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 […]