theology

Pascha

The highest point of something must be given up to that which precedes it. Sacrificing the best part, the first fruit, anchors the value of everything else, allowing the rest of the world to have meaning.

Nephilim

The presence of the Nephilim and the illicit unions that produced the mighty men are a primary catalyst for the corruption of the antediluvian world,.

Monasticism

Monasticism is the angelic life, a way of living that seeks to follow the Gospel of Christ in an immediate and direct manner.

Logos

In the beginning was the word or the logos and the logos was with God and the logos was God he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him without him nothing was made and in him was life and that life was the light of men

The Jesus Prayer

Hesychasm

Human participation in God is a real personal encounter rather than a participation in a created medium.

Golden Calf

The construction of the golden calf was not merely an act of religious deviation but a fundamental shift in the psyche of the community

God

God is the one infinite and eternal source of all that is.The source of existence itself, not a being, but being itself.

Gideon’s Fleece

He requested that dew descend exclusively upon the fleece while the surrounding ground remained dry, a sign which was fulfilled when he wrung a bowl of water from the wool the following morning.

Free Will

Reason is granted to humanity for the specific purpose of deliberation, which renders the individual the author of their own works.

Filioque

The change was made to the Creed without the right to do so.

Eve

Eve provides a foreign perspective or a mirror to Adam, a feedback mechanism that is essential for self-knowledge and the correct ordering of reality.