Long (45-70 mins)
Doctrine
Orthodox
Why Orthodoxy Loves a Liberal Mind
Theologian
John Behr
Duration
53.49
Uploaded to YouTube
3 July 2016
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
What has Jerusalem to do with Athens? The Church with (Plato's) Academy? Much in every way, for the first neither renders obsolete the second, nor does it obliterate it as so much pagan nonsense, but shows and augments its virtue, fitting it for the task of redeeming both it and the whole world. The very Rev. Dr. John Behr address the question of the need for an Orthodox presence and appropriation of the Academy, and why we need this.
