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Preserve Them, O Lord: A Guide for Orthodox Couples In

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A guide for Orthodox couples in developing marital unity: • premarital counseling for engaged couples; • marriage enrichment for those who are already married; • the development of an Orthodox understanding of marriage for those new to the Orthodox Faith. Preserve Them, O Lord is the resource you need. It gives you insightful guidance from [...]

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Orthodox Saints: Spiritual Profiles for Modern Man Vol. 3

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A short biography of selected saints of the Orthodox Christian Church covering the period July 1 to Sept. 30. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 cover the remainder of the year. Orthodox Saints: Spiritual Profiles for Modern Man Vol. 3 Jul-Sept Tags: Religion & Spirituality, Religion Belief, orthodox christian church, United States, eastern orthodox church, western [...]

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Great Week and Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church

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Traces the development of the liturgical celebration of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ in the Greek Orthodox Church. Fr. Calivas elegantly describes the theological themes for each day, clarifies the liturgical practices, and provides rubrics for their proper celebration. Through the text the reader can find answers to many questions about Holy Week as [...]

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Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone Of

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Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone of Reformation Theology Tags: Religion Belief

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A Quest for Reform of the Orthodox Church: The 1923

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A Quest for Reform of the Orthodox Church is a translation of the acts and decisions of the Pan-Orthodox Congress of 1923, which was held in Constantinople. The book contains the full transcript of the discussions held during the sessions, including reports to the Congress. The 1923 Congress was called by Ecumenical Patriarch Meletios IV [...]

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Raised in Glory: Orthodox Understandings of Death,

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"No one fully understands the mystery of death. People of all faiths wrestle with its meaning, striving to answer fundamental questions. Does death make irrelevant all we have experienced? Does God await us after death? What happens to us after we die? In this book Dr. Chirban explains how Orthodox Christians turn to the reality [...]

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St.Virgin Mary Apparition‬‎ in Coptic Orthodox Church on the Egyptian TV.11-12-2009.

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St.Virgin Mary Apparition‬‎ in Coptic Orthodox Church on the Egyptian TV.11-12-2009: www.stmaryztn.org Statement issued by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Giza December 15, 2009 In the era of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III And inky Bishop Bishop Domadius Giza Diocese announces that there has been the emergence of Giza and expression of the Virgin Mary [...]

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Seeds of the Word: Orthodox Thinking on Other Religions

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How should Orthodox Christians regard non-Christian religions? To treat this question, John Garvey provides a concise introduction to great religious traditions, East and West, and goes on to explore how seeds of truth may be found in them, while upholding the Orthodox Church s claim as the unique repository of the Christian tradition and the [...]

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The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church (Orthodox

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When Fr. Seraphim found out that the early Western Father, Blessed Augustine of Hippo, was being attacked in contemporary Eastern Orthodox circles, then he--himself a Western convert to Orthodoxy--rose in his defense. This book is the outcome. Fr. Seraphim said he wrote it in the hope that it would help remove Augustine as a scapegoat [...]

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Our Father: A Prayer for Christian Living

by Generous Orthodoxy

Everyday Christians from across the world recite the Lord's Prayer, the only prayer that we have from Jesus Himself. Despite the fact that Christians are often divided over language, culture, ethnic backgrounds, theologies, customs, and traditions, we are all united under the one authority of God the Father through these very special and meaningful words. [...]

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Love, Sexuality and the Sacrament of Marriage

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Two essays on the nature of love, sexuality and marriage written from an Orthodox Christian perspective. The author then provides excerpts from the writings of the Tradiiton of the Christian East. Tags: Social Issues, Religion Belief

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You Are Peter: An Orthodox Reflection on the Exercise of Papal

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The papacy is clearly the greatest difficulty facing ecumenical dialogue today, and particularly the dialogue between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Yet there is a doorway of hope. In his encyclical, Ut unum sint, John Paul II expressed a desire for common reflection on the exercise of papal primacy. In You Are Peter the great Orthodox theologian [...]

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Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Oxford

by Generous Orthodoxy

This study historicizes the formation of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Menze shows that the sixth century separation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity took place because of divergent political and ecclesiastical interests of bishops and emperors. Roman emperors proved to be unable to hold the papacy in the West, the later Greek Orthodox [...]

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Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants Which Holds the Historical Validity of Church of Christ?

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Quite Frankly i believe that it is the orthodox church because we have been around since the time of pentecost and our liturgics haven't changed since then. The bishop of Rome was once a part of the orthodox church but he broke off and created the Roman Ctaholic Church, and later Luther and Henry VI [...]

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The Power of the Name: The History and the Practices of The

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The Jesus Prayer penetrates everything, freeing us from all the acculturations of the Gospel, re-creating the basis of unity for all Christians and offering them the only possible anchor for a true ecumenism. The Jesus Prayer heals the alienation and distress of humanity, placing its dependence on God alone, substituting the divine life for the [...]

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History of Orthodox Christianity – Part 1: Beginnings

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Our journey begins with the founding of the Church, the spread of Christianity to "nations" by the Apostles, the Gospel and the institution of Sacraments. Tags: part, eastern orthodox church, Beginnings, Religion Belief, spread of Christianity, history

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