In last week’s post, http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/10/15/the-divine-liturgy-in-history-part-1/ I mentioned how the early Eucharistic liturgies were not fixed: the celebrant would produce most of the prayers as he went along, speaking from […]
Read moreIntroit (Esther 13: 9, 10, 11) All things are in Thy will, O Lord, and there is none that can resist Thy will: for Thou hast made all things, heaven […]
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It is fairly certain that the liturgy first celebrated in Antioch was conducted in the Greek language. Charbel Abdallah is of the view that Syriac began to become prominent in […]
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The Baptists are the subject of the next section in Benson’s book, Noncatholic Denominations. He notes that they developed from a people called the “Anabaptists,” who go back to the […]
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Topic 1: A First Example of Modern Biblicist Logic, Raymond Brown and the Beloved Disciple Why is historical method important? Consider this: the late priest and Professor Raymond E. Brown was […]
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The “Congregationalists” are the first subjects of Chapter 4, Part II, of this book. Benson says that, with the Baptists, they in the “most ancient right to stand for Nonconformity […]
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Jacob of Sarug wrote a verse homily on Jacob the Patriarch’s Revelation at Bethel (trans. Dana Miller, Gorgias Press, 2020). This is based on Genesis 28:10-22: Now Jacob … came […]
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In Part II, Chapter 3, Benson comes to a general discussion of the Nonconformists in the UK. They all have in common a repudiation of ceremonialism. Since they are attempting […]
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Typically incisive, chapter 2 of Part II of Robert Hugh Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations is titled “The Nonconformists: Nonconformity in General.” Now, the “Nonconformists” in English religion were those Protestants who […]
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