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Kahan,I am of the belief that practice should always follow theology, not the other way around. We don't do something and justify it later, especially when it comes to our faith. Our faith is a revelation of God's plan, God's image. Every time a cus…
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Years ago, I started independently researching purgatory but I did not finish. Suffice it to say that the Orthodox concept of what they think Purgatory is and what they think the Roman Catholic Church think it is is really NOT what the Roman Catholi…
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Kahan, There are rigid boundaries between one Orthodox diocese to another. It is called proper ecclesiology. It may have been interpreted differently by different hierarchs at different times because of oikonomia, but this in no way means there aren…
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My mistake with Mattew Blastares. I mixed him up with Hefele. You make a good point about Byzantine scholars/canonists. Their interpretations of the councils in not necessarily coincidental with Oriental interpretations. However, I don't know of any…
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And you need some epistemology. If you really think we should begin discussing philosophy and phenomenology as it pertains to the topic at hand, go ahead and be specific in your thesis. Otherwise, you are simply diverting or ignoring the points alr…
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RO is correct about one thing. If you consider the transfer of bishops uncanonical, then you must consider the transfer of priests, especially Fr Peter's, uncanonical. Concerning the BOC in general, whether one considers it a separate category wit…
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qawe wrote "btw Mina, I just looked at the Nicaea Canon, it does not allow for any exceptions, you must be thinking of the earlier Apostolic Canon." You have the right canon in mind and the right text/translation. But look at some additional informa…
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qawe, I'm lumping all priest transfers with episcopal transfers, as Canon 15 did. And you're missing my point. There is nothing wrong with lumping priest transfer to episcopal transfers since I believe neither are aberrations or anomalies.
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Im not speaking in terms of enthroning a Bishop in the UK (other than the great ones they already have.) Im speaking as a matter of principle. Fr. Peter is an outspoken voice for proper ecclesiology, but for him to be some sort of mobile priest oper…
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say by referencing John Shelby Spong. If you're implying that what I wrote about textual criticism of hagiography is outlandishly liberal like Spong's "Twelve Points for Reform" or any of his anti-literalism of scr…
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You must all realize that what original manuscripts have and what we are taught in Sunday School are not always consistent. Both oral tradition and written hagiographical tradition have nuances that cannot be ignored. Every hagiographical story is n…
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Beekay,I have to disagree with your first answers."Were Adam and Eve literal? Likely not.Was there a literal fall? Likely not." I have a very hard time believe such an intellectual person like St Paul would mention Adam multiple times if Adam did n…
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You're wrong Gay4XC. Does an oncologist need to have cancer to talk about cancer? No. Do only Copts know Coptic Christianity? No. There are many non-Copts who know more about the Coptic tradition than Copts do. Am I, as a man who sees the oppressio…
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Kyrollos install a Coptic unicode font and you'll be able to read it. My favorite is Antinoou. It can be found here: http://evertype.com/fonts/coptic/
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Where did you find the Arabic text? Was it part of Meghalo in a different manuscript? I don't know what you mean by "the meaning is not so consistent". It seems we came to the same meaning in both the English and Arabic translations. What do you mea…
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The words for verses 2-5 are taken from the old text of Meghalo. We all know that Apenchois is the mohayyar of Meghalo. In the original mohayar of Meghalo there were 20 verses (in the manuscript before me) that were added if there was time after the…
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Last year around Good Friday on Facebook, I saw lots of posts showing the Cross in a black background, artistically showing sadness at one half and a white background with the resurrection on the other half with the captions like "Earth's saddest da…
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Well, ever since the oopnevma vs pipnevma issue, I felt like I needed to appreciate and learn more about our language. ;) Also in addition to this, I also gave two books on Bohairic and Sahidic Coptic as gifts to a friend. Years from now, if we ev…
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No Ophadece, beseka or psychy is a Greek word that comes from the Greek verb psykow (I think) which means to cool down. This is why Origen stated the soul was warm with God before time began and cooled down to angelic spirits, human souls or demons.…
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No niphiowi (heavens) is the plural of etphe (heaven). The use of Pipneuma instead of pinifi has to do with bilingual nuance, not really theological nuance. Just like Copts use dwrea for gift, instead of piehmot, pneuma is used insted of nifi becua…
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I get the impression that miracleseek's question is not being answered. I don't think he/she is asking how to speak or describe divorce for himself to his/her children. (I'm going to assume you're a male.) I get the feeling that he is asking how to …
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TITL, don't wait on me. You're doing better than me. I am the one who mixed up taio and timio. It's funny Ramez knew exactly which word I was mixing up. The man can read my mind. Minasoliman, you can search Greek variants but our church basically us…
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A few corrections:1. Agape as a noun in Bohairic Coptic is ⲡⲙⲉⲓ but the verb is ⲙⲉⲛⲣⲉ. This is fairly rare. In the NT, it is almost always ϯⲁⲅⲁⲡⲏ or ⲟⲩⲙⲉⲓ. The true bilingual noun version is ⲟⲩⲁⲅⲁⲡⲏ (used in the verse "God is love"). I think the mos…
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Yes Mina, Archbishop Basilious is the late Metropolitan Basilious IV of Jerusalem. It says it in the introduction of the Coptic Encyclopedia (CE). Here's what I can find about this fraction.1. All the manuscripts that I could find did not include "…
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Alin Suciu is already working on Coptic Chrysostom's Homilies to the Romans. It's not out yet. If you don't mind doing some research, here is where I think you should look. I don't know if it will have anything on the Matthew homilies. 1. Montfauco…
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Qawe,Fr Schmemann's "For the Life the World" was a great book. In describing the false dichotomy or dualism between sacred and profane, he referenced the Manichaeans, not Nestorians. Not that it matters. But Fr Schmemann's point would have no value …
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Yes, Mina, we agree. That is why I said "apparent disagreement". In reality, those who are examples of "excellence in virtues" are the prostitutes, the murders, the conniving, the liars, etc who repent because they are part of Christ's family (even …
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I am going to piggy back off of Mina's comments on the genealogy. No one takes the genealogy of Christ literally either. If it were to be taken literally, then only one genealogy would exist. But since there are two different genealogies, then we mu…
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@Amoussa01, I hope you're going to share your website with us also. ;)
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Emmanuel, you are privy to the minutes of the conference and we are not. We must assume that either there was opposition to the divisive nature of church "types" or acceptance of such false ecclesiology. Simply stating that four types of churches we…