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Chapter, Paragraph
501 3,5 | branches of the Church. The Church, being one, continued in
502 3,5 | Pomazansky explains:~ ~The Church does not lose its unity
503 3,5 | because side by side with the Church there exist Christian societies
504 3,5 | societies are not in the Church, they are outside it [Orthodox
505 3,5 | explains that once the Latin Church severed itself from the
506 3,5 | itself from the Eastern Church, the post-schism popes invented
507 3,5 | Deviating from what the Church has always held, the Latin
508 3,5 | has always held, the Latin Church came to maintain that sacramental
509 3,5 | individual secedes from the Church, he can continue to liturgise
510 3,5 | the characteristic of Church unity as understood by the
511 3,5 | given by God, resides in the Church. This grace is poured out
512 3,5 | belongs in the body of the Church, from whom the bishops and
513 3,5 | separates himself from the Church, either because of teaching
514 3,5 | seceding from the unity of the Church (schism), any “Mysteries”
515 3,5 | Thus, after the Latin Church left Christ's Church in
516 3,5 | Latin Church left Christ's Church in the Great Schism, it
517 3,5 | to the ancient, undivided Church, appeared in the Middle
518 3,5 | members of the Catholic Church. Only in the year 1870,
519 3,5 | preferred to leave this Church and found their own community [
520 3,5 | officially, as the head of the Church. The nebulous expression
521 3,5 | the whole history of the Church and of the papacy itself.
522 3,5 | subsequent popes withdrew it from church use. Which of the popes
523 3,5 | tablets and set up in the Church. Within two hundred years,
524 3,5 | excommunicated from the Church by the Sixth Ecumenical
525 3,5 | best-educated bishops of the Latin Church, and many of its most respected
526 3,5 | of Rome occupied in the Church on account of Rome, only
527 3,5 | this rock I will build My Church, the Holy Fathers never
528 3,5 | never understood that the Church was built on Peter (super
529 3,5 | pre-schism teaching of the Church of Christ, both East and
530 3,5 | While the Roman Catholic Church eventually departed from
531 3,5 | Holy Spirit from the Latin Church after its apostasy and schism,
532 3,5 | infallible” dictators over the Church and would-be tyrants of
533 3,5 | The Eastern Orthodox Church does not afford the Roman
534 3,7 | principal heresies in the Church, Nestorianism. This false
535 3,9 | principle basic in the Holy Church, viz., he did not verify
536 3,9 | with the entire Orthodox Church, but rather proceeded on
537 3,11| first eight centuries of the Church's history, the see of Rome,
538 3,11| existence of the Universal Church, the psychological cast
539 3,11| rather than harmful to the Church, for they promoted the fullness
540 3,11| Christianity, leaving the Church as one. It was required
541 3,11| depart from the one Universal Church. However, the Western Church
542 3,11| Church. However, the Western Church broke this communion, and
543 3,11| severance from Christ's Church in 1054.~ ~
544 3,13| ancient title by which the Church addresses Mary protects
545 3,17| questions before the whole Church catholic. The actual conflict
546 3,17| condemned by the Universal Church for his Nestorian leanings.
547 3,18| equals of the bishops of the Church. When Rome withdrew from
548 3,18| When Rome withdrew from the Church, it was impossible, of course,
549 3,18| According to the canons of the Church, in the event of the presiding
550 3,18| taught by the Roman Catholic Church today, despite the fact
551 3,18| fact that — to the Latin Church's own admission — many Roman
552 3,18| While the loss of the Church of Rome and so many of its
553 3,18| estranged from Christ's Church for one thousand years.
554 3,18| thousand years. Given the Latin Church's ideology and aggressive
555 3,18| finger to clean out the Latin Church, that it is already too
556 3,22| lastly, they worked out the Church's governmental structure.
557 4,5 | persecution against the Church?~ The Empress Irene suspended
558 4,6 | heresies of the first period of Church history. Iconoclasm was
559 4,10| titled Icons as Part of the Church's Teaching.~ The Church
560 4,10| Church's Teaching.~ The Church asserts its teaching both
561 4,10| inquiring about the faith into a church and place him in front of
562 4,12| enhance the beauty of a church, an idea that appears in
563 4,12| writings of the Holy Fathers. A church is the house of God and
564 4,12| worship. The beauty of the church must bear the impress of
565 4,12| Iconography, as well as church chant, should completely
566 4,12| place-of-therapy of souls, the church, choked as it were by the
567 4,12| ages, if not the Orthodox Church, millions of whose faithful
568 4,12| idolatry? So how could the Church that has destroyed idolatry
569 4,12| Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church), after Protestants threw
570 4,12| Fathers and teachers of the Church have stated. The bishop
571 4,12| those seen in the Christian Church. The reason for their absence
572 4,12| during the persecution of the Church. It was subsequently transferred
573 4,12| altar and iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople
574 4,12| in the ancient Christian Church, there were sacred images
575 4,12| fourteenth century, the Latin Church began to abandon the sacred
576 4,12| creativity, independent of the Church and its enactments. A free
577 4,12| A free attitude toward Church ideas and a mixing of Church
578 4,12| Church ideas and a mixing of Church traditions with contemporary
579 4,12| That which the ancient Church so painstakingly avoided —
580 4,12| shows the teaching of the Church on the Incarnation of God
581 4,12| Satan, realizing that the Church has saved countless souls
582 4,12| Christian home is like a family Church (Rom. 16:5), an Orthodox
583 4,12| before Christ's tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in
584 4,17| the Byzantine period of Church history would have to include —
585 4,17| produced in the Orthodox Church. That is, of the numerous
586 4,17| The primary purpose in the Church's establishing an authoritative
587 4,17| Scripture was to protect the Church from spurious books which
588 4,17| originated from outside the Church. So the only way they could
589 4,17| or Apostolic origin, the Church did not intend to imply
590 4,17| worship and good order in the Church was contained in these writings.
591 4,17| In fact, by the time the Church settled the canon of Scripture,
592 4,17| indistinguishable from the Church of later periods. This is
593 4,17| As for the structure of Church authority, it was Orthodox
594 4,17| question of the canon. The Church as we know it was in place
595 4,17| one in the history of the Church, for the Fathers are the
596 4,17| authentic Tradition of the Church from false teachings, we
597 4,17| the Holy Fathers of the Church, acknowledging that the
598 4,17| Fathers and teachers of the Church in teaching of the faith
599 4,17| Fathers or teachers of the Church on questions which have
600 4,17| and accepted by the whole Church. However, these opinions
601 4,17| general catholic faith of the Church, and are not accepted as
602 4,17| pp. 37-38].~ ~The True Church established by Christ rests
603 5,4 | not something alien to the Church, but is life according to
604 5,4 | noted, among the Orthodox Church's monks and nuns throughout
605 5,4 | Testament period of the Church, when God revealed to Moses
606 5,4 | Fathers and teachers of the Church, the first monastic community
607 5,4 | disciples.”~ Likewise, the Church historian Filon notes that “
608 5,4 | Mark, who established the Church in Egypt, founded the first
609 5,4 | freedom was granted to the Church by Constantine, however,
610 5,4 | than the persecution of the Church, for with it, the ascetic
611 5,4 | and the life of the early Church. The Fathers, he states,
612 5,4 | their death, he went into church, and there he heard the
613 5,4 | Hierarch of the Russian Church in Exile, himself a monastic
614 5,5 | of monks of the Russian Church in Exile who would not commemorate
615 5,6 | within the Roman Catholic Church, which has preserved the
616 5,6 | effort to regenerate the Church. In Orthodoxy, however,
617 5,6 | struggling to revive the Church or to save it, for it is
618 5,6 | save it, for it is not the Church they need to save. Instead,
619 5,6 | healed living within the Church, and they seek their own
620 5,6 | own salvation within the Church, from Christ, in His Holy
621 5,7 | three ministries in the Church that are independent of
622 5,7 | that are independent of the Church hierarchy: Apostles, prophets
623 5,7 | Fathers in the Ancient Eastern Church, “The charismatic phenomena
624 5,7 | by saints by the Russian Church in Exile. With the Optina
625 5,7 | the spiritual life in the Church was high, and it declined
626 5,7 | Lord does not wish that the Church should stand as an intermediary
627 5,8 | dedicated to Christ and His Holy Church, and it produced a great
628 5,8 | might strive, in the Holy Church, for the salvation of his
629 5,8 | persecution against the Church, suffering under the Moslems
630 5,8 | under the Moslems kept the Church pure by not allowing for
631 5,8 | thus testifying that the Church is not bound to Byzantium,
632 5,8 | is not the concern of the Church; the Church's concern is
633 5,8 | concern of the Church; the Church's concern is the rise and
634 5,8 | in The City of God, the Church does not exist for empires
635 6,6 | schism, no severance from the Church. Can you suggest the reason?~
636 6,6 | oneness of the Apostolic Church. The Church is always one
637 6,6 | the Apostolic Church. The Church is always one and the same,
638 6,6 | Apostolic Tradition. The Russian Church was obedient to the Councils
639 6,6 | and the conscience of the Church expressed in them, and as
640 6,6 | as a result, the Russian Church never cut itself off from
641 6,6 | from the True Universal Church, or from Christ, its Head,
642 6,6 | its Head, as the Latin Church did. Ever since it received
643 6,6 | departed from the Apostolic Church. The Second Rome (or New
644 6,7 | disunity between Rome and the Church. What was this cause?~ One
645 6,7 | which in turn caused the Church to assume different outward
646 6,7 | time, people came to view Church order in conflicting ways.~
647 6,7 | collegial nature of the Church. It saw the bishop of Rome
648 6,7 | them, nor did it see the Church so much as a college as
649 6,7 | absolute monarch over the Church.~ As a political leader
650 6,7 | centralization of Christ's Church, as a Theanthropic body,
651 6,8 | the laity in theology and Church life has always been a significant
652 6,8 | Another way in which the Latin Church browbeat the laity was in
653 6,8 | practice of the ancient Church, as well as the express
654 6,8 | at that time, the Latin Church no longer had the Holy Eucharist,
655 6,8 | was severed from Christ's Church as of its schism in 1054).
656 6,8 | that although the Latin Church attempted to justify its
657 6,8 | at the stake by the Latin Church).~ In yet another attempt
658 6,8 | in the West. In the early Church, especially in the East,
659 6,8 | Potapov explains that:~ ~The Church cannot become free of subordination
660 6,8 | artificial division into the Church of those who teach and those
661 6,8 | participation of the people of the Church has been diminished. In
662 6,8 | diminished. In the Roman Catholic Church, the clergy elevated itself
663 6,9 | One particular aspect of Church life that the textbook often
664 6,9 | contribution which each individual Church center made to theology
665 6,9 | sovereignty over the Universal Church. Rome's spirit of lust for
666 6,9 | traditions and customs of the Church, for, as noted earlier,
667 6,9 | for, as noted earlier, the Church is not and never was monarchical
668 6,9 | set up over the Western Church, one who issued orders not
669 6,9 | the primacy of the Latin Church.~ (2) The matter of Rome'
670 6,9 | the early medieval Western Church some centuries before the
671 6,9 | Rome from the Universal Church. Rome took it upon itself
672 6,9 | consulting the rest of the Church, and the addition had ruinous
673 6,10| decisions of the Universal Church expressly prohibiting any
674 6,13| common treasure of the entire Church, and no individual part
675 6,13| no individual part of the Church has the right to modify
676 6,13| way as Rome did. The Roman Church, in its arbitrary alteration
677 6,13| against the unity of the Church. (For this reason and others,
678 6,13| a false doctrine of the Church.~ (The matter of the filioque
679 6,14| separated themselves from the Church no longer [have] in themselves
680 6,14| that God's plan for His Church does not include the unrepentant
681 6,14| frequent that the call for Church unity, order and humble
682 6,15| the breakaway of the Roman Church from the Church Universal,
683 6,15| the Roman Church from the Church Universal, is the greatest
684 6,15| thereby gave, as it were, the Church's blessing to the overthrown,
685 6,15| form a part of the Roman Church. Despite a certain resistance
686 6,15| the part of the African Church, the popes succeeded comparatively
687 6,15| supremacy of the pope in the Church was inculcated in them simultaneously
688 6,15| to supremacy in the whole Church.~ ~Pope Nicholas (858-876)
689 6,15| papal omnipotence in the Church. But the East, naturally,
690 6,15| consequence of this failure, a Church schism appeared: the first
691 6,15| falling away of the Roman Church is such [Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy].~ ~
692 6,15| produced the Roman Catholic Church. Afterwards, the continuing
693 6,15| putrefaction of the Roman Church produced the thousands of
694 6,15| maintained that the Roman Church ceased overnight to be a
695 6,15| follows on separation from the Church of Christ and which puts
696 6,15| Rome's separation from the Church was nothing more than a
697 6,15| the West off from Christ's Church, it was ultimately the theological
698 6,15| by historical events, the Church is not. The Church remains
699 6,15| the Church is not. The Church remains ever the same —
700 6,15| by their obedience to the Church's Councils. Since these
701 6,15| of the conscience of the Church, which alone is infallible.
702 6,15| to the conscience of the Church for its approval. Anyone
703 6,15| separate himself from the Church, the notes state. And should
704 6,15| and deed — from the Holy Church, and thus cut off from Christ.~
705 6,15| Hierarch of the Russian Church in Exile, explains that
706 6,15| from the one indivisible Church, and in doing so, they ceased
707 6,15| meant that after one unified Church had existed for one thousand
708 6,15| Christ's promise that the Church is one (Mt 16:18). According
709 6,15| According to this promise, the Church can never lose its unity,
710 6,15| always remain one.~ The Church has experienced a succession
711 6,15| communion of the Orthodox Church. Rome's schism is therefore
712 6,15| new to the history of the Church. It is not the earliest
713 6,15| who were severed from the Church.~ After the Great Schism
714 6,15| separating from the Apostolic Church developed with surprising
715 6,15| felt at home in the Western Church of the eleventh century,
716 6,15| twelfth century.~ The Latin Church has not come to terms with
717 6,15| maintains that the Orthodox Church went into schism at that
718 6,15| investigating Christ's true Church and becoming Orthodox, Rome
719 6,15| Orthodoxy from the Latin Church, other than Orthodoxy's
720 6,15| ancient Councils, or to the Church Fathers — much to the opposition
721 6,15| continuing unity of Christ's Church after the Great Schism of
722 6,15| though the Roman Catholic Church claims to be the true Church,
723 6,15| Church claims to be the true Church, it stands outside the boundaries
724 6,15| boundaries of the one true Church that Christ established
725 6,15| After 1054, the Orthodox Church is the only true continuation
726 6,15| continuation of the early undivided Church.~ ~
727 6,16| the doctrine of the Latin Church?~ Over the course of its
728 6,16| separation from the Orthodox Church, the Latin Church introduced
729 6,16| Orthodox Church, the Latin Church introduced a host of innovations,
730 6,16| of the conscience of the Church, it severed itself from
731 6,16| ignored the conscience of the Church, which alone is infallible,
732 6,16| infallibility is denied by the very Church that invented it, for the
733 6,16| for the Roman Catholic Church admits that many Roman popes
734 6,16| Apostle Peter, who the Latin Church proclaims was its first
735 6,16| blasphemous teaching of the Latin Church is that of supererogatory
736 6,16| merits of the saints in the Church's treasury — so Rome teaches
737 6,16| itself off from the Apostolic Church in 1054, and it was accepted
738 6,16| the departed. The Latin Church went on to add an intermediate
739 6,16| sins — or else, the Latin Church also teaches — the period
740 6,16| the members of Christ's Church can assist that soul. If
741 6,16| in the ancient, undivided Church as it contradicts the whole
742 6,16| Immaculate Conception, the Latin Church takes away all victory and
743 6,16| become a part of the Latin Church had it remained united to
744 6,16| remained united to Christ's Church, and had Rome submitted
745 6,16| bishops from the entire Church, both East and West. As
746 6,16| Rome's severance from the Church in 1054, the popes were
747 6,16| so much as laymen in the Church, much less bishops, for
748 6,16| West).~ Although the Roman Church emerged from the Orthodox
749 6,16| emerged from the Orthodox Church and was once bound to it
750 6,16| once bound to it as the Church of martyrs, saints, hierarchs
751 6,16| were cut off from Christ's Church, they were also cut off
752 6,16| firmly fixed in the Latin Church through the popes' ex cathedra
753 6,16| pure faith of the Apostolic Church. This process has continued
754 6,16| explain that in the past, Church Councils were historically
755 6,16| the doors of the Latin Church were thrown open to:~ ~...
756 6,16| Everything was “new”: the “new Church,” the “new priesthood,”
757 6,16| council itself said that the Church must now take full account
758 6,16| leisure.” In other words, the Church must “adapt,” be “relevant,”
759 6,16| of Satan has entered the Church, is around the altar,” he
760 6,16| not espoused a “people's church” where all had equal voice? —
761 6,16| not prevail against the Church (Mt 16:18) is promised only
762 6,16| only to the True, Universal Church. However, upon those who
763 6,16| such as the Roman Catholic Church) are fulfilled the words: “
764 6,17| inclined to assume that the Church was something less than
765 6,17| assumption that the Christian Church is divine and that history
766 6,17| tragic fall of the Roman Church was made. Indeed, it is
767 6,17| unfolding of the Orthodox Church. From an Orthodox point
768 6,17| that protected the Eastern Church from infection by the bacterium
769 6,17| toadies.” [The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way Reviewed,
770 6,18| 16:18, the Roman Catholic Church proudly proclaims the Petrine
771 6,18| Christ wished to build His Church. An analysis of this theory
772 6,18| Christ], I will build My Church, since you alone could not
773 6,18| words, Christ will build His Church upon a person's profession
774 6,18| that He would build His Church on a man (Peter), a little
775 6,18| Instead, Christ will build His Church upon Himself, the only foundation
776 6,18| professor of canon law and Church history at Munich University
777 6,18| recognized as the greatest Church historian of his day, bar
778 6,18| patron of Roman Catholic Church history in the nineteenth
779 6,18| completely unknown in the early Church and has always been relentlessly
780 6,18| resisted by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, he added, “To
781 6,18| infallibility, the history of the Church must appear as an incomprehensible
782 6,18| Dollinger himself, the Latin Church excommunicated him — one
783 6,18| for the testimony of the Church Fathers, not a single one
784 6,18| which Christ will build His Church means the faith of confession.”
785 6,18| same reason did the Latin Church resort to editing manuscripts
786 6,18| doctoring the testimony of the Church Fathers.~ Among the Roman
787 6,18| Among the Roman Catholic Church's numerous forgeries mentioned
788 6,18| forgery, the Roman Catholic Church itself admitted that it
789 6,18| never mentioned by the Latin Church today, of course, because
790 6,18| extensive forgeries in the Latin Church beg the questions: if there
791 6,18| or sovereignty over the Church, nor did he ever raise himself
792 6,18| the other pastors of the Church. Very much to the contrary,
793 6,18| 11).~ The Roman Catholic Church is presently involved in
794 7,1 | of the Holy Spirit in the Church.”~ ~
795 7,2 | continuity of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
796 7,3 | attribute to the Orthodox Church?~ Protopresbyter Georges
797 7,3 | Panagiotis Bratsiotis gave as the Church's distinctive characteristics
798 7,3 | living continuity with the Church of ancient times. These
799 7,3 | reforming [in the Latin Church]. It is indeed something
800 7,6 | generation to generation in the Church. But to an Orthodox Christian,
801 7,6 | whole system of doctrine, Church government, worship and
802 7,7 | but was preserved in the Church and was written in the Proceedings
803 7,7 | Fathers and teachers of the Church used the term Tradition
804 7,9 | Pharisees false and that of the Church true is the source. Christ
805 7,9 | Theophany and the New Year. The Church has persistently condemned
806 7,9 | that:~ ~What the Orthodox Church refers to when it speaks
807 7,9 | Tradition to the entire Church. And the Church, being the
808 7,9 | the entire Church. And the Church, being the repository of
809 7,9 | only portions — one local Church had an epistle, another
810 7,9 | of the Holy Spirit in the Church, they became the New Testament.
811 7,9 | Tradition that aided the Church in making this determination.~
812 7,9 | develops.”~ Certainly when the Church is faced with a heresy,
813 7,9 | in the sense that as the Church moves through history, it
814 7,9 | and the so-called Living Church fell into extremism in their
815 7,9 | schism from the Russian Church over liturgical reforms
816 7,9 | from the past. The Living Church, on the other hand, was
817 7,9 | Russia rejected the Living Church decisively.~ ~
818 7,11| that the teachings of the Church of Christ are safeguarded
819 7,11| that the Founder of the Church, Christ, governs it in an
820 7,11| that it is the life of the Church in the Holy Spirit. He adds
821 7,11| likewise explains that:~ ~The Church of Christ determined the
822 7,11| safeguarded from the Apostolic Church and has an uninterrupted
823 7,11| entire universal Orthodox Church.~· Tradition is that
824 7,11| therefore, by which the Church upholds the unwritten is:
825 7,11| the power of law in the Church of Christ. Accordingly,
826 7,11| proclamations preserved in the Church, some we possess from written
827 7,11| unwritten] Tradition of the Church to be trustworthy. It is
828 7,11| writes that the ancient Church carefully guarded the inward
829 7,11| guarded the inward life of the Church from those outside it. The
830 7,11| Eucharist — those outside the Church were not present; the order
831 7,11| freedom and triumph of the Church in the fourth century, however,
832 7,11| in the literature of the Church, which comprises a supplement
833 7,11| most ancient record of the Church, the Canons of the Holy
834 7,11| records of the history of the Church, especially the book of
835 7,11| Fathers and teachers of the Church; and finally, (7) the very
836 7,11| the very spirit of the Church's life, the preservation
837 7,11| see how the whole order of Church organization, the canons,
838 7,11| way of life of the ancient Church. Therefore, Fr. Michael
839 7,11| the very essence of the Church.~ Protestants deny the unwritten
840 7,11| were handed down in the Church only around the end of the
841 7,11| of the Holy Spirit in the Church to Apostolic times, and
842 7,11| is why they consider all Church enactments that have appeared
843 7,11| Holy Spirit, abiding in the Church as in the Body of Christ,
844 7,11| evangelism, guides the Holy Church even now, promoting the
845 7,11| assimilation of Christ's Church [Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy].~ ~
846 7,11| teaching of the Orthodox Church's Sacred Scriptures, and
847 7,11| practices of the Orthodox Church and the decisions of Orthodoxy'
848 7,11| history of the Orthodox Church, and they do not realize
849 7,11| prevailed earlier in the Latin Church prior to its separation
850 7,11| from the ancient Apostolic Church in 1054 — is that Tradition
851 7,11| accepted everywhere in the Church. On the day of Pentecost,
852 7,11| Pomazansky explains:~ ~The Church's consciousness from the
853 7,11| Apostles down to the end of the Church's life, being guided by
854 7,11| revelation are unchanging. The Church's teaching of faith does
855 7,11| does not develop, and the Church's awareness of itself, with
856 7,11| the Apostles. Although the Church is always guided by the
857 7,11| see in the history of the Church, and we do not expect, new
858 7,11| 2:15). Only the Orthodox Church has remained a faithful
859 7,11| living continuity with the Church of ancient times and has
860 7,11| states:~ ~The Orthodox Church possesses full and unaltered
861 7,11| one, ancient and undivided Church.... She has not altered
862 7,11| character of the Orthodox Church. E. Seeberg, a Protestant
863 7,11| writes:~ ~The Orthodox Church is the one Church, the Catholic
864 7,11| Orthodox Church is the one Church, the Catholic Church, the
865 7,11| one Church, the Catholic Church, the Apostolic Church. She
866 7,11| Catholic Church, the Apostolic Church. She has remained faithful
867 7,11| adds:~ ~For the Eastern Church, Tradition is everything.
868 7,11| everything. She wants to be the Church of Tradition, the Church
869 7,11| Church of Tradition, the Church of the ancient times [Ibid].~ ~
870 7,11| upon which the Orthodox Church is founded. The Ecumenical
871 7,11| Fathers and teachers of our Church agree on all the dogmas,
872 7,11| harmonious melody in the Church as from many voices, precisely
873 7,11| that:~ ~The things of the Church taught and enacted by the
874 7,11| unceasingly. He continued: “Our Church is continuously glorified
875 7,11| They tell us that the Greek Church is a dead Church without
876 7,11| the Greek Church is a dead Church without missionary zeal.
877 7,11| missionary zeal. But how can a Church be characterized as not
878 7,11| ends of Siberia? How can a Church be called dead, which engaged
879 7,11| throughout this interval? No Church offered so many martyrs
880 7,11| generations, but for centuries — a Church can maintain her faith and
881 7,11| in the deadening of the Church. On the contrary, it is
882 7,11| fruitfulness of the life of the Church. The professor further observes
883 7,11| gradual decomposition of a Church. The history of the Western
884 7,11| The history of the Western Church gives the most persuasive
885 7,11| breaking away of the Western Church from the Apostolic Church
886 7,11| Church from the Apostolic Church was the result of the Western
887 7,11| the result of the Western Church's innovations. The subsequent
888 7,11| which split the Western Church into warring parties, took
889 7,11| downfall of the Western Church, a downfall that occurred
890 7,11| bosom of the Roman Catholic Church. This was the movement of
891 7,11| they would revivify their Church. However, the result of
892 7,11| unbelievers and stopped going to church.~ Protestantism, for its
893 7,11| at variance with what the Church has believed always (since
894 7,11| authentic teaching of the Church. As the Apostle Paul admonished: ~ ~
895 7,11| not been received by the Church in its history, then this
896 7,11| introduced into the body of the Church. The Church in turn reacts,
897 7,11| body of the Church. The Church in turn reacts, as any body
898 7,11| which comes from the ancient Church of Apostolic times. It is
899 7,11| and it is the life of the Church as it is inspired by the
900 7,11| Holy Spirit is to guide the Church in Truth. Apostolic Tradition
901 7,11| Tradition is found in what the Church has believed everywhere,
902 7,12| Councils, including the Church's Creed.~ ~The textbook
903 7,13| explains that the Orthodox Church recognizes that together
904 7,13| authority from the Orthodox Church, which is the Body of Christ (
905 7,13| Tim 3:15). The Orthodox Church is the means by which God
906 7,13| Moreover, the Orthodox Church is the means by which God
907 7,13| continually inspired the Church to interpret Scripture “
908 7,13| chapter one, the Orthodox Church is subdivided into the Old
909 7,13| Testament Sacred Scriptures, the Church has shown that she is the
910 7,13| heir of the Old Testament Church — not the national aspect
911 7,13| conduct. Therefore, the Church makes use of her Old Testament
912 7,13| Testament in the New Testament Church,” Selected Essays, p. 170].~ ~
913 7,13| honor in the altar of every church. It is also carried in procession
914 7,13| respect shown in the Orthodox Church for the Word of God.~ ~
915 7,14| is not a part of the true Church of Christ. Thus, it is the
916 7,14| Thus, it is the Orthodox Church, which is the divine-human
917 7,14| Moreover, only the Orthodox Church is able to interpret Holy
918 7,14| accepted by the Orthodox Church! This interpretation alone
919 7,14| this second category, the Church comes to our aid by giving
920 7,14| Fathers and ascetics of the Church have written commentaries
921 7,14| commentaries entered the Church's treasury of spiritual
922 7,14| wisdom. To this day, all the Church's faithful members nourish
923 7,14| Also commenting on the Church's interpretation of Scriptures,
924 7,14| accept the wisdom from the Church's treasury. The mind of
925 7,14| treasury. The mind of the Church is the mind of Christ. “
926 7,14| us? To receive from the Church the true understanding of
927 7,14| accept the wisdom of the Church and to shun their own as
928 7,14| things with the eyes of the Church. If we look with the eyes
929 7,14| to the judgments of the Church. But this is only an apparent
930 7,14| constraining for us in the Church, but only seemingly, since
931 7,14| accepting the mind of the Church we accept truth and in this
932 7,14| These judgments of the Church concerning various matters,
933 7,14| faithful members of the Church conform themselves to these
934 7,14| conclude:~ ~We must look to the Church if we are to have any correct
935 7,14| as imparted in the Holy Church, heresy is the certain outcome ...
936 7,14| the pure Tradition of the Church. The metropolitan also notes
937 7,14| also notes that calling the Church Apostolic refers (among
938 7,14| things) to the fact that the Church rests on the foundation
939 7,14| turn to the Fathers and Church Tradition to allow them
940 7,14| catholic consciousness of the Church. Through this practice,
941 7,14| interpreted privately, but as a Church, was given its classical
942 7,14| fully united to the Orthodox Church. This zealous Church Father
943 7,14| Orthodox Church. This zealous Church Father of Western Orthodox
944 7,14| Universal — see note below] Church itself, every care should
945 7,14| alone to be true which the Church confesses all over the world. [
946 7,14| antiquity, the Christian Church chose the word catholic
947 7,14| principle attributes of the Church: its universality. In the
948 7,14| Faith, whenever the word Church appears, it is unfailingly
949 7,14| times in the Roman Catholic Church, but the teaching of the
950 7,14| the teaching of the early Church has been preserved in the
951 7,14| preserved in the Orthodox Church, which even to this day
952 7,14| pursued by them: the Eastern Church began calling itself Orthodox,
953 7,14| the same time, the Western Church began to call itself Catholic [“
954 7,14| movement.~ After the Latin Church severed itself from Apostolic
955 7,14| As a result, the Western Church continuously moved away
956 7,14| theologian in the Roman Catholic Church, one whose works were selected
957 7,14| and heretical in the Latin Church at one time, only to become “
958 7,14| rejoicing in the peace of the Church, undertake refined researches
959 7,14| the centuries in Christ's Church. Not everyone has the intellectual
960 7,14| Peter 3:16). Moreover, when Church history is examined, it
961 7,14| analyze the Truth of the Church through human reasoning.
962 7,14| the Holy Fathers of the Church, while by the purity of
963 7,14| This place is the Orthodox Church of Christ, and the true
964 7,14| Fathers of the Orthodox Church [“The Holy Fathers of Orthodox
965 7,14| enclosure of the Orthodox Church, is a limitless ocean of
966 7,14| the Holy Fathers of the Church and also considered human
967 7,14| The Mind of the Orthodox Church, p. 203].~ ~Humanism did
968 7,14| placing the Bible before the Church, Wycliffe did not have an
969 7,14| of the nature of Christ's Church, for Orthodox Christianity
970 7,14| had formed the Christian Church for one thousand years.
971 7,14| the control of the Latin Church entailed nothing less than
972 7,14| disappearance of the Holy Church from England in the eleventh
973 7,14| view, coupled with the new “church” being created by the National
974 7,14| monograph Christianity or the Church? by the Holy New-Martyr
975 7,14| was only a forgery of the Church of Christ. When they withdrew
976 7,14| not seek to find the True Church, although Holy Scriptures
977 7,14| individual independently of the Church. Every individual was thus
978 7,14| destroyed the concept of the Church, substituting faith with
979 7,14| derivative element of the Church. Catholicism, he states,
980 7,14| those present in the Latin Church. Having enthroned human
981 7,14| by reading it. Thus the Church's help in interpreting Scripture
982 7,14| fifteen centuries of the Church's existence and refusing
983 7,14| only to invent his own Church instead! As Archpriest George
984 7,14| so-called “reformers of the Church” have in common is that
985 7,14| product of the Orthodox Church that they reject.~ Frank
986 7,14| nor does any Father of the Church or Council hold any special
987 7,14| the Holy Spirit leads the Church, yet they readily claim
988 7,14| faith: “This is what the Church has always taught.”~ Fr.
989 7,14| should cover their heads in church, then all of a sudden the
990 7,14| Ilarion's Christianity of the Church? explain in the introduction
991 7,14| previously had attacked the Church of Christ with their false
992 7,14| order to attack the Holy Church in a “united front.” The
993 7,14| of understanding of the Church and faith is given, one
994 7,14| proclaims that the Orthodox Church is not the Church of Christ,
995 7,14| Orthodox Church is not the Church of Christ, that there is
996 7,14| that there is no visible Church of Christ, and that it is
997 7,14| the notion of the “True Church” such epithets as “medievalism,”
998 7,14| itself as the one true “church.”~ The ecumenical movement
999 7,14| membership in any particular Church is also of no importance.
1000 7,14| destroy Christ's Orthodox Church once and for all — that
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