Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| maintaining the form of early Christian worship and its Divine Liturgy.
2 Fwd,1| older Church, the Orthodox Christian Church. This church is the
3 Fwd,1| depository of Apostolic Christian Truth, and a Church that
4 Fwd,1| continuity and purity of ancient Christian teaching and preserves the
5 Fwd,2| transition between the ancient Christian worldview and the modern
6 Fwd,2| changes from the ancient Christian faith and ancient Christian
7 Fwd,2| Christian faith and ancient Christian practices going back to
8 Fwd,2| doctrine that caused the Christian world to reel in shock.
9 Fwd,2| to examine.~An Orthodox Christian makes the sign of the Cross
10 Fwd,2| basic dogmas of the Orthodox Christian faith. In the lives of the
11 Fwd,2| security that are given to a Christian through this ancient tradition
12 Fwd,3| Tradition (2 Thes 2:15), and one Christian Church (Mt 16:18). All other
13 Fwd,3| of the teachings of the Christian Churches, whenever it was
14 Fwd,4| systematic destruction of Christian practices, and who have
15 Fwd,4| world that was once fully Christian. It is hoped that this material
16 Fwd,4| or who demand that the Christian Churches revise their doctrines
17 Fwd,5| who is now an Orthodox Christian, also explains, for centuries
18 Fwd,5| accredit a growing number of Christian seminaries, and the same
19 Fwd,5| society — most of all the Christian Churches. Then, at the time
20 Fwd,5| adherence to the traditional Christian worldview that is now out
21 Fwd,5| fashion, “regressive.” For a Christian, there can be no doubt that
22 Fwd,5| or disparage but exalts Christian women. As a deacon goes
23 Fwd,5| touched by the vision of Christian womanhood I saw through
24 1,1 | earth, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, which comes down
25 1,1 | continuity and purity of ancient Christian teaching, and as a Russian
26 1,1 | authentic, ancient and historic Christian tradition, one that dates
27 1,1 | that dates to the earliest Christian times. Even the most polemic
28 1,1 | and Redeemer. The Orthodox Christian faith is but the original
29 1,1 | greater attention in the Christian West. The Western world
30 1,1 | that the second largest Christian Church, numbering 350 million
31 1,1 | major persecutions for the Christian faith have fallen upon ancient
32 1,1 | Church. For three centuries, Christian blood was spilt throughout
33 1,1 | and self-sacrifice of the Christian martyrs proved to be the
34 1,1 | Thus, the blood of the Christian martyrs became the seeds
35 1,1 | catacombs and produced the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantine
36 1,1 | monasticism, and the whole Christian lifestyle with its elevated
37 1,1 | that in essence, Islam is a Christian heresy, having its historical
38 1,1 | entering a mosque is of Christian origin. In early times,
39 1,1 | one thousand years, the Christian Church — both East and West —
40 1,1 | Eastern Christians, for Christian primacy rests squarely on
41 1,1 | summary of the beliefs of the Christian Church. The Eastern Church
42 1,1 | changing any part of the Christian faith, and especially the
43 1,1 | the ancient sees of the Christian Church, including the Mother
44 1,1 | and from the rest of the Christian Church. As Thomas Hulbert,
45 1,1 | the same time adhere to Christian principles. It does not
46 1,1 | by Augustus Caesar) and Christian (inaugurated by Constantine
47 1,1 | Constantine the Great). The Christian Roman Empire had two phases
48 1,1 | establishing the Orthodox Christian Church in the world.~ Continuing,
49 1,1 | successor to Byzantium or Christian Rome, was the last Christian
50 1,1 | Christian Rome, was the last Christian society, and Tsar Nicholas
51 1,1 | Nicholas II was the last Christian emperor, as true kingship
52 1,1 | the might of its Orthodox Christian neighbor in maintaining
53 1,1 | With the disappearance of Christian Rome, that which restrained
54 1,1 | permissible for an Orthodox Christian to hold chiliastic ideas
55 1,1 | used heresies to attack Christian truths in almost the same
56 1,1 | cf. 2 Thes 2:15), and one Christian Church founded by Christ (
57 1,1 | became the religion of the Christian Roman Empire, only to end
58 1,1 | upon the Eastern Orthodox Christian world by the totally secularized
59 1,2 | religions in the world, only the Christian religion possesses all the
60 1,2 | the acceptance of a higher Christian revelation. This was spoken
61 1,6 | 6.~ What early Christian writer clearly expresses
62 1,6 | wrote seven epistles to Christian communities and to another
63 1,10| Church which belongs to every Christian community, even of a single
64 1,15| through letters to all the Christian Churches.~ This first Council
65 1,15| reasons: 1) through it, the Christian Church became a Universal
66 1,16| Constantine placed the Christian symbol of the chi rho (XP)
67 1,16| Roman emperor to embrace the Christian religion, and to his putting
68 1,16| mother Helen spread the Christian faith like the Apostles,
69 1,16| to saints who spread the Christian faith in various places:
70 2,1 | giant foundations of the Christian faith. As John II, Metropolitan
71 2,5 | the relations between the Christian Church and the Roman state (
72 2,6 | From the moment that the Christian Empire was established,
73 2,6 | assessment of the first Christian emperor, a view that is
74 2,6 | purpose of accommodating the Christian Church. Thus the Emperor
75 2,6 | from within to favor the Christian religion, having been convinced
76 2,6 | safeguard and standardize the Christian beliefs and traditions which
77 2,6 | an attempt to sway the Christian Church towards a theology
78 2,6 | role of the empire in the Christian scheme made him a saint,
79 2,6 | of all the truths of the Christian faith, and it is sung at
80 2,6 | Creed is not an Orthodox Christian.~ This new period likewise
81 2,6 | religious art (iconography), and Christian literature proliferated.
82 2,7 | proclaimed the toleration of the Christian faith. Christians were no
83 2,8 | carry his toleration of the Christian Church?~ Although Constantine
84 2,8 | more than toleration of the Christian faith, he soon came to favor
85 2,10| later developments of the Christian world?~ Constantine created
86 2,10| first General Council of the Christian Church.~ ~
87 2,11| that the seat of the new Christian Empire was taken away from
88 2,12| the Roman Empire to be a Christian empire based upon the Orthodox
89 2,12| that disturbed the whole Christian world, and Arius, the corrupter
90 2,15| they called?~ From profound Christian antiquity, local councils
91 2,16| fundamental teachings of the Christian faith” (emphasis added).
92 2,17| noting that the ancient Christian writers say that although
93 2,19| message of the Orthodox Christian faith?~ Metropolitan Hierotheos
94 2,20| shred of truth, labels it “Christian,” and then, attracting their
95 2,20| causes great damage for the Christian world because falling into
96 2,20| of God's justice is not Christian; rather it is a pagan concept
97 2,33| Monothelitism?~ Once the Christian Church proved victorious
98 2,35| fundamental truths of the Orthodox Christian faith. Secondly, they defended
99 2,35| governing public and private Christian life, and they required
100 2,35| pacified until authentic Christian truth was restored and confirmed
101 2,35| Creed is not an Orthodox Christian.~ It should also be noted
102 3,1 | Fundamentals of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol.
103 3,5 | does more than half of the Christian world, the Christian East,
104 3,5 | the Christian world, the Christian East, from which Western
105 3,5 | Rome's argument that the Christian Church in Rome held an actual
106 3,5 | of the catholicity of the Christian message. James was the center
107 3,5 | unheard-of in the undivided Christian Church until Rome began
108 3,5 | communion with the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding
109 3,5 | with the Church there exist Christian societies which do not belong
110 3,11| stood as a bulwark of the Christian faith in its struggle against
111 3,11| was an honored center of Christian Tradition at that time.~
112 3,20| shed absolute rivers of Christian blood, and before long,
113 4,1 | between two conceptions of Christian art. What three deeper issues
114 4,1 | Christ's human nature, the Christian attitude toward matter,
115 4,12| matters pertaining to the Christian faith, a point emphasized
116 4,12| capacity to instruct in the Christian faith, to remind people
117 4,12| of them does not apply to Christian icons. Protopresbyter Michael
118 4,12| major departure from basic Christian doctrine. Also, as another
119 4,12| ones like those seen in the Christian Church. The reason for their
120 4,12| sacred image, the first Christian icon, he was cured of his
121 4,12| for three days Orthodox Christian blood ran in the streets
122 4,12| is shown with this first Christian icon, icons are Apostolic,
123 4,12| found that in the ancient Christian Church, there were sacred
124 4,12| sacred art of the ancient Christian period, and it began to
125 4,12| unrelated to the Orthodox Christian faith, but are contrary
126 4,12| person.~ Because the Orthodox Christian home is like a family Church (
127 4,12| Rossii? Ever since the early Christian period, icons had functioned
128 4,12| facing east is an ancient Christian custom mentioned by St.
129 4,17| to imply that all of the Christian faith and all information
130 4,17| Martyr (+165), the leading Christian apologist of the second
131 4,17| expression of the truths of Christian teaching and created a unity
132 5,4 | life, and which a merely Christian life lived amidst the tumults
133 5,4 | their throats, for their Christian faith and love of God. Martyrdom
134 5,4 | martyrdom as a means of Christian perfection was gone. Under
135 5,4 | worldly, forgetting that the Christian life is undertaken to save
136 5,5 | Preserving the highest ideals of Christian ascetic life as expounded
137 5,7 | one of the oldest works of Christian literature:~ ~He must have
138 5,7 | any circumstances. If a Christian turns to a fortune-teller,
139 5,8 | Empire?~ Byzantium was a Christian society dedicated to Christ
140 5,8 | genuine striving for the Christian ideal, the empire continued
141 5,8 | pagan.... And so, when the Christian people in the Balkans turned
142 6,2 | barbarians as well, the Christian Emperor of the East stood
143 6,4 | claim to rule the entire Christian world. The Eastern emperor
144 6,4 | court sought to create a new Christian civilization not patterned
145 6,8 | assimilated, arraying itself in Christian garb only outwardly. In
146 6,8 | an urgent priority” [The Christian East and the Rise of the
147 6,10| explains in his book The Christian East and the Rise of the
148 6,15| legends were introduced into Christian texts; the new naturalism
149 6,15| thought.~ ~For a Western Christian, the explanation of the
150 6,15| maintained the Apostolic Christian faith of their ancestors,
151 6,15| historian noted, an early Christian would have felt at home
152 6,16| salvation. The ideal of Christian perfection is so high, Fr.
153 6,16| notes in this regard, the Christian West departed so far from
154 6,16| Latin West: A Study in the Christian Tradition, 1992].~ Archpriest
155 6,16| new Liturgy,” the “new Christian,” etc. The council itself
156 6,16| at last free of Western Christian traditions, were permitted
157 6,16| experiment with so-called “Christian yoga” and “Christian zen,”
158 6,16| so-called “Christian yoga” and “Christian zen,” to name just two of
159 6,17| the divine nature of the Christian religion, the hierarchs
160 6,17| the assumption that the Christian Church is divine and that
161 7,4 | this work, it refers to Christian Tradition rather than human
162 7,6 | with an explanation of what Christian Tradition is. How is it
163 7,6 | textbook explains that:~ ~Christian Tradition... is the faith
164 7,6 | Church. But to an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means something
165 7,7 | different sources of the Christian faith, for there is only
166 7,9 | to refer to authoritative Christian teaching, the essential
167 7,9 | teaching, the essential Christian message (cf. 1 Cor 11:2,
168 7,9 | 2:22). Also referring to Christian Tradition, the same Apostle
169 7,11| the ancient Acts of the Christian Martyrs. The Acts of the
170 7,11| essence is one and the same. Christian teaching and the scope of
171 7,11| thing should happen in the Christian religion, that here too
172 7,11| offered so many martyrs to the Christian faith.... If under the persistent,
173 7,11| goal the “renovation” of Christian teaching by adapting it
174 7,11| inflicted incredible damage on Christian doctrine, thinking that
175 7,11| the Apostles, the central Christian message, which from the
176 7,14| that from antiquity, the Christian Church chose the word catholic
177 7,14| main aim is to preserve the Christian faith unharmed. At the same
178 7,14| unification of the entire Christian world under the omnipotence
179 7,14| that da Vinci, who lost all Christian hope, spent the last years
180 7,14| a total rejection of the Christian basis for life, and with
181 7,14| West, once fully Orthodox Christian, it is necessary to look
182 7,14| bases the truths of the Christian faith upon the foundation
183 7,14| the very practical task of Christian perfection.~ Divine revelation
184 7,14| investigate the mysteries of the Christian faith. Western theology
185 7,14| Protestants today believe that Christian truth need no longer be
186 7,14| sophisticated Patriarchates of the Christian Commonwealth that had formed
187 7,14| Commonwealth that had formed the Christian Church for one thousand
188 7,14| estranged from the rest of the Christian world as the papacy had
189 7,14| the very antithesis of Christian virtue.~ Archimandrite Panteleimon
190 7,14| appropriate to themselves the name Christian [A Ray of Light: Instructions
191 7,14| Christianity that no Western Christian sees anything wrong with
192 7,14| most basic questions of Christian doctrine. During Martin
193 7,14| tend to reject the ancient Christian idea that the Holy Spirit
194 7,14| with its proclamations of Christian unity, unity of all religions,
195 7,14| ignore) two thousand years of Christian teaching. Does the acquisition
196 7,15| Church's interpretation, the Christian understanding, of what he
197 7,17| Testament, it is the entire Christian world.~ Considerably later
198 7,17| the very beginning in the Christian Church, the Scriptures were
199 7,17| their will that all that the Christian Church teaches with regard
200 7,17| grace-bearing individuals. When Christian scribes copied verses from
201 7,17| the other mysteries of the Christian faith, were not understood
202 7,17| entrusted text, something the Christian Church does indeed have.
203 7,17| Lord gives freely to His Christian Church by means of grace.~
204 7,17| interpreters at that time were Christian apologists who asked what
205 7,17| exceedingly perilous to a Christian believer. Therefore, he
206 7,17| core, the heart, of our Christian faith and culture.~ Concerning
207 7,17| formerly included in all Christian Bibles, and a law in 1615
208 7,20| situations in the life of each Christian. Canons form a part of Tradition.~
209 7,21| would not be an Orthodox Christian); instead, it is with what
210 8,2 | importance for each individual Christian. All people are caught up
211 8,6 | at the very heart of the Christian faith, a tiny difference
212 8,6 | repercussions upon every aspect of Christian life and thought.” The filioque
213 9,3 | explained in the light of the Christian faith.~ In the New Testament,
214 9,3 | Therefore, the Orthodox Christian believes, serves, worships [
215 9,3 | Fundamentals of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol.
216 9,21| in so many of the early Christian writings. (P. Hammond, The
217 9,26| the whole purpose of the Christian life.~ St. Seraphim of Sarov (+
218 9,26| fasting, vigils and all other Christian practices, however good
219 9,26| constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable
220 9,26| For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition
221 9,26| farthest corners of the Christian world. In Russia, as elsewhere,
222 9,28| Holy Spirit came to the Christian Church at Pentecost (Acts
223 9,28| is the foundation of all Christian life [Mystical Theology,
224 9,28| subjected to torments for their Christian faith; in the preservation
225 9,29| final goal at which every Christian must aim. St. Basil the
226 9,29| explained that the goal of each Christian is the acquisition of the
227 9,33| in Him. St. Paul saw the Christian life first and foremost
228 9,35| in which the remnants of Christian thinking will receive their
229 9,39| goal for each individual Christian without exception. This
230 9,39| with God, but every true Christian who tries to love God and
231 9,39| the Holy Mysteries that a Christian is cleansed of sin and becomes
232 9,42| post-Noahic flood times, in the Christian Church among various ascetic
233 9,42| coexist in harmony.~ In Christian times, saintly men and women,
234 10,6 | Church feel that to be a Christian is to have a life of drab
235 10,10| Baptism” (Eph 4:5), and one Christian Church (Mt 16:18).~ Fr.
236 10,10| with the Church there exist Christian societies which do not belong
237 10,10| of all: that one can be a Christian while denying the Church.”
238 10,10| communion with the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding
239 10,10| bodies calling themselves Christian and Catholic and other such
240 10,10| seriously).~ Concerning the Christian Churches outside Christ'
241 10,10| all the various existing Christian organizations, the so-called “
242 10,10| Often we can observe in this Christian world outside the Church
243 10,10| that one part of this broad Christian world outside the Church,
244 10,10| together, they far surpass the Christian world in the number of members
245 10,10| one truth. And authentic Christian unity — unity in the Church —
246 10,12| Anglicans and taught that the Christian Church was divided into
247 10,12| theory maintains that all Christian Churches are branches of
248 10,12| Christ, and it accepts all Christian confessions as equal — that
249 10,12| principles not only of individual Christian creeds, but of all religions.
250 10,12| 2 Thes 2:15), and “one Christian Church” (Mt 16: 18). Also,
251 10,16| instituted in the New Testament Christian Church the priesthood: bishops,
252 10,16| episcopacy in one or another Christian denomination deprives it
253 10,16| that all the local ancient Christian Churches preserved lists
254 10,16| the Church nor the name Christian could exist or be spoken
255 10,16| is guided by the law of Christian love in the exercising of
256 10,18| and the unerring truth of Christian dogma does not depend upon
257 10,19| people possess the truth (Christian dogma). As Archimandrite
258 10,20| not Orthodox and is not a Christian.~ ~Whereas we Orthodox believe
259 10,20| a man's death, from the Christian point of view, ought not
260 10,20| ancient Liturgies of the Christian Church — both East and West —
261 10,21| explains what the ancient Christian Church's understanding was
262 10,21| direct indications in ancient Christian literature with regard to
263 10,22| our family — a worldwide Christian family of people from all
264 10,23| and from antiquity the Christian Church has always confessed
265 10,26| was still fully Orthodox Christian. Moreover, even after Rome
266 10,28| The writings of the holy Christian ascetics indicate that the
267 10,29| even more than that — a Christian's thoughts and actions are
268 11,1 | all of Russia the Orthodox Christian faith at the very time when
269 11,2 | members of that particular Christian community.~ Philip said
270 11,3 | echoes of the historical Christian past — but these are mere
271 11,4 | possession of the whole Orthodox Christian people, and something which
272 11,4 | meaning, that of the first Christian Eucharist, after which He
273 11,4 | singing was established in the Christian Church, its liturgical use
274 11,4 | spiritual character of the Christian religion, because they bring
275 11,4 | the teaching concerning Christian morality! In this area we
276 11,4 | The ancient worship of the Christian Church has always involved
277 11,4 | facing east, in token that Christian worshipers enter from the
278 11,4 | was not a feature of early Christian buildings. However, Eastern
279 11,4 | buildings. However, Eastern Christian worship was modeled on Jewish
280 11,4 | practice was a universal Christian custom until the Protestant
281 11,4 | on the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, which is the depository
282 11,4 | depository of Apostolic Christian Truth. As this course makes
283 11,4 | original, unadulterated Christian faith and holds an unbroken,
284 Ep | love will disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops and priests
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