy! Textual Criticism is a discipline that has gained much popularity over the last one hundred years or so, especially as related to the so-called “Bible” of the Christian faith. While this discipline has arguably been around since at least the … [More...]
Protestant Reformers on the Ever-Virginity of Mary
from Orthodoxwiki.org Though the Orthodox Church does not follow the teachings of the Protestant Reformers, their views regarding the Theotokos's ever-virginity are a point of commonality with Orthodoxy. Many of the major figures amongst the Protestant fathers in the faith believed in the Theotokos's ever-virginity. John Calvin: He says that she [Mary of … [More...]
The Acquisition Of Humility
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Among the imperatives of the Christian moral life, I wonder if any is the occasion of more bewilderment than the call to be humble. This impression arises not only from my own experience of the problem but also from the many times other Christians have asked me, "How can I learn humility?" If humility were simply one of the moral … [More...]
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