"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 [1]
The Anthropology and Epistemology of the Philosophy of Ivan Kirievsky (PDF) [2]
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 [3]
On the Necessity and Possibility of New Principles in Philosophy (1856) [4] [local copy [5]] - by Ivan Kirievsky
The Theory Of Knowledge of St. Isaac the Syrian [6] [local copy [7]] - Excerpt from the Essay by St. Justin Popovich
Faith And Science In Orthodox Gnosiology and Methodology [8] [local copy [9]] - By George Metallinos
The Sickness of Religion and its Cure [10] [local copy [11]]- by John S. Romanides
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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:
- The true relationship between the created and the uncreated, and what can and what cannot be conceptualized by the mind alone
- Why most religious thoughts and ideas are built on fantasies
- The real nature of the Church, Prophetic gifts, Heaven, Hell, and Revelation
- The nature of true esoteric Christianity, which is not gnosticism, neo-platonism, or any other new-age or symbolic fantasy.