Neither religious nationalism nor religious ecumenism or internationalism is the fulness of the faith. Rather, in dialectical form, nationalism presumes to limit the faith to a category more narrow than the Church, and ecumenism/internationalism presumes to expand the faith beyond the Church’s boundaries. In both cases, a false category is created and a false ecclesiology [...]
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The world is not here to call the Church to repentance, transformation of mind, reformation of desires, and redemption of body. Rather, it is the Church that calls for these of the world.
It is not the perogative of the Church to integrate itself into the surrounding culture by accepting without redemption the imperatives of that [...]
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Posted in Journal, tagged humility, orthodoxy on June 15, 2005 | No Comments »
If I worship a god who is comparable to me, of course I cannot lower myself to the dust. But the true God is beyond compare, so that no created notion, whether ‘incomprehensible’, or ‘unattainable’, or ‘unknowable’, and not even holy silence can describe His radiance. Since even my loftiest thoughts and highest expressions are [...]
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