Welcome back to the Let's be Friends podcast. With us today is Father Peter hears. He's back to do a part two talking about baptism. And we're going to be talking about

economy in this conversation and really diving into what that means and what the church

fathers teach about that what the saints say. And we're going to be discussing his book

on the reception of the heterodox into the Orthodox Church, the Patricia

Consensus and Criteria.

I'm sure you guys already know him from Orthodox ethos, his social media, his YouTube channel.

He's also the founder of Uncut Mountain Press, which is a fantastic library of books that you can get on the internet.

And that is where this book comes from.

But Father Peter, thank you for coming back on the show.

Thanks for having me.

I'm hopeful that we can assist our brothers and sisters on the path of salvation.

Absolutely.

So what is Economia, and when is it appropriate to use that?

Well, let's start with the very term itself in Greek, which is

ikos and nomos.

So it's basically loosely translated the management of the household or the, the organization

management carrying out of the management of the household of faith, obviously,

in this context.

So it's also, first and foremost, a question, a Christological question.

In other words, we talk about the economy of salvation.

So it's the working out or the work of salvation that the Lord did. It's not

referring to the three persons of the Trinity eternally, but it's referring to the incarnation

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