The Church’s liturgy and a life of personal prayer prepare us to live in God’s presence, to endure God’s presence, and to love God’s presence. This is of paramount importance if we are to acquire the mind of Christ. We … Continue reading
Category Archives: ACQUIRING THE MIND OF CHRIST
Our task is to acquire the Mind of Christ so that we might become more like Him. God has presented Himself, we believe, as a human being in the person of Jesus as the model of what human beings should … Continue reading
In order to acquire the mind of Christ, one of the first things we must do is to enter into the very heart of the Eastern Christian faith, the Divine Liturgy. It is in the Liturgy where we meet the … Continue reading
In order to acquire the “mind” of Christ, we must embrace a certain vision of Him. He is truly the proto-archetypal man. He reveals to us not only perfect God, but also perfect man, as man is intended to be, … Continue reading
In the last issue, I introduced, in contrast to the Eastern Church’s understanding of salvation, that of St. Augustine. He presents his notion of grace which is not embraced by the Eastern Church. For Augustine, it seems that many may … Continue reading
I have been exploring in this article the difference in approaches to salvation between the Eastern and Western Churches. The differences have been due, in large part, to the various influences in the cultures that the two Churches have found … Continue reading
I ended the last issue of this article by sharing the fact that St. Augustine, the originator of the idea of Original Sin, greatly influenced Anselm. By the way I would hasten to remind my readers that the idea of … Continue reading
So the Eastern Church sees that the work of Christ, and therefore the Church, is to help humans to develop those positive, Christ-like characteristics that will bring humans to a greater level of communion with the One Who IS Life, … Continue reading
I began, in the last issue, sharing the difference between Eastern and Western Christian positions on the work of Christ. I ended the last issue with the fact that St. Athanasius the Great stated that Christ is the ransom that … Continue reading
For the first thousand years of Christianity, the Gospel message was not understood from the now common Scholastic mindset of Anselm. Today, Anselm’s ideas are unfortunately the most dominate perspective of Christianity in the Western world, both Protestant and Roman … Continue reading