A Supplementary Catechism For Forum Members

Much of the wisdom of Scripture is conveyed through prophetic typologies. St. Luke shows us with his Resurrection narrative that all Old Testament Scripture is all about Christ, and Matthew illustrates some examples, however, the majority are to be found by obvious implication. To better...

A member wrote this to me in a thread on an unrelated topic: To which I replied I would liken it to an orange, a delicious fresh fruit which you won’t starve if you don’t eat, but which is extremely spiritually healthy to consume, for in doing it, you are upholding the divinely inspired...

Apophatic theology, known as the Via Negativa in Latin, and apophatic language involves the use of negations to express divine things, for example, God is unchanging, God cannot be circumscribed, there is no place where God is not, there is nothing that God does not know, and there is no limit...

To quote Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky’s classic Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, translated from Russian into English by the great penitent, scholar and abbot Fr. Seraphim Rose, because of God’s inscrutability and existence above and distinct from all of Creation, “...one may speak only of the...