Fr John Boddecker

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Fr John Boddecker

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Husband. Father. Priest (@eadiocese). Senior Lecturer - Sacred Scripture (@hts_jordanville). PhD Studies - LXX Leviticus (@UPTuks). Alumnus (@Trinity_College).

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Fr John Boddecker
Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
I made a schedule for reading the Damascene's Orthodox Faith daily over the course of four months. Only takes about 5 minutes a day so is easy to keep up with and allows for time to read and reflect. I am sharing it as it starts over today. Works great as a two-sided bookmark.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@WilsonCusack Not sure which are available. I have the NPNF version by S D F Salmond, CUA Press by Frederick Chase and Greek-English for SVS Press by Norman Russell. They are all good, though I like the SVS edition since I don't have to go look up the Greek original elsewhere.
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Fr John Boddecker
Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
Tomorrow is May 2, which means it is a good time to jump on the bandwagon and read St John Damascene through. The schedule I made restarts tomorrow and runs through the end of August.
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I made a schedule for reading the Damascene's Orthodox Faith daily over the course of four months. Only takes about 5 minutes a day so is easy to keep up with and allows for time to read and reflect. I am sharing it as it starts over today. Works great as a two-sided bookmark.

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Wes Huff@WesleyLHuff·
Rare photo of Pontus Pilate being told the tomb was found empty.
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Orthodox Ensign ☦️🔄🧎
Orthodox Ensign ☦️🔄🧎@TheOrthoEnsign·
@FrJohnBoddecker @GermanCarranza3 Yes one of my favorite sections! I like how he sets forward a duplex way in which the thirst is sated: firstly by pardon for our imperfections and secondly by virtue which will have perfection in the next life.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@TheOrthoEnsign @GermanCarranza3 I see your Met. Platon and raise you St. Philaret. His discussion of the fourth beatitude is an unexpected place to find so clear a declaration of his doctrine of justification.
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Orthodox Ensign ☦️🔄🧎
Orthodox Ensign ☦️🔄🧎@TheOrthoEnsign·
Compiled quotes on the unique role which Faith alone has in justification and salvation, and/or on how such Faith is never alone, but produces works – a thread 🧵
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@hmkherman My mother always tried to ferret out intended baby names before the birth of each of our children. I always threatened if she didn't stop asking it was going to be Barsanuphius or Syncletica. She would patiently await the post-partum normal name announcement after that.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@DrJordanBCooper @AngAesthetics I slogged through his Dogmatics and Ethics and a bunch of material available at the Barth Center in Princeton Seminary to write an undergrad senior thesis on the theological ethics behind his opposition to nuclear weapons. After that was done, I never touched him again.
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Dr Jordan B. Cooper
Dr Jordan B. Cooper@DrJordanBCooper·
@AngAesthetics It is very rare that I'd make such sweeping claims about a thinker...but with Barth, I really don't find much valuable at all.
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Dr Jordan B. Cooper
Dr Jordan B. Cooper@DrJordanBCooper·
Yes, there was a time in my life that I read thousands of pages of Barth because I was convinced he must be worthwhile since everyone praises him so much. When I figured I must be missing something, I dove into Barthian scholarship. What a waste.
Dr Jordan B. Cooper@DrJordanBCooper

What are you talking about? I read half of the Church Dogmatics, along with his Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth Century, the Romerbrief, his back and forth with Brunner, two separate volumes of essays from evangelicals on Barth's theology, the works of McCormack, Hunsinger, and several other Barth scholars, and a bunch of other things. I've probably read more Barth than I've read Thomas Aquinas (a truly insane thing to do, honestly). I've read more secondary sources on Barth than anyone other than Luther. And, no, I still don't like him. This post also wasn't even about Barth. Calm down man.

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Brother Augustine
Brother Augustine@BrotherAugusti2·
Despite my misgivings about the author’s non-Chalcedonian theology, I think that Deacon Anthony Bibawy’s book “Adam’s Sin, Our Humanity, and Christ’s Redemption in Cyril of Alexandria” is worth reading for Orthodox Christians who want a deeper dive into St. Cyril’s perspective on topics like original sin and the atonement. His book covers a lot of the same historical ground that I did in my book “Original Sin For The Orthodox Church,” often describing the same events and even drawing from the same sources. However, this is basically the “St. Cyril” version of my “St. Augustine” book — very useful and helpful in pointing out even more parallels between East and West when it came to combatting Pelagianism. I especially appreciate his framing of the book with Adam-Christ typology, which I touched on in my own book but to a lesser extent. If we are not corporately condemned in Adam then we cannot be corporately saved in Christ; both rely on the solidarity and unity of the human race as descended from one and redeemed by the other. I am about halfway through his book and from what I understand, the remainder touches a great deal more on soteriology than mine did when it comes to justification, redemption, paying of a debt, and substitutionary atonement. I look forward to learning more about St. Cyril’s perspective. All in all, if you liked my book then I think you will like his too. They go well together in uprooting 20th century distortions of these topics and if you can look past the occasional sniping at Chalcedonian theology I think you will find his book valuable.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@TheOrthoEnsign Are you sure you do not mean St. John Damascene? His canon has the acrostic Μωσῆς Θεοῦ πρόσωπον ἐν Θαβὼρ [ε]ἶδε.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@YoungPenitent I would note though that many early Church order documents actually prescribed that children commune after the clergy and before the adults.
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Y☦︎P@YoungPenitent·
We have all gotten into the habit of letting children get in line for communion first, which is not how it's supposed to be. Fr. Peter is upholding tradition.
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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.” — C.S Lewis
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Brother Augustine
Brother Augustine@BrotherAugusti2·
@blessedmikko @grevstv Apparently St. Cyril thought they were synonymous as well, though I do not necessarily trust the author’s interpretation.
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Brother Augustine
Brother Augustine@BrotherAugusti2·
After months of being harassed to read this book, I decided to pick up a copy. For reasons that should be obvious, I am going into this extremely skeptical of any Coptic interpretation of St. Cyril — but I will also not allow a genetic fallacy to affect my judgment, and am open to seeing where the research leads so I can weigh the arguments on their own merit. Will update this thread with thoughts and photos (if relevant) as I go.
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Fr John Boddecker
Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@the_culturist_ I’d be greatly obliged if anyone would tell me what we have done–always apart from feeding the pigs and raising some very decent vegetables." In fact, that was what they did. They keep up the simple human things that the N.I.C.E. wanted to eradicate.
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Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@the_culturist_ This theme shows up in That Hideous Strength. At end, when Ransom says they will be remembered for what the have done to overthrow the technocrats, MacPhee wonders aloud: "…it could be right good history without mentioning you and me or most of those present. ...
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The Culturist
The Culturist@the_culturist_·
It is not just incidental that Samwise is a gardener. This choice communicates the nature of his relationship with the world: Sam seeks not to control the world he inhabits, but only to cultivate and steward it. To set the conditions for good things to flourish, then to step back and let them do so. When Sam is tempted by Sauron's Ring, his prideful vision is that of a great garden enveloping Mordor: "…at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be." Sam counters this vision with his "hobbit-sense"… "…he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." Sam is able to keep his mind on the light beyond the shadow because he sees the world through the lens of a grateful participant. He is no power-seeker. Even in his temptation, he is not really looking to control Mordor, but only to plant seeds in its barren earth. Be like Sam.
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>Be Samwise Gamgee >Just a humble gardener who loves potatoes >Gets dragged into a literal apocalyptic war against the Dark Lord >Doesn't have magic, not of royal blood, and isn't an elite warrior >Just wants to help his friend Frodo >Fights off a giant, ancient demon spider (Shelob) with a glowing vial and a small sword just to protect his friend >When Frodo collapses on the slopes of Mount Doom, completely broken by the evil weight of the Ring Sam carries Frodo AND the ring to the top of Mount Doom >"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!" >Without him the one ring would not have been destroyed >Returns home, gets married, has kids, and lives a quiet, a quiet life as a father >The true, unspoken hero of Middle-earth >Tolkien used this character to show that sometimes the hero is just the average man who steps up to do what is right Be like Sam.

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Fr John Boddecker
Fr John Boddecker@FrJohnBoddecker·
@andresorthodox @BrotherAugusti2 @33_34Guy I think on the whole, Orthodoxy would benefit from more joint efforts, not each jurisdiction allocating limited resources to establishing its own version of everything (seminaries, publishing houses, ministry departments, etc).
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