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Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| ancient Church founded by Christ through the Apostles is
2 Fwd,1| grace they had received from Christ Himself, which is the process
3 Fwd,2| errors both before and after Christ's death and Resurrection.
4 Fwd,2| Apostolic Church founded by Christ. They also understand that
5 Fwd,2| represent the two natures of Christ. Then, in keeping with the
6 Fwd,2| one affirms one's faith in Christ's sacrifice on the Cross
7 Fwd,2| human and divine natures of Christ — that is, the basic dogmas
8 Fwd,3| the life-giving Cross of Christ upon themselves, but distort
9 Fwd,3| Succession does not exist outside Christ's Church. According to the
10 Fwd,3| the unity of the Body of Christ. Once a bishop leaves the
11 Fwd,3| apostasy and schism from Christ's Church in 1054.~ Only
12 Fwd,3| the Apostles and back to Christ. The hierarchy was established
13 Fwd,3| hierarchy was established by Christ, and the Apostles were always
14 Fwd,3| traces its existence to Christ and is the one Church founded
15 Fwd,3| one Church established by Christ and the Apostles. Thus,
16 Fwd,3| Apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief
17 Fwd,3| teaching of papal supremacy, Christ Himself forbade Peter and
18 Fwd,3| alone has its beginning in Christ, Who is the Apostle and
19 Fwd,3| Orthodoxy's claim of being Christ's one and only Church should
20 Fwd,3| domain of all who confess Christ. He states that Orthodoxy
21 Fwd,5| incorrect for professing Christ and for not bowing down
22 Fwd,6| because they submitted to Christ through His Church. They
23 Fwd,6| Churches have succumbed to Christ's three temptations in the
24 Fwd,6| the one Church founded by Christ, and its holding and preserving
25 1,1 | the historic Church that Christ and His Apostles established
26 1,1 | and indivisible Church of Christ, whereby they ceased to
27 1,1 | thousand years. True to Christ's words that His followers
28 1,1 | Israel chose not to follow Christ, and as a result, the torch
29 1,1 | torch of faithfulness to Christ largely passed to the Gentiles,
30 1,1 | continues, noting that true to Christ's promise, however, the
31 1,1 | and the Second Coming of Christ.~ Beginning in the seventh
32 1,1 | its attempts to destroy Christ's Church. Writing of the
33 1,1 | ancient Apostolic Church of Christ. Orthodox Christianity is
34 1,1 | squarely on the Divinity of Christ. As Protopresbyter Michael
35 1,1 | The Orthodox Church of Christ refuses to recognize yet
36 1,1 | in the form of a Vicar of Christ on Earth, a title given
37 1,1 | of the one replaced; but Christ is invisibly present in
38 1,1 | the Church and Vicar of Christ upon earth is expressed
39 1,1 | also noted, the “Vicars of Christ on Earth,” with their pretensions
40 1,1 | judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who alone has the power
41 1,1 | of the temptations put to Christ by Satan in the wilderness,
42 1,1 | hundred years following Christ's Crucifixion.~ Communism
43 1,1 | Satan's plan of battle with Christ's Church. Archpriest Boris
44 1,1 | attracting the people away from Christ, he therefore will not arrive
45 1,1 | prepare voters to renounce Christ, as experience taught us
46 1,1 | hasty reign of the enemy of Christ, antichrist, over the whole
47 1,1 | before the end of the world, Christ will come to earth again
48 1,1 | these words concerning Christ: “and His kingdom will have
49 1,1 | from the Incarnation of Christ to the coming of the antichrist.”
50 1,1 | the thousand-year reign of Christ. The authors go on to explain
51 1,1 | until the Second Coming of Christ.~ Moreover, as the editor
52 1,1 | in Mark 3:27 (see also Christ's words in John 12:31, that “
53 1,1 | years (the whole period) of Christ's reign with His saints
54 1,1 | devil is the victory of Christ over paganism and the establishment
55 1,1 | on earth of the Church of Christ, and that time is now.~
56 1,1 | before the Second Coming of Christ. This teaching is Protestantism'
57 1,1 | physical destruction of Christ's Church through persecution,
58 1,1 | Christian Church founded by Christ (cf. Mt 16:18).~ Hieromonk
59 1,1 | its infinite hatred of Christ and Orthodox Christianity
60 1,1 | development that began with Christ's Church being poor and
61 1,1 | complete destruction of Christ's Church and all Orthodox
62 1,1 | which is to come), true to Christ's promise, the gates of
63 1,1 | Russia, wrote in this regard, Christ's Church is “a kingdom not
64 1,1 | has preserved the faith of Christ as a priceless treasure,
65 1,2 | Church became the Body of Christ, that Pentecost was when
66 1,2 | the name of the Church of Christ is used in two ways. In
67 1,2 | professing the faith of Christ, whether they live on earth
68 1,2 | and people, who believe in Christ the Savior and are united
69 1,2 | Heaven and on earth under Christ the Head and placed Him
70 1,2 | The angels believe in Christ as the true God-Man. They
71 1,2 | Church becomes the Body of Christ. One can speak of the Church
72 1,4 | Gospel fifteen years after Christ's Ascension.~ ~
73 1,8 | bishop, and that the whole Christ is present at each individual
74 1,8 | for the Body and Blood of Christ are the inner life and soul
75 1,8 | Founder of the Church, Jesus Christ. Without Christ's divine
76 1,8 | Church, Jesus Christ. Without Christ's divine presence in this
77 1,9 | Pomazansky explains that Christ called the Apostles to the
78 1,10| body of the whole Church of Christ [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
79 1,10| less than the Church of Christ on earth. It is this wider
80 1,10| faithful into the Body of Christ that is also called the
81 1,17| in the Church.~ ~· Christ called the Apostles to exercise
82 1,17| visible representative of Christ, Who is the Head of the
83 2,5 | killed for the truth of Christ's Holy Church, and Orthodox
84 2,5 | glory of the Resurrected Christ; poor, yet having within
85 2,6 | day, something contrary to Christ's promise (Mt 16:18). Moreover,
86 2,6 | period of time,~ ~...when Christ described the growth of
87 2,6 | to be false inasmuch as Christ is the Head of the Church (
88 2,6 | Eph. 1:22-23), and because Christ promised to be with the
89 2,6 | Fr. John points out that Christ did not promise that His
90 2,6 | Jn 15:20). Neither did Christ promise that there would
91 2,6 | clothing (Jn 10:1,12,13). Christ did promise, however, an
92 2,6 | sites in Palestine where Christ had lived. The Emperor Constantine
93 2,6 | honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the Church of the Holy
94 2,6 | There were accounts of Christ's life by the four Evangelists,
95 2,12| the truth that “in Him [Christ] dwelleth all the fullness
96 2,12| God before the Ages, Jesus Christ, Hieromonk Damascene Christensen
97 2,12| of the term begotten in Christ's words and in the Creed,
98 2,12| Damascene also states that Christ Himself referred to His
99 2,14| existence, the Holy Church of Christ has ceaselessly been concerned
100 2,14| meaning of the teachings of Christ and the Apostles was well
101 2,19| reconciled with men, but that Christ reconciles man to God. Moreover,
102 2,19| Resurrection from death, Christ destroyed the power that
103 2,19| and His whole saving work, Christ reconciled to God a humanity
104 2,19| and God in His own Person, Christ opened the way to eternal
105 2,19| rising again [The Life in Christ, p. 106].~ ~Concerning the
106 2,19| the Theanthropos (God-Man) Christ and His ability to save
107 2,19| and honor (Jn 5:17-24). Christ is the Only-Begotten Son
108 2,20| The doctrinal teaching of Christ's Church was composed and
109 2,20| prevailed against it, something Christ promised could not happen (
110 2,20| only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent” (Jn
111 2,20| from the Church and from Christ Himself, Who is its Head.
112 2,20| Himself, Who is its Head. As Christ said, “If a man neglect
113 2,20| continuously waged war against Christ's Church through this means,
114 2,20| the Church is the Body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23), every alteration
115 2,20| alteration in the teaching about Christ, about the Holy Spirit,
116 2,20| Church severed itself from Christ's Church in 1054. This false
117 2,20| of the worst kind. Even Christ's love and sacrifice lose
118 2,20| sacrifice on the Cross, Christ did not propitiate the Father,
119 2,20| His Only-Begotten Son. But Christ offered it in order to cure
120 2,22| nature and begetting (as with Christ, the Only-Begotten Son of
121 2,23| doctrine.~ Our Lord Jesus Christ, though He was rich, yet
122 2,23| edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come to the
123 2,23| stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph 4:11-13).~ ~
124 2,24| human nature realized in Christ.” Further on he explains
125 2,26| possible, what nature would Christ have to possess?~ Christ
126 2,26| Christ have to possess?~ Christ must be — and is — both
127 2,26| vital affirmation. Either Christ was made less than God (
128 2,26| defended the truth that Christ is fully God and fully man.~ ~
129 2,27| 27.~ Why must Christ be truly, fully God?~ For
130 2,27| theosis to be possible, Christ must be fully God since
131 2,28| 28.~ Why must Christ be truly, fully man?~ Christ
132 2,28| Christ be truly, fully man?~ Christ must also be fully man so
133 2,29| and man?~ The Incarnate Christ, Who is both God and man,
134 2,32| aspect of the doctrine of Christ's nature did the first two
135 2,32| century) concentrated on Christ's Divinity and that He must
136 2,33| 325) answered that only if Christ is truly God can He unite
137 2,33| to affirm the truth that Christ is “of one essence” (homoousios)
138 2,33| struck at the fullness of Christ's humanity and held that
139 2,33| Monophysitism maintained that in Christ was a unity of personality,
140 2,33| That is, it considered that Christ's human nature had been
141 2,33| Monophysitism, held that although Christ has two natures, He is still
142 2,33| teaching and replied that if Christ has two natures, then He
143 2,33| Witnesses, which also denies Christ's Divinity and openly and
144 2,34| believe in... one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-Begotten,
145 2,35| The Orthodox Church of Christ is the Body of Christ, a
146 2,35| of Christ is the Body of Christ, a spiritual organism whose
147 2,35| spiritual organism whose Head is Christ. It has a single spirit,
148 2,35| authority of the Holy Church of Christ, guided by the Holy Spirit,
149 2,36| bondage to sin and death. Christ, Who is both fully God and
150 2,36| concern for mankind and Christ's continued fidelity to
151 2,36| fidelity to His Church. Christ did not leave His followers
152 2,36| that:~ ~The appearance of Christ on earth and the spreading
153 3,1 | grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
154 3,3 | relation to the Father. Christ is not some kind of superior
155 3,3 | glory with, the Father. Christ is “true God of true God,
156 3,5 | dispute in this matter, for Christ lived in Jerusalem, was
157 3,5 | Apostle Peter and the vicar of Christ on earth. The same former
158 3,5 | primacy — aside from that of Christ — existed in the Church,
159 3,5 | ancient Apostolic Church of Christ, one writer explains that:~ ~
160 3,5 | undivided Church founded by Christ, or who alters the teachings
161 3,5 | that One Church founded by Christ [Abbot Augustine Whitfield, “
162 3,5 | to replace the God-Man [Christ] with the man.~ ~As of Rome'
163 3,5 | infinitely tragic departure from Christ's Church in 1054, the unity
164 3,5 | after the Latin Church left Christ's Church in the Great Schism,
165 3,5 | contradicts the whole spirit of Christ's teaching, which rejects
166 3,5 | Scripture], in which Jesus Christ gives to St. Peter the mastery
167 3,5 | faith (in the Divinity of Christ) [Quoted in Archpriest Alexey
168 3,5 | teaching of the Church of Christ, both East and West. While
169 3,5 | profitable this fable of Christ has been to us and ours —
170 3,5 | representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ
171 3,5 | Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under the
172 3,5 | pope speak? It is Jesus Christ Himself who speaks — Pope
173 3,5 | God on earth, the Vicar of Christ, which means that I am God
174 3,5 | Vicar of our Savior Jesus Christ... (Even though the ritual
175 3,5 | takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth... the Arbiter
176 3,7 | concerning the nature of Christ, brought about the Third
177 3,7 | united in the Person of Christ (hypostatic union). This
178 3,11| concerning the nature of Christ?~ During the great doctrinal
179 3,11| heresy and its severance from Christ's Church in 1054.~ ~
180 3,12| the manhood and Godhood of Christ. He argued that Mary can
181 3,12| or at most the Mother of Christ (Christotokos), since she
182 3,12| since she is the mother of Christ's humanity but not His Divinity.
183 3,12| that Mary was the mother of Christ's human nature. Michael
184 3,12| Mary, he explains, but on Christ Himself and the Incarnation.
185 3,12| readily understand that Christ's human and divine nature
186 3,14| a single and undivided Christ Who is at once both fully
187 3,14| denial divides the Incarnate Christ into two, breaking down
188 3,14| man and erecting within Christ's Person a middle wall of
189 3,14| existing side by side in Christ — God and a man. It affirmed
190 3,14| a man. It affirmed that Christ's humanity and Divinity
191 3,16| concerning what aspect of Christ's nature?~ The word Monophysitism
192 3,16| Monophysitism maintained that if Christ were one Person, He could
193 3,16| Monophysites did not deny Christ's divine nature, but they
194 3,16| endangered the fullness of Christ's manhood, which became
195 3,16| Divinity. In overemphasizing Christ's Divinity at the expense
196 3,16| Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, acknowledging the very
197 3,17| question on the nature of Christ [“Eucharist and Christology
198 3,17| belief about the nature of Christ.~ Theodore of Mopsuestia
199 3,18| has been estranged from Christ's Church for one thousand
200 3,18| Baptist was the herald of Christ at the Jordan, so the pope
201 3,18| from the mouth of the pope, Christ replies: “And then if any
202 3,18| to you, Lo, here is the Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe
203 3,18| replied: “When you hear that Christ has come to earth or has
204 3,18| look down to the earth for Christ any more, even though the
205 3,18| do so. The true Messiah, Christ, Whom the pope rejects,
206 3,19| correctly maintained that Christ has two natures, it erroneously
207 3,19| impaired the fullness of Christ's manhood since manhood
208 3,19| which replied that since Christ has two natures, He must
209 3,22| it too was concerned with Christ's Incarnation and man's
210 4,1 | involved the deeper issues of Christ's human nature, the Christian
211 4,1 | and the true meaning of Christ's redemption.~ ~
212 4,11| the salvation coming from Christ's Incarnation, Iconoclasm
213 4,12| says in his Liturgy that Christ is the icon of God the Father.
214 4,12| of God the Father. When Christ appeared on earth, those
215 4,12| form, the God-Man Jesus Christ.~ Having and honoring icons
216 4,12| Holy Fathers agreed that Christ's Incarnation, His association
217 4,12| upon seeing the icon of Christ's Crucifixion, we recall
218 4,12| that is, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Theotokos, the angels
219 4,12| represents — that is, to Christ, the Theotokos, to some
220 4,12| hades and Resurrection of Christ. As the Apostle Paul writes: “
221 4,12| only in the New Testament.~ Christ, the Incarnate God, sanctified
222 4,12| had leprosy, had heard of Christ's preaching and miracles
223 4,12| on his face. Later, after Christ's death and Resurrection,
224 4,12| king.~ This sacred image of Christ was carefully preserved
225 4,12| collection).~ All icons of Christ were made from the same
226 4,12| a symbol of the peace of Christ), the fish and the Shepherd (
227 4,12| the Shepherd (symbols of Christ), and the peacock (a symbol
228 4,12| events from the life of Christ, dating most likely from
229 4,12| board has the countenance of Christ portrayed on it, it is only
230 4,12| wood. Once the image of Christ is painted on it, however,
231 4,12| people, came to believe in Christ. Something this extraordinary
232 4,12| their faith in the grace of Christ present in the icons, were
233 4,12| and notes that they depict Christ and the saints with “puffy
234 4,12| In this area are icons of Christ, the Theotokos, and those
235 4,12| from those burning before Christ's tomb in the Church of
236 4,13| rejecting any representation of Christ, the Iconoclasts failed
237 4,13| teaching about the Person of Christ, and it points out that
238 4,13| view of some aspects of Christ's Person, and of the nature
239 4,14| it allowed no place for Christ's humanity or His Body.
240 4,15| a view left no place for Christ's humanity or His Body.
241 4,15| on icons was an attack on Christ's Incarnation and on the
242 4,17| difference: the same God-Man Christ lives, acts, enlivens and
243 4,17| True Church established by Christ rests upon the foundation
244 5,4 | perfected in the life of Christ. According to the teachings
245 5,4 | community was that which Christ formed with His Apostles.
246 5,4 | of life of the Lord Jesus Christ with His disciples.”~ Likewise,
247 5,4 | appeared a wonderful army of Christ, leading a form of life
248 5,4 | darkness.~ ~Having seen Christ's example, the holy disciple
249 5,4 | observe the commandments of Christ unyieldingly.~ One of the
250 5,4 | heart began to burn for Christ. He then went to distribute
251 5,4 | precede death [My Life in Christ].~ ~Orthodox monasticism
252 5,4 | John of the Ladder has it: “Christ, the light of angels; angels,
253 5,4 | it is good not to marry,” Christ in reply instructed: ~ ~
254 5,4 | A monk explains that Christ refers to monastics as eunuchs
255 5,4 | conquest of the passions, for Christ states that those who see
256 5,6 | within the Church, from Christ, in His Holy Mysteries.
257 5,6 | sufficient to recall that Christ did not bless the activist
258 5,6 | life (Lk 10:38-42). Also, Christ specifically blesses those
259 5,7 | shows himself a traitor to Christ and accepts the devil's
260 5,8 | Christian society dedicated to Christ and His Holy Church, and
261 5,8 | the Holy Body and Blood of Christ as the Serbian nation did.
262 5,8 | Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Punishment is measured
263 6,6 | Universal Church, or from Christ, its Head, as the Latin
264 6,6 | nation, and the faith of Christ was always preserved in
265 6,7 | heavenly centralization of Christ's Church, as a Theanthropic
266 6,7 | glorified God-Man, Jesus Christ” (Mt 28:18). The papacy'
267 6,7 | inconsistent with the authority of Christ both in Heaven and on earth.”
268 6,8 | change runs contrary to Christ's direct words: “Drink ye
269 6,8 | for it was severed from Christ's Church as of its schism
270 6,13| it revises the words of Christ in John 15:26, yet the words
271 6,13| 15:26, yet the words of Christ and Scripture cannot be
272 6,13| filioque addition is untrue. Christ's words clearly indicate
273 6,14| state that according to Christ, schisms — that is, divisions
274 6,14| calling it a re-crucifixion of Christ.~ ~
275 6,15| separation from the Church of Christ and which puts one at the
276 6,15| that cut the West off from Christ's Church, it was ultimately
277 6,15| just as its Head, Jesus Christ, is.~ The prefatory notes
278 6,15| Church, and thus cut off from Christ.~ Metropolitan Anthony,
279 6,15| Churches, something contrary to Christ's promise that the Church
280 6,15| from ever investigating Christ's true Church and becoming
281 6,15| the continuing unity of Christ's Church after the Great
282 6,15| the one true Church that Christ established on earth. After
283 6,16| workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
284 6,16| works of the members of Christ's Church can assist that
285 6,16| to Orthodox theology as Christ taught it, the Apostles
286 6,16| had it remained united to Christ's Church, and had Rome submitted
287 6,16| popes were cut off from Christ's Church, they were also
288 6,16| parochial level.~ ~Politically, Christ Himself was now seen not
289 6,16| Francisco (+1966) explained that Christ's promise that the gates
290 6,17| the temptation to sell out Christ for earthly rule, for universal
291 6,18| Peter is the rock upon which Christ wished to build His Church.
292 6,18| Roman apologists.~ What Christ was actually saying to Peter
293 6,18| your proclamation of Me as Christ], I will build My Church,
294 6,18| foundation.” In other words, Christ will build His Church upon
295 6,18| profession of faith in Him as the Christ, but not upon a mere mortal
296 6,18| mortal man such as Peter. Christ never stated that He would
297 6,18| faulty a foundation. Instead, Christ will build His Church upon
298 6,18| qualification that the rock is Christ. “For God has already placed
299 6,18| has already placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation,
300 6,18| that “the rock on which Christ will build His Church means
301 6,18| or understood rock to be Christ Himself; or else they understood
302 6,18| both of these together — as Christ and as Peter's confession
303 6,18| s confession of faith in Christ. Since the Fathers left
304 6,18| Supreme Shepherd” — Jesus Christ. Peter never spoke of any
305 7,6 | is the faith which Jesus Christ imparted to the Apostles,
306 7,9 | contradicted God's law. Christ told them: “Ye leave the
307 7,9 | which you have delivered,” Christ was referring to pernicious
308 7,9 | among the Pharisees, for Christ told them: “And many such
309 7,9 | man-made traditions that Christ condemned by His words,
310 7,9 | universe, and not according to Christ” (Col 2:8).~ The same word
311 7,9 | Church true is the source. Christ made it clear what the source
312 7,9 | God, either directly (by Christ), or indirectly (through
313 7,9 | Jude 1:3). Its source is Christ, and it was delivered personally
314 7,9 | which they received from Christ through the Apostles. For
315 7,10| The divine promise is Christ's promise that “when the
316 7,11| only in the Gospels, where Christ speaks, but also in the
317 7,11| The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him,” and
318 7,11| teachings of the Church of Christ are safeguarded by the Holy
319 7,11| the Founder of the Church, Christ, governs it in an unseen
320 7,11| explains that:~ ~The Church of Christ determined the truths of
321 7,11| of law in the Church of Christ. Accordingly, therefore,
322 7,11| Tradition that we make icons of Christ and the saints, and that
323 7,11| Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, examples of the invocation
324 7,11| those who had reposed in Christ, and much else; (5) the
325 7,11| Church as in the Body of Christ, did not cease to safeguard
326 7,11| understanding and assimilation of Christ's Church [Orthodoxy and
327 7,11| doctrine of the two natures of Christ, they are unwittingly accepting
328 7,11| the vibrancy of life in Christ. In an 1884 letter to the
329 7,11| preserving her faith in Christ throughout this interval?
330 7,11| Paul admonished: ~ ~Jesus Christ: the same yesterday, and
331 7,11| times. It is the faith that Christ imparted to the Apostles,
332 7,11| the Holy Spirit, for as Christ promised, the Holy Spirit
333 7,13| Moses (1,400 years before Christ), until the writer of the
334 7,13| nearly 100 years after Christ). A Romanian priest explains
335 7,13| Church, which is the Body of Christ (Eph 1:23, 5:23) and the
336 7,13| spiritually in expectation of Christ the Savior, the Messiah. (
337 7,13| religion being a rejection of Christ).~ Concerning the Old Testament
338 7,13| Bible as the verbal icon of Christ, the Seventh Ecumenical
339 7,14| part of the true Church of Christ. Thus, it is the Orthodox
340 7,14| the divine-human Body of Christ, that not only writes Holy
341 7,14| vain sophistries [Fr. John, Christ in Our Midst: Letters from
342 7,14| thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5), would humbly
343 7,14| the Church is the mind of Christ. “We have the mind of Christ” (
344 7,14| Christ. “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). What can
345 7,14| reason all true servants of Christ prefer to accept the wisdom
346 7,14| the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same
347 7,14| this way we draw closer to Christ, Who is the Truth (Jn 14:
348 7,14| throughout the centuries in Christ's Church. Not everyone has
349 7,14| is the Orthodox Church of Christ, and the true teachers of
350 7,14| understanding of the nature of Christ's Church, for Orthodox Christianity
351 7,14| that St. Paul was “a man in Christ... caught up to the third
352 7,14| has replaced the genuine Christ with a Christ Who gives
353 7,14| the genuine Christ with a Christ Who gives in to the temptations
354 7,14| West opposes the genuine Christ.~ And so, standing in opposition
355 7,14| standing in opposition to Christ as it does in our time of
356 7,14| forgery of the Church of Christ. When they withdrew from
357 7,14| error — that of displacing Christ with a derivative element
358 7,14| Catholicism, he states, replaces Christ the Victor with the “Vicar
359 7,14| Victor with the “Vicar of Christ,” whereas Protestantism
360 7,14| both cases, the ultimacy of Christ God is compromised: Roman
361 7,14| disagree with — for example, Christ's giving the Apostles the
362 7,14| forgive sins (Jn 20:23), or Christ's saying of the Holy Eucharist: “
363 7,14| had attacked the Church of Christ with their false teachings
364 7,14| principles and hesitate to accept Christ's Divinity, the Resurrection
365 7,14| Church is not the Church of Christ, that there is no visible
366 7,14| is no visible Church of Christ, and that it is only now
367 7,14| details of one's belief in Christ are of no moment, and that
368 7,14| order to attack and destroy Christ's Orthodox Church once and
369 7,14| nothing but knowledge of Christ and union with Him. ~·
370 7,14| because you are not a part of Christ's Body. Or, to use another
371 7,17| for Orthodox Christians. Christ Himself used the Septuagint
372 7,17| seen the promised Messiah, Christ the Lord [cf. Lk 2:26].~
373 7,17| righteous Joseph, brought Christ to the temple in order to
374 7,17| promise God made to him, took Christ into his arms, and blessing
375 7,17| original.~ At the time of Christ, the ancient Hebrew language
376 7,17| Aramaic, which was spoken by Christ.~ During the earthly life
377 7,17| During the earthly life of Christ, Hebrew was the language
378 7,17| whom became the enemies of Christ. Thus, from the very beginning
379 7,17| community, having rejected Christ and been unfaithful to its
380 7,17| prophecies and prefigurations of Christ the Savior, and of God the
381 7,17| speaking of the coming of Christ, and of the other mysteries
382 7,17| prophecies which foretell Christ the Savior.~ One of the
383 7,17| written before the birth of Christ. In this manuscript, the
384 7,17| prophecy of the Virgin Birth of Christ — and doubtless the truth
385 7,17| was in use at the time of Christ, and these books have always
386 7,17| religious life of the Jews after Christ's Resurrection:~ ~These
387 7,19| entire orthodox teaching of Christ's Church.~ ~
388 7,21| the nature and Person of Christ. This kind of canon can
389 7,21| Archbishop Averky points out, Christ said to the Apostles at
390 7,21| notes, the true Church of Christ:~ ~... has always been,
391 7,21| the path willed by Jesus Christ.~ The textbook creates additional
392 7,22| point made in this chapter?~ Christ promised that the Holy Spirit
393 7,22| the Holy Spirit guides Christ's Church through all that
394 8,7 | means and from the Son). Christ Himself stated that the
395 8,10| The Church believes that Christ had two births: the one
396 8,11| position on John 15:26. Christ stated: “When the Comforter
397 8,11| He shall testify of Me.” Christ sends the Spirit (this is
398 8,11| and infallible teaching of Christ, of His Holy Church, of
399 8,11| Church begs to differ with Christ, with Scriptures, with the
400 8,14| from the ancient Church of Christ in the Great Schism of 1054 —
401 9,3 | the Gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded belief in the
402 9,7 | remark, for example, that if Christ were to return to the world
403 9,7 | their infinite gratitude to Christ, the Savior of people's
404 9,7 | All-Pure Body and Blood of Christ.~ Incense is also a symbolic
405 9,18| to be “at one” with God. Christ demonstrated in His Person
406 9,18| within the reach of man. Christ, the New and Final Adam,
407 9,19| wrote: “Behind the veil of Christ's flesh, Christians behold
408 9,19| emphasizing the divine glory of Christ, that in addition to His
409 9,19| born in the human flesh, Christ is eternally-born of the
410 9,19| The Orthodox doctrine of Christ, as defined in Holy Scriptures
411 9,19| wills and two energies. Christ is “the image of the invisible
412 9,19| Thus the person who sees Christ sees God the Father. Christ
413 9,19| Christ sees God the Father. Christ is “true God from true God,”
414 9,19| His Person” (Heb 1:13). As Christ's beloved disciple wrote: “
415 9,20| At what two moments in Christ's life was His divine glory
416 9,20| first great manifestation of Christ's divine glory was at the
417 9,20| when the uncreated light of Christ's Godhead shone like the
418 9,20| at the Resurrection, when Christ swallowed up death forever
419 9,21| theme of the Resurrection of Christ binds together all theological
420 9,22| We worship Thy Passion, O Christ:~Show us also Thy glorious
421 9,22| that the Church overlooks Christ's humanity or minimizes
422 9,22| concentrates on the Risen Christ, while the West concentrates
423 9,22| the West concentrates on Christ Crucified. The textbook
424 9,22| of the contrast between Christ's outward humiliation and
425 9,22| the suffering humanity of Christ, but a suffering God on
426 9,22| textbook is showing that behind Christ's bleeding and broken flesh,
427 9,22| contemplates the Resurrection of Christ. Golgotha is a Theophany (
428 9,22| empty tomb, and the Cross of Christ is a sign of Christ's complete
429 9,22| Cross of Christ is a sign of Christ's complete victory.~ ~
430 9,23| is absolutely incorrect. Christ stated: “Deliver us from
431 9,24| non-Orthodox understandings of Christ's Crucifixion.~ Those brought
432 9,24| post-medieval West view Christ's Crucifixion in isolation
433 9,24| Resurrection and so come to stress Christ's suffering humanity at
434 9,24| expense of the image of Christ as a suffering God. The
435 9,24| Man of Sorrows and sees Christ as the Victim, whereas the
436 9,24| sees the Crucifixion as Christ's triumphant victory over
437 9,24| is to say, Orthodoxy sees Christ as the victorious King not
438 9,25| 25.~ Christ's work of redemption cannot
439 9,25| considered apart from what?~ Christ's work of redemption cannot
440 9,26| works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means
441 9,28| and the Son. Concerning Christ's work of redemption and
442 9,28| the Church is the Body of Christ, it is also the temple and
443 9,28| the final fulfillment of Christ's earthly mission, and as
444 9,28| multitudes and bring them to Christ. He descended, then, in
445 9,28| all that had happened to Christ would have reason to be
446 9,28| had been received, just as Christ was the new and true Pascha
447 9,28| uniting it to the Body of Christ. He also bestows... divine
448 9,28| life, truth and love. As Christ told the Apostles, “When
449 9,28| no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
450 9,28| you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,
451 9,29| case of the human nature of Christ), nor is it substantial (
452 9,31| demonstrate the idea of theosis.~ Christ prayed at the Mystical Supper, “
453 9,33| and foremost as a life “in Christ.”~ ~
454 9,35| becoming god by grace, as Christ remained God when becoming
455 9,35| movement, and since only Christ gives people that which
456 9,35| this lie the reason why Christ needed to come to earth
457 9,37| and because the Incarnate Christ has saved the whole man,
458 9,39| the Apostles witnessed at Christ's Transfiguration.~ (3)
459 9,39| understanding of the Incarnation: Christ took flesh (something material)
460 9,39| still repeats, “Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy
461 9,39| and these are summed up by Christ as the love of God and the
462 9,39| to stumble we sin against Christ.”~ The textbook explains
463 9,42| God because through them, Christ was to be born. They were
464 9,42| man receives the grace of Christ, all the powers of the soul
465 10,1 | What is the position of Christ in the Orthodox Church?~ “
466 10,1 | in the Orthodox Church?~ “Christ is the Head of the Church” (
467 10,1 | of the world” (Mt 28:20). Christ also stated that He, as
468 10,2 | chapter of the textbook.~ Christ so loved the Church and
469 10,2 | apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, from the Father and the
470 10,3 | according to his own works. As Christ stated: “For the Son of
471 10,3 | of God is given to men by Christ in the Church, and since
472 10,3 | salvation for themselves, Christ founded the Church, His
473 10,3 | all members of the Church. Christ also established the Mysteries (
474 10,5 | thought of as the Church of Christ and the Holy Spirit, and
475 10,5 | the Church is the Body of Christ); and it is Pneumatological (
476 10,6 | Trinity; (2) The Body of Christ; and (3) A Continued Pentecost.
477 10,6 | members of the one Body of Christ, like the branches of one
478 10,6 | Trinity.~ (2) The Body of Christ: The Apostle Paul develops
479 10,6 | are many, are one body in Christ” (Rom. 12:5). St. Ignatius
480 10,6 | closest possible bond between Christ and His Church, wrote that “
481 10,6 | Church, wrote that “where Christ is, there is the Catholic
482 10,6 | the Universal Church of Christ in 1054).~ St. Ignatius1
483 10,6 | idea is in keeping with Christ's promise that He would
484 10,6 | of the world” (Mt 28:20). Christ also stated that: “Where
485 10,6 | midst of them” (Mt 18:20). Christ therefore did not leave
486 10,6 | the center and organ of Christ's redeeming work.... It
487 10,6 | together.... The Church is Christ with us [Dogmatic Theology,
488 10,6 | about the unity between Christ and His Church. New Christians
489 10,6 | are buried and raised with Christ at Baptism, and as members
490 10,6 | unites Christians at once to Christ and to one another, as the
491 10,6 | reason that the term Body of Christ is used to describe both
492 10,6 | the Church is the Body of Christ, it is also the temple and
493 10,6 | dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit.~ Christ unites Christians, it has
494 10,7 | to the Church as well as Christ, for just as Christ, the
495 10,7 | well as Christ, for just as Christ, the God-Man, has a divine
496 10,7 | aspect is concerned. Where Christ in His human nature is perfect
497 10,7 | The Church is the Body of Christ and is therefore perfect
498 10,8 | together become the Body of Christ.~ ~
499 10,10| indispensable characteristics of Christ's Holy Church. The Church
500 10,10| a common claim to follow Christ or to be founded by Him,
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