Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| Christianity, the ancient faith that the popular Time-Life
2 Fwd,1| anyone to accept the Orthodox faith, still every truth-seeking
3 Fwd,1| to demonstrate that the faith and practices of the Church
4 Fwd,2| demonstrate an unchanged faith or unchanged practices,
5 Fwd,2| from the ancient Christian faith and ancient Christian practices
6 Fwd,2| officially, concerning matters of faith and morals, he is incapable
7 Fwd,2| pronouncements concerning faith and morals. The Roman Catholic
8 Fwd,2| maintained the same exact faith delivered to the Apostles.~
9 Fwd,2| gesture, one affirms one's faith in Christ's sacrifice on
10 Fwd,2| of the Orthodox Christian faith. In the lives of the saints
11 Fwd,3| ordained do not have the right faith, and there is neither Apostolic
12 Fwd,3| continuity in both episcopate and faith, for Orthodoxy has the complete
13 Fwd,3| and preserved Apostolic faith, without any additions or
14 Fwd,3| Scripture states, “one Lord, one faith, one Baptism” (Eph 4:5),
15 Fwd,3| the correct confession of faith — not personal integrity.
16 Fwd,3| Western Christianity from the faith it held prior to 1054.~
17 Fwd,3| maintained the integrity of faith, and that in this ancient
18 Fwd,3| truth. Orthodoxy offers that faith in the pure form in which
19 Fwd,4| free to construct their own faith. (This way of thinking shows
20 Fwd,6| holding and preserving the faith of the Apostles as a precious
21 1,1 | Christianity has the “fullness of faith delivered once and for all
22 1,1 | the world, there was one faith only, and one Savior and
23 1,1 | The Orthodox Christian faith is but the original and
24 1,1 | original and Old Testament faith made complete and clear.~
25 1,1 | straight, or right, path of faith, there have always been
26 1,1 | things which defile the faith, nevertheless dismissed
27 1,1 | persecutions for the Christian faith have fallen upon ancient
28 1,1 | the best witness of their faith. The pagans were awestruck
29 1,1 | martyrs of the persecuted faith. Thus, the blood of the
30 1,1 | and foreign ideas into the faith. (The words pope and patriarch
31 1,1 | any part of the Christian faith, and especially the very
32 1,1 | compromise and allow the faith to be changed and corrupted,
33 1,1 | doctrines and the right faith preserved in Eastern Orthodoxy.~
34 1,1 | official teaching of the faith, has never been retracted
35 1,1 | lives for their Orthodox faith in the tragic, pre-apocalyptic
36 1,1 | A humble declaration of faith will not be heard. Thus,
37 1,1 | kingship depends upon the true faith. Thus, none of the heretical
38 1,1 | monarchy maintained the true faith as given by the Holy Apostles
39 1,1 | into the very Symbol of Faith (the Creed) these words
40 1,1 | Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith, the Church's Creed. Now,
41 1,1 | there is “one Lord, one faith, one Baptism” (Eph 4:5),
42 1,1 | Church has preserved the faith of Christ as a priceless
43 1,1 | entirety, unharmed, so that our faith is the faith of the Apostles,
44 1,1 | so that our faith is the faith of the Apostles, the faith
45 1,1 | faith of the Apostles, the faith of the Fathers, the Orthodox
46 1,1 | the Fathers, the Orthodox faith.”~ ~
47 1,2 | of people professing the faith of Christ, whether they
48 1,10| bodies that share a unity of faith and full agreement with
49 1,16| Helen spread the Christian faith like the Apostles, the Church
50 1,16| who spread the Christian faith in various places: Mary
51 2,1 | foundations of the Christian faith. As John II, Metropolitan
52 2,1 | are the seven pillars of faith of the Divine Word on which
53 2,6 | Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith, or Nicene Creed (also called
54 2,6 | be one confession of the faith and not different interpretations.
55 2,6 | truths of the Christian faith, and it is sung at every
56 2,6 | articulate the beliefs of the faith and to choose the books
57 2,7 | toleration of the Christian faith. Christians were no longer
58 2,8 | toleration of the Christian faith, he soon came to favor it
59 2,9 | religion of the empire. “Your faith is the victory which defeats
60 2,12| based upon the Orthodox faith. To this end, he convened
61 2,12| Arius, the corrupter of faith. It also anathematized those
62 2,12| composed the Church's Symbol of Faith, the Creed, which was confirmed
63 2,14| message of the Orthodox faith. As Protopresbyter Michael
64 2,16| teachings of the Christian faith” (emphasis added). Actually,
65 2,17| to His essence [Orthodox Faith, p. 172].~ ~The same Holy
66 2,19| of the Orthodox Christian faith?~ Metropolitan Hierotheos
67 2,22| grace” [The Truth of Our Faith, p. 48].~ ~
68 2,23| all come to the unity of faith of the knowledge of the
69 2,35| discussion of topics of faith “and afterwards a decision
70 2,35| Confessor states: “The right faith validates the meetings that
71 2,35| spirit, a single common faith, a single and common catholic
72 2,35| of the Orthodox Christian faith. Secondly, they defended
73 2,35| Councils concerning the faith express~ ~... the harmony
74 2,35| Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith, and they forbade any changes
75 2,35| monotheistic centrality of faith. The second half of the
76 2,36| persecutions with professions of faith and martyrdom; heresies,
77 3,1 | of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol. 51,
78 3,5 | in its confession of the faith, the Roman papacy may have
79 3,5 | faithful Greeks and the faith of our Lord Jesus.~ ~Writing
80 3,5 | proclaims the truths of the faith ex cathedra, that is, officially,
81 3,5 | themselves in matters of faith. For example, Pope Sixtus
82 3,5 | Son,” into the Symbol of Faith, but even commanded that
83 3,5 | addition into the Symbol of Faith. Which of them was infallible?
84 3,5 | Apostle's confession of faith (in the Divinity of Christ) [
85 3,11| teaching and its firmness of faith. Although there were occasions
86 3,11| bulwark of the Christian faith in its struggle against
87 3,22| canonical norms of the Orthodox faith, and lastly, they worked
88 4,10| outsider inquiring about the faith into a church and place
89 4,12| pertaining to the Christian faith, a point emphasized by the
90 4,12| instruct in the Christian faith, to remind people of its
91 4,12| indeed that true worship of faith [Greek: latreia] which pertains
92 4,12| sinners, according to their faith in the grace of Christ present
93 4,12| that one single look with faith upon them, as upon the living
94 4,12| in accordance with their faith in the Lord and His Mother.~ ~
95 4,12| one can feel the spirit of faith, the imprint of Orthodoxy.
96 4,12| to the Orthodox Christian faith, but are contrary to it,
97 4,17| that all of the Christian faith and all information necessary
98 4,17| it was already, in its faith and worship, essentially
99 4,17| guidance in questions of faith, for the correct understanding
100 4,17| Church in teaching of the faith is an undoubted sign of
101 4,17| explanations of the truths of the faith 1) gave precision to the
102 4,17| with the general catholic faith of the Church, and are not
103 4,17| not accepted as a guide to faith [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
104 5,4 | throats, for their Christian faith and love of God. Martyrdom
105 5,4 | highest confession of one's faith. All Christians believed
106 5,4 | every means to shake their faith and trust in God, and especially
107 5,7 | heedlessness and lack of faith. Such people sometimes speak
108 5,8 | the spreading of the true faith.~ Sir Dimitry Obolensky,
109 5,8 | on by apostasy from the faith and moral decline. As Abba
110 5,8 | and apostasy from the true faith, something that clearly
111 5,8 | allowing for lukewarmness of faith. In such a state, many saints
112 6,6 | God-bearing nation, and the faith of Christ was always preserved
113 6,6 | to preserve the Orthodox faith and to be its champion and
114 6,9 | Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (formerly the Office of
115 6,14| the Romans, AD 110, in The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol.
116 6,14| Letters, AD 374, in The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol.
117 6,15| inasmuch as it was accepted on faith and enjoyed the authority
118 6,15| the Apostolic Christian faith of their ancestors, and
119 6,16| ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals.~ The doctrine
120 6,16| pronouncements concerning faith and morals. Papal infallibility
121 6,16| Paul for not keeping the faith, whereupon Peter felt a
122 6,16| grace ye are saved through faith; and not of yourselves:
123 6,16| generations in the West, the faith of Western Christians slowly
124 6,16| and deviate from the pure faith of the Apostolic Church.
125 6,16| triumphantly proclaiming the faith. The Second Vatican Council (
126 6,18| a person's profession of faith in Him as the Christ, but
127 6,18| upon Peter's profession of faith (homologica). The word homologica,
128 6,18| their pronouncements of faith. He also pointed out that
129 6,18| build His Church means the faith of confession.” Dr. von
130 6,18| as Peter's confession of faith in Christ. Since the Fathers
131 7,5 | and firmly adhere to the faith He delivered to us, and
132 7,6 | Christian Tradition... is the faith which Jesus Christ imparted
133 7,7 | sources of the Christian faith, for there is only one source:
134 7,9 | Apostolic Tradition is “the faith once delivered [paradotheise]
135 7,9 | have accurately stated its faith. But the faith itself was “
136 7,9 | stated its faith. But the faith itself was “once delivered
137 7,11| Tradition [The Truth of Our Faith, pp. 56-57].~ ~Elder Cleopa
138 7,11| determined the truths of the faith according to the long course
139 7,11| decrees and the Symbol of Faith [the Creed], and with confessions [
140 7,11| and with confessions [of faith] by holy and wonderworking
141 7,11| genuineness of the holy Orthodox faith was firmly established,
142 7,11| Baptism; (6) the confession of faith in Father, Son and Holy
143 7,11| Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, IV.16, PG 94:1172C-1173B;
144 7,11| the essential side of the faith.~ During the era of freedom
145 7,11| Apostles; (2) the Symbols of Faith of the ancient local Churches; (
146 7,11| necessary because some truths of faith are expressed in a completely
147 7,11| deepening of the dogmas of the faith and that they are still
148 7,11| The Church's teaching of faith does not develop, and the
149 7,11| to add to the teaching of faith handed down by the Apostles.
150 7,11| according to the Apostolic faith handed down to us by the
151 7,11| Christians confuse the revealed faith with different worldly systems,
152 7,11| Eugenics Voulgaris wrote:~ ~The faith does not alter with the
153 7,11| know that the dogmas of faith are more dubious the newer
154 7,11| provenance of the Orthodox faith and excluding innovations,
155 7,11| the Turks, preserving her faith in Christ throughout this
156 7,11| martyrs to the Christian faith.... If under the persistent,
157 7,11| Church can maintain her faith and preserve her witness,
158 7,11| discarding truths of the faith and making “adaptations”
159 7,11| synonymous with heresy, for the faith which was “once delivered
160 7,11| Apostolic times. It is the faith that Christ imparted to
161 7,12| letters or statements of faith put out by individual bishops).~ ~
162 7,14| universality if we confess that faith alone to be true which the
163 7,14| In the ancient Symbols of Faith, whenever the word Church
164 7,14| to preserve the Christian faith unharmed. At the same time,
165 7,14| biography strengthened man's faith in himself.~ ~Not everyone,
166 7,14| truths of the Christian faith upon the foundation of divine
167 7,14| spiritual men’ (The Truth of Our Faith, p. 160). Hieromonk Seraphim
168 7,14| mysteries of the Christian faith. Western theology therefore
169 7,14| personal understanding of faith from Scripture only, gave
170 7,14| every kingdom their own faith, and later for every province,
171 7,14| for every person, his own faith. Wherever people devise
172 7,14| regard, “The mysteries of our faith are unknown and not understandable
173 7,14| the Church, substituting faith with the reason of each
174 7,14| claimed to base their entire faith. The author also observes
175 7,14| the ancient declaration of faith: “This is what the Church
176 7,14| understanding of the Church and faith is given, one that echoes
177 7,14| knowledge of God's will by faith and reverence rather than
178 7,14| and imprisonments for the faith? Is Christianity learned
179 7,17| mysteries of the Christian faith, were not understood by
180 7,17| heart, of our Christian faith and culture.~ Concerning
181 7,17| source of the teaching of the faith, the Church puts them in
182 7,19| added the definition of faith of the hesychastic councils
183 8,6 | very heart of the Christian faith, a tiny difference in Trinitarian
184 8,7 | Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith (the Creed), while the Roman
185 8,14| Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith, or Nicene Creed. This Creed,
186 8,14| Creed, a declaration of faith confessed by the entire
187 9,3 | the light of the Christian faith.~ In the New Testament,
188 9,3 | always piously protected the faith in the Holy Trinity. In
189 9,3 | defending the Apostolic faith from heresies, promulgated
190 9,3 | with all his might his faith in the Trinitarian Truth [“
191 9,3 | of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol. 51,
192 9,13| the work of the will and faith of the Virgin.... Just as
193 9,14| certainly work for it, since “faith without works is dead” (
194 9,28| torments for their Christian faith; in the preservation of
195 9,28| following: wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, the working of
196 9,28| longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against
197 9,38| saints to strengthen the faith of Christians. There-foe,
198 9,38| of sin, run to him with faith: you will receive aid and
199 9,42| one to teach people true faith in God. Concurrent with
200 9,42| etc., as well as false faith, superstition.~ The book
201 9,42| from these sons of God that faith in one God was passed on
202 9,42| Cain, who mixed the true faith with demonic ideas, thus
203 10,10| speaks of “one Lord, one faith, one Baptism” (Eph 4:5),
204 10,10| harmonious confession of faith, in the oneness of divine
205 10,10| Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith (formerly the Office of
206 10,10| who breaks away from the faith or from the continuing organic
207 10,10| Church a religious fervor and faith, a worthy moral life, a
208 10,10| instruction and strengthening of faith, and that devout reflection
209 10,12| speaks of “one Lord, one faith, one Baptism” (Eph 4:5), “
210 10,12| Christianity; our Orthodox faith is Christianity itself,
211 10,13| maintained the integrity of faith, this convert discovered,
212 10,13| open arms it offers that faith to outsiders (as he once
213 10,14| Orthodoxy and enter a different faith, you will lose your soul
214 10,15| meant by consent, or the faith believed by all. Infallibility
215 10,15| while generally teaching the faith accurately, at times taught
216 10,16| come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
217 10,16| demonstrate an unchanged faith or unchanged practices as
218 10,16| that is, inner purity in faith, life, and in all her activity
219 10,16| upon to be a teacher of the faith and to proclaim the truth —
220 10,16| from the doctrines of the faith, or, as the Apostle Paul
221 10,19| are the defenders of the faith, wielding a veto, rejecting
222 10,19| formal proclamations of faith in a Council are strictly
223 10,20| The Orthodox confession of faith is completed by a lively
224 10,20| have fallen asleep in the faith: ancestors, fathers, patriarchs,
225 10,20| righteous spirit made perfect in faith.~ ~The custom of praying
226 10,21| literature with regard to faith in the prayer of the saints
227 10,22| brothers and sisters in the faith. They are also aware of
228 10,23| to say no. However, her faith and obedient submission
229 10,26| to the ancient Apostolic faith handed down by Christ, which
230 10,26| handed down by Christ, which faith has been held up to now
231 10,26| infallible in matters of faith — and indeed, the very same
232 10,28| Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, p. 406]. Vladimir Lossky
233 10,28| Secondly, anyone who lives by faith and looks at things mystically —
234 11,1 | to accept its particular faith. Realizing the need to choose
235 11,1 | that it was indeed the true faith.~ This incident shows a
236 11,1 | wanted to discover the true faith, they did not make inquiries
237 11,1 | Russia the Orthodox Christian faith at the very time when Byzantium
238 11,1 | fullness of the pure and true faith, Holy Orthodoxy. Russia
239 11,1 | Russia treasured this holy faith throughout the ages as the
240 11,2 | way of understanding the faith than by reading books.~ ~
241 11,3 | principle?~ Worship is the faith in action, the textbook
242 11,3 | jetsam of the historical faith, washed upon the modern
243 11,3 | denied the tools of the faith that the historical [Orthodox]
244 11,3 | largely lost. The mystery of faith has been replaced with rationalistic
245 11,3 | the Quest for the Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion,
246 11,4 | who reposed in the true faith and in the hope of resurrection
247 11,4 | concerns the teaching of faith, is also expressed in the
248 11,4 | upon the Church a single faith which, bearing the garment
249 11,4 | Heaven to all those who with faith would come to Him [pp. 526-
250 11,4 | unadulterated Christian faith and holds an unbroken, unchanged
251 Ep | will completely lose their faith because they will lack the
252 Ep | and lead people to lose faith in the existence of God
253 Ep | the work of the Orthodox faith as approaching its definite
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