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June 18th, 2019

The Unbroken Continuity of the Roman Empire

Gregory Heers
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Livy, the Roman historian that lived around the time of Christ, wrote, ‘I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours, or richer in good citizens and noble deeds’ (Early History 30). It is therefore lamentable that in the common mind this most glorious empire should be endowed with an end so ignoble and unworthy of mention. According to any typical history-book, the Roman...

Tagged In: Phyletism, Romanity, Church History
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March 31st, 2019

Becoming One With Christ: The Spiritual Presuppositions of Participation in the Mysteries

A Lecture By Archpriest Peter Heers

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Saint Alexis the Man of God Orthodox Church

Alexandria, Sydney, Australia

Saturday, March 30 (17), 2019

QUOTE FOR CONSIDERATION:

St. Symeon the New Theologian on the Presuppositions to Participation in the Holy...

Tagged In: church-life, Baptism, Ecclesiology, ecumenism, Grace of the Holy Spirit, oikonomiaakriveia, spiritual-life, Secularism, Phyletism
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March 30th, 2019

LECTURE: Chalcedon and the Boundaries of the Church An Examination of the Ecclesiology of the Promoters of Union with the Monophysites/Non-Chalcedonians (EXCERPT)

By Archpriest Peter Heers
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Holy Trinity Orthodox Church

Melbourne, Australia

Friday, March 29 (16), 2019

EXCERPT FROM THE LECTURE:

“Chalcedon and it’s decisions are as much about the Person of Christ as the Body of Christ. In its Oros (lit. Boundary-decision) the Council set down the boundaries inside of which one is IN Christ, outside of which one stands apart from Christ, from communion in Him....

Tagged In: Monophysitism, Non-Chalcedonians, Patristic Theology, church-life, Ecclesiology
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March 28th, 2019

PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand

Lecture Entitled: “The Church and Secularism: Standing Before the Spirit of Antichrist”
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LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND

I am presently in Australia delivering lectures to the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese at the invitation and with...

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March 27th, 2019

PHOTO REPORT: Lecture Delivered to the Clergy Assembly of the Australian Diocese of ROCOR

Lecture Entitled: “The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”​
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LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY ASSEMBLY OF THE DIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND of the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA

“The Boundaries of the Church and the Demonic Method of Adulteration of the Faith in Ecumenism.”

On Tuesday, March 26 (13), in addition to lectures I am delivering to the faithful of the...

Tagged In: ecumenism, heresy-of-ecumenism, Secularism, tradition, Theological Education, Phyletism
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March 21st, 2019

Sacred Tradition is the Very Church

By Saint Nektarios of Aegina
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“Sacred Tradition is the very Church; without the Sacred Tradition the Church does not exist. Those who deny the Sacred Tradition deny the Church and the preaching of the Apostles.

Before the writing of the Holy Scriptures, that is, of the sacred texts of the Gospels, the Acts and the Epistles of the Apostles, and before they were spread to the churches of the world, the Church was based on...

Tagged In: Ecclesiology, tradition, Patristic Theology
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About the Editor of Orthodox Ethos

The Editor of Orthodox Ethos is Fr. Peter Heers

Fr. Peter Heers is currently the Headmaster of Three Hierarchs Academy and Rector of St Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) in Florence, Arizona.

From January of 2017 until May of 2018, Fr. Peter was the instructor of Old and New Testament at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York, and continues now as a Lecturer of Dogmatic Theology in the Certificate of Theological Studies Program. Fr. Peter is the founder and current head of Uncut Mountain Press (founded in 2000), and the founder and first editor of “Divine Ascent, A Journal of Orthodox Faith” (begun in 1995). A also the host of the podcast, Postcards from Greece, and a regular speaker to parish groups in the United States and Canada.

Fr. Peter is the author of The Missionary Origins of Modern Ecumenism: Milestones Leading up to 1920, as well as The Ecclesiological Renovation of the Second Vatican Council: An Orthodox Examination of Rome’s Ecumenical Theology Regarding Baptism and the Church , which was released in November of 2015 and is also available here. It is also available in Greek.

Fr. Peter is also the translator of several books, including the Life of Elder Paisios (co-translator) and the Epistles of Elder Paisios,The Truth of our Faith (vols 1&2) by Elder Cleopa and Apostle to Zaire: The Life of Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou, as well as the best-selling children’s book From I-ville to You-ville.

Fr. Peter has undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees in Dogmatic Theology from the Theological School of the University of Thessalonica, all completed under the tutelage of Professor Demetrios Tselingides. He was the rector and spiritual father of the parish of the Holy Prophet Elias in Petrokerasa, a small village in the mountains outside of Thessalonica, Greece, from 2006 until 2017. In 2014 he was made Protopresbyteros and Spiritual Father of the Diocese of Ierissou and Agion Oros.

Fr. Peter Heers was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up near San Francisco. The son of an Anglican priest, in 1992 his parents and much of his father’s parish converted to the Orthodox Church. In 1996 he came to Thessaloniki, Greece, in order to visit Mt. Athos, returning again in 1998 to begin the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki. He lived in Thessaloniki for 18 years, where he was married to a Thessaloniki native (and blessed with 5 children) and ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 2003, in the Diocese of Kastoria.

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