Light from the Christian East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light from the Christian East write by James R. Payton Jr.. This book was released on 2009-12-14. Light from the Christian East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James R. Payton, Jr. introduces us to Eastern Orthodox history, theology and practice. For all readers interested in ancient ecumenical Christian theology and spirituality, this book is especially open and sympathetic to what evangelicals can learn from orthodoxy.
Turning East
Turning East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turning East write by Rico Vitz. This book was released on 2012. Turning East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of autobiographical essays in which sixteen philosophers describe their personal journeys to the Orthodox Church, explain their reasons for becoming Orthodox Christians, and offer a sense of how their conversions have changed their lives.--Cover page 4.
Light from the East
Light from the East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light from the East write by Alexei V. Nesteruk. This book was released on . Light from the East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unique volume, a new and distinctive perspective on hotly debated issues in science and religion emerges from the unlikely ancient Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. Alexei Nesteruk reveals how the Orthodox tradition, deeply rooted in Greek Patristic thought, can contribute importantly in a way that the usual Western sources do not. Orthodox thought, he holds, profoundly and helpfully relates the experience of God to our knowledge of the world. His masterful historical introduction to the Orthodox traditions not only surveys key features of its theology but highlights its ontology of participation and communion. From this Nesteruk derives Orthodoxy's unique approach to theological and scientific attribution. Theology identifies the underlying principles (logoi) in scientific affirmations. Nesteruk then applies this methodology to key issues in cosmology: the presence of the divine in creation, the theological meaning of models of creation, the problem of time, and the validity of the anthropic principle, especially as it relates to the emergence of humans and the Incarnation. Nesteruk's unique synthesis is not a valorization of Eastern Orthodox thought so much as an influx of startlingly fresh ideas about the character of science itself and an affirmation of the ultimate religious and theological value of the whole scientific enterprise.
Light from the East
Light from the East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light from the East write by Aidan Nichols. This book was released on 1999-01-10. Light from the East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'An excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with this Eastern Light, and a stimulating read for those already engaged in exploration and dialogue.' - Priests and People Aidan Nichols has two main objectives: first, to identify a variety of dogmatic issues raised or discussed by Eastern Orthodox theologians, but of equal importance to Catholic theology; and secondly, to discover through a study of modern Orthodox dogmatic theologians, the character of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Writing as a Catholic theologian himself, Fr Nichols makes an important ecumenical contribution by offering this study of one tradition from the standpoint of another.
Light Through Darkness
Light Through Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light Through Darkness write by John Chryssavgis. This book was released on 2004. Light Through Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Orthodoxy is often identified with beautiful icons, elaborate liturgy, perfection as deification, and the vision of God as light. But there is a deeper side in which martyrdom is embraced. The spirituality of the Christian East is often identified with beautiful icons, elaborate liturgy, a way of perfection as deification, and the vision of God as light. But martyrdom is part and parcel of the Orthodox way, and its spirituality is profoundly marked by the reality of pain and division. This fascinating study finds a deeper insight at the heart of the Orthodox tradition: the idea of brokenness and darkness as the only way to healing and light, the idea of imperfection as the only way to salvation.
