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Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts
Thursday, October 12, 2017

The Origin of Evil and the Evil-Doer

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THE ORIGIN OF EVIL At the dawn of creation, before God made the visible world, but after the creation of the angels, there was a great cat...
Monday, June 26, 2017

How To Distinguish Between Good and Evil (St. Gregory of Sinai)

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By St. Gregory of Sinai ( On Prayer: Seven Texts ) Question: What should we do when the devil transforms himself into an angel of light ...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Prayer for Intercession Against One's Inner Darkness

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My most holy Lady Theotokos, by thy holy and all-effective prayers drive from me thine unworthy servant all despondency, indecision, foll...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Saint Basil the Great on the Origin of Evil

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By St. Basil the Great It is equally impious to say that evil has its origin from God; because the contrary cannot proceed from its contra...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

St. Dionysius the Areopagite on the Relationship Between Demons and Evil

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By St. Dionysius the Areopagite But, neither are the demons evil by nature; for, if they are evil by nature, neither are they from the Goo...
Monday, November 10, 2014

The Demonology of St. John of the Ladder (1 of 6) - The Evil Spirits

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By John Chryssavgis 1. The Evil Spirits The importance of the demonological theme in John's spirituality can be gauged from the accou...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Nature and Origin of Evil According to the Eastern Christian Church

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By Marina Luptakova (Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention, Praha) Sitting in a stuffy and filthy inn, Ivan Karamazov hurls into...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Orthodox Demonology 101

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By St. John of Damascus He who from among the angelic powers was set over the earthly realm, and into whose hands God committed the guardi...