Metropolitan KALLISTOS Ware Salvation in Christ - The Orthodox Approach -Lecture

Lecture delivered at Seattle Pacific University. Part of a lecture series on Orthodox Christianity.

[@willrobinson1229]

Kallistos Ware speaks so melodically with his phrases going up and down and with very clear accents. It's very attractive, not to mention extremely expressive and easy to understand.

[@shadowark26]

"Because Christ is risen from the dead we need not be afraid of any dark thing in the universe, or in ourselves". (53:56) Amazing... what a blessing this lecture was. Thank the Lord for men like Metropolitan Kallistos Ware whom he has called to minister his word to his people.

[@ericworiax1277]

John 14, Live not in fear ,for I have overcome the world.

[@robertgodlessboblee5464]

1 Corinthians 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised. 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.…

[@shivabreathes]

I love Bishop Kallistos!!! What a magnificent treasure he was. God rest his soul. May he be spreading laughter in Heaven.

[@hushai5154]

Many thanks from an open Protestant ,being open to learning from other traditions within the body of Christ has been a blessing.

[@naikhanomtom7552]

Sorry, but the body of Christ is the Orthodox church.

[@bobtaylor170]

​@@naikhanomtom7552sorry, but The Body of Christ consists of all believers in The Lord Jesus Christ. If you're in Heaven, a matter to be questioned if you trust in an ecclesiology instead of the necessary Person, it will be because you trusted in The Lord Jesus Christ to save you. And your brothers and sisters among the redeemed will include those who were Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinistic, Anabaptistic, Coptic, Pentecostal, and nondenominational. You need to read Flannery O'Connor's greatest story, which was one of her last, Revelation. It might slap some of the smugness and sectarianism out of your hateful head.

[@antuzapletea7968]

Thank You ! May The Mighty God bless You!

[@mcmedia7303]

it is a sublime sermon...we seldom talk about the role of Mary in the protestant church. Nevertheless I begin to have some tolerance about the Orthodox or idea of the blessed Mary... As to evolution, the Bishop's answer is superb!!

[@justjamessing10]

Excellent teaching by Kallistos, he always reminds me of a character that should be in the Lord Of The Rings! Lol... But he is so steeped in Orthodox and Western Theology, I love how he always shows respect for other traditions other then Eastern Orthodoxy.

[@orthodoxrocks9644]

a Catechumen to Orthodoxy here...yes I have picked up on some of this. He used to be Anglican which is what I currently am... so that could be another reason. Also there are Western Fathers in our Tradition too. Be all that as it may, I'm enjoying the video thus far at 24 minutes-ish!

[@adrianwhyatt1425]

He who respects another faith disrespects his own, as St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves said in 1053, just before the Great Schism of 1054. This is part of "after the third monition reject", concerning heretics. There is none of this here. Unsurprisingly, because Kallistos Ware is, like all New Calendarists, in the pan-heresy of Ecumenism, anathematised by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1983.

[@Traildude]

I kept thinking that he is what Saruman should have been.

[@ALLHEART_]

What a lovely man his eminence is. Hilarious, too. Thank God that we have Gandalf as a bishop in His holy Church.

[@mitsunobumiyahira4699]

Many, more, and most thanks to God for Metropolitan Kallistos Ware's Biblically expository theological lecture!

[@JLevant1]

Kallistos is a wonderful spirit and a great soul, a fully rounded and balanced human being; full of joy and a man who knows himself; which is all that Jesus likely wanted or asked of anyone, to recognize the God spirit within ourselves.

[@RudyCarrera]

I had the pleasure of meeting him in California a couple of years ago. He was a true gentleman who patiently talked with those of us who had lots of questions. A good, good man.

[@JLevant1]

Oh wow! That's great. I'm sure you were a great blessing to him as well Rudy. Thanks for sharing.

[@RudyCarrera]

I could never say that, though I thank you for the very kind words! I hope to pay him a visit in England some time next year.

[@JLevant1]

Rudy Carrera Sending you all good will and blessings for your England journey and to Metropolitan Kallistos as well.

[@RudyCarrera]

Thank you, brother in Christ!

[@jake11beast]

Excellent. Thanks for posting.

[@vivekapihl5179]

This lecture is a blessing. Thank you.

[@Evanation]

Thank you for posting this lecture :)

[@truantj]

Lecture starts at 06:35

[@thattimestampguy]

6:45 Are You Saved? 26:06 He was made man that we might Be Like God. 27:00 Permeated and Transfigured into Partakers of The Divine Nature. 27:40 1. Only God Can Save ☦️❤️ 28:21 2. Divine Salvation has to reach Human Need

[@calebshoemaker]

I could listen to His Beatitude speak for hours. In fact, I have.

[@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182]

Wonderful,

[@mahirsantal2867]

Lecture starts at 6:41

[@lalanthegood4513]

Sublime :)

[@nigusemiru2344]

I were wonder for my whole life about holly, that I might be the only student of the indanger God's specious. Indeed we are in school with grades with no chattering. God is with us; is not optional to accept. Thanks for what you brought. Amen.

[@cheryl9856]

Excellent video! I wonder if the satisfaction theory can be combined with the examplar theory (the last one cited); to wit, that Christ is satisfying/appeasing/putting away the wrath in us? We crucified God after all. What more exhaustive act against everything which exists is there?🤷

[@jameskeziahdelaney3833]

What is the chant in the beginning?

[@eugeneshenesky2033]

Please tell me what the beautiful chant is in the beginning.....

[@raulmoat2570]

how can i contact father kallistos ware ?

[@ebnera2]

Well, he says all aspects, listen to him, which means he also assumed a nature that is injured. I understand your point and is a very good one. If he is assuming a nature that inclines some of his actions to epithumia...then he is in contradiction with Saint Maximos and in friendship with Mopsuestia.

[@eugeneshenesky2033]

What is the name of the chant in the beginning? It's so beautiful.

[@dewd9327]

from the tune it sounds like the Evlogitaria but it's hard to tell because the words are hard to make out with the guy talking.

[@smike09100]

What a wonderful man. :-)

[@minodoraruschita9715]

excelent. multumiri si salutari din Romania

[@oksanatulpa7984]

reminds almost forgotten scholar times )

[@petermayescreampsahlius9750]

32:30 the 2nd model

[@ebnera2]

(cont') But don't get me wrong. Methopolitan Ware is someone I respect. He is very entertaining and fun to listen.

[@ericworiax1277]

Beautiful words regarding the Word. But I must disagree regarding a knowledge of knowing, 1 John says we can know. Roman's 8 describes Reconciliation, justification and continued sanctification. Once in His hands, we are fixed.

[@ebnera2]

into min 25:30. Metropolitan Kallistos stated "takes all our broken nature". This sounds a bit like Theodore of Mopsuestia, who claimed that Christ assumed not only the material consequences of the fall: suffering, exhaustion, hunger, death but also the internal passions and conflicts. I think Kallistos is departing at this point from orthodox/catholic stand.

[@Thewonderingminds]

With all due respect, the statement, @30:50 "...God is love ... and God's love for man and humanity." must be clarified and set within the perspective of each man's potential of theosis, in plain understandable and all logical terms too. Otherwise, hours long of good intended preachment, inadvertently evolves onto baseless and thereon worthless claims, upon an equivocal love concept. Simply, without palpable divine love realization, man remains perpetual drifter onto endless assumed reality, at newly found concepts.

[@Mark-yb1sp]

Here’s the problem with this theory: if God needs our permission to be saved, then He is not God. Our Will is NOT stronger than His. If so, He is not God. It is Christ that draws us to God, for no one can come to Him unless the Father does the drawing.

[@TheMOV13]

Matthew 23, 37

[@jwescape5876]

You pack a lot of Calvinistic presuppositions into your statement. According to the Reformed, in order for God's justice to be displayed or glorified, he must predestine some to damnation, WCF 3.7. In this respect, it seems God is IN NEED of wicked men to display His justice. I also hear a lot of Reformed talk about certain doctrines "stealing glory from God". Seems the ones who talk about God's sovereignty so much actually believe He is quite needy. Luke 7:30 - "But the Pharisees and lawyers REJECTED THE WILL of God for themselves"

[@ebnera2]

He indeed is an asset both both west and East. But here is an apparent insistence on his part to claim that Christ had to have assumed all aspects of our fallen nature, including the internal conflicts that blurs discernment between good and evil, to make his sacrifice complete. I have issues with this. Is His death and sacrifice in the cross less valid because he lacked the disordered passion of the flesh? I say we should be careful, don't you think?

[@GeorgeKnighton]

I am not sure that I agree with you that he departs from Orthodox stance. You can see similar expressions of belief in various other authors. The more you make him talk, however, the greater the likelihood he will be presented with an issue about which he has considered little, or not at all. And in that case he might be more prone to error. I have to say that he is a huge asset to Christianity, however. He is thoughtful and full of life and humor.

[@reylambarte5615]

The bible is only for the people of God and the freewill mentioned in the His words are the privilage given to His children not to satan and his children. There are lots passages in the bible about election that God elects His people even before He created the world, that His elects are all distined to return to Him. No one can come to Jesus unless the Father bring the person to Him. This lecture is palagian belief rejected by augustine in writtings in the first century and ressurected by armenius but refuted calvin during the reformation period.

[@frederickanderson1860]

Why do we uphold these bishop's . The holy Spirit is our guide without it hovering over all the people it be in vain. Same on Pentecost when Peter spoke not a Pope speaking,the crowd heard his sermon in the languages they heard from their respective areas outside Jerusalem. Nothing to do with Peter himself.

[@TruthBeTold7]

The people should object to his ecumenist activities. If I were there, he wouldn't escape the room without a rebuke.

[@RevolReggin]

"God is not the author of confusion." This guy is though.