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In Surah 6:111, the Koran clearly plagiarizes the words of the Gospel. Koran: "Even if We had sent them the angels, made the dead speak to them, and assembled before their own eyes every sign they demanded, they still would not have believed—unless Allah so willed. But most of

Well said.

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"No man created by God is naturally unsympathetic and merciless, but God has placed love for one’s fellow man in human nature—and not in humans only, but also in irrational beasts and birds. This is why they are often sorrowful and call out and fast when separated from one

“By means of that supernatural light, the capacity of the inward soul is enlarged, and is in God so extended, that it is far above the world: yea and the soul of him that seeth in this manner, is also above itself; for being rapt up in the light of God, it is inwardly in itself

O Adonai, and Leader of the house of Israel, Who didst appear to Moses in the flame of the burning bush, and didst give unto him the Law on Sinai: come and with an outstretched arm redeem us. --- Since the time of the Church Fathers, the theophany of the burning bush has been

Saint John Chrysostom on prayers for the dead and to saints: "Let us not then be weary in giving aid to the departed, both by offering on their behalf and obtaining prayers for them, for the common expiation of the world is even before us. Therefore with boldness do we then

(Preserved in Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 3.13)

A certain agraphon (lost saying) records when Jesus Christ said the end of the world would come: "When you tread under foot the covering of shame, and when out of two is made one, and the male with the female, neither male nor female."

Nestled in Romania's Bucovina region, Voroneț Monastery – the pearl of Romanian monasteries and "Sistine Chapel of the East" – dazzles with its vivid exterior frescoes set on the iconic "Voroneț blue," a mysterious, enduring pigment from the 15th century. Built in 1488 by Saint

"There are four elements of scholarship: reading, textual criticism, exegesis, and disputation..."

"Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed." —Psalm 84:11 Christianity is not about "feeling good" and being "nice" to people. It brutally confronts man with the abject state of his existence, yet in that state, shows him mercy. As St. Maximus writes:

Lukács called the novel "the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God." Whereas medieval and ancient epics sought to point towards a world beyond our own, the 19th-century novel—like its sibling, 19th-century science—gave itself the task of representing nature as it was,

A look at Saint Dionysius' profound theology of the Incarnation.

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Discovered a little jewel.

Why did Rome fall to the barbarians? According to the 5th-century writer Salvian of Gaul, who lived through the events, it was because of the Romans' vices, in particular, effeminacy.