Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| for the benefit of Western Christians so that they could ask themselves
2 Fwd,3| for in the Nicene Creed, Christians confess belief in “One,
3 Fwd,3| all against non-Orthodox Christians (for he was once one himself),
4 Fwd,3| stumbling block to Western Christians. A Greek archbishop points
5 Fwd,3| further explains that Orthodox Christians do not imagine that they
6 Fwd,5| and so forth, even though Christians have always worshiped God
7 Fwd,5| Christianity. At that time, Christians will be politically incorrect
8 Fwd,6| p. 49].~ ~Many Western Christians have become totally disillusioned
9 Fwd,6| Catholic and Protestant Christians are finding their way through
10 Fwd,6| the last decade, Orthodox Christians in America have begun to
11 Fwd,6| dissatisfied Protestant Christians.” For these people, Orthodoxy'
12 1,1 | and clear.~ Many Western Christians have come to realize that
13 1,1 | Eastern monarchies, the Christians of the Occident are also
14 1,1 | happens, more and more Western Christians are embracing the Orthodox
15 1,1 | greater or lesser errors among Christians, and sometimes even whole
16 1,1 | into the midst of Orthodox Christians. As a result of the quest
17 1,1 | occurred divisions among Christians.~ ~Becoming acquainted with
18 1,1 | earth.~ Under the Moslems, Christians were once again forced to
19 1,1 | Balkans, entire villages of Christians — men, women and children —
20 1,1 | to this day among those Christians witnessing a recrudescence
21 1,1 | atrocities against Orthodox Christians on the part of Rome's pope,
22 1,1 | is ludicrous to Eastern Christians, for Christian primacy rests
23 1,1 | and from the Church where Christians were first known by that
24 1,1 | absolutist primacy that Eastern Christians will never accept. The damage
25 1,1 | could not persuade Orthodox Christians to become Uniate Catholics
26 1,1 | great cataclysm, far more Christians have lost their lives for
27 1,1 | 1 Thes 4:17, claims that Christians will be enraptured from
28 1,1 | of millions of Orthodox Christians, not only in the early Church,
29 1,1 | are approaching, Orthodox Christians will once again be persecuted,
30 1,1 | eighty-five percent of Orthodox Christians came to be enslaved in Communist
31 1,1 | Church and all Orthodox Christians. Indeed, it was for that
32 1,1 | the persecution of those Christians who do not go along with
33 1,1 | for this course states, “Christians today stand far closer to
34 1,10| years of Christianity, when Christians did not have their own church
35 1,11| the Roman pope, then the Christians of Antioch should have appealed
36 1,18| but Jewish (Palestinian) Christians actually participated in
37 2,6 | in order to worship God, Christians had to leave the city at
38 2,7 | of the Christian faith. Christians were no longer regarded
39 2,20| oneness of mind with other Christians and causes a spiritual separation
40 2,20| true dogmas, like other Christians. If a person is disobedient
41 2,20| countless examples of true Christians who preferred exile, cruel
42 2,20| of justice....~ ~Western Christians thought about God's justice
43 2,22| nature.~ Although Orthodox Christians know that they do not become
44 3,5 | grace is poured out upon Christians through the clergy ordained
45 3,5 | pastor and teacher of all Christians, defines or proclaims the
46 3,16| other group of separated Christians, still there are great dogmatic
47 3,18| atrocities against Orthodox Christians throughout the centuries,
48 3,18| visions appears in the desert, Christians are not to go out, nor are
49 4,10| John of Damascus advised Christians to take any outsider inquiring
50 4,12| centuries they have taught Christians how to know and love the
51 4,12| especially inside, where Christians gather to worship. The beauty
52 4,12| revealed to man. Through icons, Christians receive a vision of the
53 4,12| worldly matters and pursuits, Christians can forget things that are
54 4,12| additionally serve to lift Christians up to the prototypes, to
55 4,12| manifest in its ability to lift Christians up to a higher level. An
56 4,12| images.~ The use of icons by Christians, as was noted, goes back
57 4,12| rudimentary art existed among Christians of the first two centuries.
58 4,12| early as the first century, Christians used representations of
59 4,12| Apostolic Tradition, one that Christians are bound to revere and
60 4,12| dating to the time when Christians held their services in the
61 4,12| beloved ones, so likewise Christians, as pilgrims in this fallen
62 5,4 | preaching, there were among Christians those who were distinguished
63 5,4 | years of persecution of Christians, endless numbers of men,
64 5,4 | spiritual outlook of early Christians, being considered the ultimate
65 5,4 | confession of one's faith. All Christians believed and lived in truth,
66 5,4 | out of expediency, many Christians in their freedom and wealth
67 5,7 | in the time of the first Christians. As is written in one of
68 5,7 | It is not clear to many Christians how these pious people,
69 5,7 | They are totally sinful and Christians should not turn to them
70 5,8 | often fall upon Orthodox Christians, while unbelievers are left
71 6,2 | permanent basis. For all the Christians of the period, and for Europe'
72 6,15| For the benefit of those Christians outside Eastern Orthodoxy,
73 6,15| explain that however deeply Christians in any age may be affected
74 6,16| right-believing Orthodox Christians, Rome was severed from it
75 6,16| West, the faith of Western Christians slowly began to change and
76 7,3 | Orthodoxy that strike Western Christians. As an English Roman Catholic
77 7,9 | on this point: the early Christians had both oral and written
78 7,9 | And how did these early Christians know which books were authentic
79 7,11| Some counsel weaker Christians to slander and abandon the
80 7,11| at public gatherings of Christians under the supervision of
81 7,11| this and have ceased to be Christians except in name. The denial
82 7,11| unaware of how it is that Christians have come to believe in
83 7,11| Tradition as its boast, Western Christians (with some exceptions) have
84 7,11| shows to what degree Western Christians confuse the revealed faith
85 7,11| to Tradition as Western Christians maintained it would. On
86 7,11| to generation of Orthodox Christians. Sacred Tradition is the
87 7,13| Testament are a foreshadowing of Christians, for the Old Testament Jews
88 7,14| concerning likemindedness among Christians: “I beseech you, brethren,
89 7,14| true love possible among Christians. If there is no likemindedness,
90 7,14| that priority that Western Christians place on human reason, and
91 7,14| Tradition is binding to Christians (2 Thes 2:15, 1 Cor 11:2).~
92 7,14| was written by Orthodox Christians for Orthodox Christians,
93 7,14| Christians for Orthodox Christians, preserved in times of persecution
94 7,17| authoritative for Orthodox Christians. Christ Himself used the
95 7,17| and the struggles of pious Christians, whereas the Hebrew text
96 7,17| vanished completely from among Christians. At that time, the Jewish
97 7,17| are not fabricated by the Christians, but reveal a genuine, many-faceted,
98 7,17| authority with Orthodox Christians than the Hebrew originals?
99 7,17| the persecuted Orthodox Christians of Romania. In these translations,
100 7,17| be an issue not for the Christians, but for the post-Resurrection
101 7,20| iconographers must be sincere Christians who life in the spirit of
102 7,21| bequeathed to us by the first Christians.”~ “Orthodox” ecumenists
103 7,21| that in the periods when Christians had become secularized,
104 8,14| the lives of individual Christians.~ The consequences of the
105 9,3 | Holy Apostles taught the Christians the worship of the indivisible
106 9,7 | desire that the prayer of Christians gathered in church would
107 9,7 | censed by a priest or deacon, Christians respond with a bow.~ ~
108 9,15| ancestral sin (or what Western Christians call the original sin).
109 9,15| imitate Adam.~ Most Western Christians hold that nothing a man
110 9,19| veil of Christ's flesh, Christians behold the Triune God.”
111 9,24| Victor.~ Moreover, Western Christians have been inclined to view
112 9,28| The Holy Spirit guides Christians to God's life, truth and
113 9,28| through the Holy Spirit, Christians are made children of God.
114 9,28| The Holy Spirit also gives Christians life. As St. Paul writes: “
115 9,28| Furthermore, the Holy Spirit gives Christians every gift from God and
116 9,29| or divinization, whereby Christians become “partakers of the
117 9,29| that the union to which Christians are called is neither hypostatic (
118 9,29| should be the goal for all Christians. As the quotes from Scriptures
119 9,38| sanctification of the body, Orthodox Christians have an immense reverence
120 9,38| explains, when Orthodox Christians venerate relics, they venerate
121 9,38| strengthen the faith of Christians. There-foe, as to the attacks
122 9,38| explains that the bodies of Christians who have lived a righteous
123 9,38| in revering holy relics, Christians do not believe in the power
124 9,38| undefiled, St. Paul exhorts Christians to be holy in body. Through
125 9,39| Mysteries, for through them Christians partake of the uncreated
126 10,3 | Church as the means by which Christians receive this grace filled
127 10,3 | are to call ourselves real Christians [“Weep!” translated from
128 10,6 | Christ and His Church. New Christians are buried and raised with
129 10,6 | Eucharist. The Eucharist unites Christians at once to Christ and to
130 10,6 | Holy Spirit.~ Christ unites Christians, it has been mentioned,
131 10,6 | freedom, and He insures Christians' diversity. It is significant
132 10,10| Church?~ In the Nicene Creed, Christians confess their belief in “
133 10,10| recognizing, sacramentally united Christians founded by our Lord Jesus
134 10,10| outside of her a number of Christians that exceeds by several
135 10,13| the Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside the Church, Patrick
136 10,14| the status of heterodox Christians. When taken in context,
137 10,14| the status of heterodox Christians is seen in two ways. With
138 10,14| the Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside of the Church, p.
139 10,14| self-evident... that sincere Christians who are Roman Catholics,
140 10,16| When a Church or group of Christians is left without a bishop,
141 10,16| alone. This bishop and all Christians alike are prophets and priests,
142 10,16| Holy Spirit is given to all Christians alike. This fact was especially
143 10,20| itself from the obligation of Christians to support the communion
144 10,20| new life which departed Christians have taken with them. If
145 10,21| here.~ There are certain Christians that the Church glorifies
146 10,21| Theologian wrote to the Christians: “That which we have seen
147 10,21| bond that exists between Christians in the Church Militant and
148 10,21| the saints in Heaven for Christians on earth. The witnesses
149 10,21| epoch of persecution against Christians.~ ~
150 10,22| positions. Therefore, Orthodox Christians honor all the saints, but
151 10,22| demonstrates the reverence Orthodox Christians have for the saints. In
152 10,22| intercession for us, Orthodox Christians always turn to the saints
153 10,22| in honoring the saints, Christians honor God Himself, Whom
154 10,23| entirely in vain that the Christians thought to exalt Jesus by
155 10,23| make people believe that Christians thought to ascribe to Mary
156 10,23| to present themselves as Christians, they began a new attack
157 10,23| helper, as a protector of Christians and intercessor for the
158 10,23| times each year, Orthodox Christians all over the world gather
159 10,25| His pagan counterfeits. If Christians can discern between the
160 10,26| her to have personal sin.~ Christians had never heard of such
161 10,28| goats. This parable reminds Christians of another possibility:
162 10,28| Heaven, the spiritual gaze of Christians has been directed to the
163 10,28| works” (Mt 16:27).~ Early Christians, as well as the Holy Fathers
164 10,28| occurred. Were the early Christians and Fathers mistaken in
165 10,28| the life of the Church. As Christians, we enjoy the first fruits
166 11,1 | Heaven on earth, Orthodox Christians endeavor to make the Church'
167 11,2 | action of the entire Church, Christians gather in the unity of one
168 11,4 | of the Apostles and early Christians. All the aspects of worship
169 11,4 | have been familiar to the Christians of the early Church, just
170 11,4 | are familiar to Orthodox Christians today, for the Orthodox
171 11,4 | evening. In this service, Christians express their gratitude
172 11,4 | noon to 3:00 pm. It reminds Christians of Christ's Passion and
173 11,4 | the fact that among early Christians, and in some monasteries
174 11,4 | people conjointly. Orthodox Christians come to church not to say
175 11,4 | the Communists, Orthodox Christians have always turned to the
176 11,4 | in imitation of Western Christians and at the behest of the
177 11,4 | ordinances of the first Christians. He also explains that:~ ~
178 11,4 | Modernism, p. 24].~ ~Orthodox Christians feel a need to worship God
179 11,4 | counterparts among Western Christians, and services among the
180 11,4 | governed by Christ, carries Christians through the turbulent sea
181 11,4 | however, all believing Christians are allowed to stand within
182 11,4 | each local congregation of Christians prays and worships, it is
183 11,4 | saints, and these remind Christians that Christ and all the
184 11,4 | Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians in traditionally Orthodox
185 Ep | morals and traditions of Christians and of the Church will change.
186 Ep | pastors, and woe to the Christians remaining in the world at
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