by Gary Catell, the Willard Preacher This preacher’s notebook has many useful Scriptural references that Gary has accumulated over the years that answer common questions and challenges. Please feel free to use them and create your own preacher’s notebook. The Preacher’s Apologetic Notebook Share the post “The Preacher’s Apologetic Notebook” FacebookGoogle+LinkedInPinterestTwitterEmailBookmarkPrint
Did the Early Church Venerate Icons?
October 24, 2016 By
from his “Stump the Priest” Series by Fr. John Whiteford Question: “Isn’t the fact that there were controversies over icons well into the 9th century proof that the early Church did not venerate icons?” There were indeed controversies at various times, most notably the Iconoclastic controversies of the 8th and 9th centuries, but these controversies […]
An Uncomplicated Truth
October 13, 2016 By
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon It is reasonable, I suppose—or at least natural—for modern students of religion to wonder how the earliest Christians, all of them Jews, were able to reconcile their belief in the divinity of Christ with the monotheism enshrined in Israel’s Sh’ma’. Indeed, historians of Christian thought have devoted many studies to […]
51 Biblical Proofs Of A Pauline Papacy And Ephesian Primacy
October 3, 2016 By
From Triablogue blog – file this under reasonable faith: A brilliant example of where lack of real logic can lead in apologetics. Follow this closely and be illumined. In a recent thread, ANNOYED PINOY asked me to repost something I wrote almost a decade ago. It was a list of 51 Biblical proofs of a Pauline […]
The Holy Eucharist: A Live Coal
September 10, 2016 By
By Fr. Patrick Reardon Speaking of the Holy Eucharist, the Fathers and early liturgical texts of the Church have recourse to the metaphor of the flaming coal (anthrax, pruna) in reference to the Lord’s body. For instance, with Isaiah 6:7 obviously in mind, The Liturgy of St. James refers to “receiving the fiery coal” (labein […]
Mystery or Memorial? Sacrament or Symbol?
September 2, 2016 By
What is the Lord’s Supper? What is the Eucharist? Was it always understood as a Sacrament? Throughout the history of Christianity, the overwhelming majority of Christians have consistently believed that Jesus Christ, in a mystery, imparts His Body and Blood to His people though the vehicle of the Lord’s Supper. Bypassing all the Biblical references, […]
What is the Human Nous?
August 26, 2016 By
by Fr, John Romanides The chief concern of the Orthodox Church is the healing of the human soul. The Church has always considered the soul as the part of the human being that needs healing because She has seen from Hebrew tradition, from Christ Himself, and from the Apostles that in the region of the physical […]
New Apostles or Old Heresy? An Orthodox Perspective on the New Apostolic Reformation
August 26, 2016 By
by Robert Arakaki I was recently asked to help organize a memorial service for a mutual friend. When I was told that the “Apostle Johnson” would be doing the service, I didn’t know quite what to make of it. I knew of the Apostle Paul who traveled around the Roman Empire planting churches and writing […]
