"She alone forms the boundary between created and uncreated nature, and no one could come to God except through her and the Mediator born of her. Nor could any of the gifts that come from God be given, be it to angels or men, except through her."
-St Gregory Palamas, Hom. 53.37
Desert island. Which one are you taking?
("Whichever has the Greek" is not a valid answer.)
Being able to at least consult the manuscripts of a patristic text is an essential skill for advanced scholarship. The PPI is thrilled to be able to offer this vital training, online, in a semester-long course. Get in touch today to begin your journey reading ancient manuscripts!
That's why he's called the Theologian.
Check out our highlight video from the 2025 Graduate Seminar, 'Theology in Verse' (April 23-24, 2025). It was a beautiful two days on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in the lovely #Boston springtime.
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Tomorrow we will premiere a short video about our recent Graduate Seminar, 'Theology in Verse: Poetry in Patristic and Byzantine Christianity'
Visit our YouTube channel, where we have many more videos you are sure to enjoy:
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📢 CFP
Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova University
🍂 (Autumn is a great time to be in the Philadelphia suburbs.)
***Mysticism, Mystery, and Trinitarian Life in Times of Crisis***
What an amazing seminar by Prof Christos Simelidis this pas week! Thanks to all who came and dove deep into the poetry of Gregory Nazianzen, Psalter paraphrases, early medieval Kontakia, and Middle Byzantine epigrams!
Wishing everyone a blessed celebration of Christ's luminous and joyful Resurrection!
In just two weeks, we will gather on the campus of Hellenic College / Holy Cross in the beauty of Spring and the brightness of Pascha to immerse ourselves in the world of Patristic and Byzantine #poetry.
Come join us to discuss a major facet of ancient and medieval literature and theology!
We are thrilled to announce that we will indeed be able to offer lodging to visiting graduate students. In addition to the $350 travel stipends, we hope this will allow PhD students and advanced Masters students to join us in Boston this April! Come learn about the poetry of the Church Fathers!
Unfortunately, no. It will be in the old-fashioned format.
We are thrilled to invite you to a four-part graduate seminar on poetry in the Greek patristic tradition, including workshops on St Gregory Nazianzen and Romanos. Come join us in Boston this Spring!
🗓️ Wednesday, April 23, 2025
🗓️ Thursday, April 24, 2025
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January is the Month of the Church Fathers, at least according to St Gregory of Nyssa, commemorated today, January 10
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Wishing all a blessed feast of the Nativity!
A modest resource for today's commemoration of the Prophet Haggai, a facing Greek-English version of the Septuagint text. The book of Haggai is extremely short and can be read in one quick sitting.
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On this feast of St John Damascene, read 'On Theology' (CPG 8087.5) and 'How Man is the Image of God' (CPG 8087.4), two very short and frequently cited opuscula attributed to Saint John.
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An early Christmas gift (or Black Friday deal): all the Greek manuscripts of El Escorial 🇪🇸 are now available online!
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"The theology in our country is now divided into the period before Demetrios Koutroubis and the period after him."
-Christos Yannaras
Check out our latest post, 'Orthodox Ressourcement: Demetrios Koutroubis and the Renewal of Theology in Modern Greece'
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Interested in #dragons? 🐉 Check out CPG 8087, a homiletic fragment "On Dragons" attributed to St John of Damascus. There's a fragment on #Ghosts, too.
A reminder that the four volumes of the Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings (CEECW) are now available in paperback, with each volume under $40 -- and there is a 20% discount code until 31 December 2025, making them all under $32!
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Hades was destroyed. But its foundations were not sound to begin with.
Still time to get that submission in!
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Congratulations to our winner, Adam Van Scooter (Facebook)! He has won a free copy of 'Essence and Energies,' courtesy of our Director, Dr Tikhon Pino. A great way to begin the #Nativity #Fast! 🎄
In celebration and in honor of the feast, enter to win a free copy of our Director's 2023 monograph on St Gregory Palamas.
For the first time in English: a sermon by the Hesychast Patriarch of Constantinople, Kallistos I
Kallistos, known from his Chapters on Prayer in the #Philokalia, was a disciple of St Gregory of Sinai and an important supporter of St Gregory Palamas
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📢 This week! - Tuesday, March 26 - This week! 📢
Watch now, on our YouTube channel, the Fall lecture of Fr #Bogdan #Bucur, speaking about the competing theories of #Augustine and #Athanasius on theophany (the vision of God in the Old Testament):
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#Theophany
Watch now, on our YouTube channel: an interview with #David #Ford, of St Tikhon's Seminary. We spoke about his new volume of translations from
SVSPress: Sermons from the Life of St #John #Chrysostom.
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Cave #Chapel dedicated the Theotokos Myrtodiotissa, Saint Silouan, and Saint Thekla (#Monastery of Chrysopigi, #Crete).
Many of the #caves in the area of the #monastery have been turned into small chapels at the instruction of #Saint Porphyrios.
