Dec 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
David B. Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian. The original version of this article was delivered as a lecture at a conference on the Ten Commandments held at St. Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota, June 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the Center for...
Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
New poetry from www.boydbarrett.com Each step by bloody, halting step Each step by bloody, halting step we marched behind a sound which first did barely reach our ears yet louder whispers through the years made firm our trodden ground Each step by bloody,...
Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
St. Luke’s Gospel account begins and ends in the temple, a creative, stylistic, arrangement of the Gospel. At the outset, a thin religion of externals is silenced and a whole new era is announced by heavenly voices in the in the open grazing region far distant from...
Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”...
Dec 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, Let all within us praise His holy...
Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Typically, the view of Alexandrian and Antiochian hermeneutics has been one of dichotomy: Alexandrians were allegorical, and Antiochians were literal-historical. However, Patristic scholars have been arguing for at least sixty years that this is far too simplistic and...