Two Natures before Chalcedon: Patristic Dyophysite Language
Introduction Were there Church Fathers prior to Chalcedon [or even Ephesus] that used the language of not only “in Two
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Apologetics
Textual Interpolations in Damasine and Gennadian Texts in Favour of the Filioque
Introduction A question that has not seen much public discussion is: “To what extent are the texts we have
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Predestination, St. Augustine, and Fr. Panteleimon by Vladimir Moss
[Original Article can be found here: http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/414/predestination,-st.-augustine-fr.-panteleimon/ ] There is, as everyone knows, an heretical, Calvinist doctrine of predestination. Less well
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A Reply on the NFTU post “Official Old ROCOR Views on the MP, OCA, Ecumenism,and more.”
NFTU: This was left as a comment in reply to the previous NFTU post “Official Old ROCOR Views on the
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Official Old ROCOR Views on the MP, OCA, Ecumenism, and more
NFTU: The following was originally a comment on NFTU in reply to the pdf of Fr. Seraphim’s works. Since it
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History of the Council of Florence: Introduction by I.N. Ostroumov
Sources for the History of the Council of Florence It was at an early period that the spirit of supremacy
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Tomos of Synod of Blachernae in 1285 Against the Filioque
Source: http://www.oodegr.com/english/oikoumenismos/filioque_beccus.htm?fref=gc By the most holy and ecumenical Patriarch, Lord Gregory of Cyprus, who was attacked by certain individuals, and for
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Fr. Vladimir (Guettee) on St. Augustine and the Papacy
Further down is an extract from Fr. Vladimir Guettee’s useful book “The Papacy”, which he wrote after his conversion to Orthodoxy.
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Might and Right in Middle Byzantium by Vladimir Moss
[Original Article] It was a fundamental principle both of the Emperor Justinian’s legislation in the sixth century and of St.
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Archbishop Arnulf of Orleans (+1003) and the Synod of Verzy (991AD) on the Papacy
“Looking at the actual state of the papacy, what do we behold? John [XII.] called Octavian, wallowing in the sty
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