Tag: Christian-history

  • The Night is Far Spent

    The Night is Far Spent

    The files, Fractals, and fighting evil “And let us strive that wrath rule us not nor lust overcome us, for it is written, ‘The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. And lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin, and the sin when it is full grown bringeth forth death.’ Thus living, let…

  • Reaching Out into Infinity

    Reaching Out into Infinity

    Trading enlightenment for illumination “And Jesus, having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, ‘Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee” (The Gospel According to St. Mark 2:5). Epistle — Heb. 1:10-14;2:1-3 Gospel — Mk. 2:1-12 St. Gregory Palamas lived in the 14th century and was one of the last witnesses of Christ before the…

  • Romanticism, Slavophilism, and the Philosophy of Division

    Romanticism, Slavophilism, and the Philosophy of Division

    A follow-up to the “Messiah or Mouthpiece?” series The transition from Romanticism to Slavophilism in 19th-century Russia shaped the nation’s collective consciousness, fostering a search for a uniquely Russian identity grounded in Orthodoxy. In contrast to Romanticism’s fragmentation of spiritual authority in the Protestant West, Russian Romanticism provided a philosophical framework for reclaiming Orthodoxy as…