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Part, Chapter, Paragraph
1 I,Intro | learning more fully about the ~Orthodox Church and what it teaches;
2 I,Intro | belong also to the west; and Orthodox who live in ~France, Britain,
3 I,Intro | in order to observe the Orthodox Church at first hand. Greeks
4 I,Intro | to a new interest in the Orthodox Church. The ~Greco-Russian
5 I,Intro | the contribution of the Orthodox Church ~has often proved
6 I,Intro | illuminating: precisely because the Orthodox have a different ~background
7 I,Intro | What is meant by .the Orthodox Church.? The divisions which
8 I,Intro | more ~completely than the Orthodox Church was later to do.
9 I,Intro | the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Church of the East. ~Orthodoxy
10 I,Intro | therefore be thought that the Orthodox Church is exclusively ~a
11 I,Intro | place in the fullness ~of Orthodox tradition. ~ While the Orthodox
12 I,Intro | Orthodox tradition. ~ While the Orthodox Church became bounded first
13 I,Intro | as the protector of the Orthodox world. Within the last 150
14 I,Intro | external development of the Orthodox ~Church. Geographically
15 I,Intro | comparative guide. For many Orthodox Churches, particularly those
16 I,Intro | special position in the ~Orthodox Church, and rank first in
17 I,Intro | entirely or predominantly Orthodox. The Churches of ~Greece,
18 I,Intro | Churches. In some ar-~eas this Orthodox .diaspora. is slowly achieving
19 I,Intro | to form an autocephalous Orthodox Church in America, but this
20 I,Intro | by the majority of other Orthodox Churches. ~ ~The Orthodox
21 I,Intro | Orthodox Churches. ~ ~The Orthodox Church is thus a family
22 I,Intro | exist among the Russian Orthodox, ~but the situation here
23 I,Intro | special honor among all the Orthodox ~communities; but he does
24 I,Intro | for during the past in Orthodox coun-~tries Church and State
25 I,Intro | different ~countries. The Orthodox Church is a federation of
26 I,Intro | Churches which make up the Orthodox communion as it is today.
27 I,Intro | there are many millions of Orthodox who are neither Greek ~nor
28 I,Intro | neither Greek ~nor Russian. Orthodox themselves often call their
29 I,Intro | their Church the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Or-~thodox Catholic
30 I,Intro | thodox Catholic Church, the Orthodox Catholic Church of the East,
31 I,Intro | often employed is the Holy Orthodox ~Church. Perhaps it is least
32 I,Intro | the shortest title: the Orthodox ~Church. ~ Orthodoxy claims
33 I,Intro | accidents of history, the Orthodox Church has been ~largely
34 I,Intro | geographical areas. Yet to the Orthodox themselves their ~Church
35 I,Intro | or .right worship.). The Orthodox, therefore, make ~what may
36 I, 1 | Taken from the periodical Orthodox Life [Jordanville, N.Y.],
37 I, 1 | Crucifixion. ~ Members of the Orthodox Church in particular have
38 I, 1 | has a permanent place in Orthodox tradition. Orthodoxy still
39 I, 1 | To those who attend an Orthodox Pontifical ~Liturgy (The
40 I, 1 | the term normally used by Orthodox to refer to the service
41 I, 1 | 7~At many periods in Orthodox history the prospect of
42 I, 1 | present cen-~tury, when Orthodox Christians have once again
43 I, 2,1 | upon the ~development of Orthodox history. ~ Secondly, Constantine
44 I, 2,1 | firmly based upon the one orthodox faith. It was the duty of
45 I, 2,2 | Nazianzus, known in the Orthodox Church as Gregory ~the Theologian (
46 I, 2,2 | perhaps the best loved in the Orthodox Church, and the one ~whose
47 I, 2,2 | system later ~known among Orthodox as the Pentarchy was now
48 I, 2,2 | When speaking of the Orthodox conception of the Pentarchy
49 I, 2,2 | Ignatius assigned to it. ~ The Orthodox Church does not accept the
50 I, 2,2 | primacy,. not .supremacy.. Orthodox regard the Pope as ~the
51 I, 2,2 | John 21:15-17) although ~Orthodox theologians do not understand
52 I, 2,2 | commentators. ~ And while many Orthodox theologians would say that
53 I, 2,3 | revelation, and which the Orthodox Catholic Church piously
54 I, 2,3 | in fresco or ~mosaic. An Orthodox prostrates himself before
55 I, 2,3 | question of idolatry. When an Orthodox kisses an icon or prostrates
56 I, 2,3 | icons are only symbols, Orthodox do not worship them, but
57 I, 2,3 | can wood and paint. The Orthodox doctrine of icons is bound
58 I, 2,3 | icons is bound up ~with the Orthodox belief that the whole of
59 I, 2,3 | Rus-~sians is true of all Orthodox: ~ ~Icons were for the Russians
60 I, 2,3 | of the second period in Orthodox history, ~the period of
61 I, 2,3 | doxy. For members of the Orthodox Church, their interest is
62 I, 2,3 | Everyman Edition], p. 99). Orthodox often call themselves .the
63 I, 2,3 | they do not mean that the Orthodox Church has ceased to think ~
64 I, 2,3 | Seven Councils which the Orthodox Church takes as its standard
65 I, 2,4 | has done in that ~of all Orthodox countries. It has been rightly
66 I, 2,4 | the best way to penetrate Orthodox spiri-~tuality is to enter
67 I, 2,4 | still to be found in the Orthodox Church today. There are
68 I, 2,4 | century the chief center of Orthodox monasticism has been Athos,
69 I, 2,4 | There are no .Orders. in Orthodox monasticism. In the west
70 I, 2,4 | writers sometimes refer to Orthodox monks as .Basilian monks.
71 I, 2,4 | characteristic figure in Orthodox monasticism is the .elder.
72 I, 2,4 | altar. The vestments which Orthodox bishops now wear ~are the
73 I, 2,4 | only outside but within the Orthodox Church, who sharply criti-~
74 I, 3,1 | great ~schism between the Orthodox east and the Latin west.
75 I, 3,1 | organization of the Church. ~ The Orthodox attitude to the Papacy is
76 I, 3,1 | 116). ~ ~That was how an Orthodox felt in the twelfth century,
77 I, 3,1 | Church. In the second place, Orthodox believe the filioque to
78 I, 3,1 | as to be unimportant. But Orthodox would say that since the
79 I, 3,1 | given here the ~standard Orthodox view of the filioque; it
80 I, 3,1 | noted, however, that certain Orthodox theologians consider the ~
81 I, 3,1 | has become alien to ~the Orthodox.. So no Latin should be
82 I, 3,1 | Church, in union with the Orthodox ~(Quoted in Runciman, The
83 I, 3,2 | Photius, known to the Orthodox Church as Saint Photius
84 I, 3,2 | departed, whom he recognizes as orthodox. The ~Diptychs are a visible
85 I, 3,2 | lasting the horror with which Orthodox regard ~actions such as
86 I, 3,2 | separation between Rome and the Orthodox Church, just as it is differences
87 I, 3,2 | mistakes on the hu-~man level. Orthodox, for example, must blame
88 I, 3,3 | held at Lyons in 1274. The Orthodox delegates who attended ~
89 I, 3,3 | than the purity of the ~Orthodox faith.. The union of Lyons
90 I, 3,3 | methods of prayer used in the Orthodox ~Church. ~ To understand
91 I, 3,3 | them a permanent place in Orthodox theology. Dionysius has
92 I, 3,3 | existence itself (On the Orthodox Faith 1, 4 [P.G. xciv, 800B]). ~
93 I, 3,3 | in this Macarian sense, Orthodox often talk about .Prayer
94 I, 3,3 | the grace of God. ~ When Orthodox writers use the term .Prayer
95 I, 3,3 | mercy on me. (In modern Orthodox practice ~the Prayer sometimes
96 I, 3,3 | by integrating it into Orthodox theology as a whole, and
97 I, 3,3 | a doctrinal authority in Orthodox theol-~ogy scarcely inferior
98 I, 3,3 | have seen, ~lies behind the Orthodox doctrine of icons. Gregory
99 I, 3,3 | and his work shows that Orthodox theology did not cease to
100 I, 3,3 | representatives from the other Orthodox ~Churches. There were prolonged
101 I, 3,3 | this was signed by all the Orthodox present at the Council except
102 I, 3,3 | later canonized by the Orthodox Church. The Florentine Union
103 I, 3,3 | matters of doctrine, the Orthodox accepted the Papal claims (
104 I, 3,3 | was a united service of Orthodox and Roman Catholics, for
105 I, 4,1 | dius (815?-885). In the Orthodox Church Constantine is usually
106 I, 4,1 | and certain other Slavonic Orthodox ~Churches. ~ One cannot
107 I, 4,1 | of the ~Slavs.. ~ Another Orthodox nation in the Balkans, Romania,
108 I, 4,1 | Romania, the second largest Orthodox Church today, is ~predominantly
109 I, 4,1 | Byzantine culture and the Orthodox ~faith, if at first limited
110 I, 4,1 | closely associated, the Orthodox Slavs have often confused
111 I, 4,1 | forget that it is primarily Orthodox and Catholic. Na-~tionalism
112 I, 4,1 | stating: .The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is in form, ~substance,
113 I, 4,3 | the north aimed to break Orthodox Novgorod, just ~as their
114 I, 4,3 | in the south had broken Orthodox Constantinople in 1204.
115 I, 4,3 | coincidence that the finest of all Orthodox icons from the artistic
116 I, 4,3 | place as protector of the Orthodox world. It proved both ~worthy
117 I, 5,1 | spiritual head of the Greek Orthodox Church, but the civil head
118 I, 5,1 | between Church and nation. The Orthodox faith, ~being universal,
119 I, 5,1 | Constantinople as the head of all ~Orthodox Christians in their dominions.
120 I, 5,1 | in faces main-~tain the Orthodox tradition substantially
121 I, 5,1 | substantially unimpaired. The Orthodox under Islam took as their ~
122 I, 5,1 | and contrary current in Orthodox theology ~of the seventeenth
123 I, 5,1 | It was difficult for ~the Orthodox under Ottoman rule to maintain
124 I, 5,1 | in which they interpreted Orthodox theology. ~Certainly Greek
125 I, 5,1 | symbolic of the state of Greek Orthodox learning in the last four
126 I, 5,1 | Church, would lose their Orthodox mentality and become cut ~
127 I, 5,1 | foreign to their own Church. Orthodox theology underwent what
128 I, 5,1 | majority remained fundamentally Orthodox. The tradition was at times
129 I, 5,1 | challenge presented to the Orthodox world by Reformation and
130 I, 5,2 | ish Empire, so that the Orthodox Church has not undergone
131 I, 5,2 | were many means of contact: Orthodox, as we have ~seen, went
132 I, 5,2 | undertook missionary work among Orthodox; the Jesuits were also at
133 I, 5,2 | signifi-~cant developments in Orthodox theology. ~ The first important
134 I, 5,2 | exchange of views between Orthodox and Protestants began in
135 I, 5,2 | strictly to the traditional Orthodox position and showed no inclination
136 I, 5,2 | by the Reformers in the Orthodox Church. The ~Patriarch.s
137 I, 5,2 | the Reformation from an Orthodox point of view. The chief
138 I, 5,2 | interlude, Lutherans and Orthodox both showed great courtesy
139 I, 5,2 | subjects was Russian and Orthodox. These Orthodox in Little
140 I, 5,2 | Russian and Orthodox. These Orthodox in Little Russia were in
141 I, 5,2 | led by several energetic Orthodox nobles, and in many towns
142 I, 5,2 | Poland had tried to make the Orthodox ~submit to the Pope. With
143 I, 5,2 | in 1564, pressure on the ~Orthodox increased. The Jesuits began
144 I, 5,2 | negotiating secretly with the Orthodox bishops, who ~were for the
145 I, 5,2 | Jesuits hoped, the whole Orthodox hierarchy in ~Poland would
146 I, 5,2 | divided. Six out of eight Orthodox bishops, including the Metropolitan
147 I, 5,2 | to remain ~members of the Orthodox Church. The two sides concluded
148 I, 5,2 | distinguish Uniates from Orthodox, and one wonders how far
149 I, 5,2 | Pope had now joined the Orthodox Church. ~ The government
150 I, 5,2 | their point of view the Orthodox Church in Poland had now
151 I, 5,2 | who desired to continue Orthodox were severely persecuted.
152 I, 5,2 | sometimes handed over the Orthodox Church of their ~peasants
153 I, 5,2 | demand a fee for allowing an Orthodox baptism or ~funeral. (Bernard
154 I, 5,2 | It is small wonder that Orthodox, when they saw what was
155 I, 5,2 | Antioch, reflected the typical Orthodox attitude when he ~wrote
156 I, 5,2 | Persecution invigorated the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine. Although
157 I, 5,2 | the Ukraine. Although many Orthodox no-~bles joined the Uniates,
158 I, 5,2 | Jesuit schools they organized Orthodox schools of their own. By ~
159 I, 5,2 | than anywhere else in the Orthodox world; ~scholars from Kiev,
160 I, 5,2 | repudiated by his fellow Orthodox, his Confes-~sion being
161 I, 5,2 | tion to Cyril two other Orthodox hierarchs, Peter of Moghila
162 I, 5,2 | Confessions of their own. Peter.s Orthodox Confession, written in 1640,
163 I, 5,2 | official Council of the Orthodox Church. Dositheus, ~Patriarch
164 I, 5,2 | in the ~history of modern Orthodox theology. Faced by the Calvinism
165 I, 5,2 | weapons was ~not Roman, but Orthodox. ~ Outside the Ukraine,
166 I, 5,2 | Ukraine, relations between Orthodox and Roman Catholics were
167 I, 5,2 | Blessed Sacrament, which the Orthodox clergy attended in ~force,
168 I, 5,2 | 1724 a large part of the Orthodox ~Patriarchate of Antioch
169 I, 5,2 | to Rome; after this the Orthodox authorities, fearing that
170 I, 5,2 | normally done so. ~ The Orthodox of the seventeenth century
171 I, 5,2 | but widely used in the Orthodox Church. Around 1694 there
172 I, 5,2 | was maintained between the Orthodox and the Non-Jurors (a ~group
173 I, 5,2 | establishing communion with ~the Orthodox. But the Non-Jurors could
174 I, 5,2 | Non-Jurors could not accept the Orthodox teaching concerning the
175 I, 5,2 | period: one does not find the Orthodox tradition in its fullness.
176 I, 5,2 | seventeenth century the ~Orthodox were forced to think more
177 I, 5,2 | has been accepted by the Orthodox Church as a whole. The seventeenth-~
178 I, 5,2 | not come to an end in the Orthodox Church after the period
179 I, 5,2 | General Councils, which ~every Orthodox is bound to accept as an
180 I, 5,2 | underestimate its influence upon Orthodox his-~tory. ~ Throughout
181 I, 5,2 | influential publications in Orthodox history, and has ~been widely
182 I, 5,2 | of devotion, adapting for Orthodox use books by Lorenzo Scupoli
183 I, 5,2 | although in his day most Orthodox ~communicated only a few
184 I, 6,1 | last Rome, the center of Orthodox Christendom. The monk Philotheus
185 I, 6,1 | few words on the present Orthodox Empire of îur ruler: he
186 I, 6,1 | higher than fifth among the Orthodox Churches, after ~Jerusalem.
187 I, 6,1 | take first place in the Orthodox world, but fifth, after
188 I, 6,2 | the title ~.Holy Russia.. Orthodox from the Turkish Empire
189 I, 6,2 | fully grown member of the Orthodox family, entitled to hold
190 I, 6,2 | how great an importance Orthodox in general and ~Russians
191 I, 6,3 | the Synod was not based on Orthodox Canon Law, but copied from
192 I, 6,3 | vigorous ~protest; but the Orthodox Churches under Turkish rule
193 I, 6,3 | German pietism, Freemasonry (Orthodox are strictly forbidden,
194 I, 6,3 | westernization, the true life of Orthodox Russia continued without
195 I, 6,3 | the classic tradition of Orthodox ~spirituality. He drew upon
196 I, 6,3 | figure in many periods of Orthodox history, nineteenth-century
197 I, 6,3 | immediately attractive to non-~Orthodox Christians. Entering the
198 I, 6,3 | Byzantium and the universal Orthodox tradition throughout ~the
199 I, 6,3 | for understand-~ing the Orthodox doctrine of deification
200 I, 6,3 | with God. It shows how the Orthodox idea of ~sanctification
201 I, 6,3 | Tolstoy.s relations with the Orthodox Church is extremely sad.
202 I, 6,3 | Kireyevsky, .to find an Orthodox starets, before whom you
203 I, 6,3 | and millions of American Orthodox today can look on him as ~
204 I, 6,3 | continued), it is not enough for Orthodox to borrow their theology
205 I, 6,3 | and rediscover the true Orthodox tradition, which in its
206 I, 6,3 | in departing from its own Orthodox standpoint, it had itself
207 I, 6,3 | lasting contribution to Orthodox theology. ~ Khomiakov during
208 I, 7 | century, Greeks and Arabs~The Orthodox Church of today exists in
209 I, 7 | worlds, in the case of the Orthodox Church the vast majority
210 I, 7 | ninety ~million practicing Orthodox . the number of baptized
211 I, 7 | the number of baptized Orthodox is considerably higher .
212 I, 7 | chapter we shall consider the Orthodox ~Churches outside the communist
213 I, 7 | chapter is devoted to the Orthodox .dispersion. in other places,
214 I, 7 | in other places, and to Orthodox ~missionary activities at
215 I, 7 | present time. ~ Of the seven Orthodox Churches not under communist
216 I, 7,1 | Even in Constantin-~ople, Orthodox clergy (with the exception
217 I, 7,1 | sixty out of the eighty Orthodox ~Churches at Constantinople
218 I, 7,1 | In many parts of the Orthodox world today, and not least
219 I, 7,1 | traditional and timeless values of Orthodox monasticism; but so long ~
220 I, 7,2 | The Orthodox Church of Finland ~ owes
221 I, 7,2 | Middle Ages. The Finnish Orthodox were dependent on the Russian
222 I, 7,2 | Lutheran, and the 66,000 Orthodox comprise only ***1.5 percent
223 I, 7,2 | popula-~tion. There is an Orthodox seminary at Kuopio. .With
224 I, 7,2 | same time safeguarding its Orthodox traditions, the Church of
225 I, 7,3 | Today there are about 10,000 Orthodox in Egypt, and perhaps 150,
226 I, 7,3 | Pope and Patri-~arch.: in Orthodox usage, the title .Pope.
227 I, 7,3 | the Patriarch, and since Orthodox are just now beginning to
228 I, 7,4 | Antioch~ numbers some 320,000 Orthodox in Syria and the Lebanon,
229 I, 7,4 | thirty years ago a leading Orthodox in the Lebanon, Father (
230 I, 7,4 | form a dark picture among Orthodox countries.. Indeed, ~until
231 I, 7,5 | notable feature in the life of Orthodox Palestine was the ~annual
232 I, 7,5 | pastoral work among the ~Arab Orthodox and maintained a large number
233 I, 7,6 | population of 7,632,806, the Orthodox numbered 7,472,559 other
234 I, 7,6 | the expense of their own Orthodox tradition. Theology in Greece
235 I, 7,6 | Greece possesses an Orthodox counterpart to Lourdes:
236 I, 7,6 | initiative . Zoe, Sotir, the ~Orthodox Christian Unions, and others.
237 I, 7,6 | future developments in the Orthodox Church. In the past the
238 I, 7,8 | some ways a .freak. in the Orthodox world, consisting as it
239 I, 7,9 | Let us look briefly at the Orthodox communities in western Europe
240 I, 7,9 | point of contact between Orthodox and non-~Orthodox. Particularly
241 I, 7,9 | between Orthodox and non-~Orthodox. Particularly during the
242 I, 7,9 | between two and three million Orthodox, subdivided into at ~least
243 I, 7,9 | the First World War the Orthodox of America, whatever their
244 I, 7,9 | pastoral care, since among the Orthodox nations it was the Rus-~
245 I, 7,9 | there are perhaps 20,000 Orthodox, most of ~whom are natives;
246 I, 7,9 | nineteenth century, numbers of Orthodox began to set-~tle outside
247 I, 7,9 | the century, the number of Orthodox was greatly increased by
248 I, 7,9 | towards the restoration of Orthodox unity in America. ~ The
249 I, 7,9 | in America. ~ The Greek Orthodox in North America number
250 I, 7,9 | Russian religious art. ~ Orthodox life in America today displays
251 I, 7,9 | whereas a generation ago Orthodox clergy in America were often
252 I, 7,9 | have a theological degree. ~Orthodox theologians in America are
253 I, 7,9 | the younger generation of Orthodox from the Church. This younger
254 I, 7,9 | autocephalous .American Orthodox Church.. This vision of
255 I, 7,9 | the dangers to which the Orthodox minority in America would
256 I, 7,9 | that the best policy is for Orthodox parishes at present to be .
257 I, 7,9 | 1954 the Council of Eastern Orthodox Youth Leaders of America
258 I, 7,9 | in ~which the majority of Orthodox youth organizations participate.
259 I, 7,9 | to contribute as much to Orthodox unity as was ~originally
260 I, 7,9 | an alien environment, the Orthodox of the diaspora have found
261 I, 7,9 | they really believe the Orthodox faith to be the true Catholic ~
262 I, 7,9 | Letter of ~October 1953, Orthodox have been scattered across
263 I, 7,9 | to all peoples the true Orthodox faith and prepare the world
264 I, 7,9 | consciousness in many Russian Orthodox circles). ~ What does this
265 I, 7,9 | What does this mean for Orthodox? It does not of course imply
266 I, 7,9 | sense. But it means that Orthodox . without sacrificing anything
267 I, 7,9 | universality of Orthodoxy. ~ If Orthodox are to present their faith
268 I, 7,9 | movements, making ~their special Orthodox contribution, and at the
269 I, 7,9 | Eastern Orthodoxy.. But many Orthodox in Europe or America ~now
270 I, 7,9 | existence. Besides born Orthodox, this Western Orthodoxy ~
271 I, 7,9 | Most of these Western Orthodox use the Byzantine Lit-~urgy
272 I, 7,9 | Communion Service of the Orthodox Church) in ~French, English,
273 I, 7,9 | number of French ~and German Orthodox parishes, as well as (under
274 I, 7,9 | Patriarchate of Moscow) a Dutch Orthodox ~Mission . all of them following
275 I, 7,9 | Byzantine rite. But some Orthodox feel that Western Or-~thodoxy,
276 I, 7,9 | People often talk about .the Orthodox Liturgy. ~when they mean
277 I, 7,9 | that and that alone were Orthodox; but they should ~not forget
278 I, 7,9 | were received into the Orthodox Church, they were allowed
279 I, 7,9 | several small western-rite Orthodox ~groups in the U.S.A. Various
280 I, 7,9 | for use by western-rite Orthodox ~have been drawn up, in
281 I, 7,9 | diaspora and in the older Orthodox Churches there is a growing
282 I, 7,9 | desire for coop-~eration. Orthodox participation in the World
283 I, 7,9 | Ecumenical Movement,. the Orthodox delegates from different
284 I, 7,9 | of Churches to bring us Orthodox together? Why ~do we ourselves
285 I, 7,9 | cooperation ~is also felt by many Orthodox youth movements, particularly
286 I, 7,9 | founded in 1953, in which Orthodox ~youth groups of many different
287 I, 7,9 | senior hierarch of the ~Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch.
288 I, 7,9 | Great Council. of the whole Orthodox Church, and as a ~first
289 I, 7,9 | probably be the problems of Orthodox disunity in the west, the
290 I, 7,9 | and the application of Orthodox moral teaching in the mod-~
291 I, 7,10 | remains to say ~something of Orthodox missionary work in the stricter
292 I, 7,10 | missionary Church. Certainly Orthodox have often failed to perceive
293 I, 7,10 | still exist, while a ~new Orthodox mission has shot up suddenly
294 I, 7,10 | the same ~time both the Orthodox in America and the older
295 I, 7,10 | the constant ~policy of Orthodox missions to build up a native
296 I, 7,10 | 1939 there were 200,000 Orthodox (mostly Russians, but including
297 I, 7,10 | with five ~bishops and an Orthodox university at Harbin. ~
298 I, 7,10 | was at least one Chinese Orthodox ~bishop, with some 20,000
299 I, 7,10 | in Red China, this tiny Orthodox community has a thorny path
300 I, 7,10 | before it. ~ The Japanese Orthodox Church was founded by Father (
301 I, 7,10 | years later two Japanese Orthodox were ordained priests. Curiously
302 I, 7,10 | enough, the first Japanese ~Orthodox bishop, John Ono (consecrated
303 I, 7,10 | scale. ~The first Korean Orthodox priest was ordained in 1912.
304 I, 7,10 | In 1934 there were 820 Orthodox in Ko-~rea, but today there
305 I, 7,10 | land. ~ Besides these Asian Orthodox Churches, there is now an
306 I, 7,10 | missionaries from the traditional Orthodox lands, but was a spon-~taneous
307 I, 7,10 | founders of the African Orthodox move-~ment were two native
308 I, 7,10 | United States, the ~.African Orthodox Church,. which, though using
309 I, 7,10 | though using the title .Orthodox,. has in fact no connection ~
310 I, 7,10 | the true and historical Orthodox communion. In 1932 they
311 I, 7,10 | dubious status of the .African Orthodox Church,. whereupon they
312 I, 7,10 | formally recognize the African Orthodox community in ~Uganda, and
313 I, 7,10 | Central Africa. Af-~rican Orthodox have been sent to study
314 I, 7,10 | Nairobi. Many Afri-~can Orthodox have high ambitions, and
315 I, 7,10 | the obvious attractions of Orthodox Christianity in Ugandan
316 I, 7,10 | the imagi-~nation of the Orthodox world at large, and has
317 I, 7,10 | to Orthodoxy. Perhaps the Orthodox, encouraged by the Ugandan ~
318 I, 7,10 | of the diaspora has made Orthodox bet-~ter aware of the meaning
319 I, 7,10 | grave problems, but the Orthodox have per-~haps greater difficulties
320 I, 7,10 | confessors. The decline of Orthodox monasticism, un-~mistakable
321 I, 7,10 | appreciated more ~and more. Orthodox theologians are few in number,
322 I, 7,10 | of their importance. No Orthodox who is realistic and honest
323 II | Tradition:~The Source of the Orthodox Faith~“Guard the deposit” (
324 II, 0,11 | inner meaning of tradition~Orthodox history is marked outwardly
325 II, 0,11 | external appearance of the Orthodox world, have never broken
326 II, 0,11 | inward~continuity of the Orthodox Church. The thing that first
327 II, 0,11 | changelessness. He finds that Orthodox still baptize~by threefold
328 II, 0,11 | pervades every aspect of Orthodox~life. Recently when two
329 II, 0,11 | life. Recently when two Orthodox scholars were asked to summarize
330 II, 0,11 | 1718, in G. Williams, The Orthodox Church of the East at the
331 II, 0,11 | continuity is summed up for the Orthodox in the one word Tradition. ‘
332 II, 0,11 | 12 (P. G. XCIV, 1297B).~Orthodox are always talking about
333 II, 0,11 | Corinthians 15:3). But to an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means
334 II, 0,11 | articulated over the ages. The Orthodox Christian of~today sees
335 II, 0,11 | only non-Orthodox but many Orthodox writers have adopted this
336 II, 0,11 | the idea of both alike.~Orthodox, while reverencing this
337 II, 0,11 | Councils: these things the Orthodox accept as something absolute
338 II, 0,11 | and post. Byzantine times, Orthodox have~not always been sufficiently
339 II, 0,11 | and atheism,~3~have forced Orthodox in this present century
340 II, 0,11 | manifest handicaps, the Orthodox of today are perhaps in
341 II, 0,11 | their own inheritance.~True Orthodox fidelity to the past must
342 II, 0,11 | what has been received.~An Orthodox thinker must see Tradition
343 II, 0,11 | Spirit in the Church. The Orthodox conception of Tradition
344 II, 0,11 | without superseding them. Orthodox often~speak as if the period
345 II, 0,11 | that forms the basis~of the Orthodox devotion to Tradition.~
346 II, 0,12 | guides me?” (Acts 8:30). Orthodox, when they~read the Scripture,
347 II, 0,12 | When received into the Orthodox Church,~a convert promises: ‘
348 II, 0,12 | and is held by the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church of the East,
349 II, 0,12 | Biblical Criticism. The Orthodox Church has the same New
350 II, 0,12 | which happens quite often), Orthodox believe that the changes
351 II, 0,12 | which are known in the Orthodox~Church as the ‘Deutero-Canonical
352 II, 0,12 | parts~of Scripture;’ most Orthodox scholars at the present
353 II, 0,12 | Bible, although hitherto Orthodox scholars have not been prominent
354 II, 0,12 | is sometimes thought that Orthodox attach less importance than~
355 II, 0,12 | Scripture is read constantly at Orthodox services:~during the course
356 II, 0,12 | the respect shown in the Orthodox Church for the Word of God.~
357 II, 0,12 | Thus in the eyes of the~Orthodox Church, the statements of
358 II, 0,12 | by an Ecumenical Council. Orthodox honour the Apostles’ Creed
359 II, 0,12 | likewise is~not used in Orthodox worship, but it is sometimes
360 II, 0,12 | Councils~The formulation of Orthodox doctrine, as we have seen,
361 II, 0,12 | claiming to represent the Orthodox Catholic Church as a~whole)
362 II, 0,12 | been received by the whole Orthodox~Church, but in part set
363 II, 0,12 | following are the chief Orthodox doctrinal statements since
364 II, 0,12 | Kritopoulos (1625)~8 The Orthodox Confession by Peter of Moghila,
365 II, 0,12 | 1672)~10 The Answers of the Orthodox Patriarchs to the Non-Jurors (
366 II, 0,12 | 1723)~11 The Reply of the Orthodox Patriarchs to Pope Pius
367 II, 0,12 | Symbolical Books’ of~the Orthodox Church, but many Orthodox
368 II, 0,12 | Orthodox Church, but many Orthodox scholars today regard this
369 II, 0,12 | from Patristic chaff. An Orthodox must not simply know and
370 II, 0,12 | and contemporaries.~The Orthodox Church has never attempted
371 II, 0,12 | Church.~5. The Liturgy~The Orthodox Church is not as much given
372 II, 0,12 | therefore not a part of Orthodox~Tradition, but merely a
373 II, 0,12 | and the faithful departed: Orthodox belief on these points is~
374 II, 0,12 | prayers and hymns used at Orthodox services. Nor is it merely
375 II, 0,12 | Mountain.~The Canon Law of the Orthodox Church has been very little
376 II, 0,12 | to man. Through icons the Orthodox~Christian receives a vision
377 II, 0,12 | up the Tradition~of the Orthodox Church — Scripture, Councils,
378 II, 0,12 | such division. All true Orthodox theology is mystical; just
379 II, 0,12 | This exactly expresses the Orthodox attitude to Tradition. If
380 II, 1,1 | The basic elements in the Orthodox doctrine of God have already
381 II, 1,1 | comprehension and knowledge (On the Orthodox Faith, 1, 4 (P.G. 94, 800B,
382 II, 1,1 | within it. As a much used Orthodox~prayer puts it: ‘Thou art
383 II, 1,1 | difficult to accept the Orthodox~emphasis on apophatic theology
384 II, 1,1 | from these two matters, Orthodox agree in their doctrine
385 II, 1,1 | Calvinists, Anglicans, and Orthodox: all alike worship One God
386 II, 1,1 | today — not excluding many Orthodox~— find the whole dispute
387 II, 1,1 | viewpoint of traditional Orthodox theology there can be but
388 II, 1,1 | John of Damascus, On the Orthodox Faith, 1, 8 (P.G. 94, 809A)); ‘
389 II, 1,1 | Trinity together? Here the Orthodox~Church, following the Cappadocian
390 II, 1,1 | Spirit of the Son.’~The Orthodox position is based on John
391 II, 1,1 | let us now consider the Orthodox~objections to the western
392 II, 1,1 | Godhead, are there then (the Orthodox asked) two independent sources,
393 II, 1,1 | uno principio. From the Orthodox point of view, however,
394 II, 1,1 | charge of semi-Sabellianism. Orthodox Trinitarian theology~has
395 II, 1,1 | theology, so it seems to Orthodox, the persons are overshadowed
396 II, 1,1 | question 40, article 2). Orthodox thinkers find this~a very
397 II, 1,1 | some of the reasons why Orthodox regard the filioque as dangerous
398 II, 1,1 | But this is not all. Many Orthodox feel that, as a result of
399 II, 1,1 | daily life of each man.~Orthodox writers also argue that
400 II, 1,1 | Such in outline is the Orthodox attitude to the filioque,
401 II, 1,2 | God through virtue (On the Orthodox Faith, 2, 12 (P.G. 94, 920B)).
402 II, 1,2 | s intellect. While many Orthodox~have done the same, others
403 II, 1,2 | whole of God’s creation.~Orthodox religious thought lays the
404 II, 1,2 | is visibly~expressed in Orthodox worship, when the priest
405 II, 1,2 | a son, not a slave. The Orthodox Church rejects~any doctrine
406 II, 1,2 | Monk of the Eastern Church, Orthodox Spirituality,~p. 23). The
407 II, 1,2 | Calvinists — have viewed the Orthodox idea of ‘synergy’ with some~
408 II, 1,2 | God? Yet in reality~the Orthodox teaching is very straightforward. “
409 II, 1,2 | to the likeness of God. Orthodox, however,~do not hold that
410 II, 1,2 | outside, not from within. Orthodox do not say, as Calvin~said,
411 II, 1,2 | words of s hymn sung by Orthodox at the Funeral Service for
412 II, 1,2 | for human freedom.~Most orthodox theologians reject the idea
413 II, 1,2 | Roman Catholic Church. Men (Orthodox usually~teach) automatically
414 II, 1,2 | have the nature~of sin.’ Orthodox would hesitate to say this.
415 II, 1,2 | hesitate to say this. And Orthodox have never held (as Augustine
416 II, 1,2 | So far as I can discover, Orthodox writers do not make use
417 II, 1,2 | found from time to time in Orthodox theological literature;
418 II, 1,2 | of western influence. The Orthodox Confession by Peter of Moghila
419 II, 1,2 | from Augustinianism). The Orthodox picture of~fallen humanity
420 II, 1,2 | Calvinist view.~But although Orthodox maintain that man after
421 II, 1,3 | essential elements in the Orthodox doctrine of Christ have
422 II, 1,3 | striking feature in the Orthodox approach to the Incarnate
423 II, 1,3 | triumphant from the dead. In Orthodox~worship and spirituality
424 II, 1,3 | light of Thabor holds in the Orthodox doctrine of~mystical prayer.
425 II, 1,3 | fills the whole life of the Orthodox Church:~Through all the
426 II, 1,3 | divine~glory of Our Lord, Orthodox do not overlook His humanity.
427 II, 1,3 | Consider for example the Orthodox~love of the Holy Land: nothing
428 II, 1,3 | are no less prominent in Orthodox than in~non-Orthodox churches,
429 II, 1,3 | slightly different ways. The Orthodox~attitude to the Crucifixion
430 II, 1,3 | Cross~The Lord of glory.~The Orthodox Church on Good Friday thinks
431 II, 1,3 | humiliation and His inward glory. Orthodox~see not just the suffering
432 II, 1,3 | bleeding and broken flesh, Orthodox still discern the Triune
433 II, 1,3 | emblem of victory. When Orthodox~think of Christ Crucified,
434 II, 1,3 | Such is the spirit in which Orthodox Christians regard Christ’
435 II, 1,3 | certain things which~make Orthodox feel uneasy. The west, so
436 II, 1,3 | victorious and triumphant king. Orthodox feel~thoroughly at home
437 II, 1,3 | triumphed from the Tree.~But Orthodox feel less happy about compositions
438 II, 1,3 | spirituality,~and in art; and Orthodox are naturally very happy
439 II, 1,4 | Spirit at Pentecost.~The Orthodox Church lays great stress
440 II, 1,4 | one of the reasons why Orthodox object to the filioque is
441 II, 1,4 | spiritual tradition of the Orthodox Church’ (The Mystical Theology
442 II, 1,4 | place of the Spirit in the Orthodox~doctrine of the Church;
443 II, 1,4 | said of the Holy Spirit in Orthodox~worship. In every sacramental
444 II, 1,4 | the start of each day,~an Orthodox Christian places himself
445 II, 1,5 | according to the teaching of the Orthodox~Church, is the final goal
446 II, 1,5 | background in mind. The Orthodox doctrine of deification,~
447 II, 1,5 | the~divine essence: the Orthodox Church, while speaking of
448 II, 1,5 | swallowed up in the deity, Orthodox~mystical theology has always
449 II, 1,5 | light corresponds,~among Orthodox saints, to the receiving
450 II, 1,5 | P.G. 150, 1233C).~Because Orthodox are convinced that the body
451 II, 1,5 | where this has not happened, Orthodox show just as great a veneration
452 II, 1,5 | redemption is based, like the Orthodox doctrine of the human body
453 II, 1,5 | of the human body and the Orthodox~doctrine of icons, upon
454 II, 1,5 | entirely misunderstood the Orthodox conception of theosis. To
455 II, 1,5 | intended~for all alike. The Orthodox Church believes that it
456 II, 1,5 | and despair not;’ other~Orthodox saints have repeated the
457 II, 1,5 | to the ‘gift of tears.’ Orthodox mystical theology~is a theology
458 II, 2,1 | God and His Church~An Orthodox Christian is vividly conscious
459 II, 2,1 | differences between the Orthodox doctrine of the Church and
460 II, 2,1 | stresses Papal infallibility, Orthodox stress the infallibility
461 II, 2,1 | fair to the other, but to Orthodox it often~seems that Rome
462 II, 2,1 | incoherent, and incomplete. Orthodox would answer that~they do
463 II, 2,1 | quickly discover.~Yet the Orthodox idea of the Church is certainly
464 II, 2,1 | mystical in this sense, that~Orthodox theology never treats the
465 II, 2,1 | and the Holy Spirit. All Orthodox thinking about the Church
466 II, 2,1 | continued Pentecost. The Orthodox doctrine of the Church is
467 II, 2,1 | no totalitarianism. When Orthodox apply the word ‘Catholic’
468 II, 2,1 | helps to understand the Orthodox emphasis~upon Councils.
469 II, 2,1 | This is a cardinal~point in Orthodox teaching. Orthodoxy does
470 II, 2,1 | Faith and Order~made by the Orthodox Delegates at Evanston in
471 II, 2,2 | merely ideal and invisible; Orthodox theology refuses to separate
472 II, 2,2 | the whole body, whereas Orthodox do not~believe any bishop
473 II, 2,2 | holds the Church together?~Orthodox answer, the act of communion
474 II, 2,2 | communion in the sacraments. The Orthodox theology of the~Church is
475 II, 2,2 | spirit in which it is made. Orthodox~believe that they are the
476 II, 2,2 | no~credit for themselves, Orthodox are in all humility convinced
477 II, 2,2 | in the sight of heaven.~Orthodox writers sometimes speak
478 II, 2,2 | Catholic, the Anglican, and~the Orthodox). But such a view cannot
479 II, 2,2 | reconciled with traditional Orthodox theology. If we~are going
480 II, 2,2 | branches,’ then from the Orthodox point of view the only~branches
481 II, 2,2 | Autocephalous Churches of the Orthodox~communion.~Claiming as it
482 II, 2,2 | the one true Church, the Orthodox Church also believes that,
483 II, 2,2 | separation of east and west the Orthodox (unlike the west) have never
484 II, 2,2 | to do so.~So much for the Orthodox idea of the unity of the
485 II, 2,2 | has the same basis as the Orthodox belief in the~unbreakable
486 II, 2,2 | and of~the laity in the Orthodox communion.~
487 II, 2,3 | Bishops, Laity, Councils~The Orthodox Church is a hierarchical
488 II, 2,3 | election and consecration an Orthodox bishop is endowed with the
489 II, 2,3 | Theologian. More than once in Orthodox history the~‘charismatics’
490 II, 2,3 | father to his flock. The Orthodox attitude to the episcopal~
491 II, 2,3 | bishops there can be no Orthodox people, but without~Orthodox
492 II, 2,3 | Orthodox people, but without~Orthodox people there can be no true
493 II, 2,3 | episcopate in~isolation. As the Orthodox Patriarchs said in their
494 II, 2,3 | has been~much discussed by Orthodox during the past hundred
495 II, 2,3 | entirely satisfactory. All Orthodox know which are the seven
496 II, 2,3 | admitted, certain points in the Orthodox theology of Councils~which
497 II, 2,3 | consider the present trend of Orthodox thought on this subject.~
498 II, 2,3 | viewed with suspicion by some Orthodox theologians, both Greek
499 II, 2,3 | accepted in contemporary Orthodox thought.~This act of acceptance,
500 II, 2,3 | is all’ (S. Bulgakov, The Orthodox~Church, p. 89).~At a true
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