Category: Articles
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Between Kadim Al-Sahir’s Lament and the Apostle Paul’s Vision: Where Does Creativity Go?
A deep lament that the artist Kadim Al-Sahir utters, wondering about the fate of human toil and music, meeting the theological vision of the Apostle Paul and the Fathers in affirming that human creativity and art do not perish in annihilation, but are kept in the essence of eternity and are transfigured in the light…
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The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory 2 (The Model of Christ)
In the preceding article we said that the justice of a cause is not a sufficient condition for its victory, for without correct language and tools the truth turns into an elegy, and victimhood turns into an eternal defeat. In the midst of our discussion of how to defend causes, we must look at Christ…
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The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory — “When Right Possesses No Self-Sufficient Power to Prevail”
Many people, especially in our Arab region, live by the illusion of “the inevitability of the oppressed one’s victory”, convinced by a strange emotional and religious discourse that promoted the idea that the oppressor is inevitably defeated and the oppressed will prevail without fail. This intellectual anesthesia made the holders of right lean on the…
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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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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…
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What Was Written
An article dated 4 November 2020. Some days ago we saw the harsh criticism that the article of Metropolitan Basilios Mansour, Metropolitan of Akkar and its dependencies for the Greek Orthodox, received. His Eminence used some expressions that some found objectionable and rebelled against, such as: Christianizing and baptizing, and his translation of the verse…