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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Orthodoxy in the West
Pre-Schism West Against the Scholastic View of Eucharistic Consecration
During the Scholastic period in the Post-Schism West, the view that the Words / Narration of Institution alone were Consecratory
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Bishop Ulrich of Imola in Defense of Married Clergy
[Translation by Fr. Marco Gorgi] ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE LETTER We know very few things concerning the author
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American Metropolitan Synodal Chancery Statement with Sister Synod in Greece
NFTU Note: Earlier this year, before the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas re-entered communion with its Sister Synod in
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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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A Review of “Aldhelm: The Prose Works”
The translation of St. Aldhelm of Sherborne’s existing prose works in “Aldhelm: The Prose Works”, made by Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
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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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Letters of Pope St. Gregory II (+731) to Emperor Leo Against Heresy of Iconoclasm
This letter, by Pope St. Gregory II, was presumably written in the year 729. We can gather this because his
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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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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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