Father Alexander Schmemann defines theology as “the expression of faith in rational terms; not its subordination to reason, but the extension, rather, of reason itself to the dimensions of revelation.” (p72) At the time of Origenism in the east and Montanism in the west, “thought had not yet caught up with faith, and words were helpless [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Orthodox Theology
Posted in History, Orthodoxy, Theology on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hesychasm
Posted in Hesychasm, Mysticism, Natural Observation, Orthodoxy on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunlight spills across a shallow sheet of green grass between the Airborne barracks built upon the sands of Benning. An earthen mound rises away from the cement walkway, letting me sit quite comfortably while cross-legged, facing the setting sun. The United States Army physical fitness uniform consists of shorts and no underwear; my pale [...]
Microsopic Fuel for a Burning Bush
Posted in Biology, Cosmology on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DAWN – Particle/waves of energy creep across a planet-sized horizon, exciting a swath of cells into transforming glee. A biosphere as big as a continental plate reacts. Each deci-atom strip spiraled round itself evaluates what’s been done and what’s left undone, marshalling the energy towards processes that require the fuel. Gaia burns, sweats, toils [...]
On Beauty
Posted in Athseticism, Natural Observation on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Beauty, as an aesthetic quality of nature, can never be made manifest. Like light, beauty is a probabilistic essence which depends wholly on observation. It can be conceptualized within a context of culture or independent experience of an individual, but its substance is too broad; without perspective, a point of comparison, a context, the elements [...]
