Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?
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Theology

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Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Let’s try to understand why certain fathers of the Church, such as St. Gregory of Nyssa, preached this heresy and why they were not pronounced heretics themselves.

St Gregory the Wonderworker of Neocaesarea
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St Gregory the Wonderworker of Neocaesarea

Commemorated on November 17/30

Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea, was born in the city of Neocaesarea (northern Asia Minor) into a pagan family. Having received a fine education, from his youth he strived for Truth, but the thinkers of antiquity were not able to quench his thirst for knowledge. Truth was revealed to him only in the Holy Gospel, and the youth became a Christian.

Holy Hatred
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Theology

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Holy Hatred

Fr. Lawrence Farley

That is, for him some bits in the Scriptures are devoid of inspiration or authority, and ought to be jettisoned since they are merely the voices of sinful humans, men incapable of rising to a divine standard.

Holy Hieromartyr Pateliemon (Arzhanykh), Optina New Martyr
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Holy Hieromartyr Pateliemon (Arzhanykh), Optina New Martyr

Commemorated November 16/29

Igumen Damascene (Orlovsky)

He lived a half a year at home, pondering what path he should take next—especially since he was by then of an age at which one can and must avoid serious mistakes. He had no family of his own, and his life experience, which came together for him as he observed things around him during army service and paramedical work in a provincial hospital, was sufficient.

Strategies for Dealing with Impulsivity
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Orthodoxy Today

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Strategies for Dealing with Impulsivity

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

Our lived experience tells us that today impulsivity can be a disorder that affects many people of all ages in a sundry of situations with a variety of objects that are the focus of pathological impulsivity.