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  1 Pref   |        Gospel, interpreting the new faith, and applying its truths
  2 Pref   |            and a balanced vision of faith, tradition, renewal.~ The
  3 Pref   |           Gospel is that it awakens faith in God’s saving power and
  4 Pref   |         balanced vision of personal faith, tradition, and renewal
  5 Pref   |            the fullness of Orthodox faith and life, a context where
  6 Intro,1|        Orthodoxy in its fullness of faith and life, a task appropriate
  7 Intro,1|        joyously the fullness of its faith and life. Only then can
  8 Intro,2|                   Orthodoxy as True Faith.~ The greatest gift of Orthodoxy
  9 Intro,2|        conviction of being the true faith, that is, a way of faith
 10 Intro,2|            faith, that is, a way of faith and life which possesses
 11 Intro,2|             as Bible and tradition, faith and reason, grace and will,
 12 Intro,2|             reason, grace and will, faith and works, word and sacrament,
 13 Intro,2|           yet apart from both blind faith and naive rationalism. Following
 14 Intro,2|             life not only with deep faith but also with sound reason,
 15 Intro,2|         orthopraxia. However, right faith (orthodoxia) is not only
 16 Intro,2|             to them the fullness of faith and life in the name of
 17 Intro,3|              nurturing its communal faith and life by the power of
 18 Intro,3|            is confirmed by a common faith and life, not by one world
 19 Intro,3|          being the guardians of the faith. As a family of Churches,
 20 Intro,3|     together toward the fullness of faith and life in God.~ Once again,
 21 Intro,5|          the inner substance of the faith. St. Symeon the New Theologian
 22 Intro,5|         into spiritual life, formal faith into living faith, religious
 23 Intro,5|            formal faith into living faith, religious zeal into divine
 24 Intro,6|        Witness.~ Someone has said: “Faith cannot be imposed on anyone
 25 Intro,6|            and freely embraced; but faith will not be easily received
 26 Intro,6|             Orthodoxy as fulness of faith and life. Orthodoxy is the
 27 1,3    | Greek-speaking~world, to accept His faith and be obedient to His teaching.
 28 1,3    |            success of the Christian faith over against various opposing
 29 1,3    |    everything else that~opposes the faith of Christ is daily dwindling
 30 1,3    |             legacy of the Christian faith which he promotes with all
 31 1,3    |            success of the Christian faith is not the result of human
 32 1,3    |             of the Holy Spirit. The faith of the Corinthian Christians
 33 1,4    |     Chrysostom, the act of personal faith. A true, living faith, for
 34 1,4    |      personal faith. A true, living faith, for St. John, is “a great
 35 1,4    |           and again to the theme of faith. The first characteristic
 36 1,4    |             first characteristic of faith, the mother of all good
 37 1,4    |    Nicodemus, and the like, require faith alone. To try to offer rational
 38 1,4    |            second characteristic of faith is its capacity to receive
 39 1,4    |          and saved by grace through faith (cf. Eph. 2:8-10).~ An example
 40 1,4    |      relationship between grace and faith is his interpretation of
 41 1,4    |          the same privilege through faith. Faith and the grace of
 42 1,4    |            privilege through faith. Faith and the grace of the Holy
 43 1,4    |            after baptism, to supply faith, and not only faith but
 44 1,4    |          supply faith, and not only faith but also zeal and earnestness
 45 1,4    |         tension or contrast between faith and good works; both are
 46 1,4    |            s response to grace. But faith comes first.~ Another aspect
 47 2,1    |             relate existentially by faith and grace.~ Third, the Orthodox
 48 2,2    |           liturgical confessions of faith pertaining to the good news
 49 2,2    |      context of the Church's living faith and the power of the Holy
 50 2,2    |            in the context of living faith, and is not dependent on
 51 2,3    |         concerning justification by faith and not by works of the
 52 2,3    |       principle of justification by faith as opposed to that of meritorious
 53 2,3    |             works. Justification by faith alone — the word “alone”
 54 2,3    |         Gospel, as well as personal faith concerning which Protestants
 55 2,3    |         alone,” “Christ alone,” or “faith alone,” whether in antiquity
 56 2,3    |    objective observers. And what is faith apart from reason and conduct?
 57 2,3    |           another as communities of faith. They are called by Christ
 58 2,3    |            and law, grace and will, faith and works, as well as faith
 59 2,3    |         faith and works, as well as faith and reason.[48] In the Orthodox
 60 2,3    |          recognized. The primacy of faith is declared, while the necessity
 61 2,3    |            success of the Christian faith is not the result of human
 62 2,3    |             Paul's contrast between faith and works pertained to the
 63 2,3    |             between grace and will, faith and works, with the accent
 64 2,3    |     unerringly falling on grace and faith. In the Orthodox tradition
 65 2,3    |            number of things such as faith, the hearing of the soul,
 66 2,3    |            after Baptism, to supply faith, and not only faith but
 67 2,3    |          supply faith, and not only faith but also zeal and earnestness
 68 2,3    |             John Chrysostom praises faith in numerous places. For
 69 2,3    |             places. For him, living faith is a great blessing, the
 70 2,3    |          mother of all good things. Faith grasps the mysteries of
 71 2,3    |             of human reasoning.[58] Faith has the capacity to receive
 72 2,4    |           topic of justification by faith, a chief theological concern
 73 2,4    |       theologian presupposes living faith, true repentance, inner
 74 2,4    |             people to the Christian faith, thus manifesting his deity
 75 2,4    |     especially as related to grace, faith and works:~ ~12. Even though
 76 2,4    |             his works are done with faith or without faith in Himself;
 77 2,4    |          done with faith or without faith in Himself; and He is not
 78 2,4    |             exercise of the gift of faith, attention to conscience,
 79 2,5    |        wisdom, a catholic vision of faith and reason — all are part
 80 3,1    |             them a fervent personal faith, a zeal for the Scriptures
 81 3,1    |   Christians born into the Orthodox faith. At the same time, they
 82 3,2    |  sociological soil of the Christian faith and thereby people’s connection
 83 3,2    |             This cultural crisis of faith is not something new. Church
 84 3,2    |           as the cultural crisis of faith exemplified by the fact
 85 3,2    |            noted that the crisis of faith is not a personal crisis,
 86 3,2    |             society where Christian faith is one of many options,
 87 3,2    |           In view of this crisis of faith in our culture, the above
 88 3,2    |           to the cultural crisis of faith, according to the theological
 89 3,2    |         nurturing a sense of living faith in the parish. The commission
 90 3,2    |             gives birth to personal faith in Christ, strengthens faith,
 91 3,2    |        faith in Christ, strengthens faith, energizes people spiritually,
 92 3,2    |           to the commission, living faith occurs in a parish context
 93 3,2    |         parish context of “personal faith inspired by prayer, enlivened
 94 3,2    |           are particularly stirred, faith is awakened, commitment
 95 3,2    |         alive the horizon of living faith by which we~apprehend that
 96 3,3    |           as Gospel, and with ample faith and conviction, to create
 97 3,3    |          our own people for lack of faith and commitment, for squandering
 98 3,4    |             have been saved through faith; and this is not you own
 99 3,4    |      essence of the personal act of faith on the basis of free will.
100 3,4    |             none other than that of faith, repentance, and obedience
101 3,4    |           authentic Christian life. Faith is the affirmation that
102 3,4    |        Repentance, a consequence of faith, is less a regret for past
103 3,4    |         live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved
104 3,4    |         none other than the burning faith that the risen Christ is
105 3,4    |          this perspective of living faith, all believers have the
106 4,1    |             the living community of faith, the Church, in which the
107 4,1    |           the concrete community of faith entrusted with the Gospel.
108 4,2    |            life of the community of faith. The mystery is none other
109 4,2    |             God’s Spirit. Christian faith and worship expresses a
110 4,2    |            your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
111 4,2    |    expresses the heart of Christian faith, piety and worship.~ Despite
112 4,2    |             Testament confession of faith, while affirming loyalty
113 4,2    |        abstractions, not the living faith of the Bible. The Church
114 4,2    |            Creed is a confession of faith summarizing what the Scriptures
115 4,2    |           prayer, a hymn, a song of faith, proclaims the good news
116 4,2    |              the central mystery of faith, as I see it in Scripture
117 4,3    | presupposition of the creation of a faith community that receives
118 4,3    |         hold among men and women of faith in such a way that they
119 4,3    |             30). By virtue of their faith and union with Christ, Christians
120 4,3    |            our family status in the faith community as the people
121 4,4    |         nurture in the community of faith to which Lord has promised: “
122 4,4    |             the living community of faith both as concrete testimony
123 4,4    |           evoking and strengthening faith in Christ, of bringing people
124 4,4    |           all the ministries of the faith community, preaching, teaching,
125 5,2    |           was the biblical creed of faith from Deut. 6:4-5, “Hear,
126 5,2    |         live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved
127 5,2    |      strength derived from his deep faith and the life of prayer.
128 5,3    |            as an act of personal of faith and communication with God.
129 5,3    |          the importance of personal faith and the nearness of the
130 5,3    |               With the fear of God, faith and love, draw near!” When
131 5,4    |          God, our waverings between faith and doubt, trust and uncertainty,
132 5,5    |           with Christ in many ways: faith, love, obedience, witness,
133 6,2    |          not criticize the implicit faith of Christians. To believe
134 6,6    |            or near. Sure of his own faith experience, he intuitively
135 7,3    |        received by the community of faith but not be controlled by
136 7,3    |             live by this truth with faith and integrity. Even in a
137 7,4    |          guided by the community of faith and its leaders. To be sure,
138 7,4    |            To be sure, the personal faith, innate moral sense, and
139 7,4    |        person who knows God through faith, goodness, purity, and a
140 7,5    |            such as formal or living faith, personal trust or doubt,
141 8,1    |                                     Faith and Culture in Saint Paul.~
142 8,1    |          changes when the Christian faith was seen as a new, subversive
143 8,1    |            conviction about the new faith in Christ for which he fought
144 8,1    |             dramatic interaction of faith and culture in early Christianity.
145 8,2    |           theological struggle with faith and culture. Born in Tarsus,
146 8,3    |            the dramatic struggle of faith and culture reflected in
147 8,3    |     universal salvation by means of faith in Christ and apart from
148 8,3    |             view that the Christian faith and life are to be interpreted
149 8,3    |  organically “grafted” by reason of faith (pistis, Rom. 11:17-20.
150 8,3    |       history is two communities of faith with differing hermeneutical
151 8,3    |          known: justification is by faith in Christ not by works of
152 8,3    |             the Law,” contrasted to faith, points essentially to the
153 8,3    |            could not accept the new faith if it involved such a substantive
154 8,3    |          Church, the very nature of faith in a universal Lord and
155 8,3    |            of essence of the Jewish faith discovered in Christ and
156 8,3    |           and truth of the Orthodox faith? These and such questions
157 8,4    |         common identity centered on faith in the one God, the Law
158 8,4    |           and discontinuity between faith and culture in a systematic
159 8,4    |          their own judgment in good faith (Rom. 14). The Corinthian
160 8,4    |             there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
161 8,4    |       aspects of the interaction of faith and culture in Saint Paul
162 8,4    |         develop its own patterns of faith, worship, teaching, and
163 8,4    |            The dynamic interplay of faith and culture in Saint Paul
164 8,4    |         catholicity of the Orthodox faith so that it may be lived
165 9,1    |           Church to new horizons of faith and life. He did so in vigorous
166 9,1    |             Christ and the Orthodox Faith.~ ~
167 9,2    |           treasures of the Orthodox Faith. We delight in the veneration
168 9,2    |  triumphantly declare: “This is the faith of the Apostles! This is
169 9,2    |           the Apostles! This is the faith of the Fathers! This is
170 9,2    |            the Fathers! This is the faith of the Orthodox! This is
171 9,2    |           the Orthodox! This is the faith that upholds the universe!”~
172 9,2    |         what is the content of this Faith? What is the essence of
173 9,2    |            Christ with his words of faith? See how he leaps and dances
174 9,2    |         embrace Christ with fervent faith; to delight in Him with
175 9,2    |           treasures of our Orthodox Faith. He and He alone is the
176 9,2    |              receive the mystery in faith and rejoice in the blessings
177 9,3    |             triumph of the Orthodox Faith today. What is our part
178 9,3    |             of the Church, the true faith and life in Christ.~ The
179 9,3    |    Orthodoxy exhibits the universal Faith of the One, Holy, Catholic
180 9,3    |       ethnic heritage. Our Orthodox Faith and our ethnic heritages
181 9,3    |             we possess the superior Faith. Such sentiments smack of
182 9,3    |             The victory of the true Faith is God’s victory, not ours.
183 10,2   |            about and to grow in the Faith. The Bible calls this condition
184 10,3   |          principles and values as a faith community. Of course we
185 10,3   |            as a “cultural crisis of faith,” a general drifting away
186 10,3   |          The contemporary crisis of faith can be countered at its
187 10,3   |              drifting away from the Faith will continue unless common
188 10,3   |    Tradition, worship and teaching, faith and works, prayer and action,
189 10,3   |             well informed about our Faith and apply the insights of
190 10,3   |        classic, universal Christian faith.[128] We rejoice that a
191 10,3   |       welcome all into the Orthodox Faith, and our welcome is not
192 10,4   |        corrupt mind and counterfeit faith,” showing themselves to
193 10,5   |                                     Faith, Repentance and Obedience.~
194 10,5   |          call this active response: faith, followed closely by repentance
195 10,5   |   repentance and obedience. What is faith, repentance and obedience?
196 10,5   |            Christian spirituality.~ Faith (pistis) can be defined
197 10,5   |            as personal disposition. Faith as content indicates the
198 10,5   |          for the renewal our minds. Faith as personal disposition,
199 10,5   |           but in someone. Christian faith as personal disposition
200 10,5   |            and the world. Christian faith is not faith in faith as
201 10,5   |              Christian faith is not faith in faith as a subjective
202 10,5   |     Christian faith is not faith in faith as a subjective sentiment,
203 10,5   |        clear way of life. Christian faith is free trust and commitment
204 10,5   |          eternal life. This kind of faith as a way of life is the
205 10,5   |          Fathers, there is a formal faith we inherit from our parents
206 10,5   |            called “thin” or “formal faith” (psile pistis) and there
207 10,5   |              and there is a “living faith” (zosa pistis) which is
208 10,5   |     energizing divine force. Formal faith is an implicit faith which
209 10,5   |         Formal faith is an implicit faith which can range from a vague
210 10,5   |             do not denigrate formal faith but welcome it and seek
211 10,5   |         seek to build on it. Living faith is a active gift of God,
212 10,5   |        capacity to move from formal faith to living faith by turning
213 10,5   |         from formal faith to living faith by turning to God with one’
214 10,5   |            4:8). The essence of our faith response to God is but “
215 10,5   |           as we begin to act on our faith, feeble as it may be, God’
216 10,5   |         transforming it into living faith. By putting our faith to
217 10,5   |        living faith. By putting our faith to action, always by the
218 10,5   |             suffering world. Living faith is the driving force of
219 10,5   |           renewal.~ However, living faith is not activated without
220 10,5   |           futile to speak of living faith without genuine repentance.
221 10,5   |             the stirrings of living faith. Repentance is not mere
222 10,5   |           that repentance energizes faith and, by God’s grace, transforms
223 10,5   |            grace, transforms formal faith into living faith, as we
224 10,5   |            formal faith into living faith, as we said. In the setting
225 10,5   |    internalize the treasures of our faith, and more, to make our faith
226 10,5   |        faith, and more, to make our faith a personal matter, a personal
227 10,5   |             actualizing the gift of faith through repentance. Repentance
228 10,5   |        service, just as it knows of faith and repentance. Jesus challenged
229 10,5   |           practicing the trilogy of faith, repentance and obedience,
230 11,1   |             irenic witness to their faith. In addition several bilateral
231 11,2   |           transcendent claims of my faith. I am here to seek clarification
232 11,2   |           treasures of each other’s faith without the slightest desire
233 11,2   |            That is what I call good faith. In Romans 14:23, Saint
234 11,2   |      whatever does not proceed from faith (or faithfulness) is sin”
235 11,2   |         themselves. If our Orthodox faith is so embracing and precious,
236 11,3   | faithfulness” is based on the word “faith,” one of the richest words
237 11,3   |        means a state of fullness of faith, a spiritual quality anchored
238 11,3   |        survival over the millennia. Faith and faithfulness constitute
239 11,3   |             Father of Jesus Christ, faith and life are co-equal realities.~
240 11,3   |  significance precisely because the faith and the concrete expressions
241 11,3   |             bound together by their faith in the one God, historically
242 11,3   |   shortcomings of each community of faith, we must be faithful to
243 11,3   |           self-understanding of our faith communities. Although we
244 11,3   |         diminish the dignity of our faith communities.~ The fourth
245 11,3   |         time-honored expressions of faith, however culture-bound they
246 11,3   |            believe that my personal faith in Christ and my commitment
247 11,3   |           of the Christian Orthodox faith, seeks God's love, truth,
248 11,4   |          community. I do so in good faith, trusting in the loving
249 11,4   |          also over the community of faith and all its innumerable
250 11,4   |           such a humble and fervent faith in God and without discerning
251 11,4   |          mature in our own personal faith, what true need is there
252 11,4   |    nurturing ground of our life and faith, faithfulness to our community
253 11,4   |           will and grace, works and faith, nor consequently into the
254 11,4   |            practical and front-line faith experience for all of us.
255 11,4   |             absolutize all of these faith expressions and put them
256 11,4   |            For an excellent book on faith and reason in the Church
257 11,4   |             Paul's contrast between faith and works fundamentally
258 11,4   |        works fundamentally concerns faith in Christ and specifically “
259 11,4   |           is “by grace. . . through faith” in Christ and it is a “
260 11,4   |            gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). Faith in Christ and good works
261 11,4   |           not only justification by faith but also judgment by good
262 11,4   |            to the Ancient Christian Faith (Ben Lomond: Conciliar Press,
263 11,4   |      England. See Michael Harper, A Faith Fulfilled: Why Are Christians
264 11,4   |              dealing with issues of faith, leadership, the parish,
265 11,4   |       Christendom,” in Orthodoxy: A Faith and Order Dialogue (Geneva: