The person of Jesus Christ is the great question mark in all of world history, and no other subject is so important, says Fr. Athanasios Mitilinaios.
50 quotations from the book Jesus: Fallen: The Human Nature of Christ Examined from an Eastern Orthodox Perspective
This post concludes our series of eight posts on the topic, “Did Christ have a fallen human nature?”
In this installment in our 8 part series, we look at other aspects of Christ‘s humanness that reveal His “otherness.”
Why did the Messiah, the Savior of the world, have to necessarily die an unnatural death by being murdered? Fr. Thomas Hopko answers in this talk .
To be “free” is usually thought of as having the option to do anything at any time. Real freedom is when doing evil is not an option.
Through many special hymns and readings before and after the feast, the Church presents us with several themes which show the significance of Holy Thephany.
Indeed an extraordinary Being requires an extraordinary conception and birth! A Protestant may believe whatever s/he wants, but to be Orthodox a Christian must believe in the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ and the ever-virginity of the most holy Theotokos (Mother of God).
We are examining Christ’s human nature in a series of blog posts. In this post we address the question: What happened when the Son of God assumed our nature?
Everyone is called to ask: What does Christmas mean to me? When we then ask, “Why did God become man?”, we will come to understand the only “destiny” of man, the only purpose of our lives.
