With regard to religions more globally, much of my direct experience of faiths beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition has been in the Far East: in India, Nepal, Thailand, China, and Japan.
Theology
The Russian Church has many times blessed the people to take part in the war of liberation. So, in 1380, St. Sergius, hegumen and wonderworker of Radonezh, blessed the Russian army, led by the holy noble prince Dimitry Donskoy, for...
Vaccines are not a magical means of healing, yet surely they represent, in addition to other treatments that need to be developed, the most reasonable solution for the prevention of the disease. At the same time, we have realized...
Of this gospel the Moriscoes in Africa have a translation in Spanish, and there is in the library of Prince Eugene of Savoy a manuscript of some antiquity, containing an Italian translation of the same gospel, made, it is...
Anne Y. Koester, ed., Liturgy and Justice: To Worship God in Spirit and Truth (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002). Bruce T. Morrill, ed., Bodies of Worship: Explorations in Theory and Practice (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000). Don E. Saliers,...
Anton Baumstark, On the Historical Development of the Liturgy, trans. Fritz West (1923; reissue: Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2011). Bernhard Lang, Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997). Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward...
It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of living being and thanks to the marvelous researches of Sir J. C. Bose it can now be proved that even matter is life. That...
Roman church is the church, whose head is the pope and whose body the cardinals, and these together constitute that church. But that church is not the holy catholic and apostolic church. Therefore, what seemed a matter of doubt...
PREFATORY ADDRESS TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY, THE MOST MIGHTY AND ILLUSTRIOUS MONARCH, FRANCIS, KING OF THE FRENCH, HIS SOVEREIGN; JOHN CALVIN PRAYS PEACE AND SALVATION IN CHRIST. Sire,—When I first engaged in this work, nothing was farther from...
Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on...
I formerly, at your request, most readily transmitted to you the Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, which I had newly published, for you to read, and give it your approbation; and I now send it again to be...
