saints
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Ephrem the Syrian
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saints
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Athanasios & Cyril, Patriarchs Of Alexandria
March 16, 2026
saints
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Anastasius the Persian
 The Monk Martyr Anastasius the Persian was the son of a Persian sorcerer named Bavi. As a pagan, he had the name Magundates and served in the armies of the Persian emperor Chozroes II, who in 614 ravaged the city of Jerusalem and carried aw...
March 16, 2026
theology
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Orthodox Survival Guide
A world shaped by constant revolutionary forces, ultimately striving to understand the underlying spiritual battle between God and the devil.
March 16, 2026
Heresies
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Soli Deo Gloria
This doctrine dictates that all of life and salvation exists solely for the glory of God, not for human exaltation.
March 16, 2026
Heresies
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Islamic
The relationship between the believer and Allah is defined strictly as one of slave to master; there is no possibility for a personal relationship with the divine.
March 16, 2026
Heresies
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First Vatican Council
The First Vatican Council, spanning from 1869 to 1870, constituted the twentieth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church.
March 16, 2026
Heresies
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Ex Cathedra
The problem of papal authority is viewed as not merely about whether the Pope can speak infallibly, but about the ordinary authority of the Pope to enforce his will, even when he is not speaking infallibly.
March 16, 2026
Heresies
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Dictatis Papae
A radical claim of papal supremacy, asserting the Pope's absolute authority over both the Roman Catholic Church and secular rulers alike.
March 16, 2026
theology
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Catholicism
The idea of an ex cathedra papal statement is found nowhere in the first millennium, where the Church of the first millennium operated in a synodal manner.
March 16, 2026
theology
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Understanding the Holy Grail
These accounts establish a core idea of the Grail: a hidden object, veiled and protected, which contains or has contained the body and blood of Christ.
March 16, 2026
theology
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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
The tree represented the material world as perceived through the senses; when engaged with apart from the illumination of the spirit, this sensory perception leads the intellect away from the eternal and towards the transitory.
March 16, 2026