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Starting a list of Orthodox books I’ve read & recommend to others - a 🧵. After starting my journey from Protestantism to Orthodoxy in 2015, I began working my way through history, the canon, the fathers & theology. I still have a long way to go. So I’ll add chronologically…

I am not sure why Hill keeps calling me a "liar," as I am ascribing nothing to him personally--but this is something a follower of his said: "Christ's hypostasis is eternal. And yet it is also created, finite, passible, and circumscribable." I'm hoping I can square the circle.🧵

St. Nikedemos the Hagiorite, in his ‘Confession of Faith,’ speaks of the Eucharist being sanctified by the energy of the Holy Spirit. It is beyond words & inexplicable… accepted only by faith.

What if i told you St Colombanus pushed against the pope's overreach based on the assumptions that the ecumenical councils are supreme?

To my surprise, he actually came with receipts: His Grace Bishop Paul de Ballester of Nazianzus was martyred after serving the Divine Liturgy in Mexico

This guide will save you from quitting halfway through page 12.

Dr. Christopher Veniamin

There is an invisible chapter in the Bible that very few people read. It lists which books & letters go in the Bible. It says the Bible, once it would be canonized centuries in the future, would be the only infallible source of dogma. It also says salvation is by “faith alone.”

Fun Fact A modern Greek speaker could have a conversation (with some difficulty with the early ones) with ALL Greek speaking Roman Emperors (Julius Caesar included)

The first Greek Orthodox Church in the US, built in 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The church served an eclectic congregation of Greeks, Syrians, Serbians and other Orthodox ☦️.

G. K. Chesterton would agree: Sola Scriptura, in the 1500's, was the original deconstruction. Here he is in his own words. A delicious quote! Θ chesterton.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/tai…

The failure of Aristotelian Scholasticism, both old and new iterations. Jacques Maritain Center:

The Antiochian Archdiocese of North America had a 20.2% increase in revenue from parish assessments from 2023 to 2024. In the prior two years, the increases were 6.2% and 2.3%. Basically, the Archdiocese "taxes" its parishes, so this is a pretty strong indicator of significant…

The Orthodox Church: speaks with the understanding of Greek terms & phrases in the Bible… having spoken & written in Greek for 2,000 straight years. Protestant pulls out his trusty Strong’s Concordance, “welp, erm ackshully!”

Person who is effectively nothing else besides a seething replyguy that acts like a mental patient online & constantly name searches, stirs up controversy, & intentionally scandalizes does the “I never think about you” bit. We all know you’re lying & seething

“the logos of all that to which God gave being… is unspeakable and incomprehensible in its infinite transcendence… but this same Logos [Christ] is manifested and multiplied in… all the beings who come from him according to the analogy of each.” Saint Maximus the Confessor

Reminder Saint Maximus explicitly stated Christ is not divine-human/ created-uncreated by hypostasis/ person or tropos/ mode but divine by person/ mode and human by nature. His divine mode of being deifies and elevates his humanity - its why he has two energies and wills not one.

I kinda stopped arguing with people on the internet after I watched two people, who both passionately & vehemently supported an issue, argued with each other for two days, diving into eventual ad homs, before they realized they were on the same side of the issue.

Empiricists and nominalists are right to affirm that realities matter more than words and concepts. But our perception of reality is distorted by the passions. To perceive reality as it is—and to express it in adequate words and concepts—we require asceticism and the…