What Is the Problem in Orthodoxy?
Watch now and join the conversation. Look at how it works in most parishes. What are your thoughts? Watch now as our partners at Pan Orthodox United, Voices of America (OVA) speak with Fr. Chad Hatfield President of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. ABOUT PAN ORTHODOX UNITED Pan Orthodox United works with...
On Holy Communion
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias The Holy Gospel we heard today, my Christian brothers and sisters, tells us, in the form of a parable, about the Supper of Holy Communion. Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ. This Supper, which we enjoy at every Divine Liturgy, is...
Hell and Heaven
Panteleïmon Tomazos The position of Orthodox Dogmatic teaching is that heaven and hell are not two limited places where the righteous are rewarded and the unrighteous punished after death, nor that hell is a region of concrete instruments of torture. Heaven and hell are states and forms of relationship...
Orthodox Theology and the Judgment of History (3)
Georgios P. Pavlos, Professor of Physics and Philosophy, DUTH For head of the Orthodox Church is neither a man, nor an angel, not even any other creature of God, but the very God-Man, the historical Christ, the Son of the Virgin, Perfect God and perfect Man, Son of God...
Orthodox Theology and the Judgment of History (2)
Georgios P. Pavlos, Professor of Physics and Philosophy, DUTH The initial gift of deification, offered by the Living God to His cosmos and His beings, is so powerful that, at the end, created cosmos gave birth to Panaghia, the Mother of God, through Whom the Living, Uncreated Hypostatic God...
Orthodox Theology and the Judgment of History (1)
Georgios P. Pavlos, Professor of Physics and Philosophy, DUTH The following text which will be published in three parts, is Georgios P. Pavlos’s talk at the 8th International Conference of Orthodox Theology, Under the Auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate “The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: Orthodox...
Our Participation in the Mystery of the Kingdom of God
Bishop Agathangelos of Fanari ‘For many are called, but few are chosen’ The Gospel parable for the 14th Sunday of Matthew presents the mystery of the Kingdom of God and our attitude towards the saving challenge of the love of God. A king invited friends and acquaintances to a...
Jesus Christ The Universal Person
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Christ, as the true and universal man, is the measure of all things for all people. He is the ultimate measure, universal and timeless, for the whole world. He is the true measure by which we can define or...
Wanted: Elijah
Georgios Ant. Galitis, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School, University of Athens Elijah the Zealot. ‘The angel incarnate and rampart of the prophets’. There’s not a location in Greece that doesn’t have a church, or at least a chapel, a shrine, in his honour. He’s also similarly honoured in...
The Most Holy Spirit
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia ‘And He said this about the Spirit’ On the last day of the Feast of the Tabernacles, Christ revealed that He Himself is the source of life. Because people were about to leave to go back home, Christ’s words were ‘provisions’...
