Thanks, Dr Jacobs. I really needed this. I was working the NASCAR race yesterday, talking with another LE. He asked me if I was a Christian. I told him that I am presently repenting of my protestant ways of thinking. He paused, asked, What do you mean and I told him my story. This helps me explain things better to the average person who is looking for different answers. He told me at the start of the conversation that he was searching for answers that he couldn't find in the evangelical world. He is bouncing from church to church. When I started using terms like theosis, I lost him. But he was familiar with the Latin-West way of thinking. We do, as you stated, have two totally different ways of thinking on these important matters.
As always, thanks for your kind remarks, Jeff. It’s always encouraging to hear that my work is useful. Paywalled here on Substack (and on Jacobs Premium) is my Orthodox Foundations series, which I created specifically to help a group of clergy trained in Western theology better understand Orthodox theology. That’s one resource. But the need to help orient folks to both the Western lenses they wear and the Eastern alternative is the very reason I’m working on my Christianity East and West series. Be watching for it. It will first launch as a video series, which folks can purchase, going to a host of topics, such as anthropology, salvation, the Trinity, providence, Mariology, etc. On the heels of that, I plan to launch my book series, which will be short, C. S. Lewis style books, one on each of these topics. So, keep an eye out for it. My hope is that those will be the sort of resource that people can easily share, and for the curious, they can jump into whatever topic they might like.
Thanks, Dr Jacobs. I really needed this. I was working the NASCAR race yesterday, talking with another LE. He asked me if I was a Christian. I told him that I am presently repenting of my protestant ways of thinking. He paused, asked, What do you mean and I told him my story. This helps me explain things better to the average person who is looking for different answers. He told me at the start of the conversation that he was searching for answers that he couldn't find in the evangelical world. He is bouncing from church to church. When I started using terms like theosis, I lost him. But he was familiar with the Latin-West way of thinking. We do, as you stated, have two totally different ways of thinking on these important matters.
As always, thanks for your kind remarks, Jeff. It’s always encouraging to hear that my work is useful. Paywalled here on Substack (and on Jacobs Premium) is my Orthodox Foundations series, which I created specifically to help a group of clergy trained in Western theology better understand Orthodox theology. That’s one resource. But the need to help orient folks to both the Western lenses they wear and the Eastern alternative is the very reason I’m working on my Christianity East and West series. Be watching for it. It will first launch as a video series, which folks can purchase, going to a host of topics, such as anthropology, salvation, the Trinity, providence, Mariology, etc. On the heels of that, I plan to launch my book series, which will be short, C. S. Lewis style books, one on each of these topics. So, keep an eye out for it. My hope is that those will be the sort of resource that people can easily share, and for the curious, they can jump into whatever topic they might like.