On Predestination, from the writings of Bishop Elias Milatios. A comprehensive treatment of this doctrine.
Miles from the Truth: A Response to the Protestant magazine
Credenda/Agenda, by Deacon [now Father] John Whiteford and Patrick Barnes.
St. John of Damascus on Predestination and Free Will: see Book II, Chapters XXV-XXX, and Book III, Chapters XIV and XVIII.
The UnReformed Truth: Orthodoxy Exonerated in the Light of the Apostolic Faith. A Response to the Calvinist journal
Credenda/Agenda. Numerous articles critiquing Calvinism from an Orthodox perspective.
The Myth of the "Calvinist Patriarch", by Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna.
St. John Cassian on Grace and Free Will: his famous
Conference XIII. St. John was a contemporary of St. Augustine in Gaul. Though living in the West he was in heart and mind a Father of the East. He was the first to respectfully object to certain of his contemporary's theological imprecisions concerning grace and free will.
Conference XIII is a superb statement of the Orthodox doctrine of synergy (wrongly dubbed "semi-Pelagianism" by modern Western writers): God working with man to effect his salvation. One should also read two "books" in St. John's treatise
Against the Nestorians which deal with the heresy of Pelagianism:
Book I and
Book V.
St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers, by Fr. George Florovsky. This article demonstrates that the Holy Fathers have always taught that God's Will does not proceed from His Uncreated Essence but from His Uncreated Energies. They also condemn the Western notion of "created grace." This teaching has important ramifications for Reformed doctrines on free will.
Free Will and Death, an excerpt from
The Mystery of Death, by Nikolaos P. Vassiliadis.
The Teaching on Predestination and the Veneration of the Saints, from the ROCOR Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, DC.
Dialogue on Free Will and Determinism, by Father John Whiteford
A Reply to Jonathan Edwards' Treatise on the Will, by Father John Whiteford
"Justification and Sanctification: A Conversation Between Lutheranism and Orthodoxy", by Ross [now Father Basil] Aden (
St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, v.38, #1). I have asked Father Basil if I may post this article to my site. His answer is pending. In the meantime, I decided to put the bibliographic data here as this article has benefited many.
The links above are on Free Will vs Determinism or Predestination/Calvinism. The link below is on the Orthodox view on GRACE
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