Simply Orthodox will help the non-theologian understand and apply the complex doctrinal themes of Orthodoxy to our 21st century lives.
Dr. Nassif is Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at North Park University in Chicago. Dr. Nassif serves as a consultant for Time and Christianity Today magazines, and has been a commentator for several television documentaries on Eastern Orthodoxy. He has been a teacher for the Antiochian House of Studies, and the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley, CA.
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Dr. Nassif discusses three important lessons we learn from the the Russian novel "The Way of a Pilgrim." In addition to the prayer from that novel, known as the Jesus Prayer, he talks about other types of short prayers and their value to us as a means to our spiritual growth.
Dr. Nassif introduces us to the life and ministry of the late theologian Alexander Schmemen (1921-1983), who tirelessly worked for theoligical renewal in the Orthodox Church in America and around the world.
Part Two of a two-part interview with Dr. Scot McKnight of North Park University. Atonement is not abstract theory, but rather it is our being drawn into the life of Christ. All of us are icons (images) of God, broken, but being restored back to our original shape, which is Christ Himself.
Part One of a two-part interview with Dr. Scot McKnight from North Park University in Chicago. In part one, Drs. Nassif and McKnight discuss daily religious recitations in Jesus' day and in our lives today.
Are we more concerned with obeying liturgical rules than with having a heart filled with justice, mercy and faithfulness to God? St. Symeon the New Theologian speaks!
Dr. Nassif looks at the relationship between scholarship about Christ and our personal experience of His Resurrection.
We must never lose sight of the simplicity of the Gospel, and its far-reaching consequences for everyday life.