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Considering Religious Traditions in Bioethics: Christian and Jewish Voices, 2005
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The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition, 2000
Modern Encylopedia of Religions in Russia and Eurasia, vol. 7
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Religion and War, 2004
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 2004
Although it has no central authority, the doctrine of Orthodox Christianity is based on holy trad... more Although it has no central authority, the doctrine of Orthodox Christianity is based on holy tradition, especially the tradition established by the seven ecumenical councils that were held during the fourth through eighth centuries CE. The Eastern Orthodox Church initiated its separation from the Roman Catholic Church of the West in the ninth century, and its theology differs from that of the Western denominations.
Papers by Lev Smith
Christian Bioethics, 1997
Christian physicians, nurses and other health care workers must manage a daily conflict of consci... more Christian physicians, nurses and other health care workers must manage a daily conflict of conscience between their Christian faith and predominantly secular health care institutions. This essay examines various efforts for managing these conflicts: a turn towards social justice or a seeking of holiness. Seeking social justice, however, is theologically empty. Traditionally, the Christian requirement that we be "in this world but not of it" requires a journey along a narrow path to holiness. Christian medical morality must, therefore, be understood within this light. However, just as there cannot be generic health care, but rather health care for a particular person's needs and problems there cannot be generic holiness, but only a holiness grounded in worshiping God rightly. In so worshiping the Christian will be assisted in negotiating the inescapable and perilous vocation of being in the world but not of it.
The published observations on the American Book of Common Prayer (1892) by a special commission o... more The published observations on the American Book of Common Prayer (1892) by a special commission of the Patriarchate of Moscow made in 1904 at the request of (Saint) Tikhon, the Russian bishop responsible at the time for the Church in America.
Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life, Jan 1996
The Living Church, Jan 13, 1986
The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition, 2000
Christian Bioethics, 2000
Christian Bioethics, 2000
This essay surveys four recent theological works on the issue of personhood: John F.
... Maximos Confessor, explicitly holds that the body is to be deified. One contemporary Protest... more ... Maximos Confessor, explicitly holds that the body is to be deified. One contemporary Protestant theologian who is deeply influenced by ... AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN VIEW ... unqualified way that the human body is in the divine image, simpler believers might have taken this to ...
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