Good Friday
At Calvary, Jesus was executed by the earthly powers of his day. "Atonement" cannot be sanitized of this political and historical reality.
apocalypse
In an age of techno-nationalist optimism, apocalypse is heresy. But only our eschatological horizon can reveal what is ultimately illusory.
Ash Wednesday, 2025 “All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!”—Psalm 118:10. It is not that the old school contrarian commentators require remarkable foresight to call the experiment in exceptionalism on its cruel game ahead of time—it is after hours, and
Upon arrival, I joined the parishioners in the confession line. I partook of the custom of bowing to my co-penitents just prior to approaching the confessor, which I am told is particular to Russian tradition. This soborny gesture attuned me to the sacrifice to come qua reparation of a shattered
eucharist
Catholic and Orthodox Christians participate in Mircea Eliade's "eternal return" on the occasion of every eucharistic celebration.
alchemy
In Indo-Tibetan alchemy, we have a single fundamental creative process and its associated energies which can be realised or accessed in a variety of ways by humans who acquire the requisite skills.
Thomas
Thomas' stipulations are as much proof that Jesus had, in fact, died as they were proof of his resurrection.
Eugenia Constantinou
Universalism is rooted in the Scriptures and the Fathers, and no authoritative statements in Tradition condemn the belief.
Eugenia Constantinou
Universal salvation emerges from deep theological and historical roots, challenging the long-held consensus with a vision of hope grounded in the earliest teachings of Christ and the Church Fathers.
Dispatches from the Eighth Clime
Persecution and poverty of spirit do not run counter to the spirit of Christmas. In fact, such conditions are at the heart of incarnation itself.
Tradition differs from an apostolic deposit, as the Nicene Trinity isn't explicitly taught in the New Testament and reflects varied early Christologies.
Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."
In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."
The Perennial Philosophy, Sophia Perennis, is a school of thought within the field of Comparative Religion which aims to understand the plurality of religions as stemming from a singular Source. In the West we call this Beginning Point, God. Perennial Philosophy is also described as: "[an] underlying basic shared
Nahmanides had success salvaging certain pre-Maimonidean currents of Jewish exegesis while seeking to set them on a new comparatively more systematic basis.
Alchemy is an industrial spirituality. It embraces Nature as the materia of spiritual transformation and the metals as ripe for transformation.
The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.
It is as though the flame of divine eros burning brightly within Dimas made Porphyrios's own heart and soul ignite.
From a fall into neglect even among the monks of Mt. Athos, the texts of the Philokalia have enjoyed a remarkable success in the modern era.
For Corbin, the Person is the first and final reality. This is not idealism, nor realism, nor materialism, and certainly not historicism, but rather 'personalism.'
If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?
