Author: lazarus abboud
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Statement by Father Lazarus Abboud Blessing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution
To my brothers in faith, all Christians. For more than a decade the revolution against injustice began, and today this victory has come, on the eighth of December, which became a great beacon for millions of Syrians who were wronged, shackled, tortured, and burned in the fire of Assad’s injustice, and to be a dawn…
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A Note on the Role of Christians, Published Three Months Before the Fall of the Syrian Regime
The region is heading toward the end of a historical stage (that produced wars and divisions) and the entry into another, through one of two options: either a comprehensive settlement between the contending parties at our expense, or a comprehensive war between them that will grind us down. And before both options, we as Christians…
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The Syrians: A Burnt Offering upon the Pulpit of Christ.
In an interview with Patriarch al-Rahi in September 2022, he said: “If the Syrians do not return to Syria, they will impose upon themselves a second war.” Holy Scripture says: “My word shall not return to Me empty, but shall accomplish what I sent it for,” and the word which the Patriarch spoke unfortunately succeeded…
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Liberating All of It Is Not Possible
To speak of liberating Palestine entirely is a dream that haunts some of those asleep in the corridors of the Arab narratives. History is not a novel, nor is it a story at whose end good triumphs and the villain dies and joy and peace prevail (necessarily) because good is good, or because the…
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The Theology of Ugliness (and Evangelizing with It)
Introduction: The Orthodox pages, priests, and believers have drowned in a strange phenomenon concerning the defense of the faith, where they publish news about human behaviors and ethics widespread in the world, and see them as images of the forms of spiritual and moral death. At one time they publish about a phenomenon in…
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Jesus / ‘Isa the Christ
The paper discusses the historical and linguistic problematic surrounding the name Jesus/‘Isa, and reviews the attempts of some Christians in the modern age to create a parallel language and to distance themselves from the terms shared with Muslims, calling in return for openness and the adoption of the shared linguistic commonalities as a tool for…
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The Term “Nasara” (Nazarenes/Christians)
The study deals with the term “Nasara” in the Arabic Christian heritage, and with refuting the modern sensitivity that accompanies it on the part of some Christians, affirming the authenticity and continuity of the use of the word across manuscript, liturgical, and historical history. The ideas of the research revolve around the following main points:…
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Holy Ignorance
Holy Ignorance Today a populist religious current prevails in the Church (comprising laypeople, clergy, and monks), a current zealous for the faith. I say it honestly: there is zeal for Christ. We are not more zealous than them nor more faithful, but as the Apostle Paul says: “I bear them witness that they have…
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Critique of Ecclesiastical Tradition and the Sacred Inheritance
Introduction Critique is the process of analyzing texts and re-reading them, distinguishing in them the essence and the form, understanding the circumstances of their writing, and the social, political, and economic influences that affected their formulation and production. This critique applies to every product of human intellectual and even theological labor. So if the…