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RIndex-Supplement-A
RIndex-Supplement-B Recent Orthodox Martyrs
RIndex-Supplement-C Relativism, Rationalism, and Systematizing
RIndex-Supplement-D Reading and interpreting the BIble
RIndex-Supplement-E Theology,
cathechesis, and apologetics
RIndex-Supplement-F Disclaimer
RIndex-Supplement-G Criteria for choosing a Faith
Rindex-Supplement-H Christian
Religion Series (publications by
Orchid Land Publications
R1 (currently offline) Reply to a Fundamentalist
R2 Mini-review of McGrath's The genesis of doctrine
R3 [offline]
R4 Orthodoxy and Ecumenism: Good & bad ecumenism
R5 Is the search for truth in vain?
R6 Orthodoxy and the environment
R7 Divisions or branches of systematic theology:
How
Orthodox theology is organized
R9 Orthodox & Catholix: Latin innovations not found in Orthodoxy
R10 Orthodox missionary and charitable institutions
R11 Informational links: Orthodox topics
R15 Orthodox periodicals (some online)
R16 Liturgical arts, music, architecture, Orthodox dogs
R19 Orthodox residential communities, care centers, and shelters
R20 Reply to question about humans' everlasting life
R22 St. Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai
R24 Peripheral information on science and religion
R25 In what sense should it be acceptable to treat what one claims to be important as simple?
R27 Review of Sherrard's The Greek East and the Latin West
R28 Christian East vs. West, Part I: Christian thinking in a developmental perspective
R30 Shorter Thanksgiving service and other prayer services
R31 Orthodox seminaries and study centers
R32 Correspondence courses, prison diaconiai, &c.
R33 Which foreign languages should Church schools offer?
R35 Relativism--open-mindedness or intolerance of differences?
R36 St. Maximos on maleness & femaleness
R37 Review of Griffiths' An apology for apologetics
R38 What are natural and positive law?
R39 Opposed kinds of religious excitement
R40 "Three tracts" (no longer available)
R41 How to pray in front of an icon
R43 Is Jesus 100% God? Is Jesus 100% human?
R44 The Standard of belief (Creed)
R45 Orthodox vs. Latin views of divorce
R46 Why icons are so prevalent in Orthodoxy
R48 Thought for the day & every day (cum Editorial policy)
R49 Orthodox jurisdictions & ecclesiastical institutions
R50
Can personal responsibility ever be
separated from privileges?
R51 Why Jesus was born when and where He was
R52
Review: Prophet of Roman [i.e. Byzantine]
Orthodoxy: The theology of John Romanides
R53
Why
do journalists refer to Christianity's
radical left as the "conservative
religious right"?
R54 Romanticizing holy Orthodoxy
R57 Orthodox & other counseling--bereavement, abuse, &c.
R58 Unbridgeable ecumenical questions
R62 Terminology: How are certain terms to be used?
R63 On infant Baptism: What it is and is not
R64 What is sacrifice in religion?
R65 Reviews for neophytes & advanced readers
R67 Clergy: Ranks, titles, forms of address
R68 Meditations, devotions, sermons
R69 Why do we have prescribed Lessons at services?
R70 The words of Absolution at Greek Orthodox confession
R71 Outlines of
services: Mysteries (including Baptism,
Matrimony), Funerals, and services for those fallen asleep
R72 Is Orthodoxy a comfortable religion?
R73 What does St. Luke say about Jesus's mother?
R74 Gnosticism: What today's Christian needs to know
R75 Energy & light in the Bible, Orthodox theology, & science
R76 The Transfiguration theme in Orthodoxy
R79 Orthodox youth, scouts, young adults
R81 Resolutions on American Orthodox Unity
R82 Tradition : Trendytion; Orthodoxy in North America
R83 Vain repetitions? What about non-vain repetitions?
R84 Orthodox personal pages: Links
R85 Orthodox chat channels, lists forums, discussion boards
R86 Sins known/unknown, voluntary/involuntary?
R87 Understanding words used in Orthodox writings: a brief tutorial
R89 The Bible & its translations
R90 Consultation on Orthodox Worship
R91 Trisagion for a
layperson fallen asleeep
and Panikhida
R93 Mol(i)ében service and Serbian Slava service
R94 Akathist service to our all-sweet LGS Jesus Christ
R95 Three kinds of development in theology
R96 What about the immaculate conception?
R97 The pseudorthodox Confessions of Mogila, Metrophanese, and Dositheus
R101 Why the Incarnation took place when and where it did
R102 Three views of the Fall & Salvation--Orthodox, Latin, Reformation
R103 Why "Word" is a silly name for the Creator of everything created
R104 Orthodox holy days--rankings and other information
R105 Virtual reality, justification, and the "Lord's Supper"
R106 Communion of Saints; praying to Saints
R107 Nominalist problems with Grace, Salvation, and synergy
R109 Necessary distinctions in interfaith discussions
R110 Which Faith to choose--a brief reply
R111 Western ideology & translating Greek theological works
R112 Potential and actual senses of nature and natural
R113 The beauty of the Orthodox Christian religion
R114 Nine things that Western Christians need to grasp the Eastern mindset
R115 Comments on the terminology of the OCA Encyclical on Ecumenics
R116 Re-Baptism or just Chrismation (the penult part of Baptism)?
R117 Transliterating Greek in English
118 Open Letter to the Revd. Billy Graham
R119 Sense of prayer, sense of belief
R121 Failing
to realize that sola scriptura is
never sola makes
it
an irrational and hence superstititious slogan or mantra
R122 Readers' and other services on the Big Island
R123 Apologetics: Talking apples & oranges; or as it should be?
R124 Patristic Greek psychological terminology: "mind," "reason, will" &c
R125 Old Testament Books in Orthodoxy, Papal Catholicism, Protestantism
R127 To online Orthodox writers
R129 Review of G. Metallinos, Faith and science in Orthodox gnosiology and methodology
R130 The collision of
Orthodox piety with contemporary
American culture
R132 Tradition (parádosis) in the New Testament
R136 A science of religion? Letter to an editor
R137 Review of D. Reid,
Energies of the Spirit:
Trinitarian models in Eastern and Western
theology
R138 Inserts for parish
bulletins; for parishioners to
send to newspapers and other media who
misrepresent Orthodoxy
R139 Hour offices: The first and
sixth (Noonday)
Hours with Great
and Lesser Vespers and
with Compline
prayers
R140 The Filioque in a nutshell
R141 Ethics in ontological and juridical frameworks
R142 Three kinds of Christianity
R143 Understanding Worship and the Gospel of Salvation
R144 How can one judge whether something is true?
R145 What Orthodox
Christianity is--in the form of an
encyclopedia article
R146 "The Pearl" (a hymn by St. Ephraim of Nineveh)
R148 Christian East & West: Comparative metatheology
in metapologetics (continuation of R28)
R149 Alternative presentations of Orthodox Christianity
R150 Balancing dogma vs. piety: Beliefs vs. experience
R152 Why did God ordain for the Gospel to be propagated in the Greek language?
R153 Continuation of R127 to Orthodox
R154 Letters to various non-Orthodox correspondents on the Incarnation et al.
R155 Individuals interpreting holy Scripture individualistically?
R156 Orthodox Christian orphanages needing your support
R157 Statements
on moral issues by the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in America and the
Moscow Patriarchate
R158 Response to online postings form non-Orthodox
on the Incarnation, paradigms, et al. (iii-iv)
R159 Why it is at their peril that Evangelicals ignore the Fathers
R160 Review of Karmiris' Synopsis of dogmatic theology
R161 How to set up the parameters of a discussion about right
and wrong in a public-school classroom
R162 Continuation of
R127: Response to
online postings form non-Orthodox
on the Incarnation, paradigms, et al.
R163 The right way of conducting interfaith discussions
R164 OLP articles that can be published elsewhere with OLP permission
R165 The Vikings and Byzantion
R166 Translating service books
R167 Is missionizing proselytizing? (in prep.)
R168 Principles for applying canon law
R169 What is important and what is not
R170 Table Graces at mealtime: Blessings & Thanksgivings
R171 Orthodoxy and minidoxy as well as autodoxy and
relativism
R172 Why does evil afflict innocent children and adults who are trying to be
good?
R173 Letters to various
inquirers about several topics
R174 Using
"mystical" to mystify and "moral" to
demoralize
R175 Good and bad interfaith
discussions: Are the
existing approaches
to "ecumenics" the only
possible ones?
with An approach to ecumenics that
never has
worked and evidently never will work
but keeps on getting tried
R176 Continuation
of R173 to Orthodox Christians
R177 Avoiding sixty-odd errors in formulating what you
wish to say in a discussion
R178 Diddle and Dawdle Ecumenical Consultants: Advisory
on how to lose gracefully at ecumenics
R179 Separation of
Church and State
R180 Changing paradigms:
The clash of thought worlds and the upheaval of moving from one
to another
R181 How different languages do and
do not
organize our thoughts in
different categories
R182 More on what
Orthodoxy is--with Appendix on
How to treat
strangers in your temple
R183 Acquiring an
Orthodox Nous
R184 The Basic issue between Eastern and
Western Christianity
R185 That ever-awesome "truth that works for us" that our "inner voice"
bids us pay heed
to
R186 The Moscow Patriarchate's recent policy
statement on
divorce, etc, and on ecumenics
R187 Paradigms and
Salvation: Why God became human when
and where He did
R188 Can you tell these two
anti-reality forms of Christianity apart?
R189 The Barna reports
on American Christianity
R190 Questions from
Orthodox to Latins and Evangelicals
R191 Using Orthodox
terminology in English
R192 Paradigms in
religion
R193 Was our Savior born in a cave
or manger? What is the source of the Lamb imagery in the
Apocalypse?
R194 Graphic models of
three kinds of Christianity
R195 Why ethics
is problematic
R196 Terminology for
vestments, sacred vessels and Altar
furniture [contributor invited]
R197 Orthodox
perspective: Letter to a Denominational informational website
R198 Font for
transcribing Greek letters into English
characters
R199 The sublime and
the vulgar
R200 Weeping icons
R201 Reply to a
"Western Orthodox"
R202 Religionized
secularism and secularized religiosity
R203 Review of
Schmemann’s Church, world, mission
R204 Letters to a Latin
friend
R205
R206 Letter to a
student
R207
Letter to a newcomer to this website
R208 The search for truth
and the hordes of "educated" people that don't know how to look for
truth in religion
R209 Religious
conservative or political conservative?
R210 The earliest, and
still very modern, heresies
R211 Three Christian
paradigms
R212 Genesis 1, the
Assimilation to God, and terminological issues
R213 Greek words for
"love"
R214 Religion and
religiosity
R215
Judging--ontological vs. moral
R216 Interfaith
dialogue sites and lists: Their hazards and naïveté
R217 Six million
Orthodox, six million Jews, six million Muslims
R218
Sister Churches or kissin' cousins (cousins
not by blood)?
R219 Censoring the kids
or leading them to do their own censoring?
R 220 [in
preparation]
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221 Doctrinal development?
R 222 Dogma and
doctrine: East vs. West
R223 A Review of two books about
fr. Arseny by Kh.
Frederica Matthewes-Green
R224 Orthodox-Western
differences
R225 New to
Christianity? What you need to know before reading the
Bible
R226 Beginning the Great Fast with Forgiveness Vespers,
by Kh. Frederica Matthewes-Green
R227 A common
interfaith language?
R228 Even Greeks gooph up the
energy words in English renderings
R229 Great Week Lamentations
230 Pictures from St. Tikhon's Monastery and Seminary
231 Praying with a prayer rope
232 The myth of 1054 and
of the Great Schism
233 Historical information
234 Relativism
235 Western Orthodoxy?
236 Reply
to an inquiry on how to respond to non-Orthodox
237 Curious about Orthodox Christianity?
238 For funerals
239 Kidding ourselves at interfaith encounters: When
we say the same things, we are not saying the same things
240 How to hold worthwhile interfaith discussions
241 Critiquing encyclopedia entries on Eastern Orthodoxy
242 "Despina's rug" (a poem about the Greek holocaust)
243
Orthodox music on CD
244 [deleted]
245 How preconceptions alter what different literalists
read
246 Reacting to slur and slander
247 Fr. Innokentiy of Hawai'i
248 Salutations of the all-holy and all-pure Theotókos and
ever-virgin Mary
249
Picture of a
bishop praying in preparation for the
divine Liturgy in an Orthodox Cathedral
251 Various notes for the main page of this part of Orlapubs website
252 Why can't we all have the "simple" Gospel of Jesus?
253 Genesis 1:26 and contemporary astrophysics
256 What if the Fathers had written in sound bites?
257 Honesty vs. relativist: hybris and honesty, and contemporary education
259 What things are and are not to be blessed
260 Thomas bread (kulich/kolach)
261 Great religious songs of freedom from different quarters of the world
263 OLP pages on this site with prayer services
264 OLP pages discussing interfaith issues and ECUMENICS
265
OLP pages discussing PARADIGMS
265-X Table showing how the
senses of crucial theological terms
differ in accordance with the premises of the ontic (Eastern)
paradigm and those of the volitional (juridical, Western) paradigm
266 OLP pagxs on Grace and Salvation
267 Is it proper to sit while praying or worshiping?
268
Viewers that
the page to which this one is
linked is not for
269 The history, purpose, and philosophy of this website
R270 Does an Orthodox Christian have to cross oneself or kiss the icons?
271 Commercial
TV's two V's: and why is it amusing to see
adults exhibit infantile emotions
and thinking?
272 Response to P. Negrut's critique of Orthodoxy
273 Thoughts on the difference between taboo vs. morality
274 St. Maximos the Confessor on the Assimilation to God
R276 Is Orthodoxy too "spiritual" or is it too "materialistic"?
R277
Should members of any religion seek to impose
the moral views specific to a given religion on the general public?
R278
Reply
to one who has asked an
Orthodox to say something
about Luther's sola fide "by faith alone"
R279 Was human essence "tainted" at the Fall or deprived of something?
R280 OLP pages on the Bible or Scripture
R281
Blowin' theological bubbles: accepture undone by the facts
more than pathos [not yet online]
R283 Death and the afterlife [under construction]
R284 Non-classical apologetics: mostly in tabular layout
R286 A scale of conservative/radical Christianity
R287 How is theology being taught these days?
R289
How we'll know that the Orthodox Winter in
America is past and spring is here
R290
[TRACT] Orthodox aspects of Eastern Orthodox
belief
and practice that are generally misknown
R291 Missing a once-in-a-millenium opportunity
R293 List of pages on the holy Mysteries
R295 Orthodox temple in Anarctica
R296
How a seminarian or anyone else should approach theology
if one honestly hopes to understand it
R298 Expiation and the Life-Giving Cross
R300
Holy
Orthodoxy is not about assimilating or
being Papalism Lite
R301
Why isn't it
contradictory to exclude our most distinctive
faculty (reason) from what one claims to be one's highest
commitment--religion?
R302
Catechesis vs. debate and connecting the dots: where should
ecumenics
begin?
R303 What about the Old Calendar?
R306 To become Orthodox, you have to make a paradigm-shift
R307
A possible sequel to The loneliness of the long-
distance runner
R308 Orthdox parish schools and New Testament Greek
309 The convent of St. Mary of Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives
310 Consistency over time as a criterion of truth
312 Letter sent to InstaPundit (linked to R265)
313 Review of Crisis and Reform (on the origin of Uniatism)
314 Letter to an important political blogger concerning the Christian Left aka politic right
315 When we say different things do we really mean the same thing? Even when we say the same thing, is it really true that we mean the same thing?
316 "The destiny of all believers will be . . . transformation into a spiritual substance?--How Western Christian interpreters distort the Apostle Paul's Energy
317 Orthodox Christian burial customs
318 Seven teachings peculiar to the East and not held in the West
319
Return
of Tikhvin icon of the Theotokos from Chicago
to the Moscow Cathedral of Christ
the Savior: pictures
322 Is your faith in God or in the paradigm that tells you what can be true and what must be false about reality and religion?
323 Images of Your all-holy Glory
324 Freedom and coercion in religion
325 Different concepts of saving Grace in different forms of Christianity
326 Greed & Ideology in our time
327 Strategies to attract seekers of Vatican Lite and/or an exotic Eastern religion
328 Do confessors have to be clergy of at least priestly ordination?
330 Is Rublev's "Old Testament Trinity" Icon misnamed?
by George S. Gabriel, Ph. D.
335 A short Introduction to Eastern Orthodox Christianity for Inquirers and newcomers
336
How do you teach a person to be open-minded
without also inculcating relativism?
337 How modern theology is often done
338 [Information on ordering
WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?
339 [REMOVED/TRANSFERRED]
340 [REMOVED/TRANSFERRED]
341 "In a nutshell": Letter to a pastor on truly conservative Christianity
342 Understanding religious differences
344 What is missing in media discussions of evolution and religion?
345 Should religion be rational, rationalistic, or neither?
346 Is religion basically a matter
of worship
or simply a
matter of moral behavior? The difference between a
servcie and worship
347 Are humans detachable compounds of a mortal body and an immortal soul?
348 Language obstacles in discussing Eastern Christainity in English
350 Recommended readings on living the Orthodox way for those having a cognitive interset in it
352 Parameters for an objective study of religion
353 How misleading
English translation of the theological language
of the Greek Bible distort
beliefs: the ecumenical dilemma
354 How apologetics & ecumenics miss their targets
355 The
Divine Liturgy served by Fr. Anatole on the Island of
Hawaii at my house in June, 2007
356 Apologetic: What is a religion? On a debate between atheists and worshipers
358 Why English-language Websites get it wrong and provide misleading information
359 Great and Holy? Or Great Holy?
360 The heresies of original sin and Deification
361 Letter to a heterodox Christian
362 Bible translators and paradigms
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FOR OLD LETTERS TO A
LATIN APOLOGETE
AND OTHER LATINS
CLICK HERE FOR OLD LETTERS TO
REFORMED APOLOGETES
ALTHOUGH
THE FATHER IS THE SOURCE OF ALL BEING (WHETHER
UNCREATED OR CREATED), THE
SON--"WHO CREATED EVERYTHING
THAT HAS BEEN MADE" (John 1:3)--AND THE ALL-HOLY SPIRIT
ARE OF ONE ESSENCE WITH THE FATHER; ALL THREE
PERSONS ARE CO-EQUAL AND CO-ETERNAL
[Note
that God is one and three in different
respects--not in the same respect, which
would be a contradiction in logic.]
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