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- Christianity is a broad religion centered on Jesus Christ, while Orthodox Christianity is a traditionalist branch maintaining early Christian beliefs and practices. Key Differences Christianity, a major world religion, is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Like Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy teaches the necessity of confession of sin to a human priestly mediator in order for the individual to maintain his salvation, and teaches that the Eucharist is a propitiatory sacrifice for confessed sins in addition to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
Feb 25, 2024 · Christianity is a broad religion centered on Jesus Christ, while Orthodox Christianity is a traditionalist branch maintaining early Christian beliefs and practices. Key Differences. Christianity, a major world religion, is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Both Christianity and Orthodox Christianity affirm the central tenets of the Christian faith, such as the belief in the Holy Trinity, the divinity of Jesus Christ, and the salvation through his death and resurrection.
- Salvation by Grace Through The Holy Spirit’s Action
- The Means of Deification
- Theosis as A Process
- Justification and Sanctification
- Concluding Comments
- Recommended Reading
The Orthodox regard deification as being, first and foremost, the result of the Holy Spirit’s activity in people. Vladimir Lossky writes, ‘The Son has become like us by the incarnation; we become like Him by deification, by partaking of the divinity in the Holy Spirit’.1 Similarly, Christophoros Stavropoulos affirms that theosis is offered by Chris...
To the Orthodox, the primary means by which the Holy Spirit works to give grace and to deify people are the church’s sacraments and human effort. Stavropoulos writes that deification takes place through Christian life and that ‘the Christian life comes into being with the sacraments and with holy works, those virtuous works which are done with a pu...
It should be clear that in the Eastern understanding of salvation, the emphasis lies on the process of becoming united to God through deification. As a result, Orthodox theology places very little stress on that aspect of salvation which evangelicals most strongly emphasise: the change which takes place in a person’s standing before God when he or ...
In assessing the Orthodox understanding of salvation, I must begin by asserting that it is not as foreign to the evangelical concept as one might initially think. We too see salvation as being the work of the Holy Spirit, accomplished by grace. However much we may dislike Orthodoxy’s sacramental emphasis, we also assert that baptism and the Lord’s ...
This article has brought to light several areas of disagreement between evangelicals and the Orthodox. In fact, it is possible that some readers will wonder why I have let a number of Eastern ideas (such as the concept that God is powerless in the face of human freedom or that the sacraments convey grace) go largely without comment. However, I have...
I list the following books in the order in which I would suggest that a person with little prior knowledge of Orthodoxy read them. Ugolnik, Anthony. The Illuminating Icon. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1989. Anthony Ugolnik (born in 1944) is a second-generation Russian-American who has been a life-long Russian Orthodox, but who fought in Vietnam a...
There are several ways to answer this question. One is that Eastern Orthodoxy is either the primary or a significant religious context for many countries in the world. From Russia to Greece and from Ethiopia to Egypt, evangelical believers engage daily with some form of it.
Apr 1, 2006 · But Arius drew conclusions that outraged the orthodox. The Father alone, he declared, is God and Creator; the Son is but a creature, and therefore not truly God at all. Christ is simply the first and greatest of God’s creations, by means of whom everything else was created.
Jun 11, 1990 · Revelation. God is the source of faith in the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy believes that God has revealed Himself to us, most especially in the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom we know as the Son of God.
