Monthly Archives: August 2021

The Prayer of St Aidan

Posted on 31 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Leave me alone with God as much as may be. As the tide draws the waters close in upon the shore, Make me an island, set apart, alone with you, God, holy to you. Then with the turning of the … Continue reading →

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The Demonic Void and the Apokatastasis of Satan

Posted on 30 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

St Paisios the Athonite once fasted and prayed for two weeks for the eternal salvation of the devil. While praying he saw a dog’s head sticking his tongue out and mocking him. Paisios con­cluded from this incident that “God is … Continue reading →

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A very cool conversation with the always incisive and provocative Jordan Daniel Wood

Posted on 28 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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“For when he was transfigured on the mountain, the Lord Christ showed in some small way to his disciples the glory of his invisible divine kingship”

Posted on 28 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I did not deceive you, then, Peter, when I said, “I am the light” and “the resurrection and the life.” Since I am light, Peter, I must “shine on those in darkness.” What kind of light does not put darkness … Continue reading →

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“If we are to think of God most loftily and most lovingly, faith tells us that God totally communicates himself by eternally having a beloved and another who is loved by both”

Posted on 25 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Since faith is the source of our worship of God and the foundation of that doctrine which is according to piety, it dictates that we should conceive of God in the most elevated and most loving manner. Now our thought … Continue reading →

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The Triumph of the Kingdom Over Gehenna

Posted on 23 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Those who are punished in Gehenna are scourged by the scourge of love”—these famous words of St Isaac the Syrian have profoundly influenced the Orthodox understanding of hell and damnation. Readers of St Isaac’s writings have for centuries assumed that … Continue reading →

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“As once he had gazed on the bush, speechless and entranced by the Lord’s presence, so now Moses gazed again on a bush, living and green in the analogous fire of God’s presence in ensouled flesh”

Posted on 21 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Peter, the rock of faith, speaks to Christ, the rock, on this rocky mountaintop. Along with the chief spokesmen of the New Covenant, Moses was also there, that divine steward of the Mysteries, who articulated the Old Law; along with … Continue reading →

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Robert W. Jenson on the Atonement

Posted on 18 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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