“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” –St. John’s Gospel, 1:14 “Why do you incessantly call Mary ‘Theotokos’?” –Julian the Apostate, (Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, Vol. I, pg....

[So stop trying to get the hypostases to split and damn one another, Protestants! -Jay] Four Discourses Against The Arians, Discourse III: 54. Therefore as, when the flesh advanced, He is...

The Metropolitan, George of Lebanon, openly rejects the God of the Old Testament. In the last few weeks, I have seen 4 Orthodox prelates make similar statements.  But I’m sure...

By: Jay Dyer A common thread in non-Christian religions and worldviews is that of dualism. In fact, nature itself does exhibit all forms of dualities, such as night and day,...

By: Nick I would hope that anyone reading the title of this post would consider the suggested question nothing short of blasphemy. For those who don’t know, there are Christians...

By: Jay Dyer I’m posting this because the St. Maximus section is often referred to (and it’s all St. Maximus anyway). The western corollary to the Logos/logoi is “divine exemplarism.” Both are rooted in...

By: Jay Dyer As is evident in conversations with both unenlightened Catholics and Calvinists (but especially Calvinists), the starting point of theology – the ordo theologiae is radically different. The West...

N. writes: No offense Jay, but you are operating on multiple, severely flawed groundworks. For example: 1) Thomas never taught God was like a blob of jello such that ‘Father...

Problems in Thomism By: Jay Dyer Part 1: God In disputes over the essence – energy distinction there is much confusion. I recently read through several more pages of God,...

By: Jay Dyer  I have noted many times that the canon was a development, and that several factors were involved in the decisions made on the canon in various parts of the...

By: Jay Dyer Many reformed Protestant acquaintances have, on various occasions, sent me different challenges relating to the canon of Scripture. One of these was a list of arguments proposed by...

By: Jay Dyer A couple years ago I wrote a note about the reality of the spiritual realm and that it was far more diverse than we tend to assume...

By: Jay Dyer A strange title for an article, indeed, but they told us in high school to make your opening line catchy, so hopefully that will bring sweat to...

By: Jay A Reformed Protestant apologist recently sent me several objections to the Deuterocanonical Books. These are the books which are included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons, but were...