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    Ousia and hypostasis from the philosophers to the councils

    Do you hold hypostasis to be roughly equivalent to individuation and primary substance, in its later usage?
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    Shrines

    Another Greek shrine:
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    What defines a Trinitarian?

    God has a Word and a Spirit God always does They are both divine because they always come from God. They are because God always gives himself to them to be. He doesn't just give them the sort of thing he is to be, rather he gives them himself to be.
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    Does God want us to withhold Lords Supper from non members of our denomination?

    I wonder if this has to do in part with different understandings of contemplation and examination.
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    Nobody here is talking about aliens we've supposedly encountered, though. That presupposes they aren't men, and aren't we supposed to, as you said, avoid making undue assumptions?
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    That's not how the church has ever worked, despite what modern Romantics and gerontolaters would tell you.
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    Yeah Fr. Seraphim Rose was talking about UFOs, rather than aliens as such, right? Not that we should be taking his word as gospel, either way. What would the demo for that be? This seems like the same way biblicists read the bible, if it isn't explicitly there we can't talk about it, if a...
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    If there are intellectual, ensouled and material, they are human. The idea that we would need a saintly pronouncement on humans being somewhere for there to be humans there is without demonstration. On the other hand: There were saints who believed there were no inhabitants on the other side of...
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    This seems like a strange and out-of-left-field standard for what is possible. I mean, we didn't know about Native Americans or Papua New Guineans for a long time, no specific revelations about them, but they're humans we'd want to evangelize.
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    Would we baptize aliens?

    You're leaving off one other option, though! That the aliens are an unfamiliar sort of human. Intellectual, material, ensouled beings from another planet.
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    ICE and witness

    Reminds me of the nationalist Buddhism taught under Imperial Japan: In the great river of passing events, occasionally a bayonet finds its way into a child's stomach. And occasionally you're holding the rifle attached to it. Such is life.
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    Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom)

    Here's a great one: How can I deal with my sinful condition? | Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
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    How I approach/interpret Scripture

    I'm down with that, I'm against authorial intent as a legitimizing criterion for anything in any context
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    How I approach/interpret Scripture

    Good thing it's 2018! No beauty without danger.
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    How I approach/interpret Scripture

    "Our starting place for Christian teaching and practice should not begin with e.g. James or Hebrews, but instead with the Gospels and also the Epistles of St. Paul." That is a strange distinction to draw. Here is the taxis with which I am familiar: 1. Gospels 2. Pauline Epistles, Acts, Hebrews...
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