The Bible: How it was Formed and How it Forms us
On Friday, May 1 at 7 pm, Michael taught a Zoom class to more than 30 people for the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral community called, The Bible: How it was Formed and How it Forms us. The class lasted 90 minutes with an opening prayer service, lecture and then interactive discussion.
Class Description: Michael discussed the following topics:
The Bible in Orthodoxy
Holy Fathers and Importance of the Bible
Holy Tradition and Orientation in the Church
Sola Scriptura?
Word of God and word of God?
Timeless Truth
Revelation versus Cognition
Formation of the Bible
Organic nature of the Bible's formation
Old and New Testaments
Councils and Criteria
New Testament Timeline
Septuagint and “Orthodox Old Testament Canon”
Book of Revelation
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Bibles
Deuterocanonical versus Apocryphal
The Ways We Understand and Experience the Bible and Our Formation as Persons
…and of all things Visible and Invisible
Antiquity versus Modernity
Transcendence versus Immanence
Spiritual and Material versus Material
The Nous, the Holy Fathers, and our Thoughts
Modes/Ways of Understanding the Bible and our Formation
Spiritual and Spiritual Warfare
Ancient Schools of Interpretation
Typology and Allegory
Formation versus Information
Sacramental and Immersion
Reading and Study
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