Friday, April 22, 2011

The Word of the Cross: God's Answer to Evil

This is, far and away, the best answer I've ever heard to the problem of evil.  Fr. Hopko doesn't set out to answer that problem (his purpose is just to meditate on what God is saying through the cross), but the impact is marvelous.

It is a bit long (2 hours), but can be found for free on Ancient Faith Radio.

Here are the links:
  1. Part One
  2. Part Two
  3. Part Three
  4. Part Four
You can also purchase it online from SVS Press (as the lecture was delivered at the seminary).

May you have a blessed Good and Holy Friday, and a wonderful Pascha.  I'll be taking a break from posting over the weekend.

In Christ,
Macarius

2 comments:

  1. I listened to all four today while working today~ just excellent, can't say enough about it. I was encouraged too by his references to believers outside Orthodoxy (Mother Theresa, Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, Reinhold Neibuhr, that Methodist preacher fellow).

    It does seem that he is hardest on the Orthodox Church folks; I can see he expects better from them whether they are monks or priests or parishioners.

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  2. Yeah - I love (and listen a lot) to this talk. The story about Mother Theresa is simply breathtaking. What a witness to Christ!

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