The Watchful Gate

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
- Psalm 45, (Septuagint translation)

Orthodox Epistemology - by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos

The Anthropology and Epistemology of the Philosophy of Ivan Kirievsky (PDF)

From an appendix to the larger (out of print) version of The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit in Ancient Russia by Ivan Kontsevitch

More on Kirievskys Epistemology - Excerpt from "A Man Is His Faith" by Fr. Alexey Young

On the Necessity and Possibility of New Principles in Philosophy (1856) [local copy] - by Ivan Kirievsky

The Theory Of Knowledge of St. Isaac the Syrian [local copy] - Excerpt from the Essay by St. Justin Popovich

Faith And Science In Orthodox Gnosiology and Methodology [local copy] - By George Metallinos 

The Sickness of Religion and its Cure [local copy]- by John S. Romanides

This essay may appear a bit overstated at times, or just weird to those of us used to thinking of Christianity in purely Augustinian terms, but it actually hits the essence of several important problems:

1. The true relationship between the created and the uncreated, and what can and what cannot be conceptualized by the mind alone
2. Why most religious thoughts and ideas are built on fantasies
3. The real nature of the Church, Prophetic gifts, Heaven, Hell, and Revelation
4. The nature of true esoteric Christianity, which is not gnosticism, neo-platonism, or any other new-age or symbolic fantasy.