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We could say that we have a well-defined calendar of yearly events in which there is something that we commemorate on every day of the year. We could say that our faith is creedal, that is, it is obligatory that an Orthodox Christian believes every single word in the creed, also known as the “Symbol of Faith”.
He, as God-Man is Orthodoxy; He is the All-Truth. 1. If we wanted to define Christianity, qua Orthodoxy, in conventional terms, we would say that it is the experience of the presence of the Uncreated (God) 2 in 1 St. John 18:38. 2 Only the Triune God is uncreated. Creation, with man as its pinnacle, is created. God is not
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since the Great Schism, the breach between Orthodoxy and Roman Christianity, is traditionally dated to 1054, these beliefs are shared by all Roman Catholics, and by many Protestants as well. As remembered today, the most critical issues related to the nature of God in Christian doctrine, though many other matters were also decided at these ...
- Edited by Mary B. Cunningham and Elizabeth Theokritoff
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- Doctrine and Tradition
- Contemporary Orthodox Theology: its Formation and Character
- Glossary Bibliography Index
- Preface
- A chronology of the Eastern Churches
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CBRU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge Un...
xxvi Who are the Orthodox Christians? A historical introduction MARY B. CUNNINGHAM AND ELIZABETH THEOKRITOFF Part I
Scripture and tradition in the Church THEODORE G. STYLIANOPOULOS Biblical interpretation in worship ARCHIMANDRITE EPHREM LASH God in Trinity BORIS BOBRINSKOY Creator and creation ELIZABETH THEOKRITOFF The human person as image and likeness of God NONNA VERNA HARRISON Christ and salvation PETER BOUTENEFF Eschatology ...
Church Fathers and the shaping of Orthodox theology AUGUSTINE CASIDAY The patristic revival and its protagonists ANDREW LOUTH The Russian religious revival and its theological legacy MICHAEL PLEKON Some key themes and gures in Greek fi theological thought ATHANASIOS N. PAPATHANASIOU Personhood and its exponents in twenti...
Notes on contributors Dr Nicolas Abou Mrad is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Saint John of Damascus Faculty of Theology, University of Balamand (Lebanon), and Lecturer at various non-Orthodox theological schools in Lebanon. He is author of various articles and reviews in biblical theology and literature. The Rt Revd Dr Hilarion Alfeyev ...
Gone are the days when an occasional intrepid traveller would venture to Eastern Europe or the Levant and return with colourful tales of the beliefs and practices of the natives. Several Orthodox countries now belong to the European Union; there is an extensive body of Orthodox literature, both original and translated, available in Western language...
(All dates are AD (anno domini) or CE (Christian era)) c. – nd rd century – c. – c. – c. – c. – c. c. / / – c. – c. – – c. – c. late s c. after – c. Persecution of Christians by Roman emperors and governors Gnostic and heterodo...
GOTR JTS, n.s. LXX MECC MJO NPNF NRSV PG PL RSV SC sed. SPCK SVS SVTQ WCC A. Roberts and J. Donaldson (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. , vols., rev. edn A. Cleveland Coxe (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., ). Also available at: www.ccel.org circa; about Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orient...
recommending this publication, titled A Basic Guide to Eastern Or - thodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices, because it does not follow the abovementioned approach, but, instead, its perception is molded by the author’s experience of the Orthodox sacramental life, its life of worship. The very word “orthodoxy” means both
Oct 9, 2020 · After reading this book, Western Christians still may not understand our mentality, but perhaps they will begin to realize that the difference between Orthodoxy and Western Christianity is ...
Orthodoxy affirms that the Chris-tian Faith expresses and points to the gracious and mysterious rela-tionship between God and human-ity. God became man in the per-son of Jesus Christ not to institute a new philosophy or code of con-duct, but primarily to bestow upon us "new life" in the Holy Trinity.
