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Father Deacon Ananias

Fr. Deacon Ananias Sorem, PhD is the Founder of Patristic Faith. Father is an Orthodox apologist and teaches Philosophy at Fullerton College and Carroll College. He has a BA in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College, together with an MA (Honors) and PhD in Philosophy (Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind) from University College Dublin. His current academic work focuses on philosophical theology, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. Father is the author of several articles and peer-reviewed papers, including: “Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem,” “Gnostic Scientism and Technocratic Totalitarianism,” “An Orthodox Approach to the Dangers of Modernity and Technology,” and “An Orthodox Theory of Knowledge: The Epistemological and Apologetic Methods of the Church Fathers.” He is also known for his YouTube channel, the Norwegian Nous, where he provides content on theology, apologetics, logic, and philosophy.

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An oldie but a goodie. This is an old article I wrote back in Grad …

This paper provides a philosophical critique of natural theology as it is commonly understood in …

Father Deacon Ananias's paper delivered at the 2024 Orthodox MontaNIKA conference at Holy Trinity Serbian …

Metropolitan Jonah's paper and talk from the Orthodox MontaNIKA Conference 2024 at Holy Trinity Serbian …

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This paper investigates the conditions of knowledge pertaining to science, distinguishing genuine science from pseudoscience …

Archimandrite Aimilianos explains that technology is not inherently bad: “Technology per se is not, of …

This paper attempts to identify certain dangers of modernity by arguing that the ideologies motivating …

This presentation discusses an Orthodox theory of knowledge, examining the spiritual use of apophaticism, asceticism, …

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