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The word "Orthodox," from the Greek word orthodoxia, means both "right belief" and "right glory" or "worship." In Orthodoxy faith and worship are intimately linked. According to the maxim of a fourth-century monk, Evagrius of Pontus, "a theologian is one who prays truly." Orthodoxy is by very definition an experiential faith.
Christians seem more divided than ever. Is there really such a thing as "one" Church? Does Christian unity even matter? Father Andrew Stephen Damick joins Steve to tackle these important questions!
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 ...
A guide to the Orthodox church’s approach to Bible study. Orthodox Christianity reveres the Bible as more than just a book; it is the living Word of God to be experienced within the church’s liturgical and sacramental life, a life punctuated by cycles of feasts and fasts, penitence and celebration.
Dec 6, 2010 · Christian history is the history of doctrine, and of the struggle to keep it pure and Biblical. Heresies, by Harold O.J. Brown, tells the story of orthodox belief. Brown’s book is an excellent overview of the history of Christian doctrine. Each chapter presents a heresy, a doctrine that would “undercut the very basis for Christian existence ...
Christianity is much more atheist than the usual atheism, which can claim there is no God and so on, but nonetheless retains a certain trust into the Big Other. This Big Other can be called natural necessity, evolution, or whatever. We humans are nonetheless reduced to a position within the harmonious whole of evolution, whatever, but the difficult thing to accept is again that there is no Big ...
Mar 2, 2024 · For centuries, church pronouncements declared that Orthodox should ‘hear, believe, and confess, but not read Scripture’—even understanding Scripture was optional (p. 324). Such sentiments long delayed translation of the Bible into modern languages, especially Russian and demotic Greek.
