1-500 | 501-1000 | 1001-1024
Part, Chapter, Paragraph
501 II, 1,1 | Theology of the Eastern~Church, p. 66). As an Anglican
502 II, 1,1 | together? Here the Orthodox~Church, following the Cappadocian
503 II, 1,1 | nothing is understood.~The Church believes that Christ underwent
504 II, 1,1 | Spirit in the world, in the Church, in~the daily life of each
505 II, 1,1 | Catholic doctrine of the Church. Because the role of the
506 II, 1,1 | neglected in~the west, the Church has come to be regarded
507 II, 1,1 | western conception of the Church unity has triumphed~over
508 II, 1,2 | in the language of the Church, God created Adam according~
509 II, 1,2 | in the language of the Church, Adam fell, and~his fall —
510 II, 1,2 | not a slave. The Orthodox Church rejects~any doctrine of
511 II, 1,2 | will (A Monk of the Eastern Church, Orthodox Spirituality,~
512 II, 1,2 | form) by the Roman Catholic Church. Men (Orthodox usually~teach)
513 II, 1,2 | Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, ‘...are not
514 II, 1,3 | greater prominence in the Church’s year than it possesses
515 II, 1,3 | whole life of the Orthodox Church:~Through all the vicissitudes
516 II, 1,3 | of her history the Greek Church has been enabled to preserve
517 II, 1,3 | Lord of glory.~The Orthodox Church on Good Friday thinks not
518 II, 1,3 | even on Good Friday the Church sounds a note of Resurrection~
519 II, 1,4 | Pentecost.~The Orthodox Church lays great stress upon the
520 II, 1,4 | tradition of the Orthodox Church’ (The Mystical Theology
521 II, 1,4 | Theology of~the Eastern Church, p. 196) As Saint Pachomius’
522 II, 1,4 | Orthodox~doctrine of the Church; and in later chapters something
523 II, 1,4 | sacramental action of the Church, and most notably at the
524 II, 1,5 | teaching of the Orthodox~Church, is the final goal at which
525 II, 1,5 | divine essence: the Orthodox Church, while speaking of deification
526 II, 1,5 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 87). Man does not become~
527 II, 1,5 | all alike. The Orthodox Church believes that it is the
528 II, 1,5 | answer is very~simple: go to church, receive the sacraments
529 II, 1,5 | presupposes life in the Church, life in the sacraments.
530 II, 1,5 | within the fellowship of the~Church can this common life of
531 II, 1,5 | coinherence be properly realized. Church and sacraments are the~means
532 II, 2 | The Church of God~“Christ loved the
533 II, 2 | of God~“Christ loved the Church, and gave himself up for
534 II, 2 | for it” (Eph. 5:25).~“The Church is one and the same with
535 II, 2 | flesh~and of His bones. The Church is the living vine, nourished
536 II, 2 | Him. Never think of the Church apart from the Lord Jesus~
537 II, 2,1 | God and His Church~An Orthodox Christian is
538 II, 2,1 | alone. He is~saved in the Church, as a member of it and in
539 II, 2,1 | Kitts other members (The Church is~One, section 9).~Some
540 II, 2,1 | Orthodox doctrine of the Church and those of western~Christians
541 II, 2,1 | hierarchical structure of the Church, upon the Apostolic Succession,
542 II, 2,1 | the infallibility of the~Church as a whole. Doubtless neither
543 II, 2,1 | that Rome envisages the Church too much in terms of earthly
544 II, 2,1 | mystical doctrine of the~Church held by Orthodoxy is vague,
545 II, 2,1 | earthly organization of the Church, but have many strict and
546 II, 2,1 | the Orthodox idea of the Church is certainly spiritual and
547 II, 2,1 | the earthly aspect of the Church in isolation, but thinks
548 II, 2,1 | but thinks always of~the Church in Christ and the Holy Spirit.
549 II, 2,1 | Orthodox thinking about the Church starts with the~special
550 II, 2,1 | which exists between the Church and God. Three phrases can
551 II, 2,1 | describe~this relation: the Church is 1) the Image of the Holy
552 II, 2,1 | Orthodox doctrine of the Church is Trinitarian, Christological,
553 II, 2,1 | Trinitarian~God, so the Church as a whole is an icon of
554 II, 2,1 | fully personal; in the~23~Church a multitude of human persons
555 II, 2,1 | coinherence~of the members of the Church. In the Church there is
556 II, 2,1 | members of the Church. In the Church there is no conflict between
557 II, 2,1 | freedom and authority;~in the Church there is unity, but no totalitarianism.
558 II, 2,1 | the word ‘Catholic’ to~the Church, they have in mind (among
559 II, 2,1 | This conception of the Church as an icon of the Trinity
560 II, 2,1 | Trinity is autonomous, so the Church is made~up of a number of
561 II, 2,1 | persons~are equal, so in the Church no one bishop can claim
562 II, 2,1 | the~rest.~This idea of the Church as an icon of the Trinity
563 II, 2,1 | Trinitarian nature of the Church. The~mystery of unity in
564 II, 2,1 | Spirit.~The unity of the Church is linked more particularly
565 II, 2,1 | Between~Christ and the Church there is the closest possible
566 II, 2,1 | is, there is the Catholic Church’ (To the Smyrnaeans, 8:2).
567 II, 2,1 | the Smyrnaeans, 8:2). The Church is the extension of the~
568 II, 2,1 | perpetuates itself. The Church, the Greek theologian~Chrestos
569 II, 2,1 | and kingly power ...~The Church and its Founder are inextricably
570 II, 2,1 | inextricably bound together... The Church is Christ with us~(Dogmatic
571 II, 2,1 | Christ did not leave the Church when He ascended~into heaven: “
572 II, 2,1 | absent:~And still the Holy Church is here~Although her Lord
573 II, 2,1 | unity between Christ and His Church is effected above all through
574 II, 2,1 | members of~Christ’s Body the Church receive His Body in the
575 II, 2,1 | uniting the~members of the Church to Christ, at the same time
576 II, 2,1 | creates the unity of the Church. The Church (as Ignatius
577 II, 2,1 | unity of the Church. The Church (as Ignatius saw) is a Eucharistic
578 II, 2,1 | Christ’ should mean both the Church and the~sacrament; and that
579 II, 2,1 | the sacraments).~24~The Church must be thought of primarily
580 II, 2,1 | lay such emphasis on the Church as the Body of Christ~that
581 II, 2,1 | true in the doctrine of the Church as it~is elsewhere. While
582 II, 2,1 | is, there is the Catholic Church,’ Irenaeus wrote~with equal
583 II, 2,1 | with equal truth ‘where the Church is, there is the Spirit,
584 II, 2,1 | Spirit is, there is the~Church (Against the Heresies 3,
585 II, 2,1 | Heresies 3, 26, 1). The Church, precisely because it is
586 II, 2,1 | infinite diversity in the Church: at Pentecost the tongues
587 II, 2,1 | Spirit is a gift to the Church,~but it is at the same time
588 II, 2,1 | Cor. 12:4). Life in the Church does not mean the ironing~
589 II, 2,1 | the relation between the Church and God. This Church — the
590 II, 2,1 | the Church and God. This Church — the icon of the~Trinity,
591 II, 2,1 | western terminology) the Church militant and the Church
592 II, 2,1 | Church militant and the Church triumphant,~for the two
593 II, 2,1 | continuous reality. ‘The Church visible, or upon~earth,
594 II, 2,1 | with the whole body of the Church, of which~Christ is the
595 II, 2,1 | the Head (Khomiakov, The Church is One, section 9.). It
596 II, 2,1 | while using the phrase ‘the Church visible and invisible,’
597 II, 2,1 | recognize a division of the Church into visible and invisible;
598 II, 2,1 | all united together in one Church, in one and the~same grace
599 II, 2,1 | same grace of God ... The Church, the Body of Christ, manifests
600 II, 2,1 | therefore, when we speak of ‘the~Church visible and invisible,’
601 II, 2,1 | ibid., section 1).~The Church, according to Khomiakov,
602 II, 2,1 | the Catholicity of the Church,’ in The Church of God,
603 II, 2,1 | Catholicity of the Church,’ in The Church of God, edited by E. L.
604 II, 2,1 | believe merely in an ideal Church, invisible~and heavenly.
605 II, 2,1 | and heavenly. This ‘ideal Church’ exists visibly on earth
606 II, 2,1 | is a human element in the Church as well as a divine.~The
607 II, 2,1 | Chalcedon must be applied to the Church as well as to Christ. Just
608 II, 2,1 | divine and human, so in the Church there is a synergy or cooperation~
609 II, 2,1 | humanity and that of the Church~25~there is this obvious
610 II, 2,1 | part of the humanity of the Church — the saints in heaven —
611 II, 2,1 | while here on earth the Church’s members often misuse their
612 II, 2,1 | their human freedom. The Church on~earth exists in a state
613 II, 2,1 | essential nature of the Church. We must not say that~because
614 II, 2,1 | imperfect, therefore the Church sins and is imperfect; for~
615 II, 2,1 | and is imperfect; for~the Church, even on earth, is a thing
616 II, 2,1 | Syria rightly spoke of ‘the Church of the penitents, the Church
617 II, 2,1 | Church of the penitents, the Church of those who perish,’ but
618 II, 2,1 | those who perish,’ but this~Church is at the same time the
619 II, 2,1 | that the members of the Church are~sinners, and yet they
620 II, 2,1 | saints? ‘The mystery of the Church consists in~the very fact
621 II, 2,1 | Meyendorff, ‘What Holds the Church Together?’ in~the Ecumenical
622 II, 2,1 | approaches the mystery of the Church. The Church is~integrally
623 II, 2,1 | mystery of the Church. The Church is~integrally linked with
624 II, 2,1 | participation in the sacraments. The Church is a~single reality, earthly
625 II, 2,2 | and infallibility of the Church~‘The Church is one. Its
626 II, 2,2 | infallibility of the Church~‘The Church is one. Its unity follows
627 II, 2,2 | from the unity of God’ (The Church is One,~section 1). So wrote
628 II, 2,2 | bond between God and His Church, then we must inevitably
629 II, 2,2 | inevitably think of the Church as one, even as~God is one:
630 II, 2,2 | invisible’ and the~‘visible Church,’ and therefore it refuses
631 II, 2,2 | refuses to say that the Church is invisibly one but visibly
632 II, 2,2 | visibly divided.~No: the Church is one, in the sense that
633 II, 2,2 | claim to be the one true Church. The ‘undivided Church’
634 II, 2,2 | true Church. The ‘undivided Church’ is not merely something~
635 II, 2,2 | essential characteristics of the Church, and since the~Church on
636 II, 2,2 | the Church, and since the~Church on earth, despite the sinfulness
637 II, 2,2 | can be schisms from the Church, but no schisms~within the
638 II, 2,2 | but no schisms~within the Church. And while it is undeniably
639 II, 2,2 | purely human level, the Church’s~life is grievously impoverished
640 II, 2,2 | essential~nature of the Church.~In its teaching upon the
641 II, 2,2 | the visible unity of the Church, Orthodoxy stands far closer
642 II, 2,2 | unifying principle in the~Church is the Pope whose jurisdiction
643 II, 2,2 | jurisdiction. What then holds the Church together?~Orthodox answer,
644 II, 2,2 | Orthodox theology of the~Church is above all else a theology
645 II, 2,2 | of communion. Each local Church is constituted, as Ignatius~
646 II, 2,2 | celebrating the Eucharist;~the Church universal is constituted
647 II, 2,2 | celebration of the Eucharist. The Church is not~monarchical in structure,
648 II, 2,2 | criterion for membership of the Church. An individual~ceases to
649 II, 2,2 | ceases to be a member of the Church if he severs communion with
650 II, 2,2 | ceases to~be a member of the Church if he severs communion with
651 II, 2,2 | Orthodoxy, believing that the Church on earth has remained and
652 II, 2,2 | itself to be that one visible Church. This is a bold claim, and
653 II, 2,2 | believe that they are the true Church, not on account of any personal
654 II, 2,2 | once popular~among High Church Anglicans. (According to
655 II, 2,2 | this theory, the Catholic Church is divided in several~‘branches;’
656 II, 2,2 | branches which the Catholic Church can have are the local Autocephalous
657 II, 2,2 | does to be the one true Church, the Orthodox Church also
658 II, 2,2 | true Church, the Orthodox Church also believes that, if it~
659 II, 2,2 | idea of the unity of the Church. Orthodoxy also teaches
660 II, 2,2 | teaches that outside~the Church there is no salvation. This
661 II, 2,2 | unbreakable unity of the Church: it follows from the close
662 II, 2,2 | relation between God and His Church.~‘A man cannot have God
663 II, 2,2 | if he does not have the Church as his Mother’ (On the Unity~
664 II, 2,2 | the Unity~of the Catholic Church, 6). So wrote Saint Cyprian;
665 II, 2,2 | not think of God and the Church apart from one another.
666 II, 2,2 | to man in His Body, the Church. ‘Extra Ecclesiam nulla
667 II, 2,2 | its tautology. Outside the Church there is~no salvation, because
668 II, 2,2 | because salvation is the Church’ (G. Florovsky, ‘Sobornost:
669 II, 2,2 | the Catholicity of the Church,’ in~The Church of God,
670 II, 2,2 | Catholicity of the Church,’ in~The Church of God, p. 53). Does it
671 II, 2,2 | is not visibly within the Church~is necessarily damned? Of
672 II, 2,2 | who is visibly within~the Church is necessarily saved. As
673 II, 2,2 | visible’ and an ‘invisible Church,’ yet there may be members
674 II, 2,2 | there may be members of the Church who are not visibly~such,
675 II, 2,2 | sense~be a member of the Church; in what sense, we cannot
676 II, 2,2 | see pp. 315-317).~27~The Church is infallible. This again
677 II, 2,2 | unity between God and His~Church. Christ and the Holy Spirit
678 II, 2,2 | cannot err, and since the Church is Christ’s body, since
679 II, 2,2 | We believe the Catholic Church to be taught by the Holy
680 II, 2,2 | impossible for~the Catholic Church to err, or to be at all
681 II, 2,2 | Confession, Decree 12).~The Church’s infallibility is expressed
682 II, 2,3 | Laity, Councils~The Orthodox Church is a hierarchical Church.
683 II, 2,3 | Church is a hierarchical Church. An essential element in
684 II, 2,3 | bishop is so necessary in the Church,’ wrote~Dositheus, ‘that
685 II, 2,3 | without him neither the Church nor the name Christian could
686 II, 2,3 | sacraments of the~Catholic Church, through which we obtain
687 II, 2,3 | Cyprian, ‘they are not in the Church’ (Letter 66, 8).~At his
688 II, 2,3 | when other members of the Church~— priests or laymen — preach
689 II, 2,3 | he may make mistakes. The~Church is infallible, but there
690 II, 2,3 | sacraments.’ In the primitive Church~the celebrant at the Eucharist
691 II, 2,3 | bishop’s deputy.~But the Church is not only hierarchical,
692 II, 2,3 | priests. In the Apostolic Church, besides the~institutional
693 II, 2,3 | 1 Cor. 12:28-30). In the Church of later days, these charismatic~
694 II, 2,3 | non-institutional aspect of the Church’s life has been particularly
695 II, 2,3 | the two elements in the Church’s life: it is the same Spirit
696 II, 2,3 | fundamentally the authority of the Church. However great the~prerogatives
697 II, 2,3 | someone set up over the Church, but the holder of an~office
698 II, 2,3 | holder of an~office in the Church. Bishop and people are joined
699 II, 2,3 | be no true bishop. ‘The Church,’ said Cyprian, ‘is the
700 II, 2,3 | shepherd. The bishop is in the Church and the~Church in the bishop’ (
701 II, 2,3 | is in the Church and the~Church in the bishop’ (Letter 66,
702 II, 2,3 | Infallibility belongs to the whole Church, not just to the episcopate
703 II, 2,3 | is the very body of the Church, that is, the people (laos)
704 II, 2,3 | the whole people of the Church,~which is the Body of Christ’ (
705 II, 2,3 | Russia and the English Church, p. 94).~This conception
706 II, 2,3 | laity and their place in the Church must be kept in mind when
707 II, 2,3 | in the name of the~whole Church, and yet the Church has
708 II, 2,3 | whole Church, and yet the Church has rejected them as heretical:
709 II, 2,3 | seven Councils that their~Church accepts as ecumenical, but
710 II, 2,3 | are accepted by the whole Church. Florence, Hieria,~and the
711 II, 2,3 | secure this acceptance by the Church at large. (One might object:
712 II, 2,3 | it was ‘accepted by the~Church at large’?) The bishops,
713 II, 2,3 | councils to be received by the Church at~large has been viewed
714 II, 2,3 | democratized’ the idea of the Church. But in a qualified and
715 II, 2,3 | reception of councils by the Church as a whole, must not be
716 II, 2,3 | truly been the voice of the Church or that it has not: that
717 II, 2,3 | Bulgakov, The Orthodox~Church, p. 89).~At a true Ecumenical
718 II, 2,3 | faith~of the Ecumenical Church’ (Metropolitan Seraphim,
719 II, 2,3 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 188). The infallibility
720 II, 2,3 | The infallibility of the Church must not be ‘exteriorized,’
721 II, 2,3 | Orthodox doctrine of the Church: the Church is the miracle
722 II, 2,3 | doctrine of the Church: the Church is the miracle of the presence
723 II, 2,3 | the presence~of God in the Church — the one party in the letter
724 II, 2,3 | living mysteriously in the Church,~leading it in the way of
725 II, 2,4 | of God~In God and in His Church there is no division between
726 II, 2,4 | dead, as members of~the Church we still belong to the same
727 II, 2,4 | links the members of the Church~together.~Prayers for the
728 II, 2,4 | everlasting.’ So the Orthodox~Church prays for the faithful departed;
729 II, 2,4 | prayer the members of the Church on earth, ‘called to~be
730 II, 2,4 | prayers of any member of the Church,~whether canonized or not.
731 II, 2,4 | public worship, however, the Church usually~prays only to those
732 II, 2,4 | canonization. The Greek Church~under the Ottoman Empire
733 II, 2,4 | honoured as saints in the Church’s~worship, but present conditions
734 II, 2,4 | conditions in the Russian Church make a formal canonization
735 II, 2,4 | the living members of the~Church and those who have gone
736 II, 2,4 | entry into the unity~of the Church which is not only the earthly
737 II, 2,4 | is not only the earthly Church, but also the Church in
738 II, 2,4 | earthly Church, but also the Church in heaven’ (P. Kovalevsky,~
739 II, 2,4 | do the members of either Church regard her as a fourth person
740 II, 2,4 | Our Lady by the Orthodox~Church: Tkeotokos (Mother of God),
741 II, 2,4 | Letter 22, 21).~The Orthodox Church calls Mary ‘All-Holy;’ it
742 II, 2,4 | original sin?’ The Orthodox~Church has never in fact made any
743 II, 2,4 | defined by the Roman Catholic Church, it implies a false understanding
744 II, 2,4 | against the Roman Catholic Church) began to express~doubts
745 II, 2,4 | representative of the~Orthodox Church as a whole). Like the rest
746 II, 2,4 | in the~hymns sung by the Church on 15 August, the Feast
747 II, 2,4 | public preaching of the Church; but the glorification of
748 II, 2,4 | Our Lady belongs~to the Church’s inner Tradition: ‘It is
749 II, 2,4 | the mysteries~which the Church keeps in the hidden depths
750 II, 2,4 | those who were within the Church … It is not so~much an object
751 II, 2,5 | alternatives, Heaven and Hell. The Church~awaits the final consummation
752 II, 2,5 | times also in the Orthodox Church — have come to feel that
753 II, 2,5 | Theology of the Eastern Church, p. 234).~Hell exists as
754 II, 2,5 | point of view the primitive Church was right. For whether the~
755 II, 2,5 | burning~problem of the Russian Church, a priest replied without
756 II, 2,5 | for in the life of the Church, the~Age to Come has already
757 II, 2,5 | For members of God’s~35~Church, the ‘Last Times’ are already
758 II, 2,5 | Liturgy~and the worship of the Church.~
759 II, 3 | The Earthly Heaven~“The church is the earthly heaven in
760 II, 3,1 | Divine Liturgy in the great Church of the Holy Wisdom, they
761 II, 3,1 | Worship, for the Orthodox Church, is nothing else than~‘heaven
762 II, 3,1 | congregation are present, but the Church universal~— the saints,
763 II, 3,1 | on the staff~36~of the Church of the Holy Wisdom, there
764 II, 3,1 | liturgical~religion. The Church is first of all a worshipping
765 II, 3,1 | in the Orthodox Catholic Church,’ in the periodical One~
766 II, 3,1 | in the periodical One~Church, vol. 13 (New York, 1959),
767 II, 3,1 | know how to venerate the church of God. They raise their
768 II, 3,1 | is entirely~at home in church, thoroughly conversant with
769 II, 3,2 | as in the Roman Catholic Church:~there is, first, the Holy
770 II, 3,2 | Coronation, Consecration of a Church, Burial of the Dead.~(In
771 II, 3,2 | addition to these, the Orthodox Church makes use of a great variety
772 II, 3,2 | celebrated daily, in the Orthodox Church today a daily Liturgy is
773 II, 3,2 | monasteries; in a normal parish church it is celebrated only on
774 II, 3,2 | ordinary Orthodox parish church it is sung~only at week-ends
775 II, 3,2 | its services the Orthodox Church uses the language of the
776 II, 3,2 | times, while the Russian Church still uses the~ninth-century
777 II, 3,2 | ninth-century translations in Church Slavonic. Yet in both cases
778 II, 3,2 | in fact recommended that Church Slavonic~be replaced more
779 II, 3,2 | effect.~In the Orthodox Church today, as in the early Church,
780 II, 3,2 | Church today, as in the early Church, all services are sung or
781 II, 3,2 | reader alone. In~38~their Church music the Greek-speaking
782 II, 3,2 | ears; many consider Russian Church music the finest in all
783 II, 3,2 | Prayer.~In the Orthodox Church today, as in the early Church,
784 II, 3,2 | Church today, as in the early Church, singing is unaccompanied
785 II, 3,2 | sanctuary bells inside the church; but they have outside belfries,
786 II, 3,2 | 27 and p. 6).~An Orthodox Church is usually more or less
787 II, 3,2 | by a dome. (In Russia the Church dome has assumed that striking
788 II, 3,2 | are not found in eastern church~architecture. There are
789 II, 3,2 | the central part of the church, although there~may be benches
790 II, 3,2 | Orthodox normally stands during Church services~(non-Orthodox visitors
791 II, 3,2 | They are at home in their church — not troops on a parade~
792 II, 3,2 | mystery.~39~In every Orthodox Church the sanctuary is divided
793 II, 3,2 | The altar in an Orthodox~Church — the Holy Table or Throne,
794 II, 3,2 | When an Orthodox enters church, his~first action will be
795 II, 3,2 | In the decoration of the church, the~various iconographical
796 II, 3,2 | involving every part of the church building and its decoration.
797 II, 3,2 | ornaments, designed to make the church ‘look nice,’ but have~a
798 II, 3,2 | The icons which fill the church serve as a point of meeting
799 II, 3,2 | feel that the walls of the church~open out upon eternity,
800 II, 3,2 | worship of the Orthodox Church is communal and popular.
801 II, 3,2 | Mass,’ for in the Orthodox Church the Mass~has never become
802 II, 3,2 | the people, men came to church to adore the Host at the
803 II, 3,2 | Movement). In the Orthodox Church,~where the Liturgy has never
804 II, 3,2 | congregation do not come to church to say their private prayers,
805 II, 3,2 | Certainly the Orthodox Church, as well as the west, stands
806 II, 3,2 | reality in the Orthodox Church.~There is in most Orthodox
807 II, 3,2 | the various needs of the Church and the world, and~to each
808 II, 4 | the sacraments, like the Church, are both visible~and invisible;
809 II, 4 | most of the sacraments the Church takes material things —
810 II, 4 | the Last Day.~The Orthodox Church speaks customarily of seven
811 II, 4 | Unction in the Roman Catholic~Church)~42~Only in the seventeenth
812 II, 4 | many other actions in the Church which also possess a sacramental
813 II, 4 | spiritual grace. The Orthodox Church also employs a great number
814 II, 4 | sacraments of the Orthodox Church,~the priest mentions the
815 II, 4,1 | Baptism~In the Orthodox Church today, as in the Church
816 II, 4,1 | Church today, as in the Church of the early centuries,
817 II, 4,1 | members of His Body the Church. To remind them of their
818 II, 4,2 | Chrismation every member of the Church becomes a prophet, and receives
819 II, 4,2 | head of an autocephalous~Church enjoys the right to bless
820 II, 4,2 | and~then returns to the Church, when he is accepted back
821 II, 4,2 | of Constantinople and the Church of Greece usu-~44~ally receive
822 II, 4,2 | Chrismation; but the Russian Church commonly receives them after
823 II, 4,2 | earliest~memories of the Church will centre on the act of
824 II, 4,2 | as in the~Roman Catholic Church) or in adolescence (as in
825 II, 4,3 | celebrated in the eastern Church according to one of four
826 II, 4,3 | elsewhere (e.g. the Patriarch’s church at Constantinople; the Greek
827 II, 4,3 | D. Intercession for the Church~• The Litany of Fervent
828 II, 4,3 | of all the members of the Church: the Mother of God,~the
829 II, 4,3 | in procession round the church, at the Great Entrance~the
830 II, 4,3 | The belief of the Orthodox Church concerning the Eucharist
831 II, 4,3 | condemned by the Orthodox Church as ‘artolatry’~(bread worship).
832 II, 4,3 | abundantly~plain, the Orthodox Church believes that after consecration
833 II, 4,3 | when in~1838 the Russian Church issued a translation of
834 II, 4,3 | of the way in which the~Church is ‘selective’ in its acceptance
835 II, 4,3 | authorized by~the Russian Church in 1839:~Question: How are
836 II, 4,3 | Doctrine of the Russian Church, London, 1845, p. 92).~And
837 II, 4,3 | In every Orthodox parish church, the Blessed Sacrament is
838 II, 4,3 | sacrifice. The Orthodox Church believes the Eucharist to
839 II, 4,3 | Christ himself who in the Church performs~the act of offering:
840 II, 4,3 | Some of these theories the Church has rejected as inadequate,
841 II, 4,3 | the holy suppers of the Church are nothing else~than one
842 II, 4,3 | Communion. In the Orthodox Church the laity as well as the
843 II, 4,4 | sinner is reconciled to the Church: hence it is often called
844 II, 4,4 | discipline in the early Church were~a public affair; but
845 II, 4,4 | any convenient part of the church, usually in the open immediately~
846 II, 4,4 | be a~special room in the church set apart for confessions.
847 II, 4,4 | kneels, in the Orthodox Church they both stand (or sometimes
848 II, 4,4 | was adopted by the Russian~Church in the eighteenth century.~
849 II, 4,4 | advice (In the Orthodox Church it is not entirely unknown
850 II, 4,5 | Orders’ in the Orthodox Church, Bishop, Priest, and Deacon;
851 II, 4,5 | ordination; but in the~Orthodox Church today there are now a number
852 II, 4,5 | parochial clergy of the Orthodox Church are married, and a monk
853 II, 4,5 | many parts of the Orthodox Church today that it is not always
854 II, 4,5 | life itself~In the early Church the bishop was elected by
855 II, 4,5 | Synod in each autocephalous Church~which appoints bishops to
856 II, 4,5 | henceforward bishops in the Russian Church should be elected by the
857 II, 4,5 | prominent in the Orthodox Church than in western communions.~
858 II, 4,5 | priest, but in the Orthodox Church he is still, as in primitive
859 II, 4,6 | only to the doctrine of the Church~but to the doctrine of marriage.
860 II, 4,6 | fruitful and multiply, so the Church today gives its~blessing
861 II, 4,6 | a new family or domestic Church. The crowns are crowns of
862 II, 4,6 | one another.~The Orthodox Church permits divorce and remarriage,
863 II, 4,6 | of marriage, the Orthodox Church also is willing to allow~
864 II, 4,6 | condemning~the sin, the Church still desires to help the
865 II, 4,6 | a reality, the Orthodox Church does not insist on~the preservation
866 II, 4,6 | after a fall, the Orthodox Church~knows that a second alliance
867 II, 4,6 | sufficient. Remarriage in church is only possible~if the
868 II, 4,6 | is only possible~if the Church authorities have themselves
869 II, 4,6 | discouraged~in the Orthodox Church. Some bishops and theologians
870 II, 4,7 | for the presbyters of the Church, and let them~pray over
871 II, 4,7 | Bulgakov, The Orthodox Church, p. 135)). In the Roman
872 II, 4,7 | In the Roman Catholic Church~the sacrament has become ‘
873 II, 4,7 | forgotten. But in the Orthodox Church Unction can be conferred
874 II, 5,1 | the public services of the Church of England, then (in~theory,
875 II, 5,1 | similarly in the Roman Catholic Church he requires only two books —
876 II, 5,1 | Breviary;~but in the Orthodox Church, such is the complexity
877 II, 5,1 | columns (Hymns of the Eastern Church, third edition, London,
878 II, 5,1 | treasures of the Orthodox~Church.~In these twenty volumes
879 II, 5,1 | and its fulfillment in the Church.~The ecclesiastical calendar
880 II, 5,1 | are fasts. The Orthodox Church, regarding man as a unity
881 II, 5,1 | fasting in the Orthodox Church are of a rigour which will
882 II, 5,1 | strictest Religious Orders.~The Church’s year, with its sequence
883 II, 5,1 | the recurring cycle of the Church’s liturgy has upon the piety
884 II, 5,1 | Great Lent with the Greek Church, who has shared in~the fast
885 II, 5,1 | week by week in his parish church. Not among the Greeks only
886 II, 5,1 | at the very heart of the Church’s life’ (P. Hammond, The
887 II, 5,1 | day~and hour by hour the Church enters into the Passion
888 II, 5,1 | former terrors, and the~whole Church rejoices triumphantly in
889 II, 5,1 | Birkbeck and the Russian Church, p. 142). So W. J. Birkbeck
890 II, 5,1 | leave the subject of the Church’s year, something must be
891 II, 5,1 | reply to the~invitation; the Church of Bulgaria was not invited).
892 II, 5,1 | Romania, and Poland (The Church of Bulgaria adopted the
893 II, 5,1 | practically the whole~Orthodox Church observes Easter at the same
894 II, 5,1 | determine the lunar months). The Church~of Finland and a very few
895 II, 5,1 | decision of the whole Orthodox~Church — not by separate autocephalous
896 II, 5,1 | of Constantinople and the Church of Greece, but the Palaioimerologitai
897 II, 5,1 | excommunicated by the official Church. They are usually treated
898 II, 5,2 | corporate~worship of the Church plays a far larger part
899 II, 5,2 | never pray except when~in church: on the contrary, there
900 II, 5,2 | is still praying with the Church; even in his own home he
901 II, 5,2 | redeemed community, of the Church. And it is in the Church
902 II, 5,2 | Church. And it is in the Church that he learns~his devotional
903 II, 5,2 | communities recite daily in~church as part of the Divine Office.
904 II, 5,2 | Bulgakov, The Orthodox Church, pp. 170-171).~Alike to
905 II, 6 | The Orthodox Church and The reunion of Christians~“
906 II, 6 | Rome and the Ecumenical~59~Church. The greatest blessing for
907 II, 6,1 | One Holy Catholic Church: What do we mean?~The Orthodox
908 II, 6,1 | do we mean?~The Orthodox Church in all humility believes
909 II, 6,1 | Catholic, and~Apostolic Church,’ of which the Creed speaks:
910 II, 6,1 | among Christians, but the~Church itself is not divided nor
911 II, 6,1 | claim to be the one true Church, what then do they consider
912 II, 6,1 | teaching~concerning the Church, they do not entirely agree
913 II, 6,1 | say that Orthodoxy is the Church, it is false to conclude
914 II, 6,1 | cannot possibly belong to the Church. Many people may be members
915 II, 6,1 | people may be members of~the Church who are not visibly so;
916 II, 6,1 | Spirit is, there is the Church.~We know where the Church
917 II, 6,1 | Church.~We know where the Church is but we cannot be sure
918 II, 6,1 | the earthly and visible Church is not the fullness and
919 II, 6,1 | completeness of the whole Church which~the Lord has appointed
920 II, 6,1 | whether alien from the Church, or united to her by ties
921 II, 6,1 | judgment of the great day’ (The Church is One, section 2 (italics
922 II, 6,1 | original)).~There is only one Church, but there are many different
923 II, 6,1 | being related to this one~Church, and many different ways
924 II, 6,1 | friendly to the Orthodox Church, others indifferent~or hostile.
925 II, 6,1 | God’s grace the Orthodox Church possesses the fullness of
926 II, 6,1 | non-Orthodox are outside the Church, and leave it at that; one
927 II, 6,1 | also exists in the Orthodox Church a~more rigorous group, who
928 II, 6,1 | that since Orthodoxy is the Church, anyone who is not Orthodox~
929 II, 6,1 | cannot be a member of the Church. Thus Metropolitan Antony,
930 II, 6,1 | Antony, head of the Russian Church in~Exile and one of the
931 II, 6,1 | that a split within the Church or among the Churches could~
932 II, 6,1 | from the one~indivisible Church, and, by so doing, they
933 II, 6,1 | ceased to be members of the Church, but the Church~itself can
934 II, 6,1 | members of the Church, but the Church~itself can never lose its
935 II, 6,1 | be termed members of the Church.~Workers for Christian unity
936 II, 6,1 | Because they believe their Church to be the true Church, Orthodox
937 II, 6,1 | their Church to be the true Church, Orthodox can have but one
938 II, 6,1 | Bulgakov, The Orthodox Church, p. 214)). The Orthodox
939 II, 6,1 | p. 214)). The Orthodox Church is a family of sister~Churches,
940 II, 6,1 | Conversations, ‘The Anglican Church united, not absorbed’).
941 II, 6,1 | the entire, life of the Church in its fullness of belief
942 II, 6,1 | ministrations of their own Church, are allowed with special
943 II, 6,1 | but a priest of their own Church). It is sometimes said that
944 II, 6,1 | Anglican or the Old~Catholic Church is ‘in communion’ with the
945 II, 6,2 | communion by the Russian Church. The initiative came primarily
946 II, 6,2 | should not the Orthodox Church today come to a similar
947 II, 6,2 | visiting the Coptic Monophysite Church of Egypt in 1959, the Patriarch
948 II, 6,2 | one orthodox~faith of the Church. Fifteen centuries of alienation
949 II, 6,2 | 1971).~The Roman Catholic Church. Among western Christians,
950 II, 6,2 | persecution of the Orthodox Church in Poland by a Roman Catholic
951 II, 6,2 | feel~when they think of the Church of Rome. More serious than
952 II, 6,2 | but the~Roman Catholic Church reckons the Vatican Council
953 II, 6,2 | position of bishops in the~Church, Orthodox in their turn
954 II, 6,2 | extending over the whole Church? Recently the Orthodox Youth~
955 II, 6,2 | Pope is the mouth of the Church and of~the episcopate.’
956 II, 6,2 | affairs in the Orthodox Church, as well as numerous scholarly
957 II, 6,2 | of the ancient ‘undivided Church’ using as their~basis the
958 II, 6,2 | Tradition~of the ‘undivided Church.’ One thinks of Bishop Pearson
959 II, 6,2 | the faith of the Catholic Church, before the disunion~of
960 II, 6,2 | interest at the Orthodox Church, and equally it has led
961 II, 6,2 | into the Roman Catholic church in 1855). J. M. Neale (1818-
962 II, 6,2 | idea of authority in the Church. A~similar joint Conference
963 II, 6,2 | Romania (1936).~2) The Russian Church in Exile, at the Karlovtzy
964 II, 6,2 | to entering the Orthodox Church, it has been made clear
965 II, 6,2 | decree by the whole Orthodox Church. For it is necessary that
966 II, 6,2 | opinion as the most holy Church of Constantinople.’ In the~
967 II, 6,2 | so long as the Anglican Church was not fully Orthodox in
968 II, 6,2 | Orthodox belief: ‘The Orthodox Church cannot agree to recognize
969 II, 6,2 | same time the~faith of the Church concerned). But, so the
970 II, 6,2 | the future the Anglican~Church were to become fully Orthodox
971 II, 6,2 | clergy who~join the Orthodox Church are reordained; but if Anglicanism
972 II, 6,2 | organization, the Eastern Church Association, was started
973 II, 6,2 | and of which the Orthodox Church is the abiding~custodian,
974 II, 6,2 | heretical. The Orthodox Church, however deep its~longing
975 II, 6,2 | with~the great Anglican Church; but this happy result cannot
976 II, 6,2 | unless the Anglican~Church itself becomes homogeneous
977 II, 6,2 | Churches. In the Orthodox Church today there exist two different
978 II, 6,2 | the claim of the Orthodox Church to be the one true Church
979 II, 6,2 | Church to be the one true Church of Christ, and suggests
980 II, 6,2 | the Synod of the~Russian Church in Exile:~Orthodox Christians
981 II, 6,2 | the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church as the true Church of~Christ,
982 II, 6,2 | Catholic Church as the true Church of~Christ, one and unique.
983 II, 6,2 | reason, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile has forbidden~its
984 II, 6,2 | Orthodox claim to be the true~Church. As the Toronto Declaration
985 II, 6,2 | concerning the nature of Church unity ... Membership does
986 II, 6,2 | does not imply~that each Church must regard the other member
987 II, 6,2 | policy which the Orthodox Church has followed in the past.
988 II, 6,2 | Constantinople, Greece, Romanian Church~in America.~Lund, 1952 (
989 II, 6,2 | Jurisdiction of Russians, Romanian Church in America.~New Delhi, 1961 (
990 II, 6,2 | Jurisdiction of~Russians, Romanian Church in America~Uppsala, 1968 (
991 II, 6,2 | Jurisdiction~of Russians, Romanian Church in America.~As can be seen
992 II, 6,2 | been more reserved. The Church of Greece, for example,
993 II, 6,2 | Christianity nor to the task of the Church of Christ, as understood~
994 II, 6,2 | understood~by the Orthodox Church.’ This explains why at Amsterdam,
995 II, 6,2 | are~anxious to see their Church withdraw from the Movement.~
996 II, 6,3 | continuity with the ancient Church,~with the Tradition of the
997 II, 6,3 | Liturgy.~When the Orthodox Church behind the Iron Curtain
998 II, 6,3 | the persecuted Orthodox Church~serves as a reminder to
999 II, 7,2 | Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, Pelican
1000 II, 7,2 | Pelican History of the~Church, vol. 2, 1970 (see PP- 53-
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