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History of Orthodoxy. Part I. odoxy 1 IntroductionThis monograph tells the story of how orthodoxy and heresy evolved alongside one another in a rich medieval. religious tradition. It explores how discourses of heresy shaped in fundamental ways the development of orthodoxy in medieval. slamicate societies. In the following pages I examine this ...
Description. When Orthodox Christians recite the Creed during the Divine Liturgy, they cross themselves at the words “Believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.”. The gesture is more than just a matter of ritual, for the significance of these words has to do with identity and with membership in the Kingdom of God. The Church is ...
within history, that have been prepared by the great pre-history of the scriptural revelation, and are rooted in the great plan of God’s creation ordinance.3 Within that nexus of moments, however, there are certain key events that constitute the beginning of the Church historically speaking. Orthodoxy would place the first great epiphany in
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2013). To answer the question means to look for a broader understanding of the identity of the Orthodox Churches, which goes hand-in-hand with how “orthodox” and “orthodoxy” are defined in both theological and secular usage.
In Support of a Radical Definition of Orthodoxy 145 1. Orthodoxy and Historiography The merit of Orthodox historiography is that it remembers the fact that the history of the Church is possible only if we admit that the Church, by herself, is a personal reality, which resumes the whole of history. The divinely-human nature of
spirit of Orthodoxy. Here the old Latin adage holds true still: Lex orandi, lex credendi (the rule of prayer is the rule of faith). The text of the liturgy is widely accessible (numerous versions of it are freely available on the Worldwide Web, for example). It was composed at the dawn of the life of the church and reached its polished form in
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Orthodoxy and Heresy The words orthodoxy and heresy are both of Greek origin. A consideration of their respective etymologies helps reveal their possible meanings and the relations that obtain between them (Liddell and Scott 1996: 41, 444, 1249). Orthodoxy comes from the Greek word orthodoxia, which is itself a compound of two terms: orthos and ...
