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Jan 6, 1997 · Orthodoxy, advocates suggest, reveals and corrects evangelical reductionism and superficiality. Some have argued that evangelicals eager to "contend earnestly for the faith" (Jude 3) will find an...
My major reasons are: Their rejection of the true place of the Pope, which is that of supremacy, in the role of the Church. They have abandoned in recent decades the Apostolic teaching regarding non-abortive contraception.
Nov 9, 2006 · I begin to explain what it is like in other countries, where Eastern Orthodoxy is a minority and the evangelical tradition dominates. John admits he cannot conceive of Orthodoxy as a minority; neither can he come up with a reason why one would leave a “life-giving relationship with God for a ‘dead’ church.”.
- Trevin Wax
This level of Papal supremacy is unheard of in the early church, meaning it was an innovation. But was it an acceptable innovation or not? In my opinion, Vatican II disproves Vatican I, which shows that the Orthodoxy is less wrong about Church history than the Romans.
- Word Fights
- Filioque
- The Papacy
- Fractured Unity
When I began looking at the issues separating Catholics and Orthodox, it turned out that a lot of them were more semantic than substantive. If I became Orthodox, I would have to accept more Catholic things than I at first thought: purgatory, for example. Orthodox don’t traditionally use the word purgatoryfor the purification that happens after deat...
One of the most-cited issues separating the two churches is the so-called filioque controversy. This term is Latin for “and the Son,” and it refers to the clause in the Nicene Creedthat says the Holy Spirit proceeds “from the Father and the Son.” “And the Son” isn’t in the original Greek version of the Creed. It was inserted later by Western Christ...
The other most-cited reason for separation between Catholics and Orthodox is the papacy. Orthodox do not recognize the pope as having the kind of teaching and governing authority that the Catholic Church claims. When I was an Evangelical considering Catholicism—and previously, even when I was quite anti-Catholic—I recognized that there is a certain...
As I learned more about Orthodoxy, another set of factors seemed to weigh against it. Both Eastern Orthodox and Catholics say the Nicene Creed’s affirmation that the Church of Christ is “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic,” but which has the better claim to those notes? I couldn’t say one was holier than the other. Both have great holiness and grea...
Jul 24, 2010 · Andreas Köstenberger/Jul 24. The Bauer-Ehrman thesis contends that “orthodoxy” is not a first-century phenomenon but only a later concept that allowed the Roman church to squelch alternate versions of Christianity. We have seen that Bauer virtually ignores the New Testament evidence while believing to find evidence for early heresy and ...
Aversion of heresy: the establishment of orthodoxy. Already in apostolic times, distortions of belief threatened the Christian community from within. The Apostle Paul needed to correct those who misunderstood the preaching of Christ’s Resurrection and the general resurrection to come (1 Corinthians 15).
