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Orthodox need to remember that more than others, though.) 8. Orthodox Christianity is a faith for the whole person. Mankind is not just emotionally moved by beauty, but he aches to be near it, to create it as much as that is possible. More than any other iteration of Christian faith, the Orthodox Church knows how to envelop the
a Living Organism –the people of God As the people of God we: Gather together in his name Share a common faith in love of God Affirm truth & fullness of their faith belief & experience Proclaim the Good News of Christ in word and deed. A person who lives according to the image of Jesus Christ and affirms the fullness of truth he reveals.
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- I Believe The Orthodox Church Really Is The One, True Church of Christ.
- Orthodoxy Gives Me Something to do.
- Orthodoxy Gives Me A Way to See and Touch God physically.
- Change Is Really Hard.
- Orthodoxy Really Is One Church.
- Orthodoxy Is A Faith For The Whole Life.
- Orthodoxy Is A Faith For The Whole World.
- Orthodoxy Is A Faith For The Whole person.
- Orthodoxy Is Both Mystical and Rational.
- Orthodoxy Is ascetical.
There’s a lot that could be said here, but the reason why I believe this is that I examined both the Scriptures and the early history of Christianity, and I became convinced that the only church that matches them both is Orthodoxy. Particularly formative for me were the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of the Apostle John. The church...
I don’t mean that I was bored and needed something to entertain me. I mean that the Christian life as I had been taught it prior to becoming Orthodox was essentially non-critical. I had been “saved,” and there was really nothing criticalto do after that. I should try to be moral, of course, and get other people to get saved, too, but those things w...
The Son of God became the Son of Mary, and that means that He became visible and touchable in a truly material way. In Orthodoxy, the implications of the doctrine of the Incarnation are that the divine presence — holiness — actually becomes present in and alters the material world. Now, one can argue that that presence is uniquely present only in o...
People sometimes joke that Orthodoxy is not really an “organized religion,” with emphasis on “organized.” There is no pope handing down uniform instructions to the whole Church; our chiefest prelates often can’t seem to get along; and it seems like we’re never going to get around to holding that Great and Holy Council we’ve been talking about for n...
Unlike the denominationalism of the Protestant world, the various churches of Orthodoxy really do have to talk to each other and work things out. A Presbyterian and a Lutheran may each recognize each other as Christian, but they have almost no stake in each other’s internal church life. The same even holds true of someone belonging to the PCA and s...
Because Orthodoxy comes with a vast set of expressions of its tradition, you can never exhaust it all. There is always something new not just to learn but to become. While we don’t really “arrive” until the next life (and I’d argue even that is not an arrival; that is, it’s not the end of the road of salvation), there are many way-stations in this ...
There are no “target demographics” for Orthodoxy. We don’t do market research to figure out how to attract young people, old people, urban people, suburban people, or whatever particular demographic we might desire for our parish. A parish can often have a certain degree of commonality among members, but that isn’t by inherent design. There was no ...
Mankind is not just emotionally moved by beauty, but he aches to be near it, to create it as much as that is possible. More than any other iteration of Christian faith, the Orthodox Church knows how to envelop the worshiper with beauty in all five (or more!) senses, both otherworldly beauty that transports the worshiper and otherworldly beauty that...
Some Orthodox will oppose the mystical to the rational, but that’s a mistake, I believe. For all the apophatic theology (theology which emphasizes our inability to know God with our minds), there is also a lot of cataphatic theology (theology that makes clear, positive truth claims) in the tradition of the Church. We don’t have to choose one or the...
No Christian body takes asceticism as seriously as Orthodoxy does. Roman Catholicism has it in its tradition, but it is mostly ignored. Yet Orthodoxy expects all Christians to fast, to stand vigil, to be as non-possessive as possible, etc., and it provides a programme for how to do that. You don’t have to make it up for yourself, because the tradit...
paradox, however, is that its impact beautifully touches those of us born and raised in the Orthodox Christian Faith. I am a witness of this. I loved reading this book. It flows like a novel. It is a "piece of life" which captures the humor and disappointment, the irony and failure, that is always found in the fabric of life.
wo-thirds of the book is a detailed and well-written his-tory of Orthodoxy. Ware begins, naturally enough, with a definition of Orthodoxy: “the Christians. who are in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.” This excludes Roman Catholics and Protestants, of course, and also the Oriental Orthodox—the Church of the ...
Aug 23, 2023 · Fr. Samuel in his church, 2006. Fr. Samuel explained Orthodoxy to me in a language that I, as an Englishman, could understand. He also introduced me to the concept of venerating saints ...
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I am grateful to the Henry Luce III Foundation of America for its generous award of the Luce Fellowship in 2006 which allowed me the space to complete such a large project. I am also indebted to a number of readers, all of them skilled commentators in Orthodox theology and ecclesiastical affairs, and friends of long standing, whose
