It has been said that "doctors make the worst patients." Similarly, educators can make the worst students. What happens when scholars and teachers who are members of the Orthodox Church presume to teach theology without being good students of theology? How can educators embody the solution instead of perpetuating the problem? This episode is a sequel to "The Way of Orthodox Theological Education" (S2 E3).
Beginning with the poem "The Summit Temple" by the great Chinese poet, Li Bai, we take an Eastern Orthodox approach to silence.
What is authentic Eastern Orthodox Christian theological education? It's not just academic religious education or doctrinal philosophical instruction. It's not primarily concerned with the...