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Unwinding the Labyrinth - Part 2

Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 October 2008 - 9 תשרי 5769

Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way - outward…
When Jesus said that we are to Love God [...]

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Unwinding the Labyrinth - Part I

Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 October 2008 - 5 תשרי 5769

HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers [...]

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3:1::1:3

Posted in orthoparadoxy on 19 September 2008 - 20 אלול 5768

RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding [...]

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Politics and Fraternity

Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 11 September 2008 - 12 אלול 5768

NE OF THE Saints said that the difference between humans and God is so vast that, when standing in the presence of God, to point out a difference between two humans is rude. (Don’t ask me for a source, it could have been Wesley, Chrysostom or Barth, maybe even Buber.) A story is [...]

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This Dirty World

Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 September 2008 - 8 אלול 5768

Last time, in this series on the “Big Three” (see the menu in the sidebar, there) I wrote about God having flesh. And there was an interesting conversation in the comments afterward. I tired to make it clear that these essay are documenting what I think is needed for Christianity to make sense. [...]

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