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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:10:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/lessons-from-byzantium/ https://www.aoiusa.org/lessons-from-byzantium/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 12:40:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11720 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Excerpt: George Ostrogorsky in his magisterial History of the Byzantine State shows how the people of Byzantium rose time and again to create wealth, cultivate their intellectual capital, and achieve military success. Ultimately, though, they could not overcome the bad policy decisions that, made over the course of generations, ran counter to the proven path […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/lessons-from-byzantium/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9576 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Readers will remember that Met. Elpidophoros gave the controversial speech at Holy Cross a few years back extolling the virtues of Constantinople and castigating America for ignoring it (see: Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church). It didn’t go over well at all. The next year he was invited to St. Vladimir’s Seminary […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:14:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3212 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In response to comments here on this blog about whether the Byzantines will one day “save” the American Church, the answer to that, as has been observed, is that there are no Byzantines remaining to save us. What’s more, there would be little support among American Orthodox Christians for the sort of deep involvement by […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/feed/ 36 https://www.aoiusa.org/review-how-the-byzantines-saved-europe/ https://www.aoiusa.org/review-how-the-byzantines-saved-europe/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:10:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3192 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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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, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/review-how-the-byzantines-saved-europe/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/what-is-the-first-responsibility-of-a-bishop-to-preach-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ/ https://www.aoiusa.org/what-is-the-first-responsibility-of-a-bishop-to-preach-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:39:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3150 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Apostolic Mission of Bishops: A Short Reflection By Bradley Nassif, Ph.D. The purpose of this brief, and incomplete, reflection is to focus on the centrality of the gospel in the ministry of a bishop. It is not intended to promote a partisan perspective on any issue facing the contemporary Orthodox Church – Antiochian, Greek […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/what-is-the-first-responsibility-of-a-bishop-to-preach-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ/feed/ 41 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-real-byzantium/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-real-byzantium/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:31:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/03/07/the-real-byzantium/ Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In late January, Russian television showed “The Fall of an Empire: The Lessons of Byzantium,” a film by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. The film has sparked a controversy in Russia about the role that the West played in the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, whether modern Russia faces similar dangers, and whether the Russian Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-real-byzantium/feed/ 1