Following Lossky’s metaphysics, sex and gender are not hypostatic (personal), but rather are characteristic of our common human nature.
Nature, Person, Gender: An Anthropological Postscript
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In persona Ecclesiae
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While the contemporary Eastern Orthodox fixation on the bishop runs just as deeply as the Roman Catholic tradition, there are differences in the iterative understanding of the episcopal role in the Lord's Supper. The modern Eastern tradition shares the understanding of the bishop's privilege in the Eucharist found in St. Ignatius' writings. But a fundamental difference remains within Orthodox...
Difference & Identity – a class discussion
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In Being Human, a course on theological anthropology, I had to present some observations on the second half of Ian McFarland's Difference & Identity: A Theological Anthropology[1] and lead a class discussion. What follows is the written presentation and the questions I used to start the class discussion.