Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| doctrines of the Western Churches are frequently compared
2 Fwd,1| conclusion that alone among the Churches, the Orthodox Church has
3 Fwd,2| claims, which of the two Churches actually is the ancient
4 Fwd,3| Church (Mt 16:18). All other Churches — that is, the 23,000 Churches
5 Fwd,3| Churches — that is, the 23,000 Churches of the West, originate from
6 Fwd,3| teachings of the Christian Churches, whenever it was necessary
7 Fwd,4| demand that the Christian Churches revise their doctrines according
8 Fwd,5| most of all the Christian Churches. Then, at the time the united
9 Fwd,6| East could claim forty-four Churches of Apostolic origin, versus
10 Fwd,6| totally disillusioned as their Churches have joined the latest whims
11 Fwd,6| their secularized Western Churches have succumbed to Christ'
12 Fwd,6| have observed, the Western Churches offer only easy, trivial
13 Fwd,6| life. As a result, those Churches can only spread disappointment
14 Fwd,6| experiences in the Western Churches (for in them the Gospel
15 1,1 | Concerning the 23,000 Western Churches (which are not the direct
16 1,1 | the Eastern and Western Churches was not the result of Orthodoxy'
17 1,1 | Relations with the Eastern Churches, 1866].~ ~Knowing that Rome'
18 1,1 | the Eastern and Western Churches, and all of Christendom
19 1,1 | Schism of 1054, one of the Churches — and only one — Rome, separated
20 1,1 | itself from the ancient Churches which had been preserved
21 1,1 | the National Council of Churches and the World Council of
22 1,1 | and the World Council of Churches, which created ecumenism,
23 1,1 | the various local Orthodox Churches over which they preside
24 1,10| eleven other autocephalous Churches (including Sinai), and also
25 1,10| to the several autonomous Churches (including China, Japan
26 1,10| these independent local Churches, however, the Church has
27 1,10| wide into a multitude of Churches as its fertility increases.~ ~
28 1,10| There are also many local Churches, yet Orthodoxy is something
29 1,11| bishops. Bishops head local Churches, while the Apostles were
30 1,11| a common forum for both Churches East and West to settle
31 1,11| with her self-governing Churches bound together in a fraternal
32 1,11| representatives of independent local Churches, in conformity with the
33 1,15| letters to all the Christian Churches.~ This first Council is
34 2,2 | and certified by the local Churches and by a subsequent general
35 2,6 | was out of the catacombs, churches began to be built above
36 2,6 | ground. Some of the first churches constructed were over the
37 2,6 | Sepulcher. They also built churches on the Mount of Olives in
38 2,6 | to this day as Orthodox churches and monasteries.~ Also during
39 2,15| councils of separate Orthodox Churches gathered twice a year, in
40 2,15| wider area than individual Churches). The textbook goes on to
41 2,16| organization. The local Churches were placed under the jurisdiction
42 3,5 | independent and self-governing Churches, or the successor of the
43 3,5 | the affairs of their own Churches through their local councils.
44 3,5 | to interfere with these Churches, and he also was equally
45 3,5 | Jerusalem], the mother of all Churches.” Likewise, the Second Ecumenical
46 3,5 | Jerusalem is the mother of all Churches.” As for Rome's argument
47 3,5 | Antioch, a sizeable number of Churches trace their foundation to
48 3,5 | bishops from all the above Churches founded by Peter would have
49 3,5 | was, however, these other Churches founded by Peter did not
50 3,5 | directed to the various Churches.... What has surprised me
51 3,11| psychological cast between the Churches of the East and West were
52 4,12| not be found in Orthodox churches, but also all art that cannot
53 4,12| be set forth in the holy churches of God [for veneration]....
54 4,12| threw icons out of their churches through the doors, they
55 4,12| reintroduced into Protestant churches through stained glass windows.
56 4,12| monuments were stolen from churches and carried off to the West
57 4,12| upon the altars of Orthodox churches as they went about a wanton
58 4,12| of the largest Catholic churches and cathedrals. Naked bodies,
59 4,12| the icons throughout the churches were brought over from those
60 5,1 | it was a city of numerous churches and shrines. The grace of
61 6,7 | ways.~ The East had many Churches of Apostolic foundation,
62 6,15| subordinate all the local Churches to their authority, which
63 6,15| authority in those Western Churches — the African, Spanish and
64 6,15| the subordination of these Churches to themselves: great was
65 6,15| provinces.~ ~As for the Churches newly founded in Britain,
66 6,15| subordinating the Western Churches to themselves, were simultaneously
67 6,15| thousands of Protestant Churches and their offspring.~ Regarding
68 6,15| split within or among the Churches. He states that from time
69 6,15| there was no “division” of Churches in 1054, but rather a “falling
70 6,15| into being not one but two Churches, something contrary to Christ'
71 7,3 | that the Eastern Orthodox Churches have refused to change anything
72 7,11| Faith of the ancient local Churches; (3) the ancient Liturgies,
73 7,11| supervision of the leaders of the Churches. In them is seen the confession
74 7,14| the Eastern and Western Churches have gone along very different
75 7,14| National and World Council of Churches, is leading to a new and
76 7,14| became the World Council of Churches in order to attack the Holy
77 7,17| Orthodox Church and all Eastern Churches connected with it, the Peshitta
78 7,17| holds for the other Orthodox Churches. Also, while the West was
79 7,17| the National Council of Churches of the USA (which, in conjunction
80 7,17| with the World Council of Churches, is forming the one-world
81 7,17| Likewise, the World Council of Churches published and distributed
82 7,17| only in homes but also in churches, which is why they have
83 7,21| Moreover, although the Western Churches are trying to keep in step
84 8,14| correctly notes that the Western Churches' altering the Creed represents
85 9,38| the building over them of churches and altars; d) in the establishment
86 10,6 | consists of a number of local Churches such as Jerusalem, Constantinople,
87 10,10| bulletin, some Orthodox Churches “have maintained Apostolic
88 10,10| states that some Orthodox Churches also represent the one Church.
89 10,10| Concerning the Christian Churches outside Christ's One Church,
90 10,11| the heads of these local Churches (the bishops) with one another.
91 10,12| maintains that all Christian Churches are branches of the same
92 10,12| the local autocephalous Churches of the Orthodox communion.~ ~
93 10,13| non-denominational Protestant Churches while at the United States
94 10,16| local ancient Christian Churches preserved lists of their
95 10,16| actual affairs of the other Churches.~ In Scripture, the Church
96 10,16| bishop also consecrates churches. It is the bishop's job
97 10,16| oversee and administer all the churches in his diocese. No church
98 10,16| stars are the angels of the Churches, in other words, the bishops (
99 10,23| over the world gather in churches adorned with icons of their
100 10,25| is held by the Reformed Churches, while the other is maintained
101 11,1 | people enter into Orthodox churches and follow the Divine Liturgy,
102 11,3 | encountered in the Protestant Churches. Having embraced Orthodoxy,
103 11,4 | Council, whereas the Western Churches keep only the first two.
104 11,4 | centuries so that the Slavonic Churches each developed their own
105 11,4 | languages. The Slavonic Churches still employ the ninth-century
106 11,4 | and the Greek-speaking Churches use the Greek of the New
107 11,4 | world. To this day, Orthodox Churches in Russia, the Ukraine,
108 11,4 | of modernistic Orthodox Churches in America and in some places
109 11,4 | appearance, most Orthodox churches are built in an oblong shape,
110 11,4 | a ship on the sea). Some churches are also designed in the
111 11,4 | evil and error). Orthodox churches do not have the elongated
112 11,4 | Gothic-style cathedrals and churches, nor are they built in the
113 11,4 | Russia, the domes of the churches came to assume a characteristic
114 11,4 | twelve Apostles, and on some churches there are even more domes.~
115 11,4 | divine worship. New Testament churches were constructed on the
116 11,4 | to stand within Orthodox churches because the Kingdom of God
117 Ep | equally of remorse. The Churches of God will be deprived
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