This post focuses on sections 1-3 of Worship in a Secular Age, the first appendix of For the Life of the World.
Dn. Michael Hyatt’s podcast series does not continue into the appendices, but I’m going to continue to blog through the two essays in it. I’ve found them as compelling and fascinating as I have [...]
The series now moves to sections 2-3 of the seventh chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter seven.
For the Life of the World: Part Fourteen
The second tendency consists in the acceptance of secularism. According to the ideologists of a “nonreligious” Christianity, [...]
The series now moves to section 1 of the seventh chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter seven.
For the Life of the World: Part Fourteen
Whatever the achievements of the Christian mission in the past, today we must honestly face a double [...]
The series continues in section 3 of the sixth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter six.
For the Life of the World: Part Thirteen
The beginning of this victory is Christ’s death.
Those opening words to this section capture the paradoxical nature of [...]
The series continues in section 2 of the sixth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter six.
For the Life of the World: Part Thirteen
Before death, however, there is dying: the growth of death in us by physical decay and illness. … [...]
The series continues in section 1 of the sixth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter six.
For the Life of the World: Part Thirteen
Christianity, with its message offering fullness of life, has contributed more than anything else to the liberation of [...]
The series now moves onto section 1 of the sixth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast on chapter six.
For the Life of the World: Part Thirteen
We live today in a death-denying culture. This is clearly seen in the unobtrusive appearance of the [...]
The series now moves to section 4 of the fifth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here again is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s second podcast on chapter five.
For the Life of the World: Part Twelve
Fr. Schmemann takes what, for me at least, was an unexpected turn in this last section [...]