“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life…” (John 14:6) “Love is unambiguous, free, without condition, this is God.” Fr. Emmanuel Stamatiou, “Orthodox Thursdays at Evangelismos” Nov 2019 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fF3lcVnNgtMTZmn2Nbwya?si=152f3e83524c4949 I was unsatisfied with my summary of Seraphim Rose’s first chapter of “Nihilism: the root of the revelation of the modern age,” and I think […]
This began as a summary (and commentary) of sections 1 and 2 (of 12) of the chapter entitled “Reflections on the infallibility of European man” from Father Justin Popovich’s “Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ”. It ended up being a “compare and contrast” between existentialism and Christianity in terms of their solutions to the existential […]
Here are notes on a book which represents the Orthodox Christian teachings. The version of this work I have is from “First Rate Publishers,” translated by E. W. Watson and L. Pullan. I add some clarifications where I feel helpful, without trying to introduce errors. I omit many points in places because I do not […]
Nihilism is a floating abyss without anchor. Unable to withstand winds of change, whether from desires within or external pressures, nihilism offers no rock from which to stand firm and proclaim the truth. Nihilism is the denial of absolute truth, championing, instead, relative truths. It hence denies the possibility of actual truth. The consistent nihilist […]
Chapter Two – part iii Check the previous section here: Chapter two b… or not … Where Realism tries to reestablish an absolute truth from below, Vitalism expresses the failure of this project in the face of the more “realistic” awareness that there is no absolute here below, that the only unchanging principle in this […]
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