Showing posts with label Fr Justin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fr Justin. Show all posts
08 August 2010

The Perfect Imitatio: C.S. Lewis, Hagiography, & Literature

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A couple of months ago, I mentioned a promising book by Thomas J. Heffernan entitled, Sacred Biography: Saints & Their Biographers in t...
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03 June 2010

The Grammar of Sanctity—The Title of St Gregory's Vita Patrum

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When I first came across the translation by Fr Seraphim (Rose) of the Vita Patrum of St Gregory of Tours, I recall noting the following com...
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10 February 2010

'O Revealer of Unfathomable Mysteries'—St Isaac the Syrian

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Today, 28 January on the Church’s calendar, we celebrated the memory of St Isaac the Syrian (7th c.). Archimandrite Justin (Popović) writes,...
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30 June 2009

'I Have Always Imagined That Heaven Will Be a Kind of Library'

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It is time for a new book update, particularly since a long-desired volume arrived yesterday which sealed the deal: Alexandros Papadiamandis...
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15 May 2009

St Athanasius, Fr Louth, Plato, & Mirrors

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In his lecture on the Sinai Codex Theodosianus (about which I’ve blogged here ), Fr Justin mentioned something he’d found in Fr Andrew Louth...
20 February 2009

'The Confession of Faith is the Greatest of Virtues'

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When I began to reread Fr Justin’s ‘Life of St Photios’ on Wednesday in order to write my post on that Saint, the very first paragraph I rea...
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19 February 2009

St Photius the Magus?

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In the fascinating book, Scribes & Scholars , by L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, there is a very interesting aside about St Photius: ‘Jea...
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'A Radiant Beacon of Wisdom Hid in God'—St Photius the Great

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Today, 6 February on the Church’s calendar, we commemorate St Photius the Great (810-891), Patriarch of Constantinople. I don’t see any need...
11 February 2009

Fr Justin of Chelje on St Isaac the Syrian & Gnoseology

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[Note: per Esteban's comment below and a subsequent phone conversation with him, I have edited this post to avoid referring to Fr Justin...
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