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| | Phronema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | [1] The attaining of phronema is a matter of practicing the correct faith (orthodoxia) in the correct manner (orthopraxia). | | | Phronema is a Greek term that is used in Eastern Orthodox theology to refer to mindset or outlook; it is the Orthodox mind. | | | The phases of phronema, the therapeutic tradition leading ultimately to theosis, are (1) purification, (2) illumination, and (3) divinization. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phronema
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| | The Theologian in Modern Society (Phronema and Behaviour) |
| | According to the above meaning, the phronema of the faithful in general, and the theologian in particular, is an unshakeable certainty about the truth of Faith. | | | This super-subjective origin of phronema is expressed in the New Testament with the well-known term 'mind of Christ', which is almost synonymous with phronema. | | | For while phronema is identified as super-subjective with the 'mind of Christ' and unites us with those of like faith who came before us and will come after, conscience is the sum total of completely subjective ethical and spiritual powers, i.e. |
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http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/dogmatics/stylianos_theologian_society.htm
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| | The Censer - May 2001 Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia |
| | The purpose of the analysis is to reveal the situation and the causes for which the Orthodox Christians are increasingly oblivious of the Tradition of the Church, as preserved and transmitted from the time of the Fathers throughout the generations in her teaching and praxis. | | | In the first article of the series, His Eminence has shown that phronema is the totality of opinions or views one holds about existence in general, or in other words the mind-set one has especially regarding spiritual issues. | | | The “Phronema” series has been initiated by Metropolitan Nikitas during the Lent, following inspiration by the Gospel readings and services specific to that period of the church year, dedicated to repentance and introspection. |
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http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dimitris/metro/may01/MAY01.html
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| | phronema |
| | This word occurs also at verses 6 and 7 and the NWT translates it there as "minding." A 'Question From Readers' article that appeared in the December 1st 1990 issue of the WatchTower magazine said in answer to the question: | | | Most translations render the Greek word phronema here as "mind" New International Version or as "intention" New American Bible. | | | "Yet he who searches the hearts knows what the meaning[Gk: phronema] of the spirit is, because it is pleading in accord with God for holy ones." |
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http://mysite.freeserve.com/newworldtranslation/phronema.htm
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| | ORLAPUBS R183: AQUIRING AN ORTHODOX PHRONEMA |
| | The phronema greatly depends on meditating on Christ and the prayers of the Church's services as well as striving to lead a holy life. | | | Manifested directly to us by a growing understanding of revelation and the Church Fathers and Mothers' response to it, the Orthodox phronema gives us increasing light for seeing what Orthodoxy is. Conversion can occur in an instant; this is not so of either Salvation or the Orthodox mindset--which is an outlook concerning what is. | | | CLICK HERE FOR DIFFERENT WAYS OF Interested non-Orthodox should never forget that what the words of the Bible, of the Fathers, and of Orthodox prayers mean in the Orthodox paradigm often mean quite different things in the paradigm they are coming from. |
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http://www.orlapubs.com/AR/R183.html
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| | Tradition in the Orthodox Church |
| | This is true because Tradition expresses the common Orthodox mind (phronema) of the whole Church against all heresies and schisms of all times. | | | In other words, when the universality of the Church Tradition is mentioned, it refers to the gift of the Holy Spirit, which enables the Church to preserve until the end of time the Apostolic truth unadulterated, unbroken, and unaltered. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article7116.asp
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| | Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible [Romans VIII]. |
| | But to be spiritually minded, phronema tou pneumatos--a spiritual savour (the wisdom that is from above, a principle of grace) is life and peace; it is the felicity and happiness of the soul. | | | The life of the soul consists in its union with spiritual things by the mind. |
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http://www.ccel.org/h/henry/mhc2/MHC45008.HTM
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| | The Framework of the Inner Man |
| | JESUS TOUCHED the PHRONEMA in Peter one day after he refused to hear what Jesus was saying about the cross. | | | This means: The frame of mind taking direction from carnal desire leads to death, but the frame of mind taking direction from the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace. | | | This means: Because the frame of mind taking direction from carnal desire is out of harmony with God, it stands opposed to Him. |
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http://www.maschil.com/InnerMan.htm
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| | THE NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPTION OF FLESH |
| | This preoccupation with and slavery to the flesh is definitely an evil when it takes the place of the life that is in the spirit and that comes from God. | | | Now, quite regardless of any inherent good or evil in a body or a thing, it is manifestly evil to choose a lower value in preference to a higher, especially if that lower value can become so absorbing as to defeat or destroy the very meaning of life. | | | The Greek is phronema sarkos, which indicates a "mindedness" or "attitude" toward the flesh an orientation away from "spirit" and God, and a dedication to flesh. |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/01-05/02-2.htm
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| | Encyclicals - 1998 |
| | This heart is inspired in all that it does from the Mother Church and from yourself, Most Holy Father, and it beats rhythmically and with strength, sending forth from its vessels the dynamic and living nourishment of the Orthodox phronema and conviction to all. | | | The Church gives life and vitality to all the members of the body, and it draws more and more persons to join the mystical Body of Christ. | | | The headquarters of our Holy Metropolis is also in Toronto, and it is the heart of the Orthodox Church in Canada. |
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http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/encyclicals/constantinople/bartholomew/bartholomew_1998.htm
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| | Friends of the Nazarene - Nazarene Commentary - Romans 8 |
| | The literal Greek is “minding of the pneuma.” One sees the meaning in “minding the store” or “minding your own business.” The Greek for “minding” is PHRONEMA (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #5427) or that inclination or purpose of the mind. | | | Or, KJV: to be spiritually minded is life and peace; MOF: the interests of the spirit; ASV: mind of e spirit; NOR: set the mind on. |
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http://www.nazarene-friends.org/nazcomm/45/008.htm
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| | The Relationship Between Prayer and Theology |
| | But there can be a more genuine motivation: simply the desire to pray the prayer of the Church and to acquire Her mind. | | | The heart and mind that immerses itself in this river acquires the Orthodox Phronema, the mind-set. | | | Unfortunately we are seeing the loss of an Orthodox phronema here in America, the loss of an Orthodox way of thinking. |
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http://www.acrod.org/sn/sn4a.shtml
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| | On Church |
| | The appeal to Tradition was actually an appeal to the mind of the Church, her phronema. | | | It was a method to discover and ascertain the faith as it had been always held, from the very beginning: semper creditum. | | | The Scripture could be understood only within the Church, as Origen strongly insisted, and as St. Irenaeus and Tertullian insisted before him. |
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http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/church_tradition_florovsky.htm
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| | OrthodoxWiki:Meta Reflections - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The whole Church is the guardian of the truth, after all, and we are essentially trying to submit ourselves to the public proclamation of the Gospel, not become researchers in obscure academic fields. | | | It occurs to me that, aside from what FrJohn says here (with which I thoroughly agree), the Orthodox Church is by its nature in some ways already prepared in terms of its phronema to embark on a project like OrthodoxWiki. | | | I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on this article with regard to OrthodoxWiki (and perhaps you'd want to login or otherwise identify yourself). |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Meta_Reflections
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| | Anglican Communion: Documents |
| | The mind (phronema) of the Fathers, their theological method, their terminology and modes of expression have a lasting importance in both the Orthodox and the Anglican Churches. | | | In seeking to communicate the saving truth to mankind, the Church in every generation makes use of contemporary language and therefore of contemporary modes of thought; but this usage must always be tested by the standard of Scripture and of the dogmatic definitions of the Ecumenical Councils. |
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http://www.anglicancommunion.org/documents/authority/resources.html
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| | Rock:Paper:Scissors |
| | Renewing the mind comes into fruition by beholding God's Word, looking at Christ, and studying the lives of others who have successfully practiced the principles of God's Word. | | | "Let this mind [phronema; thoughts of the mind, in regards to thinking] be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." | | | "Because the carnal mind [phronema] is enmity [at odds] with God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0129670/2004/06/28.html
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| | The Sufficiency of Scripture and the Church Fathers (particularly, St. Athanasius & the Trinity) |
| | What he was instructed in at school and in church, the voice of the Christian people, the analogy of faith, the ecclesiastical [phronema], the writings of saints; these are enough for him. | | | He does not care to contend that no other meaning of certain passages of Scripture besides this traditional Catholic sense is possible or is plausible, whether true or not, but simply that any sense inconsistent with the Catholic is untrue, untrue because the traditional sense is apostolic and decisive. | | | He is in no sense an inquirer, nor a mere disputant; he has received, and he transmits. |
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http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ319.HTM
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| | The Blessed (Saint) Augustine of Hippo. His Place in the Orthodox Church: A Corrective |
| | It is in their fidelity to the common phronema of the Church, and not in the expression of personal opinions that may or may not reflect that commonality, that our Fathers and Saints make manifest their holiness. | | | Though Father Seraphim’s view is, as we have noted, more balanced than most, we are obliged to say that his observations, too, evidence a critical approach to sanctity that can obfuscate its true dimensions. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/bless_aug.htm
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| | PNEUMATOLOGY IN ROMANS 8: ITS HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT |
| | The wish prayer of 15:5-6 directly calls upon the Romans to set their minds on the same thing. | | | The very important uses of phroneo in 11:20; 12:3,16; 14:6 and 15:5 build on the use of same verb in 8:5 and of the cognate noun phronema, in 8:6,7 and 27. |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/21-25/21-05.htm
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| | Daily Reflections with Patrick Henry Reardon |
| | The word for "mind" in these verses is not nous, as in the previous chapter, but phronema, perhaps better translated as "mind set." Paul is contrasting two kinds of consciousness and intentionality (verses 6-7,27). | | | Only thus will he be truly free of sin, death, and the Law (verse 4). | | | Outside of the four times here in Romans 8, phronema is not found in the New Testament. |
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/frpat/2004_02_01_frpatarchive.html
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| | The Orthodox Faith |
| | Theosis is reached when the soul is cured of all spiritual sicknesses. | | | This phronema consists of orthodoxia (correct faith) and orthopraxia (correct works). | | | The first step in this process of spiritual therapy is attaining an Orthodox phronema (mindset). |
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http://www.orthodoxfaith.com/spirituality.html
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| | What Women Need by Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| | I use the language of religious conversion intentionally; just as conversion to Christ confers an entirely new way of looking at life–the phronema of the Spirit–feminism offered me a new worldview in a form that was similar to a religion. | | | As they expounded this mystic wisdom, I made notes, and nodded. | | | Whichever term you choose, it means that mental assumptions link together and result in actions–ideas have consequences. |
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/14.6docs/14-6pg20.html
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| | Let me show you that you have not been hearing strange doctrine. | | | The fleshly mind, the phronema sarkos, the lusts, the passions of the soul; it is this which has gone astray from God, and become enmity against him. | | | And this infection of nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in the Greek, phronema sarkos, which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. |
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http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0020.TXT
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| | The Heart or the Mind? or Both? |
| | Noema is also used to denote the mind, especially the "thought process." Paul said that Israel's "minds were blinded" so that they could not understand the Old Testament (2 Cor. | | | The word phronema refers to what one has in the mind, the "thought": "To be carnally minded is death" (Rom. | | | The more common terms for mind, however, are nous and dianoia. |
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http://www.goodhumorballoons.com/heartmind.htm
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| | Romans 8:6-8 |
| | BECAUSE THE MIND SET ON THE FLESH IS HOSTILE (enmity, hatred) TOWARD GOD: dioti to phronema tes sarkos ecthra eis theon: ( | | | Moreover, those who are in the sphere of the sinful nature are not able to please God. | | | ) (phronema from phroneo = think, have a mind set) is the inclination of the mind which includes act of understanding and of will. |
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http://preceptaustin.org/romans_86-8.htm
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| | Methodist High Court Sides with Pastor Who Denied Membership to Practicing Gay Man |
| | My wife was once asked by the abbess of the monastery outside of my maternal family's village in Greece what she thought the difference between The Church in the West and The Church in the East was. | | | Most people in the West never think about God that way. | | | The phronema, or mindset, of the West is very, very different from that in the East. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1513398/posts
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| | HolySpirit |
| | The Greek word for "mind" is phronema and means "what one has in the mind, the thoughts and purposes". | | | The Greek word for "greived" is lupeo and means to make sorrowful. | | | John 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever". |
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http://www.burnoutsolutions.com.au/holyspirit.htm
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| | TheologyWeb Campus - View Single Post - Church unity: What are the issues? |
| | The limits of logic are given their nominal, but not their ontological, due, dear George, in the neo-scholastic phronema of the Protestant west... | | | In the individualism of the American West, and of the post-enlightenment west generally, the bedrock of the phronema is the sacro-sanctity of the individual human mind... | | | I would think that if that's your view it would be better to follow Wittgenstein: "Whereof one cannot speak, one must needs be silent." |
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http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showpost.php?s=cd3f4b3ea2b9ada659c229fa125334f1&p=748595&postcount=178
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| | Spiritual Stability--Part 5 |
| | All of a sudden your thought patterns which are physical and human are injected with thought patterns which are divine and supernatural...the Spirit of God moves into your thinking. | | | The word here, phronema, means mindset, a whole new way of thinking is what it means...not a new brain but a new way of thinking. | | | It's not set on the flesh, it's set on the Spirit. |
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http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/50-41.HTM
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| | Encyclopedia: Eastern Orthodox |
| | There, Saint Gregory Palamas explained how God can be both utterly transcendent, yet make himself known to men. | | | Roman Catholicism and Protestantism) generally has a legal flavor to much of its theology. | | | Phronema refers to how something "smells" or "feels". |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Eastern-Orthodox
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| | New Page 1 |
| | Phronema is the theological journal published annually by the Faculty of St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College in Sydney, Australia. | | | The journal presents articles and book reviews from Orthodox and non-Orthodox academics on a wide variety of topics related to theological studies. | | | Any inquiries regarding subscriptions or back issues should be directly to the College Registrar. |
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http://www.sagotc.orthodox.nsw.edu.au/phromena.htm
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| | Questions & Answers, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | Greek words for "pride" are PHRONEMA and KAUCHESIS. | | | For instance the Greek word for "fish" is I X O Y E. If you could help me I would really appreciate it. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/QuestionsAnswers.html
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| | Alexander Campbell's The Living Oracles, Fourth Edition: Appendix, Table XIV. |
| | , phronema tou sarkos, phronema tou sarkos; common version, "carnally minded," occurs only Romans viii. | | | , phronema tou pneumatos, phronema tou pneumatos, occurs also twice, Romans viii. |
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http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/acampbell/tlo4/TLO400LF.HTM
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| | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
| | Yet the expression remains Greek, for the word thelgetai that Dionysius chooses is one that echoes the conclusion of Agathon's speech in the Symposium where Agathon praises a Love that everyone “should hymn fairly, sharing in the song he sings that enchants/charms/beguiles (thelgon) the thought (phronema) of all gods and human beings” (197c). | | | Dionysius changes the context but does not really reverse the polarity: it is God who still — like human beings — is beguiled by love and affection for beings and “led down” to dwell in them. | | | Might then such a belonging to one's beloved be characteristic of God, if perhaps in a different sense? |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-dionysius-areopagite
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| | phronema |
| | Welcome to phronema - book discussions from an Orthodox Christian perspective | | | You can register for free by clicking here |
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http://www.strannik.com/phronema
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