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Mansour Rahbani’s Christ is a savior who does not save.
Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin in the theater of the Rahbani Brothers. For them, creativity was never merely about innovation, but rather the ability to liberate—to free people from constraints. Anything short of that becomes rumination, repetition of the old, or recycling the narrative. The power of their plays was…
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The Licking (Talammath) of the Communion Cup
The word “yatalammadh al-ka’s” has become current on tongues, to denote the act of eating what remains of the holy Communion in the Liturgy, where the priest devours what remains in the cup after the end of the Liturgy, but this word is wrong and the original is “talammatha” (to lick) […]
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A Critique of Ecclesiastical Tradition and the Sacred Inheritance
Father Lazarus Abboud: Critique is a process of analyzing texts and rereading them, distinguishing in them their essence and the circumstances of their writing, and understanding their content in a new way. This critique applies to all human intellectual production, even the theological, and Holy Scripture has been subjected to a harsh critical process. For…
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The Weak Sect
Father Lazarus Abboud The Christians of the East suffer from many problems, especially in the matter of sectarianism and citizenship, so they have come to consider themselves a minority demanding the rights of minorities. They see their weakness in their inability to bring about changes toward citizenship for the whole homeland, so they replace that…