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This book has been written for three purposes. First, to provide the Orthodox reader with a competent overview of the history of Protestantism and its major traditions, from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present day. This overview relies heavily upon the Reformer s own words as well as the creeds of various Protestant faiths, in order to avoid misrepresentation and caricature. Second, to acquaint Orthodox and non-Orthodox readers with a narrative of the historical relations between the Orthodox East and the Protestant West. Finally, to provide a summary of Ortho- dox theological opinion on the tenets of Protestantism.
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- Published on: 2015-03-16
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Review The saying that schism breeds schism continues to create an ever expanding corpus of churches, all birthed at the time of the Protestant Reformation, which have their roots in the teachings of various reformers of Christianity. In the pages of this book an informed scholar/pastor has made the complexities of these 16th century creators of new doctrines understandable to those readers who were formed in these traditions and those who, being Orthodox Christians, have no previous exposure to them. This book is a great resource for parish priests and students of missiology. --Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor, St. Vladimir s Seminary, New YorkRock and Sand is a critique of the major Protestant denominations written by The Very Rev. Josiah Trenham, Ph.D. In this work, Fr. Josiah presents historical background on each of the various denominations, their specific theological tenets, their opposition to the teachings of the Holy Fathers and the Tradition of the undivided Christian Church, and the author s refutation thereof according to Holy Orthodoxy. Father Josiah is a serious scholar; his well-documented research confirms this. He is also an incredible pastor; his presentation is oriented toward and well-suited for the parish setting. This book will be of great value to clergy in their preparation of catechumens from Protestant backgrounds. It will also be of great assistance to our laypeople, helping them to understand their own Tradition and enabling them to defend the Orthodox Faith in response to the teachings of the various Reformers. --Rt. Rev. MICHAEL (Duhalich), Ph.D. Bishop of New York and the Diocese of New York and New Jersey
About the Author ARCHPRIEST JOSIAH TRENHAM was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1993, and was awarded the Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Durham, England, in 2004. Fr. Josiah serves as an instructor in and on the Board of Advisors of the Ss. Cyril and Athanasius Orthodox Institute in San Francisco. He is an adjunct professor of theology at St. Katherine College in Encinitas, Ca. (2010-present), and was an Adjunct Professor of History at California Baptist University (2003-2010). He is a member of the Orthodox Theological Society of America, and participates in yearly academic forums and symposia. Since 2004 he has served on the Mayoral Environmental Committee (GAP) of the City of Riverside. Fr. Josiah has also served as a member of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in the United States since its inception in May, 2010. Fr. Josiah s books and articles have been published by St. Herman Press, Zoe Press, St. Vladimir s Orthodox Theological Journal, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, The Journal of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, CIVA: The Journal of Christians in the Visual Arts, Divine Ascent, The Word Magazine, OrthodoxyToday.org, American Orthodox Institute, Sourozh, Pemptousia.com (Vatopaidi Monastery), Eastern Churches Review, and elsewhere.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Extremely useful for Orthodox Christians, worthwhile reading for Protestants By John In "Rock and Sand," Father Josiah gives an in-depth, yet extremely readable, review of the historical and theological backgrounds of Protestant traditions. He provides an impressive and well-cited book examining the foundations for the beliefs held by millions of people. More importantly, however, "Rock and Sand" is a useful tool for Orthodox Christians to critically engage with those who, unfortunately, have separated from the Apostolic Church.As an Orthodox college student, I admire my Protestant brothers and sisters for their virtue and dedication to their faith. However, their theology and liturgical innovations require a critical and thorough review. Father Josiah provides just that; and I strongly recommend this book.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Rock and Sand is a very good start on what I hope are more books to ... By Orthodoxia Rock and Sand: An Orthodox Appraisal of the Protestant Reformers and Their Teaching, by Fr. Josiah Trenham is a very good start on what I hope are more books to come in this same vein. Rock and Sand is in many ways very insightful and helpful. I write this review as a former Protestant and agree with the substance of Fr. Josiah's appraisal of the Reformers and Protestant tradition as a whole. The Reformation movement and its Churches, and their petulant offspring, remain today, as then, ultimately, as to their theological claims, incoherent and self defeating. As to their claim to the Apostolic inheritance, illegitimate.First of all Fr. Josiah is a very good writer. The narrative recap of each of the major Protestant Reformers was nicely written in my opinion. That takes up roughly ¾ of the book. He weaves in critique here and there in the historical narrative, showing the inconsistencies and quite honestly, hypocrisies of the Reformers, despite their best intentions. It strikes me that in each case the Reformer ended up as his own 'Pope' wielding authority and making decisions just as grave as the Pope whom they condemned. But that is what happens when love for the Body of Christ is not really guiding actions and the dialectic of action/reaction is. Protestants can say "the truth was at stake" as much as they want, but St Paul subsumes 'truth' within the fold of love when he says 'love rejoices in the truth'. Truth is important, but only as a scalpel in the hand of love. As I have heard it said, "Love without truth is seduction. Truth without love is destructive." The Reformers fell to what we all at times fall to: a faultfinding spirit - with its concomitant sin: self love, vainglory and pride. It is a particularly devastating cycle to get into which reflects the Lord's admonition "judge not lest you be judged. For as you pass judgment so that same judgment will be passed to you." And so the Reformers, thinking they were reforming the church rather deeply disfigured it blinded by a faultfinding spirit and blindness with regard to their own sins. Instead of teaching the world how to love by laying down their lives in the manner of our Lord, and of his Apostles, they thought, as many of us think, even in the Orthodox Church, "we can do it better". Ahhh. But that is surely foolishness. That is simply a rationalization to avoid laying our lives down by taking up the cross of our Lord and Master Teacher Jesus. We claim to be disciples = learners, of Him, of "the Way". Behold the fruit of self love, pride and vainglory. When will we ever learn?Fr. Trenham notes the many inconsistencies. I fleshed one of them out (above). His critiques are peppered throughout the narrative shedding some light that perhaps many of us who have been traditioned in Protestant communities have failed to see. It is difficult to watch the reality of the situation unfold and especially difficult to take in the indisputable facts: the Reformers are, in reality, acting with no less presumption in their shepherding of their 'flocks' than the Pope whom they despise. What in fact they did was to 'cut off their nose to spite their face' and 'cut out their legs from under themselves'. There were errors in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, but instead of laboring in love for their correction, the Reformers became of the mind that they could 'do it better.' Rock and Sand shows without a doubt just how wrong they were - and the Western world has lived with the fallout ever since. The Reformation, despite all the protestations of Protestants, is quite clearly a repudiation of our Lord's prayer and desire that we might all "One" as he is in the Father, and the Father is in him, as he and the Father are One - with the result that, as Jesus prays, "the world may believe that you have sent me". O the ingenuity of self love and pride masquerading as a servant to help God get things done. But as Samuel said to King Saul, "To obey is better than sacrifice." A directive that I find rather as difficult at times as the Reformers apparently did.The last ' of the book consists of an appraisal of Protestant doctrine. For the most part I thought it was well done. I found the section on the filioque the most unsatisfying. I felt he should have brought the Scriptures to his aid, which he didn't. That left me puzzled a bit. The most clear affirmation of the procession of the Spirit from the Father alone is John 15:26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father . . ." Fr. Trenham mainly marshals doctrinal arguments from tradition and the writing of St. Photius. While I don't disagree with what Fr. Trenham wrote, it would have more gravitas, in my opinion, if the arguments made were rooted in Scripture as well.His critique of the Protestant doctrine of the many 'Sola' slogans of the Reformers and particularly of 'Sola Scriptura' is quite good. He points out the utter irony of claiming that Scripture alone solves the problem of error - for them particularly the errors they saw in the Roman Catholic Church, while at the same time actually CHANGING what the Scripture says in order to conform to their own prejudices: 'Sola Fides' (by faith alone) being an example. Fr. Josiah rightly shows that one cannot prove FROM SCRIPTURE the doctrine of 'sola Scriptura'. Scripture is the core and touchstone of what the Orthodox call 'Holy Tradition'. And 'Holy Tradition' is the environment, or the ethos, if you will, the phronema - mindset/perspective - that enlightens us to interpret the Scripture rightly. One only experiences Holy Tradition in the Church of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and one can only interpret the Scripture faithfully from within the One Catholic and Apostolic Church. This is easily understandable if one simply looks at their own family culture, or ethos and use of language, manner of expressing their view of themselves and the world around. If your family left a text full of your families peculiar rules and traditions, it is very likely that many of them would not be understandable by those on the outside of your family, some even if you tried to explain your families customs and traditions. Sometimes the only way to understand is by living them oneself.A few times I felt a few statements had a tinge of triumphalist sentiment. Perhaps some would disagree. I can only say how a few passages came off to me. It seems to me that so often we, the Orthodox, have such confidence of our truthfulness in contrast to others that we slip into a rather boasting posture. I find this so saddening its hard to put in words. That we know the truth certainly has nothing to do with us, our intelligence, or our worthiness, and everything to do with the kindness and mercy of God. Having said that, I wouldn't say that is the general tenor of the book. Not at all.I was very grateful that Fr. Trenham dedicated a whole chapter to the "Orthodox appreciation of Protestant Virtues". In the chapter he very graciously and generously affirmed their "high value of the text of Scripture", their "zeal for missionary work", their "deep and costly commitment to Christian education" and their "aggressive commitment to cultural engagement with Christian values". I agree with him on every point. I've experienced each of these personally. I find that Protestants generally take Jesus' words to be salt and light in their world much more seriously. Too often we seek to push 'Orthodoxy' on others. It seems to me that we should be sharing the love of Christ with others without shame as Saint Paul wrote, "I preach Christ and him crucified" with hearts full of the love of Christ. As St. Paul testified of his own motive for action - "the love of Christ constrains me". How many of us can say that in our interaction with those who are our neighbors and friends outside of the Apostolic inheritance of the Faith, that we are "constrained" by "the love of Christ" to serve them and minister to them the healing presence of Christ, the meek and lowly One?I found the 4 appendices very helpful for understanding how the Orthodox have responded to Protestants in previous interactions. Fr. Josiah occasionally touched on this in his narrative as well.In conclusion I found myself very encouraged and enlightened. I very much enjoyed Rock and Sand. I think everyone would benefit from reading the narrative on the Reformers. Some might find the sections on doctrinal critique a bit hard going if they are unfamiliar with the more intimate details of Orthodox doctrine. Thank you Fr. Josiah for your labor in bringing this book to print. I hope it will inspire more works in the same vein so that more might come into the fold of the Church of Christ which is "the Pillar and ground of the Truth" - the "truth as it is in Jesus" - who find themselves "blown to and fro by every wind of doctrine". May the Lord grant us all his peace.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Colorful, thorough Orthodox appraisal of the Reformation By Amazon Customer In examining the nature of the Protestant Reformation, and the lives of the Reformers, and evaluating it all from an Orthodox perspective, Fr. Josiah provides a most crucial text for converts, inquirers, catechumens, and protestants.Refreshingly, this text doesn't make a pretense of some supposed academic 'neutrality', but lays all the cards on the table. Where the Reformers and their churches took a turn for the better -- rejecting various medieval papal innovations, for instance -- they are praised, and where they erred and departed from the common apostolic, orthodox deposit of faith, they are chastened. Though much of the text simply relays the historical development that gave rise to the various movements and churches, as well as the personalities of the Reformers.One aspect of the book I found particularly exhilarating were in some of its critiques of the Reformation that are often ignored or under-emphasized. For instance, Fr. Josiah's taking to task Luther for his staunch anti-monasticism and degrading of the celibate life, along with his promotion of marriage to an extent out of accord with traditional Christianity, is fascinating. Here we see the Reformers rejecting, not a papal innovation, but universal Christianity which has an explicit Scriptural basis. Not only that, but we see how this aspect of the Reformation has borne bad fruit in modern Protestantism, which has no monasticism or expressly celibate vocation.This is in addition to more traditional critiques of Protestantism, but those also find unapologetic, straightforward, and clear presentation that is rather rare in our more politically correct, diverse modern context.Some of the most interesting and memorable material appears in small asides or footnotes. These divergences pepper the book with flavor and keep the historical main thrust from becoming too dry.Highly recommended reading for Orthodox (especially in America or traditionally Protestant lands), and Protestants looking to better understand themselves.
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