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Thank you St. Pachom. One of the things that I remember about Wadi Rayan is that at some point HH Pope Shenouda wanted the monks there to go to St. Macarius (he was worried about them). He wanted them to be associated with that monastery. The monk…
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Stavro, I'm not sure why you think it's about winning or losing an argument. It's simply about the way you present it. I lauded you (in my mind) for defending the baseless accusations against Dr. George Bebawi and the senseless attacks against him…
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Rem, your words here: "The unification process is supposed to be a painful process after 1500+ years of division. If a unity cannot survive abrasive opinions, then it should not occur anyways. If unity is based on love and long-suffering, there is n…
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The thing is even "lay monks" are called Abouna, as far as I have seen. For him to be called "Brother" sounds like a novice. I could be wrong though. St. Macarius monastery and the desert of Wadi Rayan I think do not follow conventional rules of m…
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Adrian!!! (quote from Rocky...just in case people were confused) I remember reading somewhere, and I'm having trouble finding it, a speech written by HH Pope Kyrillos VI. I forget what or whom it was addressed to, but I remember he mentioned how on…
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I think he's a novice, training to be a monk.
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One of the issues I always grappled with, can oneness of faith remove past divisions of councils and saints? Stavro does not believe this, and he takes a very caustic view of the situation. I have butted heads with Stavro before on these issues. …
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Do you have at least 10 years to spare?
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Dear qawe, All Christian churches under the yolk of Islam (the Chalcedonian Orthodox were no exception) used Aristotelian philosophy as a tool to teach the Christian faith. The idea to be "anti-scholastic" I think is a more recent attitude by the E…
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There is a certain point that needs to be made before we speculate in joy (or fear) of some sort of unity with Chalcedonians. The Chalcedonian Orthodox are going to convene in some sort of an ultimate or pen-ultimate council, where all patriarchs a…
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I always thought the logical thing was to have one pope replace the other when one of them passes away
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The implications of the characteristics of the divine nature being present 1. in all places, 2. at all times, and 3. in all things also carries into the Eucharist and to the nature of the Church (Ecclesiology). When we partake of a piece of bread an…
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Basically, to summarize the original argument of what I heard is this. The indefinite article means a work of the noun, while the definite article means the very hypostasis of the noun itself. If that's the case, then John 1:1c would be supporting…
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Wait...hypostatic union, as far as I have read about it, describes the incarnation. It's when the pre-eternal hypostasis of the Word and the "hypostatic" (or existent) flesh became one theandric hypostasis at the very instance of the incarnation. T…
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Can you please be consistent with me here? Earlier you wrote this: The answer to the original questions lies in the translation. When archangel Gabriel told St Mary that the Holy Spirit will descend on her he used oobnawma not bibnawma. But when th…
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Did you even read Rem's research? The Coptic and Greek don't always agree with each other. So you are agreeing that the Holy Spirit hypostatically united to Christ on the Jordan? Surely, an intelligent person like you should realize how ridiculous…
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Then that means the Holy Spirit is hypostatically united to Christ in the Jordan. That is heresy. And if Fr. Shenouda is making that argument, he should know better than that. Remember, Nestorius was the archbishop of Constantinople. That doesn't …
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Dear imikhail, I still disagree. Now you're saying the complete opposite, and a new argument in this that I haven't even seen the clergy make. What you are saying then is that the Holy Spirit (pipnevma) in Luke 3:23 is hypostatically united to Chr…
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Rem, Thank you for the paper. That was very helpful in seeing that the indefinite article does not always mean one thing everytime it is used, and neither is it correlary with the Greek lack of article. imikhail, I don't understand why you keep mak…
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btw, i see your document. will read it later tonight. It was not initially showing on my phone, but I see it on the tablet
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I was arguing pretty much that if the indefinite article implies "work of" or "grace of" rather than the actual subject/noun itself, then it becomes a slippery slope for John 1:1c. In other words, if "oopnevma" implies "work of the Spirit", then to…
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Notice St. Athanasius talks about the same Holy Spirit that the archangel Gabriel ministers to is the same Holy Spirit that descended upon the Holy Virgin Mary to bring forth the incarnation. The same Holy Spirit "thousands and thousands" and "myri…
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And St. Athanasius also in his first epistle to Serapion: 11. What is this mighty folly of theirs? Once again, where in the Scriptures have they found the Spirit referred to as an angel? I am obliged to repeat what I have said before. He is called P…
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St. Basil the Great repeats this, in his famous work "On the Holy Spirit": 39. But when we speak of the dispensations made for man by our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who will gainsay their having been accomplished through the grace of the Sp…
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In answer to the difference between the Holy Spirit of Luke 1:35 (presumably oopnevma) and the Holy Spirit of Luke 3:23 (presumably pipnevma), check out the lectures on the Holy Spirit by St. Cyril of Jerusalem (Catechetical Lecture XVII) and St. Gr…
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Hi Cyril! Fr. Moses Samaan talks about theosis on his homily of the Transfiguration last year: http://stmarina.org/homilies/the-transfiguration-of-god-and-man/
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Then in that case, Fr. Shenouda (if in fact he does teach this, which is very sad, and shows he actually is messing up his Coptic) has implicitly made the Coptic Church an Arian Church and condemned St. Athanasius in his troubles. If you read this …
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Unfortunately, many people, even priests continue to spread this idea around. :/
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The quote that alleges St. Timothy II to condemn the agreement of 433 is from an EO source. I have not come across any OO sources that have this quote. It seems more likely a forgery and a smear campaign against the fathers. One has to wonder thou…
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By that logic, then the Coptic gospel of John tells us that the Word was "oo-efnouti", which means He was only God by grace. Jehovah's Witnesses would rejoice at the day the oo-pnevma really becomes dogma, which is a terrifying aspect of our whole …