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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Early Church
First Homily of St. John Damascene [+749AD] on the Dormition
Source The memory of the just takes place with rejoicing, said Solomon, the wisest of men; for precious in God’s
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St. Hormisdas [+420] and the Persian Martyrs
From Book V, Chapter 38, of St. Theodoret of Cyrus’ “Ecclesiastical History”: Of the Persecutions in Persia and of them
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Canons, Commemoration, Chaos, and Churches: Thoughts and Unpopular Propositions
A somewhat free-wheeling overview of controversial issues. Breaking Communion: Public and Private Teaching Canon 15 of the First-Second Synod of
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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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Baptism and Economy in Relation to the Arians
Hieromonk Enoch The question of economy in receiving the non-Orthodox has been a much discussed question. These are a few
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St. Basil the Great’s “Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature”
I. Many considerations, young men, prompt me to recommend to you the principles which I deem most desirable, and which
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New Evidence Surfaces About the “Plague of Cyprian”
Source: LiveScience Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the
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The Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise) and the Battle with the Demons in the Air Over Souls
From the “Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise), Abbot of Old Leighlin”, in Ireland (St. Laisren, +639AD): The Angels and Demons
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Ravenna, Elvira, Baptism, and Shells
One of the reasons Baptismal fonts and holy water fonts were sometimes called ‘concha’, was because they had a sea
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