“I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.” We say this every Sunday in the Nicene Creed and it is one of the key distinctives of Christian eschatological hope. Belief in a future bodily resurrection is something we share in common with Judaism and Islam and almost…
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What is Love? (Living the Resurrection through Ascetic Struggle: Maximus the Confessor and the Lenten Fast, Part 2)
Love is the key to understanding both Good Friday and Easter and their meaning for our lives. It is also the key to understanding what St. Maximus the Confessor has to teach us about our fasting during Lent and Holy Week. So we must ask “what is love?”—at least, as far as Maximus understands it….
Living the Resurrection through Ascetic Struggle:Maximus the Confessor and the Lenten Fast, Part 1
Socrates died to find life. Though he had been unjustly condemned and his friends offered to rescue him, he drank the hemlock, denying his body in pursuit of higher goods. The Christian, too, must die in order to live, but the good we pursue is different than that sought by Socrates in at least one…
