CHAOSKAMPF IN THE ORTHODOX BAPTISM RITUAL

(Review) The Devil at Baptism: Ritual, Theology, and Drama

The Icon in Orthodox Spirituality

The place of the icon in the Orthodox Church is unique and so central that the restoration of icons after the long period of iconoclasm has been characterised as a triumph of Orthodoxy as a whole. In order to justify this central place of the icon, one should not see particular icons only as religious instruments in their concrete environment and function. Rather, one should understand icons as...

Women in the Orthodox Church

The Origin and Meaning of Baptism

Women in the Orthodox Church

Anyone reading the sublime words of the Orthodox Church Fathers is immediately struck with a number of overwhelming impressions. First, there emanates from their words a certain sense, by which all that is written seems intuitively true—as though some inner cord were struck in the reader, resounding harmonically with the tone of what the Fathers have written. Then, the more one reads of the Fat...