1-500 | 501-1000 | 1001-1500 | 1501-1661
Chapter, Paragraph
1001 7,14| in the Tradition of the Church. Thus, one is not to go
1002 7,14| Fathers and the Creeds of the Church, but is to faithfully pass
1003 7,14| the mystical life of the Church.~ Fr. John mentions that
1004 7,14| for them to return to the Church that their Western forebears
1005 7,14| Fathers and Mothers of the Church who faithfully served God
1006 7,14| of the Tradition of the Church. But the greatness of the
1007 7,14| Apostles. Let us inquire of the Church, and not fall into self-deluded
1008 7,15| necessity of accepting the Church's interpretation of the
1009 7,15| Philip then gave him the Church's interpretation, the Christian
1010 7,16| service in the Orthodox Church.~· The Psalter, which
1011 7,16| is found all through the Church's various services. It has
1012 7,17| and Austria of the Russian Church in Exile explains that the
1013 7,17| the entire Old Testament Church in making this translation
1014 7,17| corruption in the Orthodox Church by the grace of God and
1015 7,17| For the Syrian Orthodox Church and all Eastern Churches
1016 7,17| still a part of the Orthodox Church, yet another translation
1017 7,17| beginning in the Christian Church, the Scriptures were not
1018 7,17| that all that the Christian Church teaches with regard to the
1019 7,17| himself, as a child of the Church, a participant in its divine
1020 7,17| holy words to which the Church is so attentive.~ In contrast,
1021 7,17| something the Christian Church does indeed have. Thus,
1022 7,17| freely to His Christian Church by means of grace.~ The
1023 7,17| therefore clear why the Orthodox Church prefers the Septuagint translation
1024 7,17| effort of the Old Testament Church, and its text, it bears
1025 7,17| them. In the Roman Catholic Church since the sixteenth century,
1026 7,17| books:~ ~The [Orthodox] Church accepts these latter books
1027 7,17| called “ecclesiastical.” The Church includes these books in
1028 7,17| teaching of the faith, the Church puts them in a secondary
1029 7,17| respected in the ancient Church; but a distinction between
1030 7,17| always been maintained in the Church [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
1031 7,17| Fathers in discussing the Church's understanding of the role
1032 7,18| consciousness and the life of the Church. While the doctrinal definitions
1033 7,18| accepted by the rest of the Church, they then come to acquire
1034 7,19| The Mind of the Orthodox Church to the Synodikon of Orthodoxy.
1035 7,19| experience. The mind of the Church is linked to, and is in
1036 7,19| decisions of the Fathers of the Church as it has been expressed
1037 7,19| orthodox teaching of Christ's Church.~ ~
1038 7,20| of the Holy Fathers, the Church's great theologians. It
1039 7,20| Section 5: The Orthodox Church does not have the Latin
1040 7,20| does not have the Latin Church's established preference
1041 7,20| defined, are still held by the Church with an unmistakable inner
1042 7,20| saints, things of which the Church has made few explicit definitions.
1043 7,20| bishops. They deal with the Church's earthly life and are an
1044 7,20| reflects the mind of the Church. Most importantly, iconographers
1045 7,21| forbidding the sale of the Church's Mysteries are canons of
1046 7,21| the earthly life of the Church where conditions are constantly
1047 7,21| ancient institutions of the Church which originated in Apostolic
1048 7,21| ecumenists trample on the Church's sacred canons. They see
1049 7,21| world.” In the same way, the Church is not “of the world,” and
1050 7,21| archbishop notes, the true Church of Christ:~ ~... has always
1051 7,21| the understanding of the Church that it must adapt itself
1052 7,21| the four signs of the true Church is that it is holy. The
1053 7,21| it is holy. The Orthodox Church is holy because it does
1054 7,21| if a new council of the Church is assembled, one of its
1055 7,21| bishop's stewardship over the Church, when there is a genuine
1056 7,21| The importance of the Church's practical canons is not
1057 7,21| It has been observed from Church history that in the periods
1058 7,21| The Mind of the Orthodox Church, pp. 180-81].~ ~
1059 7,22| would come to guide the Church in Truth (Jn 16:13). The
1060 7,22| Holy Spirit guides Christ's Church through all that is called
1061 7,22| Tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~ ~
1062 8,4 | teaching of the Orthodox Church. Many Holy Fathers have
1063 8,4 | dogmatic theologian of the Church, St. John of Damascus. In
1064 8,7 | earlier chapter, the Orthodox Church to this day retains the
1065 8,7 | while the Roman Catholic Church uses an altered text. The
1066 8,7 | the truth of the Orthodox Church's Creed. The significance
1067 8,7 | no individual part of the Church has any right to tamper
1068 8,7 | common treasure of the entire Church. Among all the dogmatic
1069 8,7 | dogmatic decrees of the Church's councils, the Ecumenical
1070 8,7 | Councils. Thus, the Latin Church stands condemned by five
1071 8,7 | against the unity of the Church.~ Secondly, in its theological
1072 8,9 | Holy Trinity?~ The Latin Church's divergence in the doctrine
1073 8,10| mission to the world.~ The Church believes that Christ had
1074 8,11| teaching of Christ, of His Holy Church, of Sacred Scriptures, and
1075 8,11| Sacred Scriptures, and of the Church's Creed, and this teaching
1076 8,11| but the Roman Catholic Church begs to differ with Christ,
1077 8,11| Creed which the undivided Church produced under the inspiration
1078 8,12| between Rome and the Holy Church. Can you explain the meaning
1079 8,14| remember when discussing Church history with friends, I
1080 8,14| the undivided Apostolic Church was expressed in the celebration
1081 8,14| confessed by the entire Church, belongs to the Church,
1082 8,14| entire Church, belongs to the Church, and one part of the Church
1083 8,14| Church, and one part of the Church does not have the right
1084 8,14| Council. For any part of the Church to tamper unilaterally with
1085 8,14| Spirit in the life of the Church. Through this heresy, Sabellius
1086 8,14| development of the Latin Church's false Trinitarian theology
1087 8,14| the same time the Latin Church restrained the worship of
1088 8,14| examples as well of the Latin Church's dabbling with diabolical
1089 8,14| Spirit in the world, in the Church, and in the lives of individual
1090 8,14| Catholic doctrine of the Church, for every false teaching
1091 8,14| the dogma concerning the Church. Because of the inattention
1092 8,14| West has come to regard the Church largely as an earthly institution,
1093 8,14| likewise did the concept of Church unity triumph over diversity,
1094 8,14| centralization of the Latin Church and is overemphasis on papal
1095 8,14| different concepts of the Church. The underlying causes of
1096 8,14| underlying causes of the Latin Church's breaking away from the
1097 8,14| breaking away from the ancient Church of Christ in the Great Schism
1098 9,3 | Hierarch of the Russian Church in Exile, explained that “
1099 9,3 | the consciousness of the Church always piously protected
1100 9,5 | and that of the Orthodox Church with regard to man's original
1101 9,7 | well as the icons in the church?~ In censing the faithful,
1102 9,7 | of incense envelops the Church.~ The practice of censing
1103 9,7 | misunderstood by those outside the Church. This writer heard the remark,
1104 9,7 | the world today, the only Church in Christendom He would
1105 9,7 | recognize is the Orthodox Church as it had gone so far astray
1106 9,7 | the icons, and all of the church at certain moments during
1107 9,7 | of Christians gathered in church would be heartfelt and truly
1108 9,9 | grace does the Orthodox Church reject?~ It rejects any
1109 9,15| theologian in the early Western Church had, whereas in the Eastern
1110 9,15| whereas in the Eastern Church there were many. Thus, theology
1111 9,15| salvation. The Orthodox Church holds a less exalted view
1112 9,15| deferred to the judgment of the Church all he had ever written).
1113 9,15| mitigated form by the Roman Church) is rejected by the vast
1114 9,15| original guilt. The Anglican Church teaches that works before
1115 9,15| and likewise the Latin Church speaks of justificatio prima
1116 9,15| South America of the Russian Church in Exile instructs in this
1117 9,19| ascetic of the Orthodox Church, wrote: “Behind the veil
1118 9,21| of her history, the Greek Church has been enabled to preserve
1119 9,22| entire life of the Orthodox Church. Because of Orthodoxy's
1120 9,22| cannot be assumed that the Church overlooks Christ's humanity
1121 9,22| sadness of Great Friday, the Church contemplates the Resurrection
1122 9,27| tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
1123 9,28| of the Holy Spirit in the Church.~ The Life-giving Holy Spirit
1124 9,28| Moreover, because the Church is the Body of Christ, it
1125 9,28| instructed that “where the Church is, there is the Holy Spirit,
1126 9,28| Spirit is, there is the Church.”~ The Holy Spirit came
1127 9,28| Spirit came to the Christian Church at Pentecost (Acts 2: 3)
1128 9,28| Spirit to those within the Church. Regarding this ministry
1129 9,28| manifestation of God's grace in the Church's Holy Mysteries, Vladimir
1130 9,28| upon the members of the Church, is frequently referred
1131 9,28| Theology, pp. 170-71].~ ~The Church lives by the Holy Spirit,
1132 9,28| from distortion; and in the Church's preservation of divine
1133 9,28| Acts 2:38).~ The Orthodox Church lays great stress upon the
1134 9,28| that is, His work in the Church, there is a general ministry
1135 9,29| the Holy Fathers of the Church. Moreover, as Metropolitan
1136 9,29| grace of God.~ The Orthodox Church teaches that to become a
1137 9,29| Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 85 ff]. Orthodoxy understands
1138 9,29| ascetic tradition of the Church are meant to lead us where
1139 9,38| the whole course of the Church's history.~ As another writer
1140 9,38| Tradition, the Orthodox Church has always shown honor to
1141 9,38| the constant rule of the Church to place relics of holy
1142 9,39| It involves attendance at church, the reception of the Holy
1143 9,39| Deification involves life in the Church and the reception of the
1144 9,42| times, in the Christian Church among various ascetic recluses
1145 10 | 10. The Church of God.~ ~ ~
1146 10,1 | of Christ in the Orthodox Church?~ “Christ is the Head of
1147 10,1 | Christ is the Head of the Church” (Eph 4:15, 5:23; Col 1:
1148 10,1 | Shepherd and Pilot of the Church. “I am with you always,
1149 10,1 | Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the
1150 10,2 | textbook.~ Christ so loved the Church and gave Himself up for
1151 10,2 | for it (Eph 5:25).~ The Church is one and the same with
1152 10,2 | flesh and of His bones. The Church is the living vine, nourished
1153 10,2 | Him. Never think of the Church apart from the Lord Jesus
1154 10,3 | alone. He is saved in the Church, as a member of it and in
1155 10,3 | that takes place in the Church. As the textbook states,
1156 10,3 | to men by Christ in the Church, and since it is celebrated
1157 10,3 | in the Mysteries in the Church, Khomiakov can rightly state
1158 10,3 | that we are saved in the Church rather than alone.~ Adding
1159 10,3 | themselves, Christ founded the Church, His grace-filled kingdom
1160 10,3 | sanctifies) to all members of the Church. Christ also established
1161 10,3 | Mysteries (Sacraments) for the Church as the means by which Christians
1162 10,3 | God Himself founded the Church, gathered His children together,
1163 10,4 | Protestant ideas of the Church.~ Protestantism neglects
1164 10,4 | following aspects of the Church, which Orthodoxy regards
1165 10,4 | hierarchical structure of the Church, Apostolic Succession, the
1166 10,4 | prayers to the saints, and the Church's intercession for the departed.~ ~
1167 10,5 | the Orthodox idea of the Church “certainly spiritual and
1168 10,5 | The Orthodox idea of the Church is spiritual and mystical
1169 10,5 | the earthly aspect of the Church in isolation from God. The
1170 10,5 | isolation from God. The Church is always thought of as
1171 10,5 | always thought of as the Church of Christ and the Holy Spirit,
1172 10,5 | relationship existing between the Church and God. The Orthodox doctrine
1173 10,5 | Orthodox doctrine of the Church is Trinitarian (it sees
1174 10,5 | Trinitarian (it sees the Church as an icon of the Holy Trinity);
1175 10,5 | Christological (for the Church is the Body of Christ);
1176 10,5 | Pneumatological (inasmuch as the Church is a continued Pentecost
1177 10,6 | aspects of the concept of Church life: (1) The Image of the
1178 10,6 | that this concept of the Church has broad applications.
1179 10,6 | of the Triune God, so the Church as a whole is an icon of
1180 10,6 | unity in diversity. The Church contains a great many people
1181 10,6 | inherence of the members of the Church. There is no conflict in
1182 10,6 | There is no conflict in the Church between freedom and authority.
1183 10,6 | catholic, when applied to the Church, means (among other things)
1184 10,6 | characteristic is reflected in the Church, which consists of a number
1185 10,6 | also are the bishops of the Church. No single bishop can exercise (
1186 10,6 | Lastly, the concept of the Church as an icon of the Holy Trinity
1187 10,6 | Trinitarian nature of the Church. In a council, many bishops
1188 10,6 | way of thinking about the Church in his epistle to the Romans: “
1189 10,6 | bond between Christ and His Church, wrote that “where Christ
1190 10,6 | is, there is the Catholic Church.” (The Catholic Church,
1191 10,6 | Catholic Church.” (The Catholic Church, it bears repeating, means
1192 10,6 | repeating, means the Universal Church to which the Patriarchate
1193 10,6 | these lines. The Catholic Church does not refer to the modern
1194 10,6 | the modern Roman Catholic Church which severed itself from
1195 10,6 | itself from the Universal Church of Christ in 1054).~ St.
1196 10,6 | therefore did not leave the Church when He ascended into Heaven.
1197 10,6 | textbook explains that the Church is “the extension of the
1198 10,6 | Chrestos Androustos adds, the Church is: ~ ~... the center and
1199 10,6 | and kingly power.... The Church and its Founder are inextricably
1200 10,6 | inextricably bound together.... The Church is Christ with us [Dogmatic
1201 10,6 | unity between Christ and His Church. New Christians are buried
1202 10,6 | members of His Body, the Church, they receive His All-Pure
1203 10,6 | of Antioch described the Church as a Eucharistic Society.
1204 10,6 | used to describe both the Church and the Holy Mystery.~ The
1205 10,6 | and the Holy Mystery.~ The Church is thought of first and
1206 10,6 | sacramental life of the Church.~ (3) A Continued Pentecost:
1207 10,6 | one another. Because the Church is the Body of Christ, it
1208 10,6 | mentioned, but this unity in the Church has never involved the ironing
1209 10,6 | human variety. Life in the Church involves the exact opposite,
1210 10,6 | Spirit is a gift to the Church, He is also a personal gift
1211 10,6 | 12:4).~ Some outside the Church feel that to be a Christian
1212 10,7 | dogma of Chalcedon to the Church?~ The Council of Chalcedon
1213 10,7 | Chalcedon must be applied to the Church as well as Christ, for just
1214 10,7 | nature, so too does the Church, where there is a synergy (
1215 10,7 | is a human element in the Church as well as a divine. However,
1216 10,7 | fully the case with the Church's human element, for only
1217 10,7 | the saints in Heaven. The Church is the Body of Christ and
1218 10,7 | of tension in which the Church exists here on earth.~ ~
1219 10,8 | textbook, the mystery of the Church consists in what?~ The mystery
1220 10,8 | what?~ The mystery of the Church consists in the fact that
1221 10,8 | individuals. Sinners in the Church together become the Body
1222 10,9 | logical conclusion that the Church is one?~ Alexei Stepanovich
1223 10,9 | logical conclusion that the Church is one from the fact that
1224 10,9 | fact that God is one. “[The Church's] unity follows of necessity
1225 10,10| 10.~ Can the Church be divided, or can there
1226 10,10| there be schisms within the Church?~ In the Nicene Creed, Christians
1227 10,10| Catholic and Apostolic Church.” Oneness is the first of
1228 10,10| characteristics of Christ's Holy Church. The Church is not a set
1229 10,10| Christ's Holy Church. The Church is not a set of different
1230 10,10| invisible way by that claim. The Church, which is the Body of the
1231 10,10| is only one Christ. The Church remains and will always
1232 10,10| ever be) schisms within the Church; there can only be schisms
1233 10,10| only be schisms from the Church.~Protopresbyter Michael
1234 10,10| that Christ, depicting the Church in parables, speaks of one
1235 10,10| foundation-stone of the Church. Christ likewise gave a
1236 10,10| 4:5), and one Christian Church (Mt 16:18).~ Fr. Michael
1237 10,10| goes on to explain that the Church is not only inwardly, but
1238 10,10| bears repeating that:~ ~The Church does not lose its unity
1239 10,10| because side by side with the Church there exist Christian societies
1240 10,10| societies are not in the Church, they are outside of it [
1241 10,10| Orthodoxy does not view the Church's unity as ideal and invisible,
1242 10,10| invisible” and “visible” Church, for they are one. Likewise,
1243 10,10| would never say that the Church is invisibly one but visibly
1244 10,10| notion of an “invisible Church” — a theological fiction
1245 10,10| Christian while denying the Church.” Elsewhere the martyr articulates
1246 10,10| Christ created precisely the Church and that it is absurd to
1247 10,10| separate Christianity from the Church and to speak of some sort
1248 10,10| apart from the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ [Christianity
1249 10,10| Christ [Christianity or the Church?, p. 29].~ ~Here on earth,
1250 10,10| which alone is the one true Church established by Christ. The “
1251 10,10| by Christ. The “Undivided Church” is not something that ceased
1252 10,10| now.~ The Roman Catholic Church proclaims that it is the
1253 10,10| proclaims that it is the one Church, and it recently reaffirmed
1254 10,10| found in the Roman Catholic Church.” At the same time, however,
1255 10,10| also “represent the true Church.” Thus, speaking out of
1256 10,10| states that it is the one Church, and then, speaking out
1257 10,10| Churches also represent the one Church. Where is the truth?~ An
1258 10,10| explanation of the true Church and its oneness:~ ~The Orthodox
1259 10,10| oneness:~ ~The Orthodox Church, continuing the principles
1260 10,10| Councils of the Undivided Church defined in precise terms,
1261 10,10| precise terms, holds that the Church of Christ is ONE and cannot
1262 10,10| therefore are from that One Church, not within it. One who
1263 10,10| organic structure of this Church ceases to be a member of
1264 10,10| are the property of — the Church, not to the individual person,
1265 10,10| organic structure.~ ~By the Church, Orthodoxy has always meant
1266 10,10| hierarchy. All the early Church Fathers and Councils made
1267 10,10| sacramental life of the Church or entitled to the privileges
1268 10,10| whether one is or is not a Church member than any “lines of
1269 10,10| continuing unity of the One Church founded by Christ, and became
1270 10,10| apostate. Bishops who leave the Church cease being bishops, whatever
1271 10,10| cannot do. Thus the Orthodox Church maintains that when Cardinal
1272 10,10| the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding
1273 10,10| unity of the continuing Church have remained apostates
1274 10,10| continuing unity of the undivided Church founded by Christ, or who
1275 10,10| teachings defined by that Church, ceases to be a member of
1276 10,10| in membership in that One Church founded by Christ.~ ~/.../
1277 10,10| taught and consider to be “Church teaching,” even though they
1278 10,10| what the One continuing Church of Christ has always held
1279 10,10| Christ founded only ONE Church; not many; and of all the
1280 10,10| actual fact the continuing Church which He founded. And this
1281 10,10| And this is THE ORTHODOX CHURCH [Abbot Augustine Whitfield, “
1282 10,10| leave as a layman in the Church, deprived only of his orders;
1283 10,10| himself from the continuing Church and was no longer so much
1284 10,10| Churches outside Christ's One Church, Protopresbyter Michael
1285 10,10| Orthodox teaching of the Church, which in itself is quite
1286 10,10| comprise a single “invisible Church,” inasmuch as each of them
1287 10,10| by side with the Orthodox Church there exists outside of
1288 10,10| members of the Orthodox Church. Often we can observe in
1289 10,10| Christian world outside the Church a religious fervor and faith,
1290 10,10| relation of all of them to the Church of Christ?~ ~Of course,
1291 10,10| them as belonging to the Church. Already the fact that one
1292 10,10| Christian world outside the Church, namely the whole of Protestantism,
1293 10,10| the bond with the heavenly Church, that is, the veneration
1294 10,10| indirectly, with the Orthodox Church, with the Church in its
1295 10,10| Orthodox Church, with the Church in its historical form;
1296 10,10| rejected and condemned by the Church at her Ecumenical Councils.
1297 10,10| either with the Orthodox Church of Christ or between themselves.
1298 10,10| refer only to the Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even
1299 10,10| the Heavenly Church. The Church on earth, even though it
1300 10,10| perhaps even “adjoining” the Church, but sometimes “against”
1301 10,10| are all “outside” the one Church of Christ. Some of them
1302 10,10| which is present in the Church, and especially the grace
1303 10,10| in the Mysteries of the Church. They are not nourished
1304 10,10| Christian unity — unity in the Church — can be based only upon
1305 10,10| differences of mind. The Church is the pillar and ground
1306 10,11| Orthodoxy's theology of the Church a theology of communion.
1307 10,11| communion that holds the Church together.~ St. Ignatius
1308 10,11| of Antioch saw each local Church as one of a congregation
1309 10,11| such is his idea of the Church as a Eucharistic Society,
1310 10,11| discussed in chapter one. The Church universal is then formed
1311 10,11| celebration of the Eucharist. The Church is not and never has been
1312 10,11| criterion for membership in the Church, therefore, is the act of
1313 10,11| is the act of communion. Church membership is ended, conversely,
1314 10,11| ceases to be a member of the Church if he severs communion with
1315 10,12| once popular among High Church Anglicans and taught that
1316 10,12| taught that the Christian Church was divided into branches.
1317 10,12| 15), and “one Christian Church” (Mt 16: 18). Also, as noted
1318 10,12| contrary to the fact that the Church is one, it cannot be reconciled
1319 10,12| The only branches of the Church (if one wants to think in
1320 10,13| salvation only within the Church.~ St. Cyprian instructed: “
1321 10,13| if he does not have the Church as his mother.” In his book
1322 10,13| on Christians Outside the Church, Patrick Barnes, a convert
1323 10,13| then to the Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church, and
1324 10,13| Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church, and finally to Orthodox
1325 10,13| about the nature of the Church. Protestants, he states,
1326 10,13| Barnes notes that since the Church is Christ's Body (Eph 1:
1327 10,13| except through Christ's Church. Scripture clearly teaches
1328 10,13| encountered through His Holy Church, is the only door to the
1329 10,14| there are sheep outside the Church and wolves within. Thus,
1330 10,14| within. Thus, not all in the Church will be saved, it is noted.~
1331 10,14| concerning an invisible Church membership or its comment
1332 10,14| heterodox may be linked to the Church by “invisible bonds.” The
1333 10,14| notion of an “invisible true Church,” especially in the light
1334 10,14| that “we know where the Church is but we cannot say where
1335 10,14| visible membership in the Church for salvation, a teaching
1336 10,14| incorrectly uses the word Church in two senses. Thus, he
1337 10,14| historical and one true] Church is, but we cannot be sure
1338 10,14| cannot be sure where it [the Church in an undefinable or mysterious
1339 10,14| regard to those outside the Church, the textbook also states
1340 10,14| possibly be members of the Church, inasmuch as there are many
1341 10,14| and separated from-, the Church. Just how and to what extent
1342 10,14| person must belong to the Church in some sense in order to
1343 10,14| of Etna writes that the Church on earth is a visible organism
1344 10,14| linked to the Orthodox Church without the benefit of its
1345 10,14| Either one belongs to the Church or one does not.~ Mr. Barnes
1346 10,14| relation to the Orthodox Church, they cannot be seen as
1347 10,14| apophatic mindset, the Orthodox Church remains circumspect on this
1348 10,14| no salvation outside the Church” is not the same as saying
1349 10,14| that “no one outside the Church can be saved.” Sacred Scriptures
1350 10,14| only within the Orthodox Church; but we can also make a
1351 10,14| those who do not enter the Church in this life [The Non-Orthodox:
1352 10,14| Christians Outside of the Church, p. 173].~ ~Mr. Barnes'
1353 10,14| salvation of those outside the Church. The saint replied:~ ~Why
1354 10,14| own days. The ark is the Church. Only those who are inside
1355 10,14| of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, expressed
1356 10,15| the infallibility of the Church.~ The unity between God
1357 10,15| unity between God and His Church is spoken of throughout
1358 10,15| Scriptures, in which the Church is referred to as the Body
1359 10,15| Truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Church is a living organism against
1360 10,15| unity with God that the Church as a whole cannot err. The
1361 10,15| a whole cannot err. The Church cannot submit to false teaching,
1362 10,15| falsehood. An error of the whole Church would be tantamount to its
1363 10,15| to Christ's promise, the Church cannot die. As Protopriest
1364 10,15| explains:~ ~If the Orthodox Church as a whole cannot err, her
1365 10,15| the opinion of the whole Church is manifested at Ecumenical
1366 10,15| are the voice of the whole Church, which is directed by the
1367 10,15| the infallibility of the Church is provided by Fr. John
1368 10,15| in no individual in the Church save Christ alone, and so
1369 10,15| heresy in opposition to the Church and despite attempts at
1370 10,16| position of the bishop in the Church.~The hierarchy was established
1371 10,16| that:~ ~All members of the Church of Christ comprise a single
1372 10,16| own use, so also in the Church there exist various ministries.
1373 10,16| highest ministry in the Church as an organization is borne
1374 10,16| example of the Old Testament Church, in which there were a high
1375 10,16| New Testament Christian Church the priesthood: bishops,
1376 10,16| the highest rank in the Church, and bishops therefore receive
1377 10,16| existence of the earthly Church itself should come to an
1378 10,16| highest ministry in the Church by the Lord Himself — placed
1379 10,16| uninterruptedness of the Orthodox Church's episcopate, Fr. Michael
1380 10,16| the essential sides of the Church. And, on the contrary: the
1381 10,16| an attribute of the true Church, even if in it there is
1382 10,16| understanding was present to the Church from its beginning. From
1383 10,16| its beginning. From the Church History of Eusebius of Caesarea
1384 10,16| states, the Roman Catholic Church cannot demonstrate an unchanged
1385 10,16| departure from the Apostolic Church in 1054, although it continued
1386 10,16| in the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose bishops to this day
1387 10,16| Regarding the equality of the Church's bishops, Protopresbyter
1388 10,16| equality remains forever in the Church among the successors of
1389 10,16| Churches.~ In Scripture, the Church is represented as the Bride
1390 10,16| the highest pastor of the Church and the image of Christ,
1391 10,16| Christ, is represented in Church teaching as the guardian
1392 10,16| bishop is betrothed to the Church, as the Apostle Paul speaks
1393 10,16| relation to the Corinthian Church (2 Cor 11:2). This bond
1394 10,16| exclusive and single. When a Church or group of Christians is
1395 10,16| understood in the ancient Church that the occupation of two
1396 10,16| bishop's union with the Church and his diocese is completely
1397 10,16| for a bridegroom of the Church. This attitude of the Church
1398 10,16| Church. This attitude of the Church was given formal definition
1399 10,16| fourth century gave the Church many great bishops on the
1400 10,16| rank is the highest in the Church, all the more must a bishop'
1401 10,16| total service to God and Church in body and soul. This consciousness
1402 10,16| regarded as naturally basic to Church order.~ The same bishop
1403 10,16| Tradition preserved by the Church from ancient times. Other
1404 10,16| greatest luminaries of the Church.~ Writing of the bishop'
1405 10,16| bishop's position in the Church, St. Dositheus, Patriarch
1406 10,16| is so necessary for the Church that without him neither
1407 10,16| without him neither the Church nor the name Christian could
1408 10,16| the Catholic [Universal] Church, through which we obtain
1409 10,16| the early Fathers of the Church, and who was beheaded in
1410 10,16| bishop, they are not in the Church.” This comment refers to
1411 10,16| is made manifest in His Church through the ministry of
1412 10,16| one is cut off from the Church.~ The bishop's dignity that
1413 10,16| when other members of the Church (priests or laymen) act
1414 10,16| Eucharist in the primitive Church. However, presbyters (priests,
1415 10,16| blessing, all the Mysteries and Church services, save that of the
1416 10,16| that priests performed the Church's sacred rites (James 5:
1417 10,16| and also that in the early Church there could be several priests
1418 10,16| churches in his diocese. No church can be built without his
1419 10,16| bless chrism. In the early Church, as the number of converts
1420 10,16| lay hands upon each. The Church therefore began to bless
1421 10,16| the way back to the early Church.~ In addition to the special
1422 10,16| apparent in the Apostolic Church where, not only was there
1423 10,16| occasion throughout the Church's history. They were especially
1424 10,16| bishop's position in the Church with the reminder that even
1425 10,16| fundamentally that of the Church, he is not to be thought
1426 10,16| someone set up over the Church. Instead, a bishop is in
1427 10,16| Instead, a bishop is in the Church as one of its members, and
1428 10,16| of an office within the Church. Pastor and flock are united
1429 10,16| Cyprian states in brief: “The Church is the people united to
1430 10,16| shepherd. The bishop is in the Church and the Church is in the
1431 10,16| is in the Church and the Church is in the bishop.”~ Lastly,
1432 10,16| eliminate the human. While the Church as a whole is infallible,
1433 10,16| Regarding the affairs of the Church, in the words of the Savior,
1434 10,17| power over the rest. The Church has never been monarchical,
1435 10,18| is the very body of the Church, that is, the people itself.~ ~
1436 10,18| the whole people of the Church, which is the Body of Christ.~ ~
1437 10,19| position of the laity in the Church?~ The Holy Spirit's gifts
1438 10,19| decision of the Orthodox Church is never imposed from above,
1439 10,20| also members of Christ's Church, just as we are, and a man'
1440 10,20| men.” Thus the Orthodox Church teaches, and thus it is
1441 10,20| Savior, as children of His Church.~ ~Commemoration of the
1442 10,20| Commemoration of the dead and Church prayers for them are a primordial,
1443 10,20| Apostolic Tradition of the Church, preserved wholly in her
1444 10,20| catechumens who had entered the Church in his time, wrote apropos
1445 10,20| time, wrote apropos of the Church's commemoration of the dead
1446 10,20| departed in God and in His Church. Whether alive or dead,
1447 10,20| departed members of the Church continue to live after death,
1448 10,20| the part of the pilgrim Church on earth does not stop. “
1449 10,20| remission of their sins.~ The Church Militant prays for its members
1450 10,20| those who are alive, the Church follows the words of the
1451 10,20| existed in the Old Testament Church. In the days of the pious
1452 10,20| hell by the prayers of the Church and by the powers of the
1453 10,20| Bloodless Sacrifice that the Church offers for the departed.~
1454 10,20| Liturgies of the Christian Church — both East and West — testify
1455 10,20| and West — testify to the Church's remembrance in prayer
1456 10,20| Fathers and teachers of the Church speak of the same thing.~
1457 10,20| of the same thing.~ The Church intercedes for the dead
1458 10,21| provenance by the Orthodox Church, but it is never used by
1459 10,21| saints has waned in the Latin Church, the communion of saints
1460 10,21| saints as members of the Church that have been redeemed
1461 10,21| communion with the Heavenly Church, with the Theotokos, the
1462 10,21| was present in the ancient Church, yet Protestantism shuns
1463 10,21| what the ancient Christian Church's understanding was of the
1464 10,21| certain Christians that the Church glorifies and lists in the
1465 10,21| is an expression of the Church's conscience, takes place
1466 10,21| self-sacrificing service to the Church, or by the gift of healing,
1467 10,21| remembered in prayers. The Church cannot do otherwise than
1468 10,21| give way to other forms of Church communion with him — sc.,
1469 10,21| Christ” (1 Jn 1:3). In the Church, this fellowship with the
1470 10,21| raising up prayers for the Church on earth. He states: “And
1471 10,21| general assembly of the Church of the firstborn, which
1472 10,21| between Christians in the Church Militant and those in the
1473 10,21| and those in the heavenly Church.~ Sacred Scripture gives
1474 10,21| earliest times, the Orthodox Church has held the teaching of
1475 10,21| explaining the Liturgy of the Church of Jerusalem, St. Cyril
1476 10,21| Fathers and teachers of the Church, especially from the fourth
1477 10,21| numerous testimonies about the Church's veneration of the saints.
1478 10,22| between all the members of the Church: all are tied together by
1479 10,22| all the members of the Church, both the living and the
1480 10,22| same Body of Christ, the Church. Members of a body help
1481 10,22| from the members of the Church Militant, and they receive
1482 10,22| intercession of the saints, the Church ends its every service with
1483 10,23| Tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church, which have remained unchanged
1484 10,23| The Theotokos, the Holy Church teaches, is the supreme
1485 10,23| antiquity the Christian Church has always confessed Christ “
1486 10,23| This dogma entered into the Church's Creed, Fr. Michael explains,
1487 10,23| Theotokos is preserved in the Church's Sacred Apostolic Tradition.
1488 10,25| severed itself from Christ's Church in 1054. One view is held
1489 10,25| maintained by the Roman Catholic Church.~ The Protestant Reformers
1490 10,25| Rome left the Apostolic Church in the eleventh century,
1491 10,25| God. Although the Latin Church has not yet proclaimed such
1492 10,25| rejects the Roman Catholic Church's false doctrine that Mary
1493 10,25| satisfied with what the Church has held since the time
1494 10,25| the matter of the Latin Church's dogma of the Immaculate
1495 10,26| invented by the Roman Catholic Church and subsequently proclaimed
1496 10,26| proclaimed a dogma of that Church in 1854. Like all heresies,
1497 10,26| clergy and laity in the Latin Church, which by then had already
1498 10,26| itself off from the Universal Church founded by Christ, thus
1499 10,26| so to speak) of the Latin Church. By no means did all of
1500 10,26| unwavering teaching of the Latin Church, and as a result, he did
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