Introit (Esther 13: 9, 10, 11) All things are in Thy will, O Lord, and there is none that can resist Thy will: for Thou hast made all things, heaven […]
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Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize
The Divine Liturgy in History
It is fairly certain that the liturgy first celebrated in Antioch was conducted in the Greek language. Charbel Abdallah is of the view that Syriac began to become prominent in […]
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Benson on the Baptists
The Baptists are the subject of the next section in Benson’s book, Noncatholic Denominations. He notes that they developed from a people called the “Anabaptists,” who go back to the […]
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Modern Biblicist Logic, Raymond Brown and the Beloved Disciple
Topic 1: A First Example of Modern Biblicist Logic, Raymond Brown and the Beloved Disciple Why is historical method important? Consider this: the late priest and Professor Raymond E. Brown was […]
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Benson, “Non-Catholic Denominations,” The Congregationalists
The “Congregationalists” are the first subjects of Chapter 4, Part II, of this book. Benson says that, with the Baptists, they in the “most ancient right to stand for Nonconformity […]
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Jacob of Sarug on Jacob at Bethel
Jacob of Sarug wrote a verse homily on Jacob the Patriarch’s Revelation at Bethel (trans. Dana Miller, Gorgias Press, 2020). This is based on Genesis 28:10-22: Now Jacob … came […]
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Benson: “Noncatholic Denominations,” Nonconformists, in general
In Part II, Chapter 3, Benson comes to a general discussion of the Nonconformists in the UK. They all have in common a repudiation of ceremonialism. Since they are attempting […]
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Non-Catholic Denominations, R.H. Benson, “Nonconformism”
Typically incisive, chapter 2 of Part II of Robert Hugh Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations is titled “The Nonconformists: Nonconformity in General.” Now, the “Nonconformists” in English religion were those Protestants who […]
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St Luke and Modern Scholars
On 18 October we celebrate the feast of St Luke. Of course, we also remember him and seek his intercession on the occasion of the feast of the Four Evangelists. […]
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