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Athanasius did not, like Tertullian and some later theologians, find it necessary to denigrate nature in order to glorify grace. ~ Jaroslav Pelikan, The Light of the World, p. 44

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Welcome to the Paedagogus web site. Here you will find the “Posed and Pondered” blog, textual studies of the Church Fathers and Scripture, and a variety of study helps. This web site is written from an Eastern Orthodox Christian perspective. Its author is a part-time seminarian at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York.

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  • Inverse Relation

    The Egyptians knew nothing of an exodus.Augustus Caesar knew nothing of the birth of Christ.Assyrian monuments show some unwilling respect for the house of Omri, to which Ahab belonged.Clearly, the Bible ...
    created on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 11:42AM by Registered CommenterTracy within Posed and Pondered

  • To My Husband

    Nick, I think one of the reasons our discussion came to an “impasse” (I’m not so sure it did, but I can understand that you probably got tired of my ...
    created on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 08:55AM by Registered CommenterTracy within Posed and Pondered

  • Allegorical Reading

    One hears complaints about allegorical reading of Scripture. Origen is the acknowledged master of such a reading strategy. But there is a presupposition going into such judgment — that the goal ...
    created on Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 07:22AM by Registered CommenterTracy within Posed and Pondered

  • Another King Has Arisen

    Both Origen and Athanasius were conscious of the fact that they lived in Egypt, out of which God had called the sons of Israel. These words were not written to ...
    created on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 06:46AM by Registered CommenterTracy within Posed and Pondered

  • No System

    I’m not sure whether I will return to blogging regularly. Here is some reflection from current reading. I just read Anatolios’ “Oppositional Pairs” on Augustine’s De Trinitate. ...
    created on Friday, February 6, 2009 at 07:39PM by Registered CommenterTracy within Posed and Pondered
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