A Rather Less Than New Kind of Christianity
February 18, 2010 by Fr. Gregory Jensen · 9 Comments
Here’s my latest review for the Oooze. You can find this review and others here. The critiques I’ve read of Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith condemn it as heretical. Key to this judgment is that they all evaluate the book based on a canon [...]
Orthodox Natural Law Theory
February 15, 2010 by Fr. Gregory Jensen · 10 Comments
As some have argued here, the Church’s witness requires her to clearly articulate her anthropological vision. The challenges that face both the Church and the larger society flow from competing visions of what it means to be human. The articulation of an Orthodox understanding of the human person is central to our moral witness in [...]
Father Arseny: Fact or Fiction?
February 3, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Some of you may be aware that there is a discussion occurring asking whether Fr. Arseny actually existed as a real person or is he a literary creation. Dr. Peter Bouteneff in his podcast “Sweeter than Honey” examines this question in light of recent Soviet history, particularly how history was often erased in the Soviet [...]
Wesley J. Smith interviewed on National Review Online
January 19, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Wesley J. Smith, noted author on human rights and occasional commentator on the AOI Blog was interviewed on National Review Online on his upcoming book, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Smith discusses the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human [...]
Review: How the Byzantines Saved Europe
August 17, 2009 by John Couretas · 17 Comments
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, Robin Cormack. Oxford University Press (2008) Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. Princeton University Press (2008) Ask the average college student to identify the 1,100 year old empire that was, at various points in its history, the political, [...]
The Theological Roots of Nazism and Stalinism
March 28, 2008 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
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