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Apr 8, 2022 · Known as Pascha, the Greek word for “passover,” Easter in the Orthodox Church celebrates “the eternal Passover from death to life from earth heaven.”. Great Lent, the church’s strictest ...
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Jun 28, 2023 · Basic Tenets of the Greek Orthodox Church. Firstly, the governing body of the GOC believes that authority comes from the scriptures and from the “Holy Tradition, of which Holy Scripture is a part.”. This tradition includes “the writings, teachings, and acts of the apostles, saints, martyrs, and fathers of the Church,” not to mention ...
The religious perspectives on Jesus vary among world religions. [1] Jesus ' teachings and the retelling of his life story have significantly influenced the course of human history, and have directly or indirectly affected the lives of billions of people, including non-Christians. [1] [2] [3] He is considered by many to be one of the most ...
The Orthodox Church, one, holy, catholic and apostolic, is present today on all the continents and, with its presence and apostolic labor, witnesses to the Gospel to all peoples, fulfilling thereby Christ’s command: “Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” 1.
The Eastern Orthodox Church is formally committed to the Christology (doctrine of Christ) that was defined by the councils of the first eight centuries. Together with the Latin church of the West, it rejected Arianism (a belief in the subordination of the Son to the Father) at Nicaea (325), Nestorianism (a belief that stresses the independence ...
The earliest Christian creed was probably the simple confession of faith that Jesus is the Christ, i.e., the Messiah; and that the Christ is Lord. By publicly confessing this belief, the person could be baptized into Christ, dying and rising with Him into the New Life of the Kingdom of God in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the ...
May 18, 2016 · May 18, 2016. The Resurrection and the Rise of Christianity. Orthodox Christians believe that the New Testament Church and the Christian faith itself appeared at a particular point in history because the crucified Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead.
