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Part, Chapter, Paragraph
1 I,Intro | fully about the ~Orthodox Church and what it teaches; and
2 I,Intro | as members of their own Church. All Europe was once as
3 I,Intro | to observe the Orthodox Church at first hand. Greeks journeying
4 I,Intro | persecution, have brought their Church ~with them, establishing
5 I,Intro | interest in the Orthodox Church. The ~Greco-Russian diaspora
6 I,Intro | contribution of the Orthodox Church ~has often proved unexpectedly
7 I,Intro | is meant by .the Orthodox Church.? The divisions which have
8 I,Intro | two groups, the Nestorian Church of Persia, and the five
9 I,Intro | the so-called .Jacobite. Church), Egypt (the Coptic Church),
10 I,Intro | Church), Egypt (the Coptic Church), Ethio-~pia, and India.
11 I,Intro | completely than the Orthodox Church was later to do. When Rabban
12 I,Intro | Europe, the Roman Catholic ~Church under the Pope of Rome;
13 I,Intro | Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Church of the East. ~Orthodoxy
14 I,Intro | thought that the Orthodox Church is exclusively ~a Greek
15 I,Intro | is exclusively ~a Greek Church and nothing else, since
16 I,Intro | tradition. ~ While the Orthodox Church became bounded first on
17 I,Intro | of its former glory, the Church in Greece is free once more;
18 I,Intro | development of the Orthodox ~Church. Geographically its primary
19 I,Intro | autocephalous. Churches (After each Church an approximate estimate
20 I,Intro | position in the ~Orthodox Church, and rank first in honor.
21 I,Intro | the head of the Georgian Church is called Catholicos-~Patriarch;
22 I,Intro | an autocephalous Orthodox Church in America, but this has
23 I,Intro | Churches. ~ ~The Orthodox Church is thus a family of self-governing
24 I,Intro | in the sacraments. Each Church, ~while independent, is
25 I,Intro | Pope in the Roman Catholic Church. The ~Patriarch of Constantinople
26 I,Intro | disturbance to the life of the Church as a whole. ~Many of these
27 I,Intro | in Orthodox coun-~tries Church and State have usually been
28 I,Intro | possesses its own autocephalous Church, ecclesiastical divisions
29 I,Intro | not part of the Russian ~Church, while the territories of
30 I,Intro | countries. The Orthodox Church is a federation of local,
31 I,Intro | political principle of the State Church. ~ Among the various Churches
32 I,Intro | than a generation old. The Church of Czecho-~slovakia, for
33 I,Intro | Greek or Greco-Russian ~Church; but this is incorrect,
34 I,Intro | themselves often call their Church the Eastern Orthodox Church,
35 I,Intro | Church the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Or-~thodox Catholic
36 I,Intro | the Or-~thodox Catholic Church, the Orthodox Catholic Church
37 I,Intro | Church, the Orthodox Catholic Church of the East, or the like.
38 I,Intro | to be the true Catholic Church, it is ~not part of the
39 I,Intro | part of the Roman Catholic Church; and although Orthodoxy
40 I,Intro | employed is the Holy Orthodox ~Church. Perhaps it is least misleading
41 I,Intro | shortest title: the Orthodox ~Church. ~ Orthodoxy claims to be
42 I,Intro | of history, the Orthodox Church has been ~largely restricted
43 I,Intro | Orthodox themselves their ~Church is something more than a
44 I,Intro | claim: they regard their Church as the Church which guards ~
45 I,Intro | regard their Church as the Church which guards ~and teaches
46 I,Intro | as ~nothing less than the Church of Christ on earth. How
47 I,Intro | who do not belong to their Church, it is part of the aim of
48 I, 1 | service of the Catacomb Church gives me strength to live,
49 I, 1 | 1959, no. 4, pp. 30-31) ~of Church life in Russia shortly before
50 I, 1 | far closer to the early Church than their ~grandparents
51 I, 1 | once more. The Christian Church in its ~early days was distinct
52 I, 1 | ditional alliance between Church and State is coming to an
53 I, 1 | Members of the Orthodox Church in particular have been
54 I, 1 | history of the Christian Church begins, with the descent
55 I, 1 | members of the Jerusalem Church were scattered by the persecution
56 I, 1 | in the tradition of the Church. The legends ~about the
57 I, 1 | structure of the primitive ~Church. The basic unit was the
58 I, 1 | countryside depended on ~the Church of the city. This pattern,
59 I, 1 | Eucha-~rist; he saw the Church as both hierarchical and
60 I, 1 | sacramental. .The bishop in each Church,. he ~wrote, .presides in
61 I, 1 | things which concern the Church ~ 6~without the bishop.
62 I, 1 | is, there is the Catholic Church.. And it is the bishop.s
63 I, 1 | today tend to think of the Church as a worldwide organization,
64 I, 1 | Ignatius did not look at the Church in this ~way. For him the
65 I, 1 | the local community is the Church. He thought of the Church
66 I, 1 | Church. He thought of the Church as a Eucharistic soci-~ety,
67 I, 1 | Sunday by Sunday, is the Church in its fullness. ~ The teaching
68 I, 1 | Orthodoxy still thinks ~of the Church as a Eucharistic society,
69 I, 1 | in the structure of the Church. To those who attend an
70 I, 1 | service in the middle of the church, sur-~rounded by his flock,
71 I, 1 | also the wider unity of the Church. This second ~aspect is
72 I, 1 | full possession. So is the Church a single whole, though it
73 I, 1 | increases. (On the Unity of the Church, 5). There are ~many churches
74 I, 1 | many churches but only one Church; many episcopi but only
75 I, 1 | first three centuries of the Church who like Cyprian and Ig-~
76 I, 1 | Christians. They saw their Church as ~founded upon blood .
77 I, 1 | later centuries when the Church became .established. and
78 I, 1 | councils in the life of the Church. It believes that the ~council
79 I, 1 | it regards the Catho-~lic Church as essentially a conciliar
80 I, 1 | essentially a conciliar Church. (Indeed, in Russian the
81 I, 1 | noun, sobor, means both ~.church. and .council.). In the
82 I, 1 | and .council.). In the Church there is neither dictatorship
83 I, 1 | essential nature of the Church. ~ The first council in
84 I, 1 | The first council in the Church.s history is described in
85 I, 1 | council, the members of the Church can together claim an authority
86 I, 1 | the leaders of the entire Church, was an ex-~ceptional gathering,
87 I, 1 | in the name of the whole Church. ~ In 312 an event occurred
88 I, 1 | outward situation of the Church. As ~he was riding through
89 I, 1 | the first ~main period of Church history to an end, and which
90 I, 2 | Byzantium: The Church of the Seven Councils~.All
91 I, 2 | Catholic ~and Ecumenical Church. (John II, Metropolitan
92 I, 2,1 | establishment of an imperial Church~ Constantine stands at a
93 I, 2,1 | watershed in the history of the Church. With his conversion, the
94 I, 2,1 | drew to an end, and the Church of the Catacombs became
95 I, 2,1 | the Catacombs became the ~Church of the Empire. The first
96 I, 2,1 | religion of the Empire. The Church was now established. .You
97 I, 2,1 | Council of the Christian ~Church at Nicaea in 325. If the
98 I, 2,1 | the new rela-~tion between Church and State than the outward
99 I, 2,1 | Council of ~Nicaea . mark the Church.s coming of age. ~ ~
100 I, 2,2 | 325-681).~The life of the Church in the earlier Byzantine
101 I, 2,2 | visible ~organization of the Church, crystallizing the position
102 I, 2,2 | defined once and for all the ~Church.s teaching upon the fundamental
103 I, 2,2 | visible organization of the Church. It singled out ~for mention
104 I, 2,2 | Nazianzus, known in the Orthodox Church as Gregory ~the Theologian (
105 I, 2,2 | before or since has the Church possessed four theologians
106 I, 2,2 | best loved in the Orthodox Church, and the one ~whose works
107 I, 2,2 | lead to heresy, but the Church had need of both in order
108 I, 2,2 | was not accepted by the Church at large. It was felt that
109 I, 2,2 | gathering of ~bishops, which the Church of Byzantium and the west
110 I, 2,2 | five great sees in the ~Church were held in particular
111 I, 2,2 | organization. But if we look at the Church from the viewpoint not of
112 I, 2,2 | assigned to it. ~ The Orthodox Church does not accept the doctrine
113 I, 2,2 | today in the Roman Catholic Church; but at the same ~time Orthodoxy
114 I, 2,2 | bishop. ***The Or-~thodox Church acknowledges Peter as the
115 I, 2,2 | first eight centuries of the Church.s history the Roman see
116 I, 2,2 | the early centuries of the Church. ~ But as with Patriarchs,
117 I, 2,2 | the first bishop in the Church . but he is the ~first among
118 I, 2,2 | communion with the Byzantine Church. As so often, ~theological
119 I, 2,3 | icons in ~the life of the Church. The struggle was not merely
120 I, 2,3 | plenty of support inside the Church. ~Typical of this puritan
121 I, 2,3 | in a Palestinian village church a curtain woven with the
122 I, 2,3 | which the Orthodox Catholic Church piously maintains, ANATHEMA! ~
123 I, 2,3 | to icons. An Or-~thodox church today is filled with them:
124 I, 2,3 | special shrines around the church; and perhaps the walls are
125 I, 2,3 | Icons as part of the Church.s teaching. Icons, said
126 I, 2,3 | one of the means which the Church employs in order to ~teach
127 I, 2,3 | theology has only to enter a ~church to see unfolded before him
128 I, 2,3 | Iconodules, take him into church and place him ~before the
129 I, 2,3 | The Russians and ~Their Church, pp. 107-108). ~ ~As John
130 I, 2,3 | members of the Orthodox Church, their interest is not merely
131 I, 2,3 | are well aware that their ~Church reposes on the basis of
132 I, 2,3 | History of the Eastern Church [Everyman Edition], p. 99).
133 I, 2,3 | often call themselves .the Church of ~the Seven Councils..
134 I, 2,3 | not mean that the Orthodox Church has ceased to think ~creatively
135 I, 2,3 | Councils which the Orthodox Church takes as its standard and ~
136 I, 2,4 | Leontius, ~Supplement, 2). The Church in the Byzantine Empire
137 I, 2,4 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 17). The mo-~nastic
138 I, 2,4 | ministry in the life of the Church. They reminded Christians
139 I, 2,4 | be found in the Orthodox Church today. There are first the
140 I, 2,4 | monarchy of God in ~heaven; in church men prostrated themselves
141 I, 2,4 | had a special place in the Church.s worship: he could ~not
142 I, 2,4 | once worn by the Emperor in church. ~ The life of Byzantium
143 I, 2,4 | and the secular, between Church and State: the two were
144 I, 2,4 | part in the affairs of ~the Church. Yet at the same time it
145 I, 2,4 | of subor-~dinating the Church to the State. Although Church
146 I, 2,4 | Church to the State. Although Church and State formed a single
147 I, 2,4 | the authorities of the Church quickly showed that ~they
148 I, 2,4 | successfully rejected by the Church. In Byzantine his-~tory
149 I, 2,4 | In Byzantine his-~tory Church and State were closely interdependent,
150 I, 2,4 | but within the Orthodox Church, who sharply criti-~cize
151 I, 3,1 | was about to begin in the Church of ~the Holy Wisdom (in
152 I, 3,1 | greatly as-~sisted the early Church in its missionary work. ~
153 I, 3,1 | classical tradition which the Church had taken over and made
154 I, 3,1 | but affect the life of the Church, and make it ~harder to
155 I, 3,1 | heresy ~against the Byzantine Church: he denounced the Greeks
156 I, 3,1 | in east and west made the Church assume different outward ~
157 I, 3,1 | came gradually to think of Church order in conflicting ways.
158 I, 3,1 | conciliar nature of the Church. The east acknowl-~edged
159 I, 3,1 | the first bishop in the Church, but saw him as the first
160 I, 3,1 | Councils themselves; the ~Church was seen less as a college
161 I, 3,1 | structure of the western Church. In the east there was a ~
162 I, 3,1 | monarch set up over the Church, issuing commands . in a
163 I, 3,1 | rulers as well. The western Church became centralized to a
164 I, 3,1 | had upon the life of the Church. ~In Byzantium there were
165 I, 3,1 | Ages ~was provided by the Church for its clergy. Theology
166 I, 3,1 | to suffer. In the early Church there had been unity in
167 I, 3,1 | structure ~of the western Church was reinforced by the barbarian
168 I, 3,1 | not mind if the western Church was centralized, so long
169 I, 3,1 | representing all the bishops of the Church. Here we have two different ~
170 I, 3,1 | visible organization of the Church. ~ The Orthodox attitude
171 I, 3,1 | do not deny to the Roman Church the primacy amongst ~the
172 I, 3,1 | not the sons, of such a Church, and the Roman See would
173 I, 3,1 | At any rate the Spanish Church interpolated the filioque
174 I, 3,1 | possession of the ~whole Church, and a part of the Church
175 I, 3,1 | Church, and a part of the Church has no right to tamper with
176 I, 3,1 | against the unity of the Church. In the second place, Orthodox
177 I, 3,1 | a false doctrine of the Church. (I have given here the ~
178 I, 3,1 | certain lesser mat-~ters of Church worship and discipline which
179 I, 3,1 | another and still formed ~one Church. Cultural and political
180 I, 3,1 | say how many] the western Church has been divided ~in spiritual
181 I, 3,1 | subject to the Canons of the Church, in union with the Orthodox ~(
182 I, 3,1 | longer formed one visible Church. ~ In this transition from
183 I, 3,2 | Photius, known to the Orthodox Church as Saint Photius the Great.
184 I, 3,2 | earth, that is, over ~every Church.. This was precisely what
185 I, 3,2 | clergy. But Boris wanted the Church in Bulgaria to be independent,
186 I, 3,2 | status of the Bulgarian Church, and not surprisingly he
187 I, 3,2 | a saint, a leader of the Church, and a theologian, has ~
188 I, 3,2 | sign of the unity of the Church, and deliberately to omit
189 I, 3,2 | form an infallible guide to Church relations. The Constantinopolitan
190 I, 3,2 | Cerularius ~on the altar of the Church of the Holy Wisdom: among
191 I, 3,2 | Humbert (but not the Roman Church as such). The attempt at ~
192 I, 3,2 | altar and icon screen in the Church of ~the Holy Wisdom, and
193 I, 3,2 | between Rome and the Orthodox Church, just as it is differences
194 I, 3,2 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 13). ~ Orthodoxy and
195 I, 3,2 | claimed to be ~the true Church. Yet each, while believing
196 I, 3,2 | claiming to be the one true Church, must admit ~that on the
197 I, 3,3 | and laity in the Byzantine Church, as well as by Bulgaria
198 I, 3,3 | prayer used in the Orthodox ~Church. ~ To understand the Hesychast
199 I, 3,3 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 162). When we say that
200 I, 3,3 | the corporate life of ~the Church with its sacraments; but
201 I, 3,3 | institutional life of the Church. ~ ~ A second reunion Council
202 I, 3,3 | delegation from the Byzantine Church, as well as representatives
203 I, 3,3 | canonized by the Orthodox Church. The Florentine Union was
204 I, 3,3 | traditions pe-~culiar to each Church. Thus in matters of doctrine,
205 I, 3,3 | service was held in the great Church of the Holy Wisdom. It ~
206 I, 3,3 | Turks, and the most glorious church in Christendom became a
207 I, 4,1 | ac-~tivity. The Byzantine Church, freed at last from the
208 I, 4,1 | 815?-885). In the Orthodox Church Constantine is usually called
209 I, 4,1 | Macedonian Slavs became Church Slavonic, which remains
210 I, 4,1 | missionary history of the Church. From the start ~the Slav
211 I, 4,1 | and the services of the Church in a tongue which they ~
212 I, 4,1 | could understand. Unlike the Church of Rome in the west with
213 I, 4,1 | on Latin, the Ortho-~dox Church has never been rigid in
214 I, 4,1 | were still united as one ~Church, and it was not a matter
215 I, 4,1 | continue to use Slavonic in Church services. The brothers traveled ~
216 I, 4,1 | found a Slavonic national Church in Moravia came to nothing.
217 I, 4,1 | at first used Greek in Church services, a language as
218 I, 4,1 | assimilate. The Bulgarian Church grew rap-~idly. Around 926,
219 I, 4,1 | Boris . an autocephalous Church of his own . became a reality ~
220 I, 4,1 | Bulgaria was the first national Church of the Slavs. ~ Byzantine
221 I, 4,1 | culture grew up. The Serbian Church gained a partial independ-~
222 I, 4,1 | which ~was recognized by the Church of Constantinople in 1375. ~
223 I, 4,1 | overlook the fact that the Church of Romania, the second largest
224 I, 4,1 | second largest Orthodox Church today, is ~predominantly
225 I, 4,1 | whole. The link between Church and people was made even ~
226 I, 4,1 | unfortunate consequences. Because Church and nation ~ 40~were so
227 I, 4,1 | the two and have made the ~Church serve the ends of national
228 I, 4,1 | Yet the integration of Church ~and people has in the end
229 I, 4,1 | The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is in form, ~substance,
230 I, 4,1 | spirit a People.s Democratic Church.. Strip the words of their
231 I, 4,2 | and there was certainly a ~church at Kiev in 945. The Russian
232 I, 4,2 | were held in ~the rivers; Church courts were set up, and
233 I, 4,2 | Christi-~anity, and the Church was at first restricted
234 I, 4,2 | Christianity. ~ The Russian Church during the Kievan period
235 I, 4,2 | from Byzantium, the Russian Church continues to sing in Greek
236 I, 4,2 | organization of the early Russian Church, such as ecclesiastical
237 I, 4,3 | The Russian Church under the Mongols (1237-
238 I, 4,3 | anything else, it was the Church which kept alive ~Russian
239 I, 4,3 | fourteenth centuries, as the Church was later ~to preserve a
240 I, 4,3 | closely bound up with the Church. When ~the town was still
241 I, 4,3 | the history of the Russian Church during the Mongol period
242 I, 4,3 | interfering in the life of the Church, ~whereas the Teutonic Knights
243 I, 4,3 | spiritual capitulation to the Church of Rome. ~ Stephen of Perm
244 I, 4,3 | us to another aspect of Church life under the Mongols:
245 I, 4,3 | its early days the Russian Church was a missionary Church,
246 I, 4,3 | Church was a missionary Church, and the Russians were ~
247 I, 4,3 | translated the Bible and ~Church services into the languages
248 I, 4,3 | inner life of the Rus-~sian Church. Better, perhaps, than any
249 I, 5 | The Church under Islam~.The stable
250 I, 5 | these our days of the Greek Church. notwithstanding the Oppres-~
251 I, 5,1 | determined opponent of the Church of Rome, and his appointment
252 I, 5,1 | marry Moslem women. The Church was allowed to undertake
253 I, 5,1 | ten serves to strengthen a Church; but the Greeks in the Ottoman
254 I, 5,1 | fall of Constantinople the Church was not allowed to revert
255 I, 5,1 | the Empire. The Ortho-~dox Church therefore became a civil
256 I, 5,1 | head of the Greek Orthodox Church, but the civil head of the
257 I, 5,1 | But on the life of the ~Church it had two melancholy effects.
258 I, 5,1 | organized completely around the Church, it became ~all but impossible
259 I, 5,1 | Greeks to distinguish between Church and nation. The Orthodox
260 I, 5,1 | In the second place, the Church.s higher administration
261 I, 5,1 | and the leaders of the Church were usually separated into
262 I, 5,1 | behold this once glori-~ous Church tear and rend out her own
263 I, 5,1 | of the Patriarchate: the Church of Greece (organized in
264 I, 5,1 | Constantinople in 1850); the Church of Romania (organized in
265 I, 5,1 | recognized in ~1885); the Church of Bulgaria (reestablished
266 I, 5,1 | Constantinople until ~1945); the Church of Serbia (restored and
267 I, 5,1 | intellectual life of the Church: it ~was the cause on the
268 I, 5,1 | in intention to their own Church, would lose their Orthodox
269 I, 5,1 | argument ~foreign to their own Church. Orthodox theology underwent
270 I, 5,2 | Empire, so that the Orthodox Church has not undergone either
271 I, 5,2 | Reformers in the Orthodox Church. The ~Patriarch.s Answers
272 I, 5,2 | were appointed not by the Church but by ~the Roman Catholic
273 I, 5,2 | members of the Orthodox Church. The two sides concluded
274 I, 5,2 | existence in Poland a .Uniate. Church, whose members were known ~
275 I, 5,2 | now joined the Orthodox Church. ~ The government authorities
276 I, 5,2 | point of view the Orthodox Church in Poland had now ceased
277 I, 5,2 | handed over the Orthodox Church of their ~peasants to a
278 I, 5,2 | invigorated the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine. Although
279 I, 5,2 | a lifelong hatred of the Church of Rome, and when he became
280 I, 5,2 | struggle against .the Papic ~Church. (as the Greeks termed it)
281 I, 5,2 | Council of the Orthodox Church. Dositheus, ~Patriarch of
282 I, 5,2 | predestination; the doctrine ~of the Church; the number and nature of
283 I, 5,2 | it did not extend ~to the Church of Russia; the Russians
284 I, 5,2 | Calvinists but also with the Church of England. Cyril Lukaris
285 I, 5,2 | widely used in the Orthodox Church. Around 1694 there was even
286 I, 5,2 | from the main body of the Church of England in 1688, rather ~
287 I, 5,2 | Eastern Patriarchs and the Church of Russia, in the hope of
288 I, 5,2 | Ecumenical Councils ~nor the Church of the later Byzantine Empire
289 I, 5,2 | nature and au-~thority of the Church. It was important for Orthodoxy
290 I, 5,2 | accepted by the Orthodox Church as a whole. The seventeenth-~
291 I, 5,2 | to an end in the Orthodox Church after the period of the
292 I, 5,2 | discouragements, the Ortho-~dox Church under Ottoman rule never
293 I, 5,2 | who are honored in the Church.s calendar ~with the special
294 I, 5,2 | higher administration of the Church, shocking though it was,
295 I, 5,2 | by Sunday ~in his parish church. More than anything else
296 I, 6,1 | land of Russia, the Russian Church gained its independence,
297 I, 6,1 | the head of the Russian Church, the Metropolitan. At the
298 I, 6,1 | until 1453 the official Church at Constantinople continued ~
299 I, 6,1 | Henceforward the Russian Church was autoceph-~alous. ~ The
300 I, 6,1 | leader of the Apostolic Church ~which stands no longer
301 I, 6,1 | the head of the Russian ~Church rank senior to the Patriarch
302 I, 6,1 | came into the open at a Church council in 1503. ~As this
303 I, 6,1 | were others in the Russian ~Church who agreed with Nilus .
304 I, 6,1 | his wife (the Ortho-~dox Church grants divorce, but only
305 I, 6,1 | influence in the Russian Church was ~very much restricted.
306 I, 6,1 | views of the relation of the Church to the world. The Possessors ~
307 I, 6,1 | Joseph, .The riches of the Church are the riches of the poor.. ~
308 I, 6,1 | heretics are recalcitrant, the Church must call in the civil arm
309 I, 6,1 | problem of relations between Church ~and State. Nilus regarded
310 I, 6,1 | matter, to be settled by the Church without the ~State.s intervention;
311 I, 6,1 | close alliance between ~Church and State, they took an
312 I, 6,1 | than Sergius to guard the Church from becoming the servant
313 I, 6,1 | world; Nilus saw that the Church on earth must always be
314 I, 6,1 | on earth must always be a Church in pilgrimage. While ~Joseph
315 I, 6,1 | universality and Catholicity of the Church. ~ Nor did the divergences
316 I, 6,1 | tion to beautiful icons or Church music comes between him
317 I, 6,1 | pray there as he prays in ~Church... where the singing of
318 I, 6,1 | first hand. ~ The Russian Church rightly saw good things
319 I, 6,1 | spiritual life of the ~Russian Church became one-sided and unbalanced.
320 I, 6,1 | Josephites ~ 56~upheld between Church and State, their Russian
321 I, 6,1 | a close alliance between Church and State, the ~Church did
322 I, 6,1 | between Church and State, the ~Church did not forfeit all independence.
323 I, 6,1 | the head of the Russian Church ~was raised from the rank
324 I, 6,2 | work of reconstruction the ~Church played a large part. The
325 I, 6,2 | reforming movement in the Church was led at first by the
326 I, 6,2 | Moscow, and more accurate Church ~books were issued, although
327 I, 6,2 | prayer each day, ~either in church or before the icons in their
328 I, 6,2 | become head of the Russian Church; but he suffered from an
329 I, 6,2 | not ~Russia an independent Church, a fully grown member of
330 I, 6,2 | the memory of the ~Mother Church of Byzantium from which
331 I, 6,2 | Avvakum defied the official Church with its Niconian ser-~vice
332 I, 6,2 | differed from the official ~Church solely in ritual, not in
333 I, 6,2 | test against the official Church for not carrying reform
334 I, 6,2 | conservatives against an official Church which in their eyes had
335 I, 6,2 | ancient tradition of the Church, and this ancient tradition,
336 I, 6,2 | Had the development of Church ~life in Russia between
337 I, 6,2 | second aim: to make the ~Church supreme over the State.
338 I, 6,2 | governing relations between Church and ~State had been the
339 I, 6,2 | the Tsar. In practice the Church had enjoyed a wide measure
340 I, 6,2 | power came to control the Church more ~and more; the Josephite
341 I, 6,2 | eight years the Russian Church ~remained without an effective
342 I, 6,2 | practices on the Russian Church, but a defeat for his attempt ~
343 I, 6,2 | Council upon the relations ref Church and State did not ~remain
344 I, 6,3 | members were not chosen by the Church but ~nominated by the Emperor;
345 I, 6,3 | not called ~.Head of the Church,. but he was given the title .
346 I, 6,3 | considerable power over Church affairs and was in effect
347 I, 6,3 | Spiritual Regulation sees the Church not as a divine institution
348 I, 6,3 | higher administration of the Church, but of many of its other
349 I, 6,3 | not only to deprive the Church of leadership, but to eliminate
350 I, 6,3 | the social work of the ~Church was grievously restricted,
351 I, 6,3 | drink whoop and hollow in Church.; bishops are told to see
352 I, 6,3 | and Regulations of the Church of Russia, London, 1729,
353 I, 6,3 | Synod. ~ ~ The system of Church government which Peter the
354 I, 6,3 | time of decline, with the Church in complete subservience
355 I, 6,3 | ill-advised ~westernization in Church art, Church music, and theology.
356 I, 6,3 | westernization in Church art, Church music, and theology. Those
357 I, 6,3 | great revival in the Russian Church. Men turned away from religious ~
358 I, 6,3 | restored to the center of the Church.s life the tradition of ~
359 I, 6,3 | relations with the Orthodox Church is extremely sad. In later
360 I, 6,3 | he publicly attacked the ~Church with great violence, and
361 I, 6,3 | great figures of the Russian Church in the nineteenth century
362 I, 6,3 | proclaimed a saint by the Russian Church in Exile. ~ In nineteenth-century
363 I, 6,3 | Mongols. But although the Church never ceased to send out ~
364 I, 6,3 | history of the Russian ~Church. A country landowner and
365 I, 6,3 | the point of view of the Church, and therefore from a higher
366 I, 6,3 | Russia and the English Church, p. 14). Khomi-~akov was
367 I, 6,3 | with the doctrine of the Church, its unity and authority;
368 I, 6,3 | found their way back to the Church. Some were former Marxists,
369 I, 6,3 | the greatest of ~Russian Church historians, Professor Kartashev (
370 I, 6,3 | humility.. The Russian ~Church was suffering under the
371 I, 6,3 | the history of the Russian Church (Article in the periodical
372 I, 6,3 | in power, an All-Russian Church Council was convened at
373 I, 6,3 | full mastery of Moscow. The Church ~was allowed no time to
374 I, 7 | Greeks and Arabs~The Orthodox Church of today exists in two contrasting
375 I, 7 | the case of the Orthodox Church the vast majority of its
376 I, 7 | higher administration of the Church is in Greek hands. ~ ~
377 I, 7,1 | contribution to the life of the Church at large. There are signs
378 I, 7,2 | The Orthodox Church of Finland ~ owes its origin
379 I, 7,2 | dependent on the Russian Church until the Revolution, ~but
380 I, 7,2 | al-~though the Russian Church did not accept this situation
381 I, 7,2 | Orthodox traditions, the Church of Finland is perhaps destined
382 I, 7,3 | Alexandria ~has been a small Church ever since the separation
383 I, 7,3 | head of the Alexandrian Church is known officially as .
384 I, 7,3 | well be that the ancient Church of Alexandria, however attenuated
385 I, 7,4 | example ~of a .sleeping. Church. Today there are signs of
386 I, 7,5 | special position in the Church: never large ~in numbers,
387 I, 7,6 | The Church of Greece ~continues to
388 I, 7,6 | towards a separation of Church and ~State; but the Church
389 I, 7,6 | Church and ~State; but the Church remains deeply influential. ~
390 I, 7,6 | today, as in the primitive Church, are small: there are 78 (
391 I, 7,6 | has meant that the Greek Church has avoided a cultural gulf ~
392 I, 7,6 | intellectual life of the Church: it is a theology of the ~
393 I, 7,6 | founda-~tions of a ruined church. A large pilgrimage shrine
394 I, 7,6 | August). ~ In the Greek Church of the present century there
395 I, 7,6 | with the bishops and other Church authorities, spring from
396 I, 7,6 | developments in the Orthodox Church. In the past the primary
397 I, 7,6 | all vital contact with the Church, is commonly that at which
398 I, 7,7 | The ancient Church of Cyprus~ independent since
399 I, 7,7 | whereby the head of the Church is ~also the civil leader
400 I, 7,7 | recent head of the Cypriot Church, .ethnarch. and President
401 I, 7,8 | The Church of Sinai~ is in some ways
402 I, 7,8 | merely an ~.autonomous. Church (see p. 314). The abbot,
403 I, 7,9 | addition a number of smaller Church groups. ~ The chief centers
404 I, 7,9 | academies (however large) in any Church. Saint Sergius is also noted ~
405 I, 7,9 | as .A Monk of the Eastern Church.. ~ Several Russian monasteries
406 I, 7,9 | Provemont in Normandy (Russian ~Church in Exile); there is a smaller
407 I, 7,9 | Annunciation in London (Russian Church in Exile), with a Russian
408 I, 7,9 | when relations with the Church ~of Russia became confused,
409 I, 7,9 | is now within the Russian Church in Exile. ~ The Russians
410 I, 7,9 | Jordanville, N.Y. (Russian Church in Exile); and Christ the
411 I, 7,9 | produces liturgical books in Church Slavonic, and other books
412 I, 7,9 | and have built their own church, decorated by two members
413 I, 7,9 | place ~in the life of the Church. Among members of many jurisdictions
414 I, 7,9 | generation of Orthodox from the Church. This younger generation
415 I, 7,9 | from Orthodoxy, if their Church insists on worshipping ~
416 I, 7,9 | autocephalous .American Orthodox Church.. This vision of an American
417 I, 7,9 | American autocephal-~ous Church has its most ardent advocates
418 I, 7,9 | as the nucleus of such a ~Church, and among the Syrians.
419 I, 7,9 | Serbs, ~and the Russian Church in Exile, who view with
420 I, 7,9 | younger generation, if their Church were to sacrifice this great
421 I, 7,9 | the Synod of the Russian Church in Exile said in its Letter
422 I, 7,9 | Service of the Orthodox Church) in ~French, English, German,
423 I, 7,9 | a theory. The Ortho-~dox Church of the present day contains
424 I, 7,9 | the Uniate movement in the Church of ~Rome. In 1937, when
425 I, 7,9 | received into the Orthodox Church, they were allowed to retain
426 I, 7,9 | present it is under the Church of Romania. There are several
427 I, 7,9 | hierarch of the ~Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch.
428 I, 7,9 | Council. of the whole Orthodox Church, and as a ~first step towards
429 I, 7,10 | Orthodoxy is not a ~missionary Church. Certainly Orthodox have
430 I, 7,10 | but in Russia, where the Church remained ~free, missions
431 I, 7,10 | Since 1957 the Chinese Church, despite its small size,
432 I, 7,10 | The Japanese Orthodox Church was founded by Father (later
433 I, 7,10 | education. The Ortho-~dox Church in Japan is autonomous or
434 I, 7,10 | spiritual care of its Mother Church, the Moscow Patriarchate.
435 I, 7,10 | mission but an indigenous Church of the ~Japanese people. ~
436 I, 7,10 | Korean civil ~war, when the church was destroyed; but it was
437 I, 7,10 | rebuilt in 1953, and a larger church was con-~structed in 1967.
438 I, 7,10 | lively African Ortho-~dox Church in Uganda and Kenya. Entirely
439 I, 7,10 | the ~.African Orthodox Church,. which, though using the
440 I, 7,10 | Archbishop Alexander of this Church, but towards the end of
441 I, 7,10 | of the .African Orthodox Church,. whereupon they severed
442 I, 7,10 | methinks, that in no time this Church is going to embrace all
443 I, 7,10 | itself in weakness, the true Church within the historic reality. (
444 I, 7,10 | Theology of ~the Eastern Church, p. 246). But if there are
445 I, 7,10 | nationalism is hindering the Church in its work, but there are
446 I, 7,10 | the present state of his Church; yet despite its many problems
447 II, 0,11 | continuity of the Orthodox Church. The thing that first strikes
448 II, 0,11 | immersion, as in the primitive Church; they still bring babies
449 II, 0,11 | the early days when the church’s entrance was jealously
450 II, 0,11 | characteristic~of their Church, they both pointed to the
451 II, 0,11 | living continuity with the Church of ancient times (See~Panagiotis
452 II, 0,11 | Williams, The Orthodox Church of the East at the Eighteenth
453 II, 0,11 | generation to generation in the~Church (Compare Paul in 1 Corinthians
454 II, 0,11 | whole system of doctrine, Church government,~worship, and
455 II, 0,11 | the error of the ‘Living~Church:’ the one party fell into
456 II, 0,11 | is not only kept by the Church — it lives in the~Church,
457 II, 0,11 | Church — it lives in the~Church, it is the life of the Holy
458 II, 0,11 | of the Holy Spirit in the Church. The Orthodox conception
459 II, 0,11 | we must live within the Church, we must be~conscious of
460 II, 0,11 | the Catholicity of the Church,’ in The Church of God,
461 II, 0,11 | Catholicity of the Church,’ in The Church of God, edited E. L. Mascall,~
462 II, 0,12 | Bible~a) The Bible and the Church. The Christian Church is
463 II, 0,12 | the Church. The Christian Church is a Scriptural Church:
464 II, 0,12 | Christian Church is a Scriptural Church: Orthodoxy believes~this
465 II, 0,12 | something set up over the Church, but as something that lives
466 II, 0,12 | is understood within the~Church (that is why one should
467 II, 0,12 | Tradition). It is from the Church that~4~the Bible ultimately
468 II, 0,12 | authority, for it was the Church which originally decided
469 II, 0,12 | Scripture; and it is the Church alone which can interpret
470 II, 0,12 | accept the guidance of the Church. When received into the
471 II, 0,12 | received into the Orthodox Church,~a convert promises: ‘I
472 II, 0,12 | the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church of the East, our Mother’ (
473 II, 0,12 | our Mother’ (On~Bible and Church, see especially Dositheus,
474 II, 0,12 | Criticism. The Orthodox Church has the same New Testament~
475 II, 0,12 | are known in the Orthodox~Church as the ‘Deutero-Canonical
476 II, 0,12 | Orthodoxy, while regarding the~Church as the authoritative interpreter
477 II, 0,12 | in the same way. In every~church the Gospel Book has a place
478 II, 0,12 | respect shown in the Orthodox Church for the Word of God.~2.
479 II, 0,12 | the eyes of the~Orthodox Church, the statements of faith
480 II, 0,12 | two chief ways whereby the Church has expressed~its mind:
481 II, 0,12 | represent the Orthodox Catholic Church as a~whole) and b) letters
482 II, 0,12 | accepted by the rest of the Church, then they~come to acquire
483 II, 0,12 | accepted in toto; but the Church has often been~selective
484 II, 0,12 | received by the whole Orthodox~Church, but in part set aside or
485 II, 0,12 | Symbolical Books’ of~the Orthodox Church, but many Orthodox scholars
486 II, 0,12 | Fathers, the judgment of the Church is selective: individual~
487 II, 0,12 | contemporaries.~The Orthodox Church has never attempted to define
488 II, 0,12 | Spirit has deserted the Church.~5. The Liturgy~The Orthodox
489 II, 0,12 | The Liturgy~The Orthodox Church is not as much given to
490 II, 0,12 | as is the~Roman Catholic Church. But it would be false to
491 II, 0,12 | defined, are~yet held by the Church with an unmistakable inner
492 II, 0,12 | preserved above all in the~Church’s worship. Lex orandi lex
493 II, 0,12 | up Canons, dealing with~Church organization and discipline;
494 II, 0,12 | Canon Law of the Orthodox Church has been very little studied
495 II, 0,12 | new General Council of the Church is assembled, one of its
496 II, 0,12 | the~earthly life of the Church, where conditions are constantly
497 II, 0,12 | Canons and the dogmas of the Church there exists an essential~
498 II, 0,12 | Icons~The Tradition of the Church is expressed not only through
499 II, 0,12 | sentiments, but the mind of the Church. Artistic inspiration is
500 II, 0,12 | Tradition~of the Orthodox Church — Scripture, Councils, Fathers,
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