Michael Jensen [bold emphasis mine – RAS] [SOURCE] One of the greatest and most enduring slogans of the Reformation is sola scriptura (‘scripture alone’). The slogan brilliantly encapsulates the Protestant insistence that the church and its traditions are to be subject to Scripture, and not the other way around. The Reformers insisted that human traditions, […]
Amazing Grace of the Council of Orange
The Council of Orange (529 AD) was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controversy had to do with degree to which a human being is responsible for his or her own salvation, and the role of the Grace of God in bringing about salvation. The Pelagians held that human beings are […]
Original Sin
Compiled by Ephrem Hugh Bensusan [source] ORIGINAL SIN IN EASTERN ORTHODOX CONFESSIONS AND CATECHISMS The following is from Our Orthodox Christian Faith: A Handbook of Popular Dogmatics by Athanasios S. Frangopoulos, theologian and teacher. Published by The Brotherhood of Theologians, “O Sotir”, in Athens, Greece, 1984. Chapter 9, The Original Sin: 4.d. Guilt. The original […]
Original Sin : West-Haters Strike Back
by EPHREM HUGH BENSUSAN [source] [underlines mine – RAS] My essay, Original and Ancestral Sin: A False Dichotomy, has received, interestingly, more attention than anything else I’ve ever written. The bulk of it has been quite positive. It was inevitable, though, that a certain set of convert-Orthodox, the segment that, whether from a very superficial […]