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1 Fwd,1| calls “Christendom's oldest Church” [Christendom and Christianity,
2 Fwd,1| learning about the Orthodox Church and its maintaining the
3 Fwd,1| connection does their particular Church have with the Apostles when
4 Fwd,1| those of another much older Church, the Orthodox Christian
5 Fwd,1| the Orthodox Christian Church. This church is the original
6 Fwd,1| Orthodox Christian Church. This church is the original Church and
7 Fwd,1| This church is the original Church and the depository of Apostolic
8 Fwd,1| Apostolic Christian Truth, and a Church that until recently remained
9 Fwd,1| the Churches, the Orthodox Church has retained the continuity
10 Fwd,1| understand that the ancient Church founded by Christ through
11 Fwd,1| understand that that ancient Church is the Orthodox Church,
12 Fwd,1| ancient Church is the Orthodox Church, the Church of the Apostles
13 Fwd,1| the Orthodox Church, the Church of the Apostles and martyrs,
14 Fwd,1| and martyrs, and the only Church that has an unbroken line
15 Fwd,1| book show, the Orthodox Church has maintained a living
16 Fwd,1| faith and practices of the Church have not changed.~
17 Fwd,2| While the Roman Catholic Church can trace its bishops' lineage,
18 Fwd,2| practices. After the Latin Church severed itself from the
19 Fwd,2| from the true Universal Church in 1054, the West entered
20 Fwd,2| present time, the Latin Church made many deviations and
21 Fwd,2| to be denied by the very Church that invented it. It is
22 Fwd,2| morals. The Roman Catholic Church itself admits this fact,
23 Fwd,2| is denied in the Catholic Church. For example, according
24 Fwd,2| justify his actions before the Church, that Paul rebuked Peter “
25 Fwd,2| that Peter, who the Latin Church proclaims was its first
26 Fwd,2| out, the Roman Catholic Church is presently involved in
27 Fwd,2| Rome's claim to be the true Church hinged upon the matter of
28 Fwd,2| actually is the ancient Church going back two thousand
29 Fwd,2| could remain in the Catholic Church if he did not believe it
30 Fwd,2| believe it was the true Church, the rector replied that
31 Fwd,2| brought him to the Orthodox Church and its priesthood. His
32 Fwd,2| that the Eastern Orthodox Church alone has not distorted
33 Fwd,2| Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Christ. They
34 Fwd,2| understand that the same Orthodox Church is that very Church that
35 Fwd,2| Orthodox Church is that very Church that has maintained the
36 Fwd,3| Christianity, the Latin Church reversed the direction of
37 Fwd,3| practice remains in the Latin Church to this day.~ Still another
38 Fwd,3| not exist outside Christ's Church. According to the first
39 Fwd,3| of St. Basil, outside the Church the bestowing of grace is
40 Fwd,3| be grace outside the one Church, outside of the unity of
41 Fwd,3| Once a bishop leaves the Church in schism as the pope did
42 Fwd,3| century, the continuing Church does not recognize any consecrations
43 Fwd,3| and schism from Christ's Church in 1054.~ Only the Orthodox
44 Fwd,3| 1054.~ Only the Orthodox Church can rightfully claim continuity
45 Fwd,3| were the bishops of the Church. Through Apostolic Succession,
46 Fwd,3| Succession, the Orthodox Church traces its existence to
47 Fwd,3| to Christ and is the one Church founded by Him. As Holy
48 Fwd,3| 2:15), and one Christian Church (Mt 16:18). All other Churches —
49 Fwd,3| Catholic and Apostolic Church.” Precisely these four words
50 Fwd,3| characteristics of the one Church established by Christ and
51 Fwd,3| meaning universal), the true Church has an unbroken tie with
52 Fwd,3| historic continuity with the Church of the Apostles. The Apostles
53 Fwd,3| are the foundation of the Church, for it is “built upon the
54 Fwd,3| Eph. 2:20). Calling the Church Apostolic indicates that
55 Fwd,3| single bishop, as the Roman Church would later come to assert (
56 Fwd,3| Lk 22:25). The Orthodox Church is also Apostolic because
57 Fwd,3| theology of the Orthodox Church with Western Christianity'
58 Fwd,3| being Christ's one and only Church should not be a stumbling
59 Fwd,3| and that in this ancient Church is found the fullness of
60 Fwd,4| unchanging teaching of the Church in a clear and objective
61 Fwd,5| even forced themselves into Church circles. There, thought
62 Fwd,5| understand that the enemies of Church and state have bullied and
63 Fwd,5| this regard:~ ~The Orthodox Church venerates tens of thousands
64 Fwd,5| great missionary saints. The Church also has collections of
65 Fwd,5| of the veneration of the Church for women is the way in
66 Fwd,5| is the way in which the Church venerates St. Monica as
67 Fwd,5| Indeed, this is confirmed in Church history; every great male
68 Fwd,5| discovered the Orthodox Church. In my study of Orthodoxy,
69 Fwd,5| proof that the Orthodox Church is graced with mystical
70 Fwd,5| the women saints of the Church, the same writer notes that:~ ~
71 Fwd,6| submitted to Christ through His Church. They were also granted
72 Fwd,6| alike — if you have studied Church history in your spiritual
73 Fwd,6| Commenting on the vision of Church history that exists in the
74 Fwd,6| they think of the early Church, think of Rome, the popes,
75 Fwd,6| Christianity. The early Church, however, was overwhelmingly
76 Fwd,6| and that they belong to a Church that crucifies instead of
77 Fwd,6| Salvation, the Orthodox Church, before God closes its doors
78 Fwd,6| Yearbook reports, the Orthodox Church is the fastest growing mainline
79 Fwd,6| fastest growing mainline Church in North America [1995 ed.,
80 Fwd,6| the original and the one Church founded by Christ, and its
81 Fwd,6| Orthodoxy, for the Orthodox Church is the sole grace-giving
82 Fwd,6| is the sole grace-giving Church. As one writer reflects,
83 Fwd,6| preserved. It is in this ancient Church, that by God's grace, one'
84 1 | 1. Survey of Church History: The Beginnings.~ ~
85 1,1 | meant by the expression the Church has come a full circle?~
86 1,1 | question refers to the historic Church that Christ and His Apostles
87 1,1 | Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, which comes down in a straight
88 1,1 | the Apostles. The Orthodox Church has retained the continuity
89 1,1 | realize that the Orthodox Church is the very continuation
90 1,1 | continuation of the ancient Church in modern times. Two Americans
91 1,1 | observe that:~ ~The Orthodox Church, especially now with the
92 1,1 | second largest Christian Church, numbering 350 million or
93 1,1 | As they rediscover the Church of the Tsars and of the
94 1,1 | Christianity much older than the Church of Rome, a Church which
95 1,1 | than the Church of Rome, a Church which discussed and resolved
96 1,1 | not the Eastern Orthodox Church which cut itself off from
97 1,1 | itself off from the Latin Church. We are coming to see the
98 1,1 | are embracing the Orthodox Church as the criterion of Christianity,
99 1,1 | Customs and Traditions of the Church, p. 1].~ ~Concerning the
100 1,1 | the time of the primitive Church, in accordance with the
101 1,1 | the one and indivisible Church of Christ, whereby they
102 1,1 | ceased to be members of the Church and parts of her Theanthropic
103 1,1 | with the history of the Church, and likewise observing
104 1,1 | cycle that the Orthodox Church has gone through over the
105 1,1 | total annihilation of the Church. For three centuries, Christian
106 1,1 | completely well grounded in Church history to make so elementary
107 1,1 | which time the Orthodox Church produced the Liturgy, the
108 1,1 | never prevailed against His Church (Mt 16:18). Despite all
109 1,1 | Likewise, the Roman Catholic Church, ever since its departure
110 1,1 | from the ancient Apostolic Church in 1054, has acted with
111 1,1 | attempts to destroy Christ's Church. Writing of the Latin Church'
112 1,1 | Church. Writing of the Latin Church's numerous inquisitions
113 1,1 | Tsar, stated:~ ~The Roman Church is not only the mother of
114 1,1 | the year 1054, the Roman Church was united to the Eastern
115 1,1 | to the Eastern Orthodox Church; both were a part of the
116 1,1 | of the ancient Apostolic Church of Christ. Orthodox Christianity
117 1,1 | the form of the Orthodox Church, which is the only true
118 1,1 | continuation of the early undivided Church). For one thousand years,
119 1,1 | thousand years, the Christian Church — both East and West — lived
120 1,1 | its bishops governed the Church as equals. In addition,
121 1,1 | commonly used in the early Church to refer to the bishops
122 1,1 | the same significance in Church affairs as it had in affairs
123 1,1 | and domination over the Church overtook the Roman popes,
124 1,1 | Roman Catholic priest and Church historian, makes the following
125 1,1 | was not the founder of the Church of Rome in that sense. There
126 1,1 | ecclesiastical officer) of the Roman Church — a claim not made [by Rome]
127 1,1 | he exercised in the Roman Church [Ibid., p. 35].~ ~Harvard-educated
128 1,1 | that the Roman Catholic Church defined its founder to be
129 1,1 | had in fact founded the Church of Rome, but because the
130 1,1 | Rome, but because the Latin Church wanted to exploit certain
131 1,1 | the actual founder of the Church of Rome, nor St. Peter (
132 1,1 | any actual primacy in the Church, nor did any city. (In the
133 1,1 | being the co-founder of the Church of Rome, the authorities
134 1,1 | explains:~ ~The Orthodox Church of Christ refuses to recognize
135 1,1 | yet another head of the Church in the form of a Vicar of
136 1,1 | given in the Roman Catholic Church to the bishop of Rome. Such
137 1,1 | God or to the universal Church consciousness and tradition;
138 1,1 | tradition; it tears away the Church on earth from immediate
139 1,1 | unity with the heavenly Church. A vicar is assigned during
140 1,1 | invisibly present in His Church always.~ ~The rejection
141 1,1 | rejection by the ancient Church of the view of the bishop
142 1,1 | Rome as the Head of the Church and Vicar of Christ upon
143 1,1 | authoritative of the early Church Fathers — and also regarded
144 1,1 | saint by the Roman Catholic Church — spoke about the authority
145 1,1 | to the government of His Church and to judge our conduct [
146 1,1 | would divide and corrupt the Church, the Eastern patriarchs
147 1,1 | established by the early Church. Based on Holy Scriptures
148 1,1 | and the truths that the Church has always held since the
149 1,1 | beliefs of the Christian Church. The Eastern Church warned
150 1,1 | Christian Church. The Eastern Church warned the Church in the
151 1,1 | Eastern Church warned the Church in the West of the dangers
152 1,1 | end, though, the Orthodox Church could not compromise and
153 1,1 | back. In 1054, the Roman Church officially severed itself
154 1,1 | ancient sees of the Christian Church, including the Mother Church,
155 1,1 | Church, including the Mother Church, the first Church of Christendom —
156 1,1 | Mother Church, the first Church of Christendom — Jerusalem,
157 1,1 | Jerusalem, and from the Church where Christians were first
158 1,1 | the rest of the Christian Church. As Thomas Hulbert, a Dutch
159 1,1 | and his followers from the Church. In the Great Schism of
160 1,1 | Martin, writes that the Latin Church was~ ~…now ready to abandon
161 1,1 | Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, 1981].~ ~In the aftermath
162 1,1 | attack upon the Eastern Church. Later came the Inquisition,
163 1,1 | Rome stopped looking to the Church as something otherworldly
164 1,1 | through words, the Latin Church was then justified in using
165 1,1 | demands that the “Roman Church be regarded as the only
166 1,1 | or disowned by the Latin Church, although its contents have
167 1,1 | that the Roman Catholic Church has “the power to employ
168 1,1 | pernicious to deny that the Church has “immunity from civil
169 1,1 | from Orthodoxy, the Latin Church promoted countless murderous
170 1,1 | unilaterally changing the Church's Creed invariably would
171 1,1 | Velimirovich (+1956) call the Latin Church a semi-military organization
172 1,1 | of battle with Christ's Church. Archpriest Boris Molchanoff
173 1,1 | The Russian Fathers of the Church ascribed particular significance
174 1,1 | good of the peace of His Church. Through them He does not
175 1,1 | mantle of “Protector of the Church” fell upon the shoulders
176 1,1 | preserve the well-being of the Church. Thus, Tsar Nicholas II
177 1,1 | establishing the Orthodox Christian Church in the world.~ Continuing,
178 1,1 | popes against the Orthodox Church). Unlike the monarchies
179 1,1 | in the Eastern Orthodox Church.~ The Russian Tsar played
180 1,1 | the Russian Fathers of the Church view the Russian monarchy
181 1,1 | condemned by the Universal Church at the Second Ecumenical
182 1,1 | establishment on earth of the Church of Christ, and that time
183 1,1 | idea of a non-suffering Church stands the witness of the
184 1,1 | Christians, not only in the early Church, but also during the Arian
185 1,1 | ecumenism, a new heresy in the Church. Like the religion of the
186 1,1 | promotes a future ecumenical “church” that will unify all existing
187 1,1 | destruction of Christ's Church through persecution, he
188 1,1 | Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith, the Church's Creed. Now, through the
189 1,1 | Catholic and Apostolic Church.” By means of such an attack
190 1,1 | Savior founded only one true Church on earth. Through ecumenism,
191 1,1 | 2:15), and one Christian Church founded by Christ (cf. Mt
192 1,1 | Dogmas are being revised, Church history is being rewritten,
193 1,1 | heresy in the history of the Church has striven itself to stand
194 1,1 | in the place of the true Church, while the ecumenical movement,
195 1,1 | themselves as the one true Church. Here ancient Arianism,
196 1,1 | to charge and attack the Church. This phenomenon is undoubtedly
197 1,1 | since the time of the early Church have been original. Most
198 1,1 | antichrist, most established Church institutions will be drawn
199 1,1 | drawn into this worldwide “church.” Orthodox Christianity
200 1,1 | deny the Living God and His Church, and to bow down before
201 1,1 | this world. And thus the Church, like a pure and undefiled
202 1,1 | that began with Christ's Church being poor and persecuted,
203 1,1 | persecutions against the Church throughout the centuries.
204 1,1 | destruction of Christ's Church and all Orthodox Christians.
205 1,1 | leaders continue to meddle in Church affairs by appointing sycophantic
206 1,1 | embrace of the one-world “church” of the antichrist. Thus,
207 1,1 | protectors and leaders of the Church.” With this development,
208 1,1 | development, that portion of the Church that has not capitulated
209 1,1 | far closer to the early Church than their grandparents
210 1,1 | more.” In this sense, the Church has indeed come a full circle.~
211 1,1 | never prevail against the Church (Mt 16:18), for “the foundation
212 1,1 | in this regard, Christ's Church is “a kingdom not of this
213 1,1 | powerless.” He added that the Church “has not only not perished
214 1,1 | opposition, the Orthodox Church has preserved the faith
215 1,2 | history of the New Testament Church?~ The history of the New
216 1,2 | history of the New Testament Church begins at Pentecost (circa
217 1,2 | Pentecost is the birthday of the Church from the point of view that
218 1,2 | that it was then that the Church became the Body of Christ,
219 1,2 | that Pentecost was when the Church acquired substance. He goes
220 1,2 | beginning and existence of the Church is actually found in the
221 1,2 | the emergence of the first Church, for the angels too are
222 1,2 | angels too are members of the Church. God is the Creator of “
223 1,2 | angels are members of the Church is also witnessed by the
224 1,2 | explain that the name of the Church of Christ is used in two
225 1,2 | the earthly or militant Church, while those departed compose
226 1,2 | the heavenly or triumphant Church. Fr. Panteleimon continues,
227 1,2 | inclusive sense, however, the Church is a society of all free,
228 1,2 | are united to Him as the Church's one Head. The Apostle
229 1,2 | Apostle Paul understands the Church in this way when he instructs
230 1,2 | placed Him as the Head of the Church (Eph 1:10,23; Col 1:18).
231 1,2 | ministers in establishing the Church on earth, and they are sent
232 1,2 | that the history of the Church dates to the creation of
233 1,2 | Incarnation of God the Word, the Church becomes the Body of Christ.
234 1,2 | Christ. One can speak of the Church in this sense.~ Dr. Ivan
235 1,2 | Testament periods of the Church:~ ~Of all the religions
236 1,3 | history in the New Testament Church?~ This survey is found in
237 1,5 | At what level does the Church exist in all its fullness?~
238 1,5 | in all its fullness?~ The Church exists in all its fullness
239 1,6 | of information on early Church dogma, organization, the
240 1,8 | meant by referring to the Church as a Eucharistic Society?~
241 1,8 | Society?~ St. Ignatius saw the Church in both its hierarchical
242 1,8 | place of the bishop in the Church, and upon the bishop's primary
243 1,8 | Eucharist. For Ignatius, the Church was primarily a Eucaristic
244 1,8 | Eucharist celebration. Thus the Church exists in all its fullness
245 1,8 | in the tradition of the Church. Orthodoxy views the Church
246 1,8 | Church. Orthodoxy views the Church foremost as a Eucharist
247 1,8 | and soul of the Orthodox Church, and they are the heart
248 1,8 | heart and center of all Church life. The Church's lifeblood
249 1,8 | of all Church life. The Church's lifeblood flows from the
250 1,8 | worship in the Orthodox Church, and to be united with it
251 1,8 | Head and Founder of the Church, Jesus Christ. Without Christ'
252 1,8 | presence in this Mystery, the Church could not achieve its earthly
253 1,8 | Eucharist that the Orthodox Church has the living presence
254 1,8 | the local community in the Church, something obvious to anyone
255 1,8 | is in the center of the Church, surrounded by his flock.
256 1,8 | catholicity of the early Church, where the focus of unity
257 1,9 | is the visible center of Church life?~ The hierarchical
258 1,9 | the highest rank in the Church. Thus, Orthodox bishops,
259 1,9 | occupy the visible center of Church life. Protopresbyter Michael
260 1,9 | highest ministry in the Church, and that the Apostles in
261 1,9 | in the East. The Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom
262 1,9 | Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom that has
263 1,10| contain the fullness of Church life, why is it that only
264 1,10| faithful is referred to as the Church?~ The student does not imagine
265 1,10| faithful is referred to the Church” is not tenable.~ One eminent
266 1,10| family comprise a house Church. This term was used by the
267 1,10| Christians did not have their own church buildings in which to pray (
268 1,10| 5-6, et al.).~ The word Church is ekklesia in Greek, which
269 1,10| to call together. Thus, Church means a gathering of people,
270 1,10| Michael adds that:~ ~The name Church which belongs to every Christian
271 1,10| with the body of the whole Church of Christ [Orthodox Dogmatic
272 1,10| the broad sense.~ The word Church is always used in reference
273 1,10| local Churches, however, the Church has a wider unity. The Church
274 1,10| Church has a wider unity. The Church Father Cyprian, Bishop-Martyr
275 1,10| full possession. So the Church is a single whole, though
276 1,10| is nothing less than the Church of Christ on earth. It is
277 1,10| that is also called the Church.~ ~
278 1,11| is meant by calling the Church conciliar?~ The word conciliar
279 1,11| Dictionary). Calling the Church conciliar underscores the
280 1,11| great importance of the Church's Councils. Bishop Alexander
281 1,11| South America of the Russian Church in Exile goes on to explain
282 1,11| in which bishops decide Church matters, first having prayed
283 1,11| are made which benefit the Church.~ In the time of the Apostles,
284 1,11| obligatory for the whole Church (Acts 16:4). By means of
285 1,11| important questions in the Church for all times.~ It is important
286 1,11| Apostles and the head of the Church, as the Roman Catholic Church
287 1,11| Church, as the Roman Catholic Church falsely teaches.~ Orthodox
288 1,11| Apostle, having founded a new Church in some locale, would ordain
289 1,11| consequence of this, the Orthodox Church does not honor the Apostle
290 1,11| Rome. Nonetheless, the Holy Church always allowed that among
291 1,11| subsequent history of the Church, even prior to Rome's departure
292 1,11| Rome's departure from the Church in 1054, no bishop had absolute
293 1,11| authority over any other. The Church is not and never was monarchical
294 1,11| the supreme head of the Church, as the Latin Church teaches,
295 1,11| the Church, as the Latin Church teaches, why were there
296 1,11| Cyprian?~ From the witness of Church history, many Roman Catholics
297 1,11| deals with the Orthodox Church's conciliar tradition (an
298 1,11| observes that the early Church was conciliar in its government,
299 1,11| highest judicial body of the Church, that these Ecumenical Councils
300 1,11| jurisdiction. None of the Church Fathers or general councils
301 1,11| superior to a council of the Church and that a council was ecumenical
302 1,11| Christendom was an undivided Church governed by councils that
303 1,11| beyond doubt that the early Church does not point to the office
304 1,11| living tradition of the Church, but to an ecumenical consensus
305 1,11| intrinsic to the nature of the Church and it is this that supplies
306 1,11| that:~ ~Today the Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom
307 1,11| Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom that preserves
308 1,11| rightly calls herself the Church of the Seven Ecumenical
309 1,11| world just as the early Church did [Ibid., pp. 43-44].~ ~(
310 1,11| In the Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, the
311 1,11| to a scandal in the Latin Church, the cardinals complained
312 1,11| matters).~ The Orthodox Church believes that the council
313 1,11| organ of authority in the Church, and the highest authority
314 1,11| of bishops. For a local Church, it is a council of its
315 1,11| and for the Ecumenical Church, a council of bishops made
316 1,12| first Council of the Holy Church called?~ It is known as
317 1,15| first Council of the Holy Church?~ The Council of Jerusalem
318 1,15| certain social matters so the Church could meet as one. This
319 1,15| through it, the Christian Church became a Universal Church
320 1,15| Church became a Universal Church whose mission was no longer
321 1,15| Council set the precedent for Church leaders to meet in Councils
322 1,16| the visible facet of the Church?~ ~312 AD was the year that
323 1,16| to the persecution of the Church. These events marked the
324 1,16| Christianity and marked the Church's coming of age.~ Because
325 1,16| faith like the Apostles, the Church gives both saints the title
326 1,17| position of the bishop in the Church.~ ~· Christ called
327 1,17| highest ministry in the Church, and the Apostles in turn
328 1,17| administrative structure of the early Church consisted of a bishop of
329 1,17| the highest rank in the Church, and they therefore receive
330 1,17| Antioch saw the bishop of the Church as presiding as the visible
331 1,17| Who is the Head of the Church. He also saw the bishop'
332 1,17| in the tradition of the Church.~· St. Ignatius saw
333 1,17| surrounded by his flock, is the Church. This concept of the central
334 1,17| Orthodoxy.~· The Orthodox Church is a conciliar Church in
335 1,17| Orthodox Church is a conciliar Church in which bishops consult
336 1,17| this chapter, the Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom
337 1,17| Orthodox Church is the only Church in Christendom that has
338 1,17| position of the bishop in the Church will be given in chapter
339 1,18| assembled the leaders of the Church and its decisions were subsequently
340 1,18| subsequently approved by the entire Church in all places and times.
341 1,18| was local in nature. The Church had not yet reached the
342 2 | 2. Byzantium and the Church of the Seven Councils.~ ~ ~
343 2,1 | is meant by the term the Church of the Seven Councils?~
344 2,1 | the Seven Councils?~ The Church of the Seven Councils is
345 2,1 | another name for the Orthodox Church. This title emphasizes the
346 2,1 | Universal] and Ecumenical Church.”~ ~
347 2,3 | problems pressing to the entire Church. When the decisions reached
348 2,3 | are accepted by the entire Church in all places and times,
349 2,4 | expression the conscience of the Church?~ The conscience of the
350 2,4 | The conscience of the Church is the inspiration of the
351 2,5 | watershed in the history of the Church, for under him, Christianity
352 2,5 | Under Constantine, the Church of the catacombs became
353 2,5 | the catacombs became the Church of the Empire.~ However,
354 2,5 | relations between the Christian Church and the Roman state (and
355 2,5 | Roman Catholicism — was the Church of the Roman Empire and
356 2,5 | the truth of Christ's Holy Church, and Orthodox Christianity
357 2,5 | large-scale martyrdoms throughout Church history; the one preceding
358 2,5 | survival. Such is the Orthodox Church — crucified, yet having
359 2,6 | the external life of the Church occurred at this time?~
360 2,6 | structure into which the Church was integrated, was not
361 2,6 | accommodating the Christian Church. Thus the Emperor Constantine
362 2,6 | attempt to sway the Christian Church towards a theology of his
363 2,6 | Protestant misconception of Church history is that the Church
364 2,6 | Church history is that the Church fell into apostasy from
365 2,6 | can be stated that had the Church ceased for even one day,
366 2,6 | author continues, if the Church did indeed cease for a period
367 2,6 | described the growth of the Church in His parable of the mustard
368 2,6 | Theology, p. 19].~ ~That the Church did not cease to exist at
369 2,6 | Christ is the Head of the Church (Eph. 4:15-16), the Church
370 2,6 | Church (Eph. 4:15-16), the Church is His Body (Eph. 1:22-23),
371 2,6 | promised to be with the Church “even unto the end of the
372 2,6 | did not promise that His Church would be prosperous or the
373 2,6 | would be no sinners in the Church (Mt 13:47-50), or that it
374 2,6 | and ultimately triumphant Church that would have His abiding
375 2,6 | Spirit (Jn 16:13). If the Church had indeed fallen into apostasy
376 2,6 | concludes.~ Now that the Church was out of the catacombs,
377 2,6 | mother, built a massive church in honor of the Resurrection
378 2,6 | Resurrection of Christ, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. They
379 2,6 | freedom and rest for the Church, the Emperor Constantine
380 2,6 | Councils in the history of the Church. This First Ecumenical Council
381 2,6 | services of the Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Councils
382 2,6 | began to flourish once the Church came above ground. The new
383 2,6 | proliferated. In short, the Church became the center of every
384 2,8 | toleration of the Christian Church?~ Although Constantine initially
385 2,10| Council of the Christian Church.~ ~
386 2,12| Council also composed the Church's Symbol of Faith, the Creed,
387 2,14| her existence, the Holy Church of Christ has ceaselessly
388 2,14| ancient teaching of the Church against the false teachings
389 2,14| ordering of the life of the Church. Of course, the meaning
390 2,14| well understood within the Church before the Councils, but
391 2,14| the bishops of the whole Church were called, and the Holy
392 2,15| types of Councils within the Church. What are they called?~
393 2,15| often in the history of the Church there were also councils
394 2,15| from the whole Orthodox Church, both East and West, gathered
395 2,15| problems pressing to the entire Church. Included in these general
396 2,15| into the Tradition of the Church by the confirmation of the
397 2,16| defined once and for all the Church's teaching upon the fundamental
398 2,16| Councils defended what the Church has always known to be the
399 2,16| to be the truth [Bible, Church, Tradition: an Eastern Orthodox
400 2,16| Councils worked out the Church's visible organization.
401 2,20| doctrinal teaching of Christ's Church was composed and ratified
402 2,20| representing the voice of the whole Church, represent the voice of
403 2,20| voice of Truth, for the Church is “the pillar and ground
404 2,20| Truth” (1 Tim 3:15), and the Church as a whole cannot err. If
405 2,20| cannot err. If the whole Church were to fall into error,
406 2,20| from them. Obedience to the Church requires that we hold the
407 2,20| he is separated from the Church and from Christ Himself,
408 2,20| man neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as
409 2,20| importance of holding the Church's correct teachings, and
410 2,20| rather than renouncing the Church's Truth through the acceptance
411 2,20| his own beliefs over the Church's divinely revealed Truth.
412 2,20| waged war against Christ's Church through this means, through
413 2,20| of the revelation of the Church and impair the teaching
414 2,20| ecclesiology. Since the Church is the Body of Christ (Eph.
415 2,20| severs them from the Holy Church, and it has been the reason
416 2,20| appeared after the Latin Church severed itself from Christ'
417 2,20| severed itself from Christ's Church in 1054. This false doctrine
418 2,20| The Mind of the Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hierotheos
419 2,33| Monothelitism?~ Once the Christian Church proved victorious over the
420 2,33| from false brothers in the Church — that is, from one heresy
421 2,33| to be reconciled to the Church, the bishop who had to receive
422 2,33| Arius was on his way to church, he stepped into a public
423 2,35| textbook notes that the Church's Councils had as their
424 2,35| organ of authority in the Church, and the highest authority
425 2,35| of bishops: for a local Church it is a council of its local
426 2,35| and for the Ecumenical Church, a council of the bishops
427 2,35| the bishops of the whole Church [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
428 2,35| questions pressing to the entire Church. St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+
429 2,35| To be the voice of the Church, a council's decisions must
430 2,35| The Mind of the Orthodox Church, pp. 215-16].~ Protopresbyter
431 2,35| notes that:~ ~The Orthodox Church of Christ is the Body of
432 2,35| consciousness is always with the Church, but, in a more definite
433 2,35| Ecumenical Councils of the Church [Op. cit., p. 35].~ ~Concerning
434 2,35| ancient teaching of the Church against the distortions
435 2,35| by certain Fathers of the Church.~ Fr. Michael gives more
436 2,35| catholic consciousness of the Church was disturbed and was not
437 2,35| truth — are accepted by the Church's catholic consciousness;
438 2,35| reject some aspect of the Church's Tradition — are rejected
439 2,35| consciousness. The Orthodox Church is the Church not of councils
440 2,35| The Orthodox Church is the Church not of councils as such,
441 2,35| Spirit, which conform to the Church's catholic consciousness [
442 2,35| council are overturned if the Church rejects them as heretical.
443 2,35| Ecumenical Councils of the Church made their dogmatic decrees
444 2,35| testifying that the Ecumenical Church has understood the cited
445 2,35| catholic Tradition of the Church. For this reason these decrees
446 2,35| Sacred Tradition in the Church, founded upon the facts
447 2,35| Ibid].~ ~Concerning the Church's Creed, Fr. Michael makes
448 2,35| noted that the Orthodox Church to this day retains the
449 2,35| Creed. The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, uses
450 2,35| Councils that the Latin Church itself recognizes as divinely
451 2,35| earthly authority of the Holy Church of Christ, guided by the
452 2,36| continued fidelity to His Church. Christ did not leave His
453 2,36| Holy Spirit to guide the Church in truth and to protect
454 2,36| and with this period of Church history are given by Dr.
455 2,36| powers of hades with the Holy Church [Orthodox Apologetic Theology,
456 3 | 3. Byzantium and the Church of the Seven Councils (Continuation).~ ~
457 3,3 | essence with the Father,” the Church's Creed proclaims.~ ~
458 3,4 | harmonious chorus [The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way Reviewed,
459 3,5 | Rome formerly hold in the Church?~ First, it is to be noted
460 3,5 | Constantinople and the Mother Church of Jerusalem. Whatever this
461 3,5 | are equal in the Orthodox Church, they do have different
462 3,5 | for Jerusalem, the Mother Church of Christendom. There would
463 3,5 | prince of the Universal Church, or an infallible judge
464 3,5 | Catholic notes that the Church of the Seven Ecumenical
465 3,5 | practices of the Pre-Nicaean Church. These canons were translated
466 3,5 | note, every self-governing Church, both in the East and West,
467 3,5 | sanction of the Universal Church, an appeal was made not
468 3,5 | tribunal in the Universal Church. Such was the ancient constitution
469 3,5 | ancient constitution of the Church. The bishops were independent
470 3,5 | rights over the Universal Church. On those occasions when
471 3,5 | absolutism not recognized in the Church, they were duly reproved
472 3,5 | or powers over the entire Church. As patriarch of the West,
473 3,5 | Catholic history of the Church is utterly artificial, ignoring
474 3,5 | derives. Contrary to the Latin Church's assertion, the spiritual
475 3,5 | argument that the Christian Church in Rome held an actual primacy
476 3,5 | an actual primacy in the Church, rather than a primacy of
477 3,5 | have struck the primitive Church as absurd.~ Furthermore,
478 3,5 | seemed sensible to the early Church. Had any kind of personal
479 3,5 | Christ — existed in the Church, it would have belonged
480 3,5 | Apostle Peter founded the Church of Antioch and was its first
481 3,5 | primacy was unknown to the Church.~ In the sixth century,
482 3,5 | actual authority in the Church is shared by all the bishops
483 3,5 | claim a primacy over the Church was not recognized.~ St.
484 3,5 | regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as a very eminent pope and
485 3,5 | Needless to say, the Latin Church makes certain to conceal
486 3,5 | guarded secret of the Latin Church is that early popes condemned
487 3,5 | Bishop of the Universal Church as blasphemous, as a “snare
488 3,5 | the undivided Christian Church until Rome began to assert
489 3,5 | errors of the Roman Catholic Church is pride, and belief that
490 3,5 | is the real head of the Church, and what is more, that
491 3,5 | Writing of the Latin Church's departure from the ancient
492 3,5 | from the ancient Apostolic Church of Christ, one writer explains
493 3,5 | the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding
494 3,5 | unity of the continuing Church have remained apostates
495 3,5 | continuing unity of the undivided Church founded by Christ, or who
496 3,5 | teachings defined by that Church, ceases to be a member of
497 3,5 | membership with that One Church founded by Christ [Abbot
498 3,5 | departure from Christ's Church in 1054, the unity of the
499 3,5 | in 1054, the unity of the Church did not cease at that time,
500 3,5 | separate branches of the Church. The Church, being one,
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