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This is the eighth episode from my interview with Orthodox author and professor of philosophy, Dr. David Bradshaw.
In this episode, Dr. Bradshaw discusses a paper he presented at a conference in Moscow, Russia, on the historical Christian patristic meaning of mystical experience:
https://uky.academia.edu/DBradshaw
To learn more about Dr. Bradshaw and his work, please visit:
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/users/dbradsh
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Amen, Amen, Amen! Thank you so much for sharing this!
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but i can't find an answer to this anywhere. Can you wear an Orthodox cross (as a pendant) if you are not baptised in an Orthodox church?
I was baptised in a protestant church, but as many others in Sweden today, this church has not much to offer. I have been (as most of us who are interested in Orthodoxy) reading a lot and watching youtube channels about this.
There is no Orthodox Church around here, and I realize that this is as close as I can get to Orthodox beliefs. I believe the cross could remind me of staying on the right path, or keeping the aim on the right things in life. Are there any thoughts on this? If this is just not appropriate, then i don't want to use it, of course.
This interview was awesome! Way too short…I was just settling in
This is good though The word 'mystical' does seem to have the problem of it having been appropriated by western spirituality and now has connotations of fantasy/imagination/sentamentalism etc
It would be impossible to overstate how significant this seven minute video is. Thank you!
This Truth about the Divine Liturgy is exactly why masks, sanitized spoons, blocking people from property venerating icons, etc. is completely upside down and is an inversion of The Orthodox Faith.
This was fascinating. I was trained in a Spiritual Direction program (while I was moving into Orthodox practice, but before I was chrismated) that was very broad-based, but largely Western in worldview. (However, the director's being Indian made for an interesting Eastern foothold for me!) I found it strange to encounter the notion (in people like St. John of the Cross, Hildegarde of Bingen, etc.) that mysticism is assumed to be private and amorphous ("The Cloud of Unknowing"!) — and QUIET! All true sometimes, and in part – initiation into the ancient Orthodox rites deepens private faith practice, to be sure, and there is often a hush around the recognition of the "ineffable" reality of God, etc…. I wonder, also, how historical factors added to the Church's understanding of its worship as "mystical" — "eyes closed, lips closed" for/about the rites sounds like a pretty smart policy for people who were being brutally martyred daily by the surrounding culture of "uninitiates" wielding immense political power — "The doors — the doors!"