What Does it Mean to Think Orthodox? | Dr. Eugenia Constantinou
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- Dr. Eugenia Constantinou and Father Josiah Trenham
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Thank you Fr. If anyone is seeing this, please pray for me. I am approaching my baptism pretty soon.
IT HAS HAPPENED. GLORY BE TO GOD.
Congratulations,Lord have mercy on us
Axios!
May the Lord receive you and count you among His sheep.
Me 2 excited for you and me
Glorious Trinity please send down our Advocate the Pneuma to change the soul of this inquirer. May he be rebirthed into the fullness of your love via the Church and his daily devotions to you. What great love we have in you who finds us messy and broken and puts a bandaid on and hugs us til the tears stop. Thank you for loving me and may your light shine as brightly upon our new friend as it does upon me (or more so). God thank you for my adoption into the fullness of Christianity (via Orthodoxy) and my Ricky-es9vg experience you more and more each day. Amen.
Thank you, Fr. Josiah Trenham. Please pray for my family. Pray that they'll leave Pentecostalism.
Literally my two favourite Orthodox teachers in the same room ❤☦️
Me too!
LOVE this interview. My wife and I just met presbytera and listen to her constantly. Thanks partially to her podcast and books, we are now on our way to becoming catechumens.
Dr. Constantinou's books, The Crucifixion of the King of Glory and Thinking Orthodox were so instrumental for me to get serious about Orthodoxy. It is great to hear this talk!
As a new convert to ROC I thank you for these wonderful videos! Lord have mercy. ☦️🙏☦️
Roc is an awesome jurisdiction I'm antiochian recently converted from protestantism
Why do you say Russian Orthodox Church and not just The Orthodox Church?
@@deathfalcon602 because there is the Greek Orthodox, Antiochian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Romanian and Serbian Orthodox as well. Plus ROCOR which is Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. The Greeks are the most liberal and inclined to heresy. Their Patriarch has close ties to US intelligence agencies and is heavily compromised.
@@deathfalcon602 in America we have multiple jurisdictions overlapping like I'm antiochian , Greek Russian Ukrainian are all in my city and we live as one although we are different jurisdictions
Thank you Fr. I grew up Protestant Baptist and your videos have inspired me to learn more about church history and dive deeper into my faith! Thank you so much for your insights and I’m now trying to gather the courage to convert to orthodoxy. Thank you!
Dr. Constantinou came to our Church a few weeks ago and spoke about her book Thinking Orthodox. She is an inspiration and I thoroughly enjoyed her knowledge. I bought her book that day. However, I have not read it yet. I am currently on 2 others right now, but I am anxious to get to it.
I love Dr. Jeannie's podcasts, I've learned so much. She is a wonderful teacher and I could listen to her podcasts for hours. Thank you Fr. Trenham for interviewing her. I think she's a great role model for Orthodox women. She's a priest's wife, a mother, and a highly educated woman who seems very down to earth.
Dr. Constantinou is honestly one of the greatest theologians of our time. I know she is very famous, but I still don’t think she gets the credit or attention she is due. I pray God continues to bless her.
It seems we've lost touch with what it means to BE Orthodox, not simply to "think" Orthodox. And to BE Orthodox is not to act or think in a certain way (although those aspects will certainly follow). We must first rediscover the fullness of our being. The mind of Christ has not its source in the rational mind, but the noetic. We as a church have lost touch with the fullness of our humanity and divine potential. This is not something which is brought about by acting or thinking according to any external standards, the church's included. The depth of our noetic being must be tasted and then lived through the vehicle of true prayer. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. When the door within is opened, we acquire the noetic mind of Christ and our entire life is infused and radiates with the energies of God. Only then can we truly BE (and think) Orthodox.
Glory to God for you Father!
What a smart lady
Thank you so much for your work!🙏
Glory be to God!❤
Thinking Orthodox is being gone over page for page in our adult class pre service sundays but also its the #1 recomended book to get after the Orthodox Study Bible. We are a blooming parish (20ish to 75ish now) and your book is constantly referenced.
I very well appreciate this interview. I actually emailed my Priest this afternoon on what I can be doing better and oddly enough this answers a key portion of what I was seeking. I notice gradually that my old self is letting go, but I remain scared to not keep my guard at times. I still have a layered wall around my heart but I'm really trying to allow community in, I feel judged by any sentence I say even when speaking of good things, I feel misunderstood lord knows I wish this but it seems like it comes and goes. Not giving up, love you all. God bless.
I think I know what you mean by letting community in and feeling judged. I'm fairly new to actually attending Orthodox Church. For me at least, I'm learning that it will take time, and interestingly enough, my shyness stems from my pride and vainglory. I should put myself out there and be humble! Hope this helps.
Love Eugenia she has a brilliant mind.
Φρόνημα ! 🙏☦️📿
The Way ☦️
Glory to God
I’m not an orthodox. I’m an ex JW. I was struggling for years to find the truth of Bible manifested in real life. I always had a very negative view of Eastern Orthodox Church and couldn’t even take it into account as a variant to research it. But one time, being in a book store I was ‘pushed’ by something, by some feeling, somehow to pick up an orthodox bible (Romanian la language). I started to read the introduction and I was fascinated about the balance used in the text to present the Bible not in a very fundamentalist way, but not to ignore the message of it. They wanted the reader to go to the core message of the Bible and not to stop by chewing only words and analyzing them from an atitudine of scholarship: just to let yourself drawn by the Bible and to go to the core of it. For a few days I started to read the psalms daily, lightning a candle for the whole day and pray… I am an engineer and usually very skeptical and need loads of reason and research upon a subject. Even so, I’m very hard to be convinced!! But this thing started to move something inside me really strongly! As if I was draw close to the reality of life (not the world, but the life). After few days, started to feel an energy to do more than just doing my job. Previously I was an indoor guy and I had a subtle sneaky depression that basically kept me locked inside my head: ruminating and fighting negative toughs, always worried and unable to take action. I wrote down myself on a paper a prayer which came in my mind out of nowhere but it was just what I needed for my soul as if it was a pill that was made especially for my illness. This thing started to move me. To get me out of my state of blockage.
I spent many years as a JW and I realized that that religion has only an intellectual image of who Jesus was. Actually, a very distorted version of Jesus. I was bluffed by reading in the Gospels how Great Jesus was. It was the Son of God. I couldn’t believe how small a type of Jesus that sect used to depict Him!!!
Eugenia she’s right! In fact, if your religion blocks you from living and connecting to God through the way of thinking and living, that is actually a sect! This is the most powerful element in Eastern Orthodoxy: living a way of spirituality, not just talking endlessly about it. Getting in touch with it.
Wish you much peace and love and May God have mercy on all of us! ❤
Perfect timing! I’m reading a book by her now! :)
Thank you for this talk, helpful counsel. Asking this sincerely, as a Theologian speaking on the "mind of Christ", how would she council women about wearing makeup. There is great pressure to capitulate to worldly beauty, this topic is never discussed but we need guidance, without judgement in a sincere meaningful way.
Bible already tells you
Do everything in moderation but don't be legalistic about a personal conviction you may have.
This was so good!
I was raised in pentecostal family (not in america) but ten years ago began to be familiar to orthodoxy and last year converted when i fially has an opportunity. I appreciate all of the hings that she is saying but i the mindset that she is talking about is quite much in charismatic christianity since it is not western rational minded but rather lived realationship as should orthodoxy be.
I don’t really see how a Roman Catholic or Protestant would differ or disagree with what Dr. Constantinou said.
They may not disagree but the phronema of Orthodoxy is nothing like the varieties found in the West.
Which Christian tradition - Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant - teaches Christianity is merely some intellectual exercise and where do they teach this? Are we sure we’re not strawmanning others with this narrative, with, at best, anecdotal information?
I do not know who does it but I can tell you it is NOT Orthodoxy...