By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. If God is Love, why Hell, “Purgatory”, Judgement, Eternal Punishment, Darkness and the Lake of Fire? I want to speak very much more briefly on a second topic, which is how we reconcile the idea of a God of love with... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. Of the three thousand or more letters which we know that St Severus wrote during his very active ministry, we have several hundred persevered to our own times. Letter LXV, has the title: From the Letter of the same Holy Severus to... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. In this post I wish to consider one of the works of the early Father of the Church, St Irenaeus. This Irenaeus, one of the most important of the second century teachers of the Church was born in Smyrna in about... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. In this further reflection in detail on the writings of the Fathers about the work of Christ on the Cross, I intend to consider some of the Letters of St Severus. He was a prolific correspondent both before his consecration as... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. When we consider what Christ achieved on the Cross, what his death and suffering means, we discover that there are a variety of analogies and mutually illuminating explanations which the Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church use to express... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Antonios Kaldas - Parish Priest from Archangel Michael & St. Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Church, Sydney, Australia. Eastern and Western Christians agree that sin separates humanity from God and that Christ reversed that separation. But what is sin, and what did Christ do to reverse it? That is where they disagree. This article looks at... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. I would like to consider the dogmatic aspects of Sin, Death and the Fall which are the basis of man’s estrangement from God, and the cause of our needing a Saviour. We will look at these different aspects in turn, and... Continue Reading →
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. It seems to me, from my study of St Cyril and St Severus (which I am not suggesting is comprehensive), that the Anselmian notion of Penal Substitution is very far from their own Orthodox teaching. Indeed I do not believe it... Continue Reading →
By Dr. Rodolph Yanney, M.D. Christians throughout the centuries have confessed the Lord Jesus as Saviour, but what does this really mean? In both the Old and New Testaments, God is the Saviour; salvation is a result of his saving act (Ex. 3:8, 5:23; & 12:27; Ps. 44:3,4; Is 43:11, 60:16, 61:10; Hab. 3:13 &... Continue Reading →
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