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It would appear to me that this part of your post fundamentally misunderstands how Luther conceived of the project of reform before and after the disaster of the Peasants War. He really did not conceptualize it as one grand, sweeping break with the Catholic Church. Also, in terms of method...

I affirm it. Amen!

If that is the case, then fundamentalist and Evangelical apologists would not employ the tactic of the question of sex in the Holy Family as a primary means to combat Marian tradition.

That would seem to establish a false dilemma. There is nothing in the account of the Bereans that would preclude a balance of rational and mystical elements in one's Christian life.

I do not think it is safe to make these kinds of sweeping generalizations. Modern Orthodox thinking on this theory (and others favored by the Protestant Reformers) has been guided largely by reactionary and pejorative sentiments. True, PSA is not the preferred theory of the Greek...

Yes, Origen has been vilified throughout history by both Apostolic and post-Reformation Christians. One can still see fundamentalists invoke Origen's name to use him as a rhetorical prop to try to "prove" that the Church became "pagan." Obviously, he does have his downsides, such as the...

I think you mean Leslie Brubaker? Yes, she works on art in medieval Byzantium and has written about the Iconoclast controversy.

What do you mean by that? I am pretty up to date on the scholarship in the field. I do not get the impression that the iconodule position is considered to be merely a reaction towards eighth- and ninth-century iconoclasm. Most scholars are quite willing to admit that there was an iconographic...

No, I am sorry, but that is a tactic that merely hand-waves away what I have said by slapping on a misrepresenting label. You are framing the debate in a way that no Eastern Orthodox Christian does. In order to demonstrate that iconography and veneration is unorthodox or idolatrous, you...

How can you conclude that it was not an earlier tradition just because a definitive theory of iconography and veneration was articulated by the eight-century church father St. John of Damascus and the iconodule position standardized at Nicaea II? You would have to conduct an extensive...

Yes - The Revealing Science of God (Dance of The Dawn)

Uriah Heep - The Wizard

Well, for me, it was a little bit of a different process than for most others. Naturally, as a Baptist, I had been drawn by Roman Catholicism in terms of the history and the liturgical aspects. I also had the good fortune of growing up in a Baptist church that was not overtly bigoted or...

My favorite band is Emerson, Lake & Palmer. However, my favorite song is "Subdivisions" by the band Rush. Rush - Subdivisions

Uriah Heep - Circle of Hands

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Tzaousios I confess the orthodoxy of the Nicene Creed and the decisions of the Seven Ecumenical Councils. I prefer to call myself an "Augustinian" in terms of my soteriological beliefs. Also, the interpretations of the Greek fathers inform my soteriological and other beliefs. Concerning...