Eclectic Orthodoxy

I’m working on a long essay on ecclesiology and eschatology, called, provisionally, “The Church that Forgot Her Future.”

By John Stamps Kierkegaard tells a little parable about a man walking down the street who spots a sign in a shop window: “Pants Pressed Here.”

By the end of the first millennium, deification had become the principal way the Eastern Church would speak of God’s gift of salvation in Jesus Christ.

Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion by Fr Aidan “Fedora” Kimel Read on Substack

By John Stamps In Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the opera’s climax arrives when Count Almaviva, who has been trying to seduce Figaro’s bride, Susanna, discovers that the woman he thought he was seducing is actually his own wife in disguise.

My beautiful wife Christine is a quiet mystic.

Jonathan McCormack, David Bentley Hart, and Whether Anyone Remains Mummy portraits from Roman Egypt, 1st–3rd century.

Why God, who is everywhere, seems so far away Our Father, who art in heaven.

by Jonathan McCormack When the ego falls silent and only “I AM” seems to remain, who—or what—is saying “I”?

“The mystery of the Trinity,” Isaac Goff observes, “saturates Bonaventure’s theological vision.”1 Bonaventure never wrote an independent philosophical treatise on the one God.

Why Christian mystery is a surplus of meaning and never a contradiction A few days ago I had a friendly exchange about how to teach the Trinity to children.

In my preceding article “The Triune Good,” we followed St Bonaventure into the Holy of Holies, where the two cherubim gaze upon the mystery of God as Being and Good.

Churches are very good at counting things.

When a child suffers, Christians are tempted to say that God must have his reasons, perhaps reasons we cannot see, but reasons still.

By John Stamps At least once a month, Shelly and I make a pilgrimage to Steinbeck country.

When I concluded my original series on Dionysius the Areopagite back in 2018, I was left with a question: If God is the self-diffusive Good, what does this tell us about the eternal life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

We thought it was time to make an icon of our beautiful Blue Merle Collie.

By John Stamps “If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that noth…

Dr Roberto De La Noval, who has contributed four articles to Eclectic Orthodoxy over the years, has recently published two journal articles which may be of interest to some of our readers.