Orthodoxy and the Death Penalty
Jay Dyer explains the Orthodox position on war and the death penalty.
Jay Dyer explains the Orthodox position on war and the death penalty.

This is Fr. Deacon Ananias’s most recent paper that he presented at the Society for Orthodox Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) Conference this February in Houston, TX.

This paper provides a philosophical analysis into the necessary conditions for the possibility of knowledge and explores what could satisfy these conditions so as to provide a sufficient justification criterion for the existence of knowledge. More specifically, I

Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic tells us in The Prologue from Ochrid that we are better off if we do not engage others in lengthy debates and fruitless discussions, but that we can better change their hearts by our love

As we will see, with the West’s embracing of the Hellenistic philosophic project we begin to see the emergence of what is called Natural Theology, where Christianity is cast in a new light, taking on an identity of