Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Has Europe Lost Its Soul?
“The religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism…were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.” “When Europe recovers its soul, it will recover its wealth-creating energies. But first it must remember: humanity was not created to serve…
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Patriarch Urges Russia’s Government To ‘Listen’ And ‘Correct The Course’
Much political and social analysis in America about the Russian Orthodox Church tends to view Russia through the lens of the Cold War. Russia remains an enemy to American interests and the Russian Orthodox Church is merely a vassal to the Russian State that sanctifies, as it were, state policies that are inimical to American…
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Revival of Orthodoxy in Russia
Back in October, 2011 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill said: In 1991, the Russian Orthodox Church had 12,000 parishes, 117 monasteries and convents, two theologian academies, seven theologian seminaries, 16 theologian colleges and four schools. In 2011, we have 30,675 parishes, 29,324 priests, 3,850 deacons and 805 monasteries and convents. The number of theologian educational establishments…
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Philosophy and Contentment in the Age of Radical Skepticism
This is an outstanding essay by Dr. Pedro Blas González, a professor of philosophy at Barry University of Miami and occasional contributor to OrthodoxyToday.org. Dr. González analyzes the sickness of contemporary culture with penetrating moral clarity of the kind only given to those whose touchstone is not of this world. Some highlights: What is it…
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Renewing Christendom: T.S. Eliot – The Journey of the Magi [AUDIO]
Below is a rare recording taken from a live interview T.S. Eliot did for the BBC during World War II. Eliot reads his poem “The Journey of Magi” where the sojourner retraces the steps of the Magi in his own time and place. The poem recalls a time when the knowledge of Christ was more…
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