Posted in orthoparadoxy on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
Continuing in my reverse order - Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity (like good labyrinth walkers, we will turn around and come out the other way) - we come to Incarnation, now. The complete menu for this series is located in the sidebar, just below the Peace Cross.
HE EXPERIENCE of the Early Church was that [...]
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Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 August 2008 - 7 אב 5768
ITH THE Last post in this series we began a look at Eucharist. I’d like to broaden this out now, seeing Eucharist in places we might normally see it.
Before there was the idea of “Mass” - of a ritual eating divided out from the community meal - there was the reality of the Agape [...]
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Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 August 2008 - 3 אב 5768
HEN I Sat down to sketch out this series, I thought to do it in the order presented: Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. It made sense thinking from the top down. But as I considered this series I realised it was important to actually do it in historical order: the Eucharist came first in [...]
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Posted in orthoparadoxy on 1 August 2008 - 1 אב 5768
ALKING INTO Ingles last Sunday with Fr Brent, we were discussing the way that some people (the present author included) worry that loosening the grip on one part of traditional Christianity - eg sex - can lead to a loosening of the grip on other parts. I was adamant about that for a while [...]
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