Innokenty of Alaska “The first man, having been created in the image and likeness of his Creator, had the most vital and close relationship with Him and therefore enjoyed total happiness. God, having created Adam in His image and likeness, endowed him with many of His qualities. The most important of these was immortality. God, […]
Original Sin
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 […]