Looking at positive change in the Orthosphere, covering some basics on how Orthodox Apologetics works today and how to "do" it, and should we do an open mic? Just see who shows up? Lots of Orthodox material including the Orthodox History tract: fatheralexander.org Patrologia Link: https://library.bryan.edu/bible-study-resources/migne-patrologia-graeca-and-latina Rod Dreher article: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/carlo-acutis-noble-lies-catholicism-authority/ As always, we stream live…
Looking at positive change in the Orthosphere, covering some basics on how Orthodox Apologetics works today and how to “do” it, and should we do an open mic? Just see who shows up?
Lots of Orthodox material including the Orthodox History tract: fatheralexander.org
Patrologia Link: https://library.bryan.edu/bible-study-resources/migne-patrologia-graeca-and-latina
Rod Dreher article: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/carlo-acutis-noble-lies-catholicism-authority/
As always, we stream live at Odysee: odysee.com/OrthodoxApologetics
Well, I HAVEN'T read all the fathers. Only so much time in a day.
-The library preening is for inadequate people who want to look smarter than they are.
-Breadth over depth is really not helpful. Once, a popular RC apologist was floored by stuff I was pulling out of a small book of the middle Byzantine dormition homilies translated by Daley. He wanted to argue with me and I told him that until he reads the homilies himself, we can't have a discussion he has no idea what's he's talking about. So, he dug into his ample library and pulled out the book and with surprise exclaimed, "Look I own it." Ironically, he still didn't read it even though he played the fool. Here is a case of a guy who buys books he does not even read. Other guys just read indexes (or use control f) and look for isolated passages. The Fathers must be read in completion, often more than once to truly understand. These people are from distant lands and times. It takes time to immerse. One cannot datamine the fathers, skim the fathers, or index the fathers and really understand them. People doing this just sound stupid to anyone who has actually ready any of the fathers in actual depth.
-Using interlibrary loan instead of buying tons of books is good for those of us who aren't rich.
-One lame apologist told me he owned so many books once he literally broke the foundation to his house. There is no way one could read that many books…unless the foundation of that house was on a sinkhole or something.
Which Orthodox Apologetics channels should be avoided?
Catholics love the hypothetical benefits of the papacy but they detest its actual problems.
You can do an open mic and charge the superchat people for answers to questions they should find out by using google.
Saying one has read the entirety of the main fathers isn’t exactly authoritative, even if true. Reading the New Testament one time is hardly enough to even begin to grasp its content. One could read the entire patristic corpus and still only have the faintest grasp on the content. This doesn’t even account for the variety of comprehension abilities between people, memory, contextual understanding (as far as the issues of their day and the works they were responding to and refuting), etc. Even making the claim during an online discussion should have the exact opposite effect than what that person believes they are eliciting