Gordo – we meet again. Too bad we never got around to meeting at St. Nicholas.
Father Tarzai is a personal friend of mine. I designed the original OCAS web site and arranged for the underlying database code. I advised him on audio visual matters (DVD he is making on the Letters of St. Paul… in Arabic) as well as how to find his way around my refrigerator. The last I knew he was in the Mid East (Lebanon).
It takes time for the OCABS site to grow... given the hesitation by some portions of Orthodoxy for any new scriptural research. The hesitation to accept any ancillary research not totally based on the Septuagint. Fine Orthodox research has been going on. But much of it remains unpublished due to … so as not to ruffel feathers of old guard resistance ya know. The label 'heritic' being thrown around far to carelessly.
As for the Patristic Quadriga and the spiritual interpretation of scriptures – no one knows more about that – then I do. My studies always came back to the spiritual fathers of Alexandria who used it so well - before it became un-anchored in the third generation of fathers from that school. As biblical antiquites became lost - so too did the anchor. Only the mystical traditions continued somewhat.
Yes. Spiritual interpretation is definitely part of the Orthodox reading of scriptures. No one really needs to recommend what has such a long history in the church and was used so often by Paul, John, and by Christ himself.
What would you like to know?
(I am seldom at the board anymore – please answer to rkaliss1@cox.net)
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