An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox ChurchesThis clear and accessible introduction describes the life of the Orthodox Churches of the Christian East from the accession of the Emperor Constantine in 312 up to the year 2000. The distinctive Orthodox approaches to the themes of liturgy, theology, monastic life and spirituality, iconography, popular religion, mission, politics and the schism between East and West are disc ussed in turn. A final chapter examines the response of the Churches to the new freedom following the collapse of communism and the prospects for the future. |
Contents
Introduction identifying Orthodoxy | 1 |
Description a map of Orthodoxy | 9 |
Liturgy where heaven and earth meet | 39 |
Doctrine believing in the Orthodox Churches | 61 |
Icons revelation in image | 97 |
Monasticism shaping of saints | 107 |
Popular piety people places pilgrimage | 135 |
Mission incarnation as proclamation | 143 |
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Alexandria Arab Armenian ascetic became become bishop Bulgaria Byzantine Empire Catholic Church centre century Chalcedon Chalcedonian Chalcedonian Orthodox Christ clergy communion Communist consecrated Constantine Coptic Council Council of Chalcedon culture Cyril Damascus developed diocese doctrinal East Eastern Christian Eastern Church Ecumenical Patriarch Egypt Emperor Ethiopia Eucharist faith Fathers filioque Greece Greek Catholic Gregory Gregory Palamas groups Hesychast Holy icons influence Islam Jerusalem Jesus Prayer John John of Damascus large numbers later liturgy living London Maximus the Confessor Metropolitan missionary monasteries monastic monks Monophysite Moscow Mount Athos Muslim nature non-Chalcedonian Orthodox Church Ottoman parishes Patriarch of Antioch Patriarch of Constantinople patristic persecution Philokalia political Pope prayer priest recognised religious result Roman Romania Rome roots schism seen Serbia Sergei Bulgakov shared spiritual St Sergius Stoudion Symeon Syrian Orthodox teaching theologians theology tion tradition Trinity Tur Abdin Turkish unity West Western worship writing
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