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In this episode, Fr. Panteleimon discusses the relationship between old and new and how it relates to the faith.
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There's an important shift in how we conceive ourselves spatially with respect to time. I'm not sure when that shift took place (perhaps the Reformation), but by the 18th century, the language of "marching foward" into the future begins to take hold, and it predominates today. Time is progressing somewhere, we know where its taking us, and we have a moral obligation to facilitate that progress. We face the future with our backs to the past; we interpret our present experience with respect to an imagined future. History is progressively truncated: everything before was the era of jâhilîya, "ignorance," and can be safely forgotten, no matter whether the cut-off date is 1789, 1917, or 1968.
But in both ancient Hebrew culture and ancient Greek culture (and certainly classical Christianity), this spatio-temporal imagery was the reverse: facing the past, we walk backwards into the future. The future is unknown to us, and our present experience is only comprehensible according to ways of knowing that have been handed down, principally, language, archetypes, and ways of doing things. That does not mean that one is enslaved to these past categories or to one's history, but one transcends them by means of using them, not in opposition to them.
This reminds me of the book of Ecclesiastes that says, "there is nothing new under the sun," to which St. John Climacus responds with, "…except the resurrection." And another quote from Fr. Josiah Trenham, "Being original is being faithful to the originals (i.e., the fathers)."
"Tried & True" – excellent way to explain it! I came into the Orth Church after feeling lost searching for the Ancient for many years and for these very reasons entered the Orth Church with an unchanged Div Liturgy so beautiful and original – God calls and we must listen…thankyou & God bless!
Amen. CS Lewis also does a great job elaborating on this idea in the introduction he wrote to 'On the Incarnation' by St. Athanasius
Looking back means accepting someone else’s ideas over our own. Our modern, narcissistic society can’t accept that.
"If it's worked for 2,000 years, we'll do it." – Father Panteleimon Dalianis
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