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  1 Pref   |            authors and afterwards the Church Fathers were engaged in
  2 Pref   |             new situations. Among the Church Fathers, and amidst heresies,
  3 Pref   |             example of the renewal of Church life and monasticism on
  4 Pref   |          Gospel, as well as the early Church as a loving and sharing
  5 Pref   |               renewal as the Orthodox Church confronts new situations
  6 Pref   |            are born into the Orthodox Church, and are inevitably exposed
  7 Pref   |          regular connections with the Church, Orthodoxy is seen as a
  8 Pref   |        brilliant leaders to guide the Church to unseen golden horizons,
  9 Pref   |          center and foundation of the Church. When proclaimed effectively
 10 Pref   |            measured and guided by the Church’s tradition. Only a balanced
 11 Pref   |            enliven the worship of the Church, its Liturgy, and its ministries
 12 Intro,1|             specific parishes and the Church as a whole.~ It is especially
 13 Intro,1|            title The Eastern Orthodox Church (1967), the German theologian
 14 Intro,1|                Catholic and Apostolic Church.~ At the opposite end of
 15 Intro,1|          traditions and canons of the Church. On a visit to Mount Athos
 16 Intro,1|          seemed sublimely innocent of Church and family issues in America.
 17 Intro,1|             the struggle of the great Church Fathers who wrestled with
 18 Intro,1|             forget the mission of the Church to engage the world directly
 19 Intro,2|              Christ, the Apostles and Church Fathers have bequeathed
 20 Intro,2|             man, creation, salvation, Church, ethics, society, family,
 21 Intro,2|          woman, religion and culture, church and state. According to
 22 Intro,3|                     Orthodoxy as True Church~ A closely related gift
 23 Intro,3|        historical community, the true Church, One, Holy, Catholic and
 24 Intro,3|             throughout the world. The Church is the Body of Christ. The
 25 Intro,3|               the Body of Christ. The Church is wholly centered on Christ
 26 Intro,3|              a single center. It is a Church which rejects both clericalism
 27 Intro,3|             the synodical system. The Church lives by a synergy of gifts
 28 Intro,3|              as the conscience of the Church, all being the guardians
 29 Intro,3|                the universal Orthodox Church welcomes all nations to
 30 Intro,3|               to the principle of one Church in one region, without enslaving
 31 Intro,3|               the other hand that the Church is truly the redeemed community,
 32 Intro,3|             are to welcome all to the Church, for there is no Jew, Greek,
 33 Intro,3|         traditions while allowing the Church to focus on saving souls
 34 Intro,3|            dignity and justice in the Church because, while the Church
 35 Intro,3|             Church because, while the Church is not a democracy, it is
 36 Intro,3|            less than a democracy. The Church is a loving community of
 37 Intro,4|              degree that the Orthodox Church has survived and flourished
 38 Intro,6|               vital energy behind the Church’s ministries. We must plan
 39 1,1    |            behind the vitality of the Church as it stands at the beginning
 40 1,1    |            Christian martyrs, and the Church Fathers about the intrinsic
 41 1,2    |         Antiochean Father to link the Church's saving message with both
 42 1,2    |              is traditional among the Church Fathers and goes back to
 43 1,2    |               and the writings of the Church Fathers.~ ~
 44 1,3    |    missionaries, as well as the later Church Fathers, such as Saint Ignatios
 45 1,3    |              when Arianism rocked the Church and when paganism was by
 46 1,3    |               flock, nor those of the Church at large, seem to have diminished
 47 1,4    |           evangelistic mission of the Church. Yet, according to the Antiochean
 48 1,4    |               success in terms of the Church's mission in the world.
 49 1,4    |           censure of his contemporary Church is perhaps to be found in
 50 1,4    |         bewails the conditions of the Church of his own days. Now, so
 51 1,4    |               Chrysostom laments, the Church has only empty signs and
 52 1,4    |           things. He continues:~ ~The Church now is like a woman who
 53 1,4    |               the shortcomings of the Church all the more challenged
 54 1,4    |               not prevail against the Church. But Saint John also admonished
 55 2,1    |               as the very soul of the Church.[43]~ Second, authentic
 56 2,1    |     celebrated, and proclaimed by the Church. Respect for mystery entails
 57 2,1    |             Holy Trinity to which the Church and each Christian relate
 58 2,1    |               up to their own ideals. Church history tells of the faithfulness
 59 2,1    |           mystery Christ embraces His Church as the historical and mystical
 60 2,1    |             exalts the mystery of the Church, which it celebrates as
 61 2,1    |           being the cornerstone — the Church growing in maturity and
 62 2,1    |            interactive aspects of the Church's life — its worship, preaching
 63 2,2    |        communal life of the apostolic Church. After all the studies on
 64 2,2    |           constitutive reality of the Church, the creative power and
 65 2,2    |              the worship of the early Church is reflected in numerous
 66 2,2    |             centuries in the Orthodox Church now constitutes a huge collection
 67 2,2    |               worship in the Orthodox Church. The Liturgy is understood
 68 2,2    |      Eucharist, in the context of the Church's living faith and the power
 69 2,3    |               commandments. Among the Church Fathers for example, St.
 70 2,3    |             them into the life of the Church, and to build up their personal
 71 2,3    |        expressions of the life of the Church, the primary antidote against
 72 2,3    |            the potential unity of the Church.~ The Orthodox bear testimony
 73 2,3    |            and teaching are the great Church Fathers who were preeminently
 74 2,3    |      individual Christians nor of the Church as an institution,[54] he
 75 2,4    |           grounded in the life of the Church, who is advanced in the
 76 2,4    |      celebrated in the worship of the Church. To be a theologian presupposes
 77 2,4    |           Spirit in the believer. The Church Fathers elaborated this
 78 2,4    |               not exclusive among the Church Fathers. When reflecting
 79 2,4    |             and ideas appear in other Church Fathers, although they are
 80 2,4    |           loyal follower of the great Church Fathers, and deeply respectful
 81 2,4    |              deeply respectful of the Church’s tradition, Saint Symeon
 82 2,4    |               of the apostles and the Church Fathers who possessed the
 83 2,5    |               is not so much that the Church is inevitably a historical
 84 2,5    |           forms, but that because the Church is also an institution it
 85 2,5    |             the immediacy of God. The Church as a sociological reality
 86 2,5    |             take prominence. Then the Church risks being a religious
 87 3,1    |       Archbishop of the autocephalous Church of Albania, published an
 88 3,1    |             interest” in the Orthodox Church. Highlighting Orthodox missionary
 89 3,1    |            essential dimension of the Church.[80] Today, thanks to the
 90 3,1    |              ministry of the Orthodox Church is needed, having to do
 91 3,1    |              internal mission” of the Church, namely, the evangelization
 92 3,1    |    evangelical spirit of the Orthodox Church by which the Church may
 93 3,1    |          Orthodox Church by which the Church may be empowered to continue
 94 3,1    |             after twenty centuries of Church history, Orthodox clergy
 95 3,1    |         theology and tradition of the Church. But the treasure is not
 96 3,1    |           joined in mass the Orthodox Church in the United States and
 97 3,1    |             and shape of the Orthodox Church in America that we should
 98 3,1    |               Catholic, and Apostolic Church? What is the dynamic spirit
 99 3,1    |          spiritual vigor of the whole Church, as well as the mutual reinforcement
100 3,1    |               external mission of the Church, will significantly depend
101 3,1    |    evangelical nature of the Orthodox Church and the rediscovery of the
102 3,2    |           faith is not something new. Church leaders and theologians
103 3,2    |            into the membership of the Church, for example, reliance on
104 3,2    |  comprehensive working agenda for the Church. The commission’s final
105 3,2    |             come to be married in the Church, even though they have been
106 3,2    |           seem to be surprised by the Church’s disapproval. To draw such
107 3,2    |          responsibility of the entire Church in stemming the tide of
108 3,2    |      pluralistic society the Orthodox Church must take upon itself the~
109 3,2    |              isolated from the larger Church and its institutions. To
110 3,2    |      direction. The whole body of the Church, both leaders and faithful,
111 3,2    |              practices to fortify the Church’s identity as the Body of
112 3,2    |           formational programs of the Church. Efforts are being made
113 3,2    |              Christ is present in the Church guiding us in our education,
114 3,3    |              over three centuries the Church established itself as the
115 3,3    |          disagreements in the ancient Church, Christians possessed a
116 3,3    |           Apostles but also among the Church Fathers such as St. Justin
117 3,3    |           Life?”[88]~ But has not the Church preached and taught all
118 3,3    |           also in the writings of the Church Fathers? Does not the theology
119 3,3    |               not the theology of the Church continue to expound and
120 3,3    |              in the total life of the Church, especially its rich tradition
121 3,3    |             the received gifts of the Church, precious in themselves,
122 3,4    |               He is the Leader of the Church, whose lordship is symbolized
123 3,4    |            traditions of the Orthodox Church. But somehow the spiritual
124 3,4    |               the conviction that the Church has a saving message to
125 3,4    |              life (Acts 2:22-36). The Church has the same apostolic message
126 3,4    |               Christ, the Gospel, the Church, the Holy Spirit, our families,
127 3,4    |             of Christian life and the Church itself is not in the perspective
128 3,4    |               parishioners to come to Church more often, to give more
129 3,4    |           altar calls in the Orthodox Church, our worship services, the
130 3,4    |          sessions in the classroom or church hall offer valuable instruction
131 3,4    |               and important events in Church history. The opportunity
132 3,4    |              the only ministry in the Church. There is also worship,
133 3,4    |        However, all ministries of the Church, to function properly and
134 4,1    |               community of faith, the Church, in which the blessings
135 4,1    |            the Gospel are actualized. Church and Gospel are inseparable
136 4,1    |           identity and mission of the Church, there would be no Gospel
137 4,1    |               historical birth of the Church as the concrete community
138 4,1    |              the Gospel. In turn, the Church itself comes into existence
139 4,1    |             Spirit on Pentecost. God, Church and Gospel are intimately
140 4,1    |            lived and testified by the Church as God’s people, and proclaimed
141 4,1    |               life and mission of the Church until the coming of the
142 4,2    |              entire life of the early Church to which they bear testimony.
143 4,2    |           metaphysical nature of God. Church dogma allegedly developed
144 4,2    |               faith of the Bible. The Church Fathers were presumably
145 4,2    |      philosophical speculation by the Church Fathers. Growing up in the
146 4,2    |            Fathers. Growing up in the Church, I recited the Creed as
147 4,2    |        granted that all others in the Church did the same and thought
148 4,2    |     experience and the prayers of the Church. It still functions as a
149 4,2    |         considerable time reading the Church Fathers, such as Saint Ignatios
150 4,2    |              of God had read the same Church Fathers I was reading. It
151 4,2    |            was obvious to me that the Church Fathers were primarily students
152 4,2    |        considerations that guided the Church Fathers to formulate a full
153 4,2    |               it in Scripture and the Church Fathers, a perspective which
154 4,2    |           trinitarian theology of the Church Fathers, reflecting on this
155 4,2    |             of Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers.~ ~
156 4,3    |         popular Gospel in the ancient Church because of its usefulness,
157 4,3    |              uses the word ekklesia — Church (Mt. 16:18; 18:17). The
158 4,3    |             converts were to join the Church of Christ about which the
159 4,3    |        underscores the reality of the Church and its task of evangelism.
160 4,3    |              to form and build up the Church of Christ. The great commission
161 4,3    |          commission connects Trinity, Church and evangelism. And the
162 4,3    |               s whole theology of the Church as the mystical body of
163 4,4    |             corporate ministry of the Church. Missiology and ecclesiology
164 4,4    |             was to be a member of the Church. Despite significant internal
165 4,4    |        internal disputes, the ancient Church fostered a sense of unity
166 4,4    |             brothers and sisters. The Church was marked by the consciousness
167 4,4    |           deeply into the life of the Church, and of building up their
168 4,4    |              is the foundation of the Church, the core of theology and
169 4,4    |        reality evidenced by a vibrant Church, a radiant witness of mercy
170 5,1    |          Orthodoxy, the breath of the Church, the light of each Christian’
171 5,1    |           Liturgy and the life of the Church through love, joy, goodness,
172 5,2    |           missionary of the apostolic Church. A man of action, Saint
173 5,2    |             prayer are drawn from the Church Fathers. One was fully engaged
174 5,2    |            was fully engaged with the Church’s work in the world. The
175 5,2    |               protecting him, and the Church of St. Sophia began to burn.
176 5,2    |           panton eneken).~ The second Church Father, also named John,
177 5,2    |            The third example from the Church Fathers is a Russian saint
178 5,2    |              many years he served the Church with exceeding devotion
179 5,3    |             WHO IS.” According to the Church Fathers, Christ was the “
180 5,3    |          likely made of leather. Some Church Fathers interpret leather
181 5,4    |             lives and the life of the Church so that both can truly be
182 5,5    |              pilgrim express what the Church Fathers call the mystery
183 6,1    |       monastic center of the Orthodox Church composed of more than twenty
184 6,1    |          known to Orthodox Saints and Church Fathers, in which the invocation
185 6,1    |              and reading works of the Church Fathers. Although the Saint
186 6,1    |             contemplative writings of Church Fathers. These were the
187 6,1    |            spiritual teachings of the Church Fathers. Grace no longer
188 6,3    |            the power which unites the Church Triumphant and the Church
189 6,3    |             Church Triumphant and the Church Militant. The communion
190 6,4    |          spirituality of the Orthodox Church. Progress in spiritual life
191 6,4    |               the whole universe is a church, says Silouan. Unceasing
192 7,3    |            something abstract but the Church in all its concreteness —
193 7,3    |        believers. In other words, the Church as a community is a concentrated
194 7,3    |             of God in the life of the Church. We have also insisted on
195 7,4    |            pillars of the life of the Church. At this level one might
196 7,4    |            one or two generations the Church proclaimed him a saint and
197 7,5    |           leadership positions in the Church such as priests, teachers,
198 7,5    |              guidance ministry of the Church — and others who work outside
199 7,5    |           others who work outside the Church but who take the adjective
200 7,5    |            The chief qualification of Church leadership is spiritual
201 7,5    |            The spiritual vigor of the Church and the efficacy of its
202 7,5    |            efficacy of its witness as Church to society is directly related
203 7,5    |              of spiritual growth. The Church Fathers have already conducted
204 7,5    |         useful to the ministry of the Church today. If the professionals
205 7,5    |      surrender and abandonment of the Church's ministry of counseling
206 7,5    |              to others (including the Church), and to things. These can
207 8,1    |              consideration all of the Church’s historical life, particularly
208 8,2    |               him now are Christ, the Church as His mystical Body, the
209 8,2    |               and spirituality of the Church Fathers, all of which, according
210 8,2    |             mission of Christ and His Church have for him an incomparably
211 8,2    |               into the Greek Orthodox Church and points to them as being
212 8,2    |              nascent Jewish Christian Church.~ For him, all this would
213 8,2    |            centered on Christ and His Church, even at the risk of losing
214 8,2    |               destiny of the Orthodox Church in America for the glory
215 8,3    |             been lifted up by various Church Fathers as the highest examples
216 8,3    |             the Apostle and the early Church a new hermeneutical key
217 8,3    |             pillars” of the Jerusalem Church agreed (Gal. 2:1-9).~ The
218 8,3    |               to be received into the Church. Some of the Jewish Christians
219 8,3    |             securing the unity of the Church but sealed Christianity'
220 8,3    |            well as for the developing Church, the very nature of faith
221 8,3    |            and the very nature of the Church as a universal community,
222 8,3    |             and the new humanity, the Church, which is His Body.~ Here
223 8,3    |               cause of Christ and the Church in the Graeco-Roman world
224 8,3    |            universal message, and the Church as the universal new humanity;
225 8,3    |             true identity as Christ's Church is also to grasp more clearly
226 8,4    |              Saint Paul and the early Church as intrinsic developments
227 8,4    |       organized, and theologized. The Church Fathers correctly say that
228 8,4    |              a clear awareness of the Church as a distinctive community. “
229 8,4    |           Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God” (10:31-32).~ How
230 8,4    |             32).~ How could the early Church spread in the Graeco-Roman
231 8,4    |           powerful drive of the early Church to develop and maintain
232 8,4    |            the leaders of the ancient Church who express the Church's
233 8,4    |        ancient Church who express the Church's deep integrative movement
234 8,4    |              Saint Paul and the early Church is that, as the young Christian
235 8,4    |        visible apostolic and catholic Church putting its own seal on
236 8,4    |             beyond. But the primitive Church of Jerusalem, the Gentile
237 8,4    |             of Jerusalem, the Gentile Church of Saint Paul who did his
238 8,4    |       maintain the unity of the whole Church, the Church of Clement of
239 8,4    |              of the whole Church, the Church of Clement of Rome, and
240 8,4    |              Saint Paul and the early Church carries significant and
241 8,4    |               new cultural forms? The Church of Saint Paul was like a
242 8,4    |         amazing success. The Orthodox Church today presents more the
243 9,1    |              of development the early Church struggled to define and
244 9,1    |         carried himself and the early Church to new horizons of faith
245 9,1    |          centuries later the Orthodox Church, now spread throughout the
246 9,1    |              Saint Paul and the early Church. Now the Church is no longer
247 9,1    |             the early Church. Now the Church is no longer a nascent community
248 9,1    |               laws. Nevertheless, the Church still struggles with its
249 9,1    |              by the world than by the Church’s traditions. Canonical
250 9,1    |            Orthodoxy itself, make the Church’s need for self-assessment
251 9,1    |              task belongs not only to Church leaders and theologians,
252 9,1    |                to the extent that the Church can present a clear and
253 9,2    |               Lord, the Leader of our Church, the One who said, ‘I am
254 9,2    |             use His gifts. One of the Church Fathers has said that of
255 9,2    |               become effective in the Church as well as our personal
256 9,2    |            awesome day, as the little Church had gathered for prayer,
257 9,2    |         became a fire starter and His Church became a burning bush ablaze
258 9,2    |              of believers who are the Church, are not so much an institution
259 9,2    |                Catholic and Apostolic Church, “the Church of the living
260 9,2    |            and Apostolic Church, “the Church of the living God, the pillar
261 9,3    |             the life and piety of the Church.~ The Feast of Orthodoxy
262 9,3    |                 They remind us of the Church triumphant, the communion
263 9,3    |              unity and mission of the Church, the true faith and life
264 9,3    |                Catholic and Apostolic Church to the whole world — Protestants,
265 9,3    |              Ekklesia gerasmene?” (“a Church Grown Old?”), in which he
266 9,3    |        activation of the laity in the Church.[125] We are still talking
267 9,3    |       Orthodoxy [is] still a minority Church riddled with massive inner
268 9,3    |             at the actual life of the Church and speaks prophetically
269 9,3    |               he persecuted the early Church to destroy it. But when
270 9,3    |          universal Gospel and the one Church of Christ which is His Body.
271 10,1   |             of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Authentic Orthodoxy, not
272 10,1   |               speak of renewal in the Church, this is the primary renewal
273 10,2   |            many of the faithful go to Church with a sense of eagerness
274 10,2   |       fireplace of an entire regional Church.~ What to do? We must imitate
275 10,2   |      significant interest in God, the Church, or Christianity. The Bible
276 10,2   |         picking and choosing from the Church’s table whatever suits our
277 10,2   |        century, the golden age of the Church Fathers — Saint Athanasios,
278 10,2   |            conflict and schism in the Church, Saint Basil devoted his
279 10,2   |             to the ideal of the early Church in the Book of Acts. Saint
280 10,2   |              hesitate to critique the Church of his day. For example,
281 10,2   |          spiritual gifts of the early Church and laments the situation
282 10,2   |         situation of the contemporary Church. He portrays the Church
283 10,2   |               Church. He portrays the Church of his day as an aged woman
284 10,2   |               he says:~ ~In truth the Church was a heaven [back] then,
285 10,2   |            those gifts... The present Church is like a woman who has
286 10,2   |             nor in the mission of the Church. He had the spiritual maturity
287 10,3   |       spiritual revitalization of the Church. For example, one of the
288 10,3   |         hierarchy of authority in the Church. This is not the political
289 10,3   |               also in the life of the Church there should be free self-giving,
290 10,3   |             of the Holy Trinity.~ The Church is our spiritual home, our
291 10,3   |             as in a family, we in the Church are all both responsible
292 10,3   |              a family, so also in the Church, when persistent problems
293 10,3   |             nothing positive. And the Church, your spiritual home and
294 10,3   |            consciousness of the whole Church to the abiding goals of
295 10,3   |              the abiding goals of the Church and by~placing these goals
296 10,3   |           goals and priorities of the Church.~ ~According to the report,
297 10,3   |              the report, the Orthodox Church existing in a free, pluralistic
298 10,3   |                administrative polity, church departments, and parish
299 10,3   |            the early centuries of the Church. And we have only begun
300 10,3   |                which according to the Church Fathers is the noblest element
301 10,3   |               Lutheran theologian and Church historian, gave a key-note
302 10,3   |           Pelikan joined the Orthodox Church, as many others have done
303 10,3   |          Christ, the Apostles and the Church Fathers. Because Orthodoxy
304 10,4   |     Chrysostom put it, exhibiting the Church’s empty jewel boxes!~ But
305 10,5   |              is the foundation of the Church, the sacraments, our personal
306 10,5   |        teachings of the Bible and the Church, as we have spoken above,
307 10,5   |             present and active in the Church and the world. Christian
308 10,5   |            and into a Christ-centered Church.~ According to the teaching
309 10,5   |      According to the teaching of the Church Fathers, there is a formal
310 10,5   |         ourselves become love and the Church becomes a community of love,
311 10,5   |              according to Christ. The Church Fathers have called repentance “
312 10,5   |              born and baptized in the Church but not truly converted
313 10,5   |             glory.~ To conclude — the Church Fathers and saints teach
314 10,5   |              every parish or regional Church can reach as high as inner
315 11,1   | representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and of Protestant denominations
316 11,3   |            commitment to the Orthodox Church not merely permit but actually
317 11,4   |              well known, the Orthodox Church reveres Abraham, Moses,
318 11,4   |            the Metropolitan: “Has the Church aged,” that is, has the
319 11,4   |               aged,” that is, has the Church become irrelevant to contemporary
320 11,4   |            for change in the Orthodox Church, offering several examples,
321 11,4   |              laity in the life of the Church. To those of us who live
322 11,4   |          concept of any change in the Church. The authority of traditional
323 11,4   |              of lay ministries in the Church! This is only one example
324 11,4   |               faith and reason in the Church Fathers, and the interaction
325 11,4   |               practiced especially by Church leaders. Saint John Climacos,
326 11,4   |              The Greek Fathers of the Church and published in Thessalonike.~  [
327 11,4   |               see my article “Christ, Church and Eucharist,” in Diakonia
328 11,4   |              sharper critiques of the Church is to be found in Homily
329 11,4   |        conditions of his contemporary Church which he likens to a woman
330 11,4   |           social realities facing the Church, and including a modern
331 11,4   |            classic Christology of the Church, which I view and believe
332 11,4   |          Ekklesia gerasmene” (Has the Church Aged)?” in Episkepsis, February