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1 Fwd,1| correspondence course on Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the ancient
2 Fwd,1| interested in learning about the Orthodox Church and its maintaining
3 Fwd,1| another much older Church, the Orthodox Christian Church. This church
4 Fwd,1| force anyone to accept the Orthodox faith, still every truth-seeking
5 Fwd,1| among the Churches, the Orthodox Church has retained the
6 Fwd,1| that ancient Church is the Orthodox Church, the Church of the
7 Fwd,1| pages of this book show, the Orthodox Church has maintained a
8 Fwd,2| eventually brought him to the Orthodox Church and its priesthood.
9 Fwd,2| understand that the Eastern Orthodox Church alone has not distorted
10 Fwd,2| understand that the same Orthodox Church is that very Church
11 Fwd,2| practice to examine.~An Orthodox Christian makes the sign
12 Fwd,2| the basic dogmas of the Orthodox Christian faith. In the
13 Fwd,3| its long separation from Orthodox Christianity, the Latin
14 Fwd,3| Church in 1054.~ Only the Orthodox Church can rightfully claim
15 Fwd,3| Apostolic period. Thus, when an Orthodox bishop is consecrated today,
16 Fwd,3| consecrated today, or when an Orthodox priest is ordained (from
17 Fwd,3| Apostolic Succession, the Orthodox Church traces its existence
18 Fwd,3| the West, originate from Orthodox Christianity by way of reduction
19 Fwd,3| Gentiles — cf. Lk 22:25). The Orthodox Church is also Apostolic
20 Fwd,3| contrast the theology of the Orthodox Church with Western Christianity'
21 Fwd,3| its former confession of Orthodox Christianity, these distinctions
22 Fwd,3| merit on the part of the Orthodox, but because God is pleased
23 Fwd,3| archbishop further explains that Orthodox Christians do not imagine
24 Fwd,4| Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky's Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. As the
25 Fwd,4| become a standard source of Orthodox theology and has a practical
26 Fwd,4| of Kronstadt Press,~1180 Orthodox Way, Liberty, TN 37095-4366~ ~
27 Fwd,5| Sarah Cowie, who is now an Orthodox Christian, also explains,
28 Fwd,5| Concerning men and women, an Orthodox nun observes that the separation
29 Fwd,5| note in this regard:~ ~The Orthodox Church venerates tens of
30 Fwd,5| feminist when I discovered the Orthodox Church. In my study of Orthodoxy,
31 Fwd,5| were living proof that the Orthodox Church is graced with mystical
32 Fwd,6| the New Age movement, to Orthodox Christianity, which transforms
33 Fwd,6| there is none whatsoever in Orthodox Christianity.~ To all readers —
34 Fwd,6| one individual who became Orthodox expressed it, Western Christianity
35 Fwd,6| the Ark of Salvation, the Orthodox Church, before God closes
36 Fwd,6| Britannica Yearbook reports, the Orthodox Church is the fastest growing
37 Fwd,6| within the last decade, Orthodox Christians in America have
38 Fwd,6| is the Truth of Eastern Orthodox Christianity from the contradictory
39 Fwd,6| Eastern Orthodoxy, for the Orthodox Church is the sole grace-giving
40 1,1 | established on earth, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, which
41 1,1 | age of the Apostles. The Orthodox Church has retained the
42 1,1 | the oldest in Christendom. Orthodox Christianity has the “fullness
43 1,1 | Savior and Redeemer. The Orthodox Christian faith is but the
44 1,1 | come to realize that the Orthodox Church is the very continuation
45 1,1 | example, observe that:~ ~The Orthodox Church, especially now with
46 1,1 | in 1054, not the Eastern Orthodox Church which cut itself
47 1,1 | Christians are embracing the Orthodox Church as the criterion
48 1,1 | Juliana Cownine, A Guide to Orthodox Life: Some Beliefs, Customs
49 1,1 | burst into the midst of Orthodox Christians. As a result
50 1,1 | errors which war against Orthodox Truth have appeared and
51 1,1 | because of intellectual pride [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 23-
52 1,1 | complete cycle that the Orthodox Church has gone through
53 1,1 | have fallen upon ancient Orthodox Christianity.~ Many in Israel
54 1,1 | during which time the Orthodox Church produced the Liturgy,
55 1,1 | Young notes in this regard, Orthodox Christianity has lived for
56 1,1 | and mass murders of the Orthodox (something that continues
57 1,1 | bloody atrocities against Orthodox Christians on the part of
58 1,1 | was united to the Eastern Orthodox Church; both were a part
59 1,1 | Apostolic Church of Christ. Orthodox Christianity is indigenous
60 1,1 | days in the form of the Orthodox Church, which is the only
61 1,1 | Pomazansky explains:~ ~The Orthodox Church of Christ refuses
62 1,1 | to call Rome back to the orthodox understanding of Christianity.
63 1,1 | In the end, though, the Orthodox Church could not compromise
64 1,1 | movement could not persuade Orthodox Christians to become Uniate
65 1,1 | Latins murdered 800,000 Orthodox. At the same time and at
66 1,1 | police massacred 750,000 Orthodox for their refusal to renounce
67 1,1 | had killed 40,000 of the Orthodox. As Alexei Khomiakov perceptibly
68 1,1 | lost their lives for their Orthodox faith in the tragic, pre-apocalyptic
69 1,1 | Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II,” Orthodox Life, vol. 43, no. 4, 1993,
70 1,1 | significance to the Russian Orthodox sovereign, the only protector
71 1,1 | that is, the benevolent Orthodox sovereignty), deterring
72 1,1 | means of establishing the Orthodox Christian Church in the
73 1,1 | was very secular. As an Orthodox historian notes in this
74 1,1 | heretical popes against the Orthodox Church). Unlike the monarchies
75 1,1 | and kept in the Eastern Orthodox Church.~ The Russian Tsar
76 1,1 | aware of the might of its Orthodox Christian neighbor in maintaining
77 1,1 | standing in their way was Orthodox Imperial Russia.... And
78 1,1 | was its living symbol, the Orthodox Tsar.~ ~It is for the foregoing
79 1,1 | longer permissible for an Orthodox Christian to hold chiliastic
80 1,1 | Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky's Orthodox Dogmatic Theology (pp. 344-
81 1,1 | martyric deaths of millions of Orthodox Christians, not only in
82 1,1 | nearly the whole of the Orthodox world during the last century.~
83 1,1 | infinite hatred of Christ and Orthodox Christianity is becoming
84 1,1 | this worldwide “church.” Orthodox Christianity will then become
85 1,1 | times that are approaching, Orthodox Christians will once again
86 1,1 | religions will accuse [the Orthodox] of being intolerant and
87 1,1 | in an Age of Apostasy,” Orthodox America, vol. 18, nos. 7-
88 1,1 | and its satanic hatred of Orthodox Christianity, the full circle
89 1,1 | eighty-five percent of Orthodox Christians came to be enslaved
90 1,1 | Christ's Church and all Orthodox Christians. Indeed, it was
91 1,1 | forced upon the Eastern Orthodox Christian world by the totally
92 1,1 | bring the various local Orthodox Churches over which they
93 1,1 | attacks and opposition, the Orthodox Church has preserved the
94 1,1 | faith of the Fathers, the Orthodox faith.”~ ~
95 1,2 | prophecy of Jeremiah 31:31-35) [Orthodox Apologetic Theology, p.
96 1,8 | inner life and soul of the Orthodox Church, and they are the
97 1,8 | important act of worship in the Orthodox Church, and to be united
98 1,8 | in the Eucharist that the Orthodox Church has the living presence
99 1,8 | is generally used in the Orthodox East for Sacraments. The
100 1,8 | However, among themselves, Orthodox tend to use the latter word.~ ~
101 1,9 | rank in the Church. Thus, Orthodox bishops, like their predecessors,
102 1,9 | continued in the East. The Orthodox Church is the only Church
103 1,10| only the entire body of the Orthodox faithful is referred to
104 1,10| only the entire body of Orthodox faithful is referred to
105 1,10| whole Church of Christ [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 224].~ ~
106 1,10| this wider unity of all Orthodox faithful into the Body of
107 1,11| Church falsely teaches.~ Orthodox theology strictly differentiates
108 1,11| consequence of this, the Orthodox Church does not honor the
109 1,11| book that deals with the Orthodox Church's conciliar tradition (
110 1,11| Whelton adds that:~ ~Today the Orthodox Church is the only Church
111 1,11| resolving matters).~ The Orthodox Church believes that the
112 1,17| Orthodoxy.~· The Orthodox Church is a conciliar Church
113 1,17| introduction and this chapter, the Orthodox Church is the only Church
114 2,1 | is another name for the Orthodox Church. This title emphasizes
115 2,3 | a council in which all Orthodox bishops of all Orthodox
116 2,3 | Orthodox bishops of all Orthodox communities gather to solve
117 2,5 | and the Roman state (and Orthodox Christianity — not Roman
118 2,5 | Christ's Holy Church, and Orthodox Christianity has been persecuted
119 2,5 | simple survival. Such is the Orthodox Church — crucified, yet
120 2,6 | plants [Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
121 2,6 | buildings serve to this day as Orthodox churches and monasteries.~
122 2,6 | the daily services of the Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Councils
123 2,6 | truths of the Creed is not an Orthodox Christian.~ This new period
124 2,12| Christian empire based upon the Orthodox faith. To this end, he convened
125 2,14| the central message of the Orthodox faith. As Protopresbyter
126 2,14| firm in the pure truth.” [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 22.]
127 2,15| local councils of separate Orthodox Churches gathered twice
128 2,15| which bishops from the whole Orthodox Church, both East and West,
129 2,16| Church, Tradition: an Eastern Orthodox View, vol. 1 of The Collected
130 2,17| relating to His essence [Orthodox Faith, p. 172].~ ~The same
131 2,19| the central message of the Orthodox Christian faith?~ Metropolitan
132 2,19| angry and hostile way.~ Orthodox Christianity's central message
133 2,20| Macris explains that in Orthodox theology, the Cross was
134 2,20| his book The Mind of the Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hierotheos
135 2,20| legalistic view is alien to the Orthodox mind. When we think that
136 2,22| is by nature.~ Although Orthodox Christians know that they
137 2,24| is presented in the true Orthodox icon?~ Leonid Ouspensky
138 2,35| bishops of the whole Church [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 235].~ ~
139 2,35| universal recognition. All the Orthodox patriarchs and archbishops
140 2,35| Nafpaktos, The Mind of the Orthodox Church, pp. 215-16].~ Protopresbyter
141 2,35| additionally notes that:~ ~The Orthodox Church of Christ is the
142 2,35| fundamental truths of the Orthodox Christian faith. Secondly,
143 2,35| Councils — those which express Orthodox truth — are accepted by
144 2,35| catholic consciousness. The Orthodox Church is the Church not
145 2,35| truths of the Creed is not an Orthodox Christian.~ It should also
146 2,35| should also be noted that the Orthodox Church to this day retains
147 2,36| hades with the Holy Church [Orthodox Apologetic Theology, p.
148 3,1 | also explains that:~ ~The Orthodox teaching on the Holy Spirit
149 3,1 | believer [“Fundamentals of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox
150 3,1 | Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol. 51, no. 4, 2001,
151 3,4 | a harmonious chorus [The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox
152 3,4 | Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way Reviewed, pp. 5-6].~ ~
153 3,5 | is Anglican rather than Orthodox, and as a result, many serious
154 3,5 | misleading statement that the “Orthodox believe that among the five
155 3,5 | also suggests that we, as Orthodox, grant that “the holy and
156 3,5 | Christendom.” When it was still Orthodox in its confession of the
157 3,5 | patriarchs) are equal in the Orthodox Church, they do have different
158 3,5 | Jerusalem.~ Roman Catholics and Orthodox both believe that St. James
159 3,5 | style themselves, are not Orthodox, not in membership with
160 3,5 | Whitfield, “Valid Orders,” Orthodox America, March 1989, p.
161 3,5 | Church, they are outside it [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 235].~ ~
162 3,5 | Exact words].~ ~The Eastern Orthodox Church does not afford the
163 3,5 | numbered heretical bishops with Orthodox bishops. Orthodoxy does
164 3,9 | teaching with the entire Orthodox Church, but rather proceeded
165 3,11| to present the correct, Orthodox teaching concerning the
166 3,16| mystical and inexplicable.” [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 182].~ ~
167 3,17| between the two centers of Orthodox theology was achieved by
168 3,17| Antiochene school and an Orthodox Alexandrian school supposedly
169 3,18| to govern, the remaining Orthodox bishops must assign the
170 3,18| the senior bishop who is Orthodox. What would have to occur
171 3,18| bloody atrocities against Orthodox Christians throughout the
172 3,22| and canonical norms of the Orthodox faith, and lastly, they
173 4,12| notes this fact in his book Orthodox Iconography, and he goes
174 4,12| Jordanville further notes that:~ ~Orthodox iconography is not realistic,
175 4,12| madonnas not be found in Orthodox churches, but also all art
176 4,12| Without this it is not Orthodox and cannot instruct us in
177 4,12| Practical Study of Liturgies,” Orthodox Life, vol. 45, no. 4, 1995,
178 4,12| necessary to emphasize that Orthodox do not approach icons as
179 4,12| through the ages, if not the Orthodox Church, millions of whose
180 4,12| likewise, neither do the Orthodox worship images. The Orthodox,
181 4,12| Orthodox worship images. The Orthodox, he explained, honor and
182 4,12| Neither therefore can the Orthodox be accused of idolatry because
183 4,12| Crusade, for three days Orthodox Christian blood ran in the
184 4,12| prostitutes upon the altars of Orthodox churches as they went about
185 4,12| the Bulgarian people to Orthodox Christianity, something
186 4,12| those termed miraculous. Orthodox Russia abounded with these
187 4,12| great difference between Orthodox iconography and Western
188 4,12| West's great deviation from Orthodox iconography, Protopriest
189 4,12| Potapov writes that: ~ ~In the Orthodox notion, an icon depicts
190 4,12| from all other babies, an Orthodox icon shows the teaching
191 4,12| not only unrelated to the Orthodox Christian faith, but are
192 4,12| destroys a person.~ Because the Orthodox Christian home is like a
193 4,12| family Church (Rom. 16:5), an Orthodox chooses an eastern wall
194 4,14| salvation has been affected.~ ~Orthodox believe that salvation is
195 4,16| 16.~ The Orthodox doctrine of icons is bound
196 4,16| icons is bound up with what Orthodox belief?~ The Orthodox doctrine
197 4,16| what Orthodox belief?~ The Orthodox doctrine of icons is bound
198 4,17| today were produced in the Orthodox Church. That is, of the
199 4,17| Church authority, it was Orthodox bishops, gathered together
200 4,17| place [Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
201 4,17| accepted as a guide to faith [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 37-
202 5,3 | of Byzantium and in all Orthodox countries?~ Monasticism
203 5,4 | of them noted, among the Orthodox Church's monks and nuns
204 5,4 | the best way to penetrate Orthodox spirituality is to enter
205 5,4 | death [My Life in Christ].~ ~Orthodox monasticism is called the
206 5,4 | the Kingdom of Heaven.”~ Orthodox monasticism continues today,
207 5,4 | with noticeable frequency. Orthodox monasticism will continue
208 5,5 | been the chief center of Orthodox monasticism since the tenth
209 5,6 | 6.~ Are there orders in Orthodox monasticism?~ Orders do
210 5,6 | Orders do not exist in Orthodox monasticism. Orders are
211 5,6 | of human transformation. Orthodox monastics labor to cleanse
212 5,6 | goes on to note that in Orthodox monasticism, on the other
213 5,6 | His Holy Mysteries. Thus, Orthodox monasteries function as
214 5,6 | fall.~ Some people condemn Orthodox monasticism because of its
215 5,7 | Cults Within and Without,” Orthodox America, vol. 15, no. 7,
216 5,8 | entire nations accepted Orthodox Christianity and adopted
217 5,8 | that the sufferings of the Orthodox under the Turks can be seen,
218 5,8 | chastisement was sent to the Orthodox for their sin of refusing
219 5,8 | defeat so often fall upon Orthodox Christians, while unbelievers
220 6,6 | called upon to preserve the Orthodox faith and to be its champion
221 6,6 | successful) wars to liberate the Orthodox Balkans from the Turks and
222 6,6 | of money to support the Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos
223 6,6 | self-sacrificial war to protect Orthodox Serbia from Catholic Austria-Hungary.~ ~
224 6,8 | Pastoral Care in Our Times,” Orthodox Life, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997,
225 6,8 | the chalice, as was the Orthodox and early Western custom.
226 6,14| Protestant who converted to Orthodox Christianity, makes a number
227 6,15| prefatory notes mention that all Orthodox Fathers presented their
228 6,15| abandoned the communion of the Orthodox Church. Rome's schism is
229 6,15| groups of believers — the Orthodox, who maintained the Apostolic
230 6,15| falsely maintains that the Orthodox Church went into schism
231 6,15| true Church and becoming Orthodox, Rome claims that nothing
232 6,15| on earth. After 1054, the Orthodox Church is the only true
233 6,16| centuries of separation from the Orthodox Church, the Latin Church
234 6,16| their heretical views on the Orthodox. The fact remains, however,
235 6,16| and has no relationship to Orthodox theology as Christ taught
236 6,16| Church emerged from the Orthodox Church and was once bound
237 6,16| hierarchs and right-believing Orthodox Christians, Rome was severed
238 6,17| Schism would appear flawed to Orthodox theologians as they have
239 6,17| unlike the Western thinker, Orthodox do not begin at zero, at
240 6,17| historical inquiry.~ As noted, an Orthodox works from certain assumptions.
241 6,17| In viewing history, an Orthodox makes the assumption that
242 6,17| historical unfolding of the Orthodox Church. From an Orthodox
243 6,17| Orthodox Church. From an Orthodox point of view, the Cambridge
244 6,17| and their toadies.” [The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox
245 6,17| Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way Reviewed, p. 8].~ ~
246 6,18| relentlessly resisted by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, he added, “
247 7,2 | The textbook observes that Orthodox history is marked by a series
248 7,2 | external appearance of the Orthodox world, yet B) they never
249 7,2 | inward continuity of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
250 7,3 | characteristics did two Orthodox scholars attribute to the
251 7,3 | scholars attribute to the Orthodox Church?~ Protopresbyter
252 7,3 | thank God that the Eastern Orthodox Churches have refused to
253 7,6 | in the Church. But to an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means
254 7,7 | different things?~ In his book Orthodox Tradition and Modernism,
255 7,9 | Protestant minister who is not an Orthodox priest, understands the
256 7,9 | He notes that:~ ~What the Orthodox Church refers to when it
257 7,9 | papal infallibility — the Orthodox do not believe Tradition
258 7,9 | 1:3. Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
259 7,10| promise forms the basis of the Orthodox devotion to Holy Tradition?~
260 7,11| genuineness of the holy Orthodox faith was firmly established,
261 7,11| by the entire universal Orthodox Church.~· Tradition
262 7,11| Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, IV.16, PG 94:1172C-1173B;
263 7,11| necessary for salvation [Orthodox Tradition and Modernism,
264 7,11| well.~ ~According to the Orthodox teaching, Sacred Scripture
265 7,11| accepting the teaching of the Orthodox Church's Sacred Scriptures,
266 7,11| New Testament came out of Orthodox Christianity's Holy Tradition
267 7,11| common practices of the Orthodox Church and the decisions
268 7,11| doctrine is the history of the Orthodox Church, and they do not
269 7,11| This teaching is not the Orthodox teaching. The Orthodox understanding
270 7,11| the Orthodox teaching. The Orthodox understanding of Tradition —
271 7,11| new dogmatic revelations [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 357-
272 7,11| 2 Thes 2:15). Only the Orthodox Church has remained a faithful
273 7,11| loyalty to Tradition, as have Orthodox theologians. As Basil Ioannidis,
274 7,11| Thessalonica, states:~ ~The Orthodox Church possesses full and
275 7,11| in Constantine Cavarnos, Orthodox Tradition and Modernism,
276 7,11| traditional character of the Orthodox Church. E. Seeberg, a Protestant
277 7,11| of Berlin, writes:~ ~The Orthodox Church is the one Church,
278 7,11| proclaimed, and upon which the Orthodox Church is founded. The Ecumenical
279 7,11| divine provenance of the Orthodox faith and excluding innovations,
280 7,11| generation to generation of Orthodox Christians. Sacred Tradition
281 7,13| priest explains that the Orthodox Church recognizes that together
282 7,13| derives its authority from the Orthodox Church, which is the Body
283 7,13| Truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Orthodox Church is the means by which
284 7,13| the Bible. Moreover, the Orthodox Church is the means by which
285 7,13| noted in chapter one, the Orthodox Church is subdivided into
286 7,13| the respect shown in the Orthodox Church for the Word of God.~ ~
287 7,14| Christ. Thus, it is the Orthodox Church, which is the divine-human
288 7,14| well. Moreover, only the Orthodox Church is able to interpret
289 7,14| alone is accepted by the Orthodox Church! This interpretation
290 7,14| Anthony, “Sacred Tradition,” Orthodox America, vol. 11, no. 4,
291 7,14| still fully united to the Orthodox Church. This zealous Church
292 7,14| Church Father of Western Orthodox Christianity gave the renowned
293 7,14| footnote in this professor's Orthodox Dogmatic Theology notes,
294 7,14| has been preserved in the Orthodox Church, which even to this
295 7,14| Church began calling itself Orthodox, underscoring thereby that
296 7,14| deviations from its former Orthodox heritage are not the main
297 7,14| Protestant deviation from the Orthodox understanding of the ecclesiastical
298 7,14| West Severs Itself From Its Orthodox Roots: an Historical Overview,
299 7,14| in the West, once fully Orthodox Christian, it is necessary
300 7,14| was a departure from the Orthodox patristic approach, which
301 7,14| were based on the method of Orthodox devotion, which is purity
302 7,14| inspiration (cf. The Person in the Orthodox Tradition, p. 40). As Elder
303 7,14| salvation. This place is the Orthodox Church of Christ, and the
304 7,14| the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church [“The Holy Fathers
305 7,14| Church [“The Holy Fathers of Orthodox Spirituality,” Orthodox
306 7,14| Orthodox Spirituality,” Orthodox Word, vol. 10, no. 5, p.
307 7,14| saving enclosure of the Orthodox Church, is a limitless ocean
308 7,14| intellectual worldliness [Orthodox Apologetic Theology].~ ~
309 7,14| progressive departure from the Orthodox worldview accelerated during
310 7,14| revelation.... [The Mind of the Orthodox Church, p. 203].~ ~Humanism
311 7,14| of Christ's Church, for Orthodox Christianity had long since
312 7,14| England — a change from the Orthodox Christianity of pre-conquest
313 7,14| hierarch notes, the Eastern Orthodox teaching differs from that
314 7,14| in an Age of Apostasy,” Orthodox America, vol. 18, no. 7-
315 7,14| in his Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
316 7,14| Scriptures.~ Fr. John, now an Orthodox priest, notes that when
317 7,14| itself a product of the Orthodox Church that they reject.~
318 7,14| movement proclaims that the Orthodox Church is not the Church
319 7,14| is completely hostile to Orthodox Christianity, alone among
320 7,14| attack and destroy Christ's Orthodox Church once and for all —
321 7,14| in its attempt to destroy Orthodox Christianity.~ ~* * * * *~ ~
322 7,14| to understand that in the Orthodox approach to Scriptures,
323 7,14| 1054, to “come home” to Orthodox Christianity, even as the
324 7,14| Having come home, this Orthodox priest can now offer the
325 7,14| Protestants should think the [Orthodox understanding is] arrogant
326 7,14| arrogance. [Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
327 7,14| The Bible was written by Orthodox Christians for Orthodox
328 7,14| Orthodox Christians for Orthodox Christians, preserved in
329 7,14| There is a succession of Orthodox bishops back to the original
330 7,15| spiritual dependency that the Orthodox have on the Holy Fathers.
331 7,16| Scripture is read in various Orthodox services.~· Epistle
332 7,16| at every service in the Orthodox Church.~· The Psalter,
333 7,17| is the authoritative for Orthodox Christians. Christ Himself
334 7,17| free from corruption in the Orthodox Church by the grace of God
335 7,17| follow).~ For the Syrian Orthodox Church and all Eastern Churches
336 7,17| Septuagint holds for the other Orthodox Churches. Also, while the
337 7,17| was still a part of the Orthodox Church, yet another translation
338 7,17| hold greater authority with Orthodox Christians than the Hebrew
339 7,17| therefore clear why the Orthodox Church prefers the Septuagint
340 7,17| Bibles to the persecuted Orthodox Christians of Romania. In
341 7,17| made in an attempt to make Orthodox believers think that God
342 7,17| God forbids icons and that Orthodox Christianity is contrary
343 7,17| an integral part of all Orthodox Bibles. They were also formerly
344 7,17| concerning these books:~ ~The [Orthodox] Church accepts these latter
345 7,17| maintained in the Church [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 27-
346 7,17| Protestant who converted to Orthodox Christianity and fully assimilated
347 7,17| and fully assimilated the Orthodox understanding.~ ~
348 7,19| his book The Mind of the Orthodox Church to the Synodikon
349 7,19| explains, sums up the entire orthodox teaching of Christ's Church.~ ~
350 7,20| Athanasius.~ Section 5: The Orthodox Church does not have the
351 7,20| rationalistic in nature. In the Orthodox East, theology [seems] to
352 7,20| unparalleled beauty and majesty of Orthodox worship.~ ~It occurred to
353 7,20| analyzing its waters. The Orthodox East preferred to dive in!
354 7,20| detect the sort of dryness in Orthodox theology that I had in the
355 7,21| otherwise he would not be an Orthodox Christian); instead, it
356 7,21| and then not among all Orthodox, but only among the modernist/
357 7,21| reexamine everything that Orthodox Christianity ever represented
358 7,21| the first Christians.”~ “Orthodox” ecumenists trample on the
359 7,21| is that it is holy. The Orthodox Church is holy because it
360 7,21| save man [The Mind of the Orthodox Church, pp. 180-81].~ ~
361 7,22| Apostolic Tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~ ~
362 8,1 | to Fedorov, what is the Orthodox social program?~ This Russian
363 8,2 | Fedorov could define the Orthodox social program as the dogma
364 8,4 | it is the teaching of the Orthodox Church. Many Holy Fathers
365 8,7 | an earlier chapter, the Orthodox Church to this day retains
366 8,7 | confirmed the truth of the Orthodox Church's Creed. The significance
367 8,11| verse of Scripture is the Orthodox position based?~ Orthodoxy
368 8,12| 12.~ Certain Orthodox hierarchs attempted to bridge
369 8,14| Summarize in your own words the Orthodox objections to the Western
370 8,14| myself saying, “But the Orthodox are right on [the] filioque.”
371 8,14| question arose among the Orthodox if Western theology held
372 8,14| still objectionable to the Orthodox in that the Persons of the
373 8,14| rather merged and confused. Orthodox theology sees the monarchy
374 8,14| further. It explains that in Orthodox Trinitarian theology, the
375 8,14| Western way, but not the Orthodox way. The Orthodox way is
376 8,14| not the Orthodox way. The Orthodox way is to assume the existence
377 8,15| important aspect is the Orthodox Trinitarian theology dealing
378 9,3 | words image and likeness.~ Orthodox theology lays a tremendous
379 9,3 | the Creed. Therefore, the Orthodox Christian believes, serves,
380 9,3 | Truth [“Fundamentals of the Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox
381 9,3 | Orthodox Christian Faith,” Orthodox Life, vol. 51, no. 1, 2001,
382 9,5 | Augustine and that of the Orthodox Church with regard to man'
383 9,7 | would not recognize is the Orthodox Church as it had gone so
384 9,7 | Himself to save the world. Orthodox use incense as an offering
385 9,9 | doctrine of grace does the Orthodox Church reject?~ It rejects
386 9,12| the difference between the Orthodox and the Western understanding
387 9,12| Calvinists) have viewed the Orthodox idea of synergy with suspicion
388 9,14| 20 in demonstrating the Orthodox teaching of synergy. Write
389 9,15| the difference between the Orthodox and the Augustinian doctrines
390 9,15| theology on salvation. The Orthodox Church holds a less exalted
391 9,15| words of a hymn sung at the Orthodox funeral service for the
392 9,15| by the vast majority of Orthodox theologians. An occasional
393 9,15| fall would creep into some Orthodox literature in times past,
394 9,15| Baptism and justification. All Orthodox would be very hesitant to
395 9,19| bishop and an ascetic of the Orthodox Church, wrote: “Behind the
396 9,19| Un-Originate Father. The Orthodox doctrine of Christ, as defined
397 9,22| pervades the entire life of the Orthodox Church. Because of Orthodoxy'
398 9,24| the difference between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox understandings
399 9,26| research on ancient African Orthodox Christianity, Fr. Paisius
400 9,27| Seraphim?~ Vladimir Lossky, an Orthodox theological writer, states
401 9,27| spiritual tradition of the Orthodox Church.~ ~
402 9,28| Spirit” (Acts 2:38).~ The Orthodox Church lays great stress
403 9,28| recited at almost every Orthodox service, and which is recited
404 9,28| and which is recited by Orthodox in their daily private prayers
405 9,28| prayer to the Holy Spirit, Orthodox place themselves under His
406 9,29| in the grace of God.~ The Orthodox Church teaches that to become
407 9,29| mediated to mankind.~ In Orthodox America, a periodical of
408 9,29| America, a periodical of Orthodox traditionalism, the editor
409 9,29| Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition,” Orthodox America,
410 9,29| the Orthodox Tradition,” Orthodox America, vol. 18, no. 6,
411 9,35| into a single being in it. Orthodox mystical theology rejects
412 9,35| The New Age and Children,” Orthodox Life, vol. 42, no. 6, 1992,
413 9,38| that this idea is false. Orthodox asceticism does not regard
414 9,38| from it. According to the Orthodox teaching, it is not the
415 9,38| sanctification of the body, Orthodox Christians have an immense
416 9,38| another writer explains, when Orthodox Christians venerate relics,
417 9,38| Following Sacred Tradition, the Orthodox Church has always shown
418 9,39| universe, just like the Orthodox doctrine of icons and the
419 9,39| be totally annihilated [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 345].~ ~(
420 9,39| textbook explains that “Orthodox mystical theology is a theology
421 9,42| Quoted in Ivan Andreyev, Orthodox Apologetic Theology, p.
422 9,42| prayer and ascetic struggle, Orthodox saints throughout the ages
423 10,1 | position of Christ in the Orthodox Church?~ “Christ is the
424 10,3 | man sins alone.” In his Orthodox Moral Theology (in Russian),
425 10,3 | translated from Russian in Orthodox Life, vol. 43, no. 2, 1993,
426 10,4 | textbook makes between the Orthodox and Protestant ideas of
427 10,5 | 5.~ In what sense is the Orthodox idea of the Church “certainly
428 10,5 | spiritual and mystical”?~ The Orthodox idea of the Church is spiritual
429 10,5 | mystical in the sense that Orthodox theology never deals with
430 10,5 | the Church and God. The Orthodox doctrine of the Church is
431 10,10| they are outside of it [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 235].~ ~
432 10,10| the martyr articulates the Orthodox view on this matter with
433 10,10| Christianity apart from the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ [Christianity
434 10,10| Catholic news bulletin, some Orthodox Churches “have maintained
435 10,10| mouth, it states that some Orthodox Churches also represent
436 10,10| Where is the truth?~ An Orthodox abbot gives this explanation
437 10,10| Church and its oneness:~ ~The Orthodox Church, continuing the principles
438 10,10| they cannot do. Thus the Orthodox Church maintains that when
439 10,10| style themselves, are not Orthodox, not in membership in that
440 10,10| founded. And this is THE ORTHODOX CHURCH [Abbot Augustine
441 10,10| Whitfield, “Valid Orders,” Orthodox America, vol. 9, no. 8,
442 10,10| gives this insight:~ ~The Orthodox teaching of the Church,
443 10,10| has penetrated even into Orthodox circles. According to this
444 10,10| that side by side with the Orthodox Church there exists outside
445 10,10| number of members of the Orthodox Church. Often we can observe
446 10,10| or indirectly, with the Orthodox Church, with the Church
447 10,10| inward — either with the Orthodox Church of Christ or between
448 10,10| the Truth (1 Tim 3:15) [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, pp. 243-
449 10,12| your understanding of the Orthodox attitude toward the branch
450 10,12| forms of Christianity; our Orthodox faith is Christianity itself,
451 10,12| with Sacred Scriptures and Orthodox theology. The only branches
452 10,12| autocephalous Churches of the Orthodox communion.~ ~
453 10,13| book The Non-Orthodox: the Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside
454 10,13| Episcopal Church, and finally to Orthodox Christianity, understands
455 10,14| improper understanding of Orthodox ecclesiology and the status
456 10,14| invisibly” linked to the Orthodox Church without the benefit
457 10,14| in their relation to the Orthodox Church, they cannot be seen
458 10,14| ecclesial separation, the Orthodox leave them to the mercy
459 10,14| its apophatic mindset, the Orthodox Church remains circumspect
460 10,14| this to be only within the Orthodox Church; but we can also
461 10,14| life [The Non-Orthodox: the Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside
462 10,14| however: should you, being Orthodox, and possessing the Truth
463 10,14| Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, expressed
464 10,14| majority of you who are Orthodox; in their lives there has
465 10,15| Potapov explains:~ ~If the Orthodox Church as a whole cannot
466 10,15| angel! [Sola Scriptura: an Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
467 10,16| from the ordinary members [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, p. 246].~ ~
468 10,16| uninterruptedness of the Orthodox Church's episcopate, Fr.
469 10,16| continued in the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose bishops to
470 10,16| of the capitals of some Orthodox countries.~ There is no
471 10,16| special honor among all Orthodox communities, but he does
472 10,16| adultery.~ Since ancient times, Orthodox bishops have been unmarried
473 10,16| sever communion with an Orthodox bishop means that one is
474 10,19| regard:~ ~A decision of the Orthodox Church is never imposed
475 10,19| robber synod.” [A Letter of Orthodox Confession, p. 6].~ ~The
476 10,20| Victor Potapov compares the Orthodox practice of praying for
477 10,20| Victor writes that:~ ~The Orthodox confession of faith is completed
478 10,20| punishment for evil is not Orthodox and is not a Christian.~ ~
479 10,20| Christian.~ ~Whereas we Orthodox believe in the efficacious
480 10,20| between God and men.” Thus the Orthodox Church teaches, and thus
481 10,20| Paul. But, after all, we Orthodox, in our requiem prayers,
482 10,21| authentic provenance by the Orthodox Church, but it is never
483 10,21| it is never used by the Orthodox liturgically). However,
484 10,21| Explaining the Protestant and Orthodox positions regarding prayers
485 10,21| hear our prayers.~ ~In the Orthodox teaching on the veneration
486 10,21| the earliest times, the Orthodox Church has held the teaching
487 10,22| and positions. Therefore, Orthodox Christians honor all the
488 10,22| demonstrates the reverence Orthodox Christians have for the
489 10,22| the communion of saints, Orthodox do not look upon God's favored
490 10,22| into the living and dead, Orthodox Christianity knows no such
491 10,22| loving intercession for us, Orthodox Christians always turn to
492 10,23| Sacred Tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church, which have remained
493 10,23| began to be glorified [The Orthodox Veneration of Mary, the
494 10,23| her. Many times each year, Orthodox Christians all over the
495 10,25| differences between the Orthodox veneration of the Theotokos
496 10,25| West, cut loose from its Orthodox moorings for one thousand
497 10,26| unaltered and unchanged by the Orthodox Church. The proclamation
498 10,26| of God's providence [The Orthodox Veneration of Mary, the
499 10,26| when it was still fully Orthodox Christian. Moreover, even
500 10,27| the Virgin the same as the Orthodox doctrine of the Dormition
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