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  1 Pref   |          continuity and renewal as the Orthodox Church confronts new situations
  2 Pref   |              perceive the power of the Orthodox Liturgy, the beauty of Orthodox
  3 Pref   |        Orthodox Liturgy, the beauty of Orthodox worship, the balanced and
  4 Pref   |                and wholesome vision of Orthodox theology and spirituality.
  5 Pref   |            those who are born into the Orthodox Church, and are inevitably
  6 Pref   |              inevitably exposed to the Orthodox liturgical forms and to
  7 Pref   |           forms and to the patterns of Orthodox parish life since childhood,
  8 Pref   |            seems that by many baptized Orthodox Christians, even those who
  9 Pref   |                it may well be that we, Orthodox theologians, priests, teachers,
 10 Pref   |            name of Christ. However, in Orthodox perspective, this process
 11 Pref   |             context of the fullness of Orthodox faith and life, a context
 12 Pref   |        Stylianopoulos~Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology~Brookline,
 13 Intro,1|        Orthodoxy? What features define Orthodox identity in the context
 14 Intro,1|            equally apply to individual Orthodox Christians, specific parishes
 15 Intro,1|            under the title The Eastern Orthodox Church (1967), the German
 16 Intro,1|                symbol of the icon. The Orthodox dogmatician John Karmiris
 17 Intro,1|              problems except that most Orthodox Christians lack the zeal
 18 Intro,1|                world and the fear that Orthodox Christians are losing their
 19 Intro,1|                 Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. In
 20 Intro,1|                modern society of which Orthodox Christians themselves, like
 21 Intro,1|              presented first of all to Orthodox Christians themselves as
 22 Intro,1|             about whether or not we as Orthodox Christians truly practice
 23 Intro,2|             Fathers have bequeathed to Orthodox Christians a remarkably
 24 Intro,2|                and state. According to Orthodox theology, all these elements
 25 Intro,2|                Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Orthodox Christians are to engage
 26 Intro,2|               evidence of it among the Orthodox themselves. Our urgent task
 27 Intro,2|                Gospel? Are we applying Orthodox truths to our own ecclesial
 28 Intro,2|               bishops, priests and lay Orthodox, or are we merely satisfied
 29 Intro,3|          identified with the family of Orthodox Churches throughout the
 30 Intro,3|                Churches, the universal Orthodox Church welcomes all nations
 31 Intro,3|              about fifteen independent Orthodox Churches throughout the
 32 Intro,3|               again, the challenge for Orthodox Christians is to integrate
 33 Intro,4|                a primary expression of Orthodox life, “Orthodoxia” is often
 34 Intro,4|           Divine Liturgy, the jewel of Orthodox worship, is a celebration
 35 Intro,4|                 To the degree that the Orthodox Church has survived and
 36 Intro,4|                of St. John Chrysostom, Orthodox Christians come out of worship
 37 Intro,6|          externals.~ The challenge for Orthodox Christians is to recover
 38 1,2    |         especially significant for the Orthodox theological tradition. The
 39 2,1    |                      The Gospel in the Orthodox Tradition.~ The aim of this
 40 2,1    |              Gospel in a comprehensive Orthodox perspective including worship,
 41 2,1    |           topic. First, the adjective “Orthodox” is meant not merely as
 42 2,1    |                applies not only to the Orthodox with a capital “O” but to
 43 2,1    |               who regard themselves as orthodox with a small “o,” that is
 44 2,1    |            times. In this sense, to be Orthodox necessarily implies to honor
 45 2,1    |           faith and grace.~ Third, the Orthodox people themselves have not
 46 2,1    |             pop culture in traditional Orthodox lands, the chaotic promises
 47 2,2    |             against the externalism of Orthodox worship as mere ritual are
 48 2,2    |               superficial practices by Orthodox Christians. They are largely
 49 2,2    |                antiquity still used in Orthodox worship. One of these is
 50 2,2    |        developed over centuries in the Orthodox Church now constitutes a
 51 2,2    |             being held together in the Orthodox tradition:[46]~ ~Though
 52 2,2    |             The basic structure of the Orthodox liturgical year is anchored
 53 2,2    |              esteemed as saints by the Orthodox tradition which affirms
 54 2,2    |           biblical tradition.~ For the Orthodox, the most profound liturgical
 55 2,2    |          central act of worship in the Orthodox Church. The Liturgy is understood
 56 2,2    |              from this perspective the Orthodox Eucharist is not only a
 57 2,2    |              word “sacramental” in the Orthodox tradition means something
 58 2,2    |               does not sit well within Orthodox vocabulary which employs
 59 2,2    |      liturgical acts. According to the Orthodox understanding, the efficacy
 60 2,3    |             much to Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians. The weakness
 61 2,3    |              unity of the Church.~ The Orthodox bear testimony to their
 62 2,3    |           faith and reason.[48] In the Orthodox tradition all these elements
 63 2,3    |              is acknowledged.~ For the Orthodox the authoritative witnesses
 64 2,3    |                grace and faith. In the Orthodox tradition the notion of
 65 2,4    |              the role of the Gospel in Orthodox spirituality.~ In the classic
 66 2,4    |          spirituality.~ In the classic Orthodox tradition, a theologian
 67 2,4    |             Gospel and theology in the Orthodox tradition. Reading this
 68 2,4    |               origins of the word, the Orthodox teaching about theosis is
 69 2,4    |               remarks on the Gospel in Orthodox spirituality. This tradition
 70 2,4    |                  A striking witness to Orthodox spirituality is St. Mark
 71 2,4    |               and evangelical voice in Orthodox spirituality is Saint Symeon
 72 2,4    |              charismatic saints in the Orthodox tradition and was accorded
 73 2,5    |           reason — all are part of the Orthodox inheritance. At the core
 74 2,5    |        inheritance. At the core of the Orthodox tradition, whether we turn
 75 2,5    |                deeply enshrined in the Orthodox tradition, is the topic
 76 3,1    |        striking title “Discovering the Orthodox Missionary Ethos.”[79] The
 77 3,1    |            missionary interest” in the Orthodox Church. Highlighting Orthodox
 78 3,1    |          Orthodox Church. Highlighting Orthodox missionary activities particularly
 79 3,1    |             that “the awakening of the Orthodox missionary conscience” was “
 80 3,1    |          School of Theology, many more Orthodox have not only been awakened
 81 3,1    |             external mission.” Our own Orthodox Christian Mission Center
 82 3,1    |     inspirational center through which Orthodox clergy and laity of America
 83 3,1    |                related ministry of the Orthodox Church is needed, having
 84 3,1    |        evangelization of rank-and-file Orthodox Christian at the level of
 85 3,1    |              evangelical spirit of the Orthodox Church by which the Church
 86 3,1    |           centuries of Church history, Orthodox clergy and laity need to
 87 3,1    |          Christians joined in mass the Orthodox Church in the United States
 88 3,1    |                worldwide family of the Orthodox.[81] Over the last decade
 89 3,1    |             sometimes discomforting to Orthodox Christians born into the
 90 3,1    |               Christians born into the Orthodox faith. At the same time,
 91 3,1    |               liturgical and doctrinal Orthodox mindset (phronema). We so-called “
 92 3,1    |                  We so-called “cradle” Orthodox have been learning from
 93 3,1    |             direction and shape of the Orthodox Church in America that we
 94 3,1    |              evangelical nature of the Orthodox Church and the rediscovery
 95 3,1    |             and the rediscovery of the Orthodox evangelical ethos.~ ~
 96 3,2    |                it for years. Among the Orthodox, the late Alexander Schmemann,
 97 3,2    |               in secular terms even by Orthodox Christians. He critiqued
 98 3,2    |               overwhelming majority of Orthodox wrongly and naively identify
 99 3,2    |               former head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and
100 3,2    |                pluralistic society the Orthodox Church must take upon itself
101 3,2    |      maintaining and strengthening the Orthodox identity~among its members
102 3,2    |                an “internalization” of Orthodox truths and values, that
103 3,2    |            inward appropriation of the Orthodox way of life. In our parishes,
104 3,2    |               and indispensable to the Orthodox way of life. Prayer and
105 3,2    |                ethos is nurtured in an Orthodox context — an ethos centered
106 3,3    |            Trinity, the sacraments and Orthodox doctrine? Above all, does
107 3,3    |       theological treatises expounding Orthodox doctrine, not in the lack
108 3,3    |               possess and celebrate as Orthodox Christians.~ ~
109 3,4    |                        Discovering the Orthodox Evangelical Ethos.~ Jesus
110 3,4    |        presence, deeds and words.~ The Orthodox preacher and teacher today
111 3,4    |         similar reality in the parish. Orthodox Christians have a general
112 3,4    |             and rich traditions of the Orthodox Church. But somehow the
113 3,4    |               salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2)! Orthodox preachers and teachers must
114 3,4    |             gifts in all and for all.” Orthodox theology teaches that Christ,
115 3,4    |                have altar calls in the Orthodox Church, our worship services,
116 3,4    |                 The deepest aspects of Orthodox spirituality, theology and
117 3,4    |               all the treasures of the Orthodox tradition, seeks to bring
118 4,1    |     proclamation of the Gospel. In the Orthodox perspective evangelism is
119 4,1    |                Mt. 28:18-20).~ ~In the Orthodox Churches, this magnificent
120 5,2    |                the most famous book of Orthodox spirituality, The Ladder
121 6,1    |          special qualities observed in Orthodox saints: Easter joy, encompassing
122 6,1    |              of the rich dimensions of Orthodox spirituality.~ Saint Silouan
123 6,1    |        greatest monastic center of the Orthodox Church composed of more
124 6,1    |             spiritual prayer, known to Orthodox Saints and Church Fathers,
125 6,1    |                through the traditional Orthodox monastic disciplines such
126 6,1    |          burned with love not only for Orthodox Christians, not for Christians
127 6,4    |                the spirituality of the Orthodox Church. Progress in spiritual
128 6,5    |         Struggle.~ In the tradition of Orthodox spirituality one meets recurrent
129 6,5    |            love‑centered. According to Orthodox saints, “passivity” is a
130 6,5    |     battleground is mostly unseen. The Orthodox saints called the spiritual
131 6,5    |             grass than a tree, another Orthodox saint once remarked. Not
132 6,5    |            spiritual darkness. Another Orthodox saint called the mind “a
133 7,4    |               of Spiritual Growth.~ In Orthodox theology and spirituality
134 7,4    |     spirituality is true theology. The Orthodox definition of theologian
135 7,5    |   representative of the essence of the Orthodox way of life? First, we must
136 7,5    |         patterns of diagnosis based on Orthodox spirituality to be used
137 7,5    |              great sins of omission as Orthodox leaders and theologians
138 8,2    |             strongly traditional Greek Orthodox family in cosmopolitan New
139 8,2    |      thoroughly infused with the Greek Orthodox mindset and way of life.
140 8,2    |          perceived by his fellow Greek Orthodox living in an immensely rich
141 8,2    |               about the opportunity of Orthodox mission in this free and
142 8,2    |            tries to arouse local Greek Orthodox congregations to the same
143 8,2    |               have a true and vigorous Orthodox mission, they must have
144 8,2    |             Christ and the fundamental Orthodox truths, which defines in
145 8,2    |          ethnic heritage for the Greek Orthodox; only the mission of Christ
146 8,2    |                converts into the Greek Orthodox Church and points to them
147 8,2    |               would be consistent with Orthodox theology and history, since
148 8,2    |              the future destiny of the Orthodox Church in America for the
149 8,3    |            world has much to say to us Orthodox Christians with the blessings
150 8,3    |               heritages of the various Orthodox Churches developed over
151 8,3    |            experience and truth of the Orthodox faith? These and such questions
152 8,4    |               challenging insights for Orthodox Christians today as we face
153 8,4    |              to the catholicity of the Orthodox faith so that it may be
154 8,4    |               and amazing success. The Orthodox Church today presents more
155 9,1    |             Twenty centuries later the Orthodox Church, now spread throughout
156 9,1    |              trust and unity among all Orthodox leaders and theologians,
157 9,1    |            centrality of Christ in the Orthodox tradition. In what follows,
158 9,1    |          celebration of Christ and the Orthodox Faith.~ ~
159 9,2    |                in the treasures of the Orthodox Faith. We delight in the
160 9,2    |               This is the faith of the Orthodox! This is the faith that
161 9,2    |               all the treasures of our Orthodox Faith. He and He alone is
162 9,2    |              absolutely central to our Orthodox life and tradition is that
163 9,3    |             the homes of the faithful. Orthodox Christians were again permitted
164 9,3    |     application of this triumph of the Orthodox Faith today. What is our
165 9,3    |      statements I have ever read by an Orthodox theologian, Father Hopko
166 9,3    |             every ethnic heritage. Our Orthodox Faith and our ethnic heritages
167 9,3    |                witness the grandeur of Orthodox worship. It is not enough
168 9,3    |                here about ourselves as Orthodox Christians in America seeking
169 10,1   |               or merely existing?~ For Orthodox Christians the highest goal
170 10,1   |              divine fire.~ What is the Orthodox way of life? How can we
171 10,1   |                that the essence of the Orthodox Tradition is the life of
172 10,1   |             Lev. 26:11-12). To live an Orthodox way of life is to be part
173 10,1   |       Tradition.~ Do you want to be an Orthodox Christian with full awareness?
174 10,1   |       salvation.” If you want to be an Orthodox Christian with full awareness,
175 10,2   |      self-awareness, by our failure as Orthodox Christians to nurture the
176 10,2   |             not all Orthodoxy, nor all Orthodox Christians, make up a burning
177 10,3   |                more important level of Orthodox awakening is learning, knowing,
178 10,3   |             applying our own essential Orthodox principles and values as
179 10,3   |                Spirit in each baptized Orthodox Christian which makes each
180 10,3   |             Orthodoxy that a number of Orthodox theologians have connected
181 10,3   |                commission of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese published a
182 10,3   |              target and applies to all Orthodox jurisdictions. The report
183 10,3   |           According to the report, the Orthodox Church existing in a free,
184 10,3   |              to recover and strengthen Orthodox identity both as an intrinsic
185 10,3   |         excitement are at premium. All Orthodox together must look to the
186 10,3   |                into it. In a word, the Orthodox tradition embodies an exquisite
187 10,3   |                 We are advocating that Orthodox Christians, as they grow
188 10,3   |              apply the insights of the Orthodox legacy about the meaning
189 10,3   |                remark that the Eastern Orthodox tradition may well be the
190 10,3   |            Jaroslav Pelikan joined the Orthodox Church, as many others have
191 10,3   |                We welcome all into the Orthodox Faith, and our welcome is
192 10,4   |             third and deepest level of Orthodox awareness is the renewal
193 10,4   |              in Holy Scripture and the Orthodox Tradition is the deep self,
194 10,4   |           Orthodoxy but the problem of Orthodox Christians. It is the former
195 10,4   |                latter. It involves all Orthodox Christians, lay people,
196 10,4   |             give us an illustration of Orthodox life and renewal. An Orthodox
197 10,4   |          Orthodox life and renewal. An Orthodox Christian, he says, is like
198 10,5   |             indispensable principle of Orthodox spirituality. It is futile
199 10,5   |          answer to the problem of many Orthodox Christians being born and
200 10,5   |          fabric of the community.~ The Orthodox tradition in its many forms
201 11,1   |                especially in America.~ Orthodox leaders and theologians
202 11,1   |              132] with whose religions Orthodox history has been variously
203 11,1   |            1993, a large conference of Orthodox and Jewish scholars took
204 11,1   |           other faiths. Aspects of how Orthodox Christians can relate to
205 11,2   |               peoples such as Jews and Orthodox Christians to hold on with
206 11,2   |            shock, that Bulgarians were Orthodox Christians! Another picture
207 11,2   |                book featured Bulgarian Orthodox priests together with Bulgarian
208 11,2   |          weaponry! “Are the Bulgarians Orthodox?” I asked my father. “Yes!
209 11,2   |       revelation showing how skin deep Orthodox Christianity was for Orthodox
210 11,2   |          Orthodox Christianity was for Orthodox Christians themselves. If
211 11,2   |          Christians themselves. If our Orthodox faith is so embracing and
212 11,3   |               the Jewish and Christian Orthodox peoples for whom tradition
213 11,3   |               and my commitment to the Orthodox Church not merely permit
214 11,3   |                claims of the Christian Orthodox faith, seeks God's love,
215 11,4   |          communities. Both as Jews and Orthodox Christians we do not come
216 11,4   |                loving correction of my Orthodox colleagues to whom I mainly
217 11,4   |                valued in the Christian Orthodox community. If my words have
218 11,4   |              Rom. 11:1,11).~ Christian Orthodox theology ought to go at
219 11,4   |         Nicholas Berdyaev, the Russian Orthodox religious philosopher poignantly
220 11,4   |           Moreover, as well known, the Orthodox Church reveres Abraham,
221 11,4   |            other and from one another. Orthodox Christianity long ago exorcized
222 11,4   |             reviled all things Jewish. Orthodox Christianity never fell
223 11,4   |                lacking grace. However, Orthodox cultures admittedly have
224 11,4   |                 is probably easier for Orthodox Christians than for Jews.
225 11,4   |       continuity and renewal in my own Orthodox community on a practical
226 11,4   |    Constantinople was one of the first Orthodox theologians to distinguish
227 11,4   |             popular level. An ordinary Orthodox Christian posed the occasional
228 11,4   |       prophetic call for change in the Orthodox Church, offering several
229 11,4   |               us who live in the West, Orthodox Christians included, this
230 11,4   |               tradition in traditional Orthodox lands compelled the Metropolitan
231 11,4   |            heavy clericalism in native Orthodox countries, the eminent and
232 11,4   |                     1]. Thomas Hopko, “Orthodox in Post-Modern Pluralistic
233 11,4   |               the eucharistic gifts in Orthodox perspective, see my article “
234 11,4   |           recent attempt to relate the Orthodox teaching of theosis to the
235 11,4   |            George Mantzarides, a Greek Orthodox scholar of Palamite studies.~  [
236 11,4   |            called “Theologians” in the Orthodox tradition are John the Evangelist
237 11,4   |          Yannoulatos, “Discovering the Orthodox Missionary Ethos,” Martyria/
238 11,4   |            Mission: The Witness of the Orthodox Churches Today, edited by
239 11,4   |           Peter E. Gillquist, Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient
240 11,4   |                entitled “Rekindling an Orthodox Awareness.”~  [87]. Commission
241 11,4   |         Archbishop Iakovos,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 34 (1989),
242 11,4   |        Theological Agenda of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese (Brookline:
243 11,4   |     Archdiocese (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1990). It is still
244 11,4   |          Spirit (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1991), pp. 1-29.~  [
245 11,4   |             God (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1983), pp. 8-9.~  [
246 11,4   |                1991, a bulletin of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical
247 11,4   |                 Published in The Greek Orthodox Theological Review, Vol.
248 11,4   |        Theological Agenda of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese by Holy Cross
249 11,4   |              Archdiocese by Holy Cross Orthodox Press (1990).~  [128]. See
250 11,4   |               Jewish and largely Greek Orthodox scholars occurred in New
251 11,4   |                 4, 1976) and The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22 (1,
252 11,4   |           Jewish and a wider circle of Orthodox scholars took place in Lucerne (
253 11,4   |              respectively in The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 24 (4,
254 11,4   |      conference, a larger gathering of Orthodox and Jewish scholars, occurred
255 11,4   |              published under the title Orthodox Christians and Jews on Continuity
256 11,4   |          documented conference between Orthodox and Muslims in modern times,
257 11,4   |               1985 at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and its
258 11,4   |              published under the title Orthodox Christians and Muslims,
259 11,4   |             have been contacts between Orthodox and Muslims in Turkey and
260 11,4   |                 a few meetings between Orthodox and Muslims occurred in
261 11,4   |               Hebrew Bible,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 24 (4,
262 11,4   |                Perspective,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22 (1,
263 11,4   |             including the murder of an Orthodox monk at the site of the
264 11,4   |             the strong protests of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
265 11,4   |             Middle East there are Arab Orthodox Christians whose human rights
266 11,4   |                is futile.” A number of Orthodox Christians would agree but
267 11,4   |              agree but the majority of Orthodox scholars usually do not.
268 11,4   |               Role of the Bible in the Orthodox Tradition,” in the same
269 11,4   |                Reflections,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22, (
270 11,4   |              New Testament,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22, (
271 11,4   |                this sin by quoting the Orthodox religious philosopher Nicholas
272 11,4   |            exceptional example of this Orthodox theological approach is
273 11,4   |               Papademetriou, Essays on Orthodox Christian-Jewish Relations (
274 11,4   | Jewish-Christian Relations,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22 (1,
275 11,4   |               For Jewish and Christian Orthodox perspectives on the Law,
276 11,4   |               see S. Talmon, The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 24 (4, '
277 11,4   |              the New Testament from an Orthodox Point of View,” in the same
278 11,4   |          Popular examples of Christian Orthodox anti-Judaism and even anti-Semitism
279 11,4   |                1991, a bulletin of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical