Dec 18, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
Abstract This article encourages readers to press past recent debates on the nature of eschatological hell to examine those NT uses of gehenna and hades that cannot be interpreted as afterlife states. The author demonstrates how these texts—Jms. 3:6, Matt. 23:15 and...
Dec 11, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor Edited by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil Oxford University Press, 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor is the most recent in the Oxford Handbooks series, and as usual, provides...
Dec 9, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
“That is all I ask of Orthodoxy—to permit me to hope.” — Fr. Aiden Kimel After a decade of catechesis and struggle under the guidance of my spiritual father, Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, and godfather, David Goa, I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church in 2013. To...
Dec 6, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
Question (Jacob): Jacob McMillen is a freelance writer and the editor of Brazen Church A friend of mine just directed me to this passage, and I haven't read anything on it. After spending a few mins on it, nothing really comes to...
Nov 30, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
Last night I had a dream in two parts. In part 1, I was citing a catena of biblical texts to a congregation of open-hearted people. In the dream, I was consciously aware of the critical difference between a catena and proof-texting or...
