The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Justin and Etienne have, oddly enough, named two of my favourite extra-ecclessial philosophers. :) Nietzche imho represents the dead end of despair and cynicism. Like Justin, I enjoy reading him not because I agree with many of his conclusions, but because the totality of his work is an instructive ...

OOD, Having some familiarity with neo-nazis (at least of the "skin head" variety), I'd be careful about doing something they'd perceive as a "judas" betrayal from the inside. It's one thing to enter into a reasoned discussion/debate with one of them if they're open to that, but a...

George Australia, The Western over emphasis on the Cross as "satisfaction" is off the mark as is the denial of the relevance of the Cross. The "purgers of scholasticism", and the believers in the "Western Captivity" of the Church are not necessarily stavroclasts; but I ...

re. non-Christians 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (St.John 17:3) It could be argued that the righteous of the Old Testament period, yearned after Christ through hope, even if their ideas about Him were not clear - at th...

George,

I accept both Gregories...ostensibly the stavroclastic "purgers of scholasticism" do not.

Seraphim

Justin, I think excusing ignorance can only go so far. There will always be people who are in heretical groups and are ignorant of that fact. That can't prevent us from treating Universalists, JW's, etc. as anything less than completely outside the Church. I'm not willing to say the same thing about...

“Man was led into his captivity when he experienced God’s wrath, this wrath being the good God’s just abandonment of man. God had to be reconciled with the human race, for otherwise mankind could not be set free from the servitude. “A sacrifice was needed to reconcile the Father on high with us and ...