Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 044
On the Apostle Thomas
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos interprets the Sunday of Thomas as a lesson on sincere doubt, egotism, and divine condescension. Christ’s return eight days after Pascha is presented as a precise answer to Thomas, who is distinguished as a doubter rather than an unbeliever and whose confession, "My Lord and my God," affirms Christ’s full divinity. The homily argues that Orthodoxy permits inquiry and that God condescends to good-faith doubt, but not to egotism, which blocks grace even when a person privately knows the truth. Arius, Athanasius, Chrysostom, miracles, and human freedom are used to frame salvation as requiring the will’s consent.
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