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Jos Strengholt
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During these Corona-days, the need of so many people worldwide is obvious. I assume you do what you can to help alleviate some of the distress of people. In our small way, we are helping families in Cairo, both Coptic…
Medical help for Sudanese people in Cairo
I was tempted to write: ‘for Sudanese refugees in Cairo’. But why define human beings as refugees? The Sudanese people I meet in Cairo are human beings in the first place, Christians, Muslims, men, women, fathers, mothers, husband, wives, children.…
Why we need Icons in our Church
In this article I argue that the usage of icons is important and beneficial for the Church. We will listen to the arguments John of Damascus (ca. 675-749), the main theological defender of the usage of icons in the Church…
Heavenly Participation
A great book I warmly recommend: Heavenly Participation, by Hans Boersma. I am reading it for a second time now – just to make sure I suggest what Boersma has to say.
“Postmodernity is little more than modernity coming home to roost. Both, I believe, are predicated on the abandonment of a premodern sacramental mindset in which the realities of this-worldly existence pointed to greater, eternal realities in which they sacramentally shared. Once modernity abandoned a participatory or sacramental view of reality, the created order became unmoored from its origin in God, and the material cosmos began its precarious drift on the flux of nihilistic waves.” Hans Boersema, Heavenly Participation: the weaving of a sacramental tapestry (Grand Rapids, 2011), p. 2.
Boersma proposes a rather radical realignment of theology – a realignment with how the church from the first till the 17th century ‘did’ theology. I love it.
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15 Commonly Used English Words related to Mythologies
The term Avatar originally stems from the Hindu concept of a deliberate descent of a deity or god to Earth. In simpler terms, it is roughly synonymous to ‘incarnation’ in English; but a more literal translation would pertain to ‘manifestation’…
Ostia Antica: The Harbor City of Ancient Rome
Ostia Antica (derived from os, the Latin for “mouth”) was the preeminent harbor city of ancient Rome, with its geographical location being around 19 miles from the ‘eternal city’. And while in modern circumstances, the site lies around 2 miles…
Reconstruction Of Constantinople: From 4th To 13th Century AD
Historically, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe from the 5th to early 13th century AD. To that end, it was Emperor Constantine who truly elevated the architectural ambit of the original settlement, by ‘re-founding’ it as Nova…
Agenda
Wednesday 17 June
7-8pm Zoom book club on St Shenoute
Sunday 21 June
5pm Worship Service in Arnhem, with licensing of the priest
Monday 22 June
6-7.30pm Meeting of Clergy Team of Chaplaincy Arnhem-Nijmegen
Tuesday 23 June
7-9pm Board Meeting of Stichting Nijlvallei
Wednesday 24 June
7-8pm Online book club on church fathers
Sunday 29 June
5-7pm Worship Service in Arnhem
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[mailpoet_form id="1"]Desert Prayers
In the week of 20-25 October we prayed the Coptic Agpeya (also known as the Horologion) in Anafora. This Coptic Orthodox Retreat Centre in Egypt is based in what used to be part of the desert, west of the Delta. Bishop Thomas has almost singlehandedly transformed the place into a green oasis of I do not know how many acres. The Agpeya is a cycle of seven daily prayers that have been prayed since the early times of Christianity. They…
