After becoming Orthodox, but after being unable to revert to Futurism, I began to entertain in my mind revisions to the Creed so as to make it compatible with “realized” eschatology. One of those “revisions” I came up with, which I thought would not alter orthodox theology, was to instead of Whose kingdom will have […]
THE ENDLESS KINGDOM OF CHRIST. A Discussion of the Old and New Believers’ texts of the Creed
by deacon Valery Timofieiev. Translation, links & illustration by Frank Pax.* In the Creed adopted by the New Believers, instead of the ancient “to His kingdom there is no end,” there is the following: “to His kingdom there will be no end.” In order to correctly assess the catastrophism of the change from the ancient […]
Is the End of the World About to Be? The Creed from a different angle.
In prior articles we reviewed a few key words in the Creed and certain Liturgical hymns from the point of view of linguistics. We saw that eschatological presupposition have changed the original meaning of these words and they have come to be understood today differently. We reviewed that grasping the original meaning of these words […]
Will the Lord come? is He coming? or is He about to come? The Creed from a different angle.
The Creed as we know it, the one we normally call the Nicene Creed, states concerning our Lord: …and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end. All clear, indisputably with the key verbs come and have in the future tense. However, when we […]
Resurrection of the Soul or Resurrection of the Flesh?
I want to share with you my experience with Pascha (Easter) this year. Most of you probably know that Orthodox celebrate Pascha at a different date, following the Julian calendar. Service begins a 10PM and ends at around 2AM, after which come the paschal meal. Many times, we joyfully chanted in seven different languages: Christ […]