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'''Orthodox Christianity''' is the life in faith of the [[Orthodox Church]], inseparable from that concrete, historic community and encompassing its entire way of life. The Orthodox Christian faith is that faith "handed once to the saints" ([[Book of Jude|Jude]] 3), passed on in [[Holy Tradition]] to the [[apostles]] by [[Jesus Christ]], and then handed down from one generation to the next, without addition or subtraction. | '''Orthodox Christianity''' is the life in faith of the [[Orthodox Church]], inseparable from that concrete, historic community and encompassing its entire way of life. The Orthodox Christian faith is that faith "handed once to the saints" ([[Book of Jude|Jude]] 3), passed on in [[Holy Tradition]] to the [[apostles]] by [[Jesus Christ]], and then handed down from one generation to the next, without addition or subtraction. | ||
Revision as of 03:27, February 7, 2005
Orthodox Christianity is the life in faith of the Orthodox Church, inseparable from that concrete, historic community and encompassing its entire way of life. The Orthodox Christian faith is that faith "handed once to the saints" (Jude 3), passed on in Holy Tradition to the apostles by Jesus Christ, and then handed down from one generation to the next, without addition or subtraction.
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Contents
God
Main article: Holy Trinity
Christology
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Main article: Christology
Ecclesiology
Main article: Ecclesiology
Tradition
Main article: Holy Tradition
Worship
Main article: Worship
Sacraments
Main article: Sacraments
Anthropology
Main article: Anthropology
Soteriology
Main article: Soteriology
Clergy
Main article: Clergy
Saints
Our Holy Lady Theotokos
Main article: Saints
History
Main article: Church History
External links
- About Orthodoxy, from St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, Brooklyn, New York
- Orthodox Christianity, from the Church of Serbia
- Introducing the Orthodox Christian Church (OCA site)
- Our Faith (GOA site)
- What We Believe (Antiochian site)
- Meeting the Orthodox: Questions & Answers on the Orthodox Faith, by Fr. Thomas Hopko
- Some straight answers about the Orthodox Church
- Orthodoxy, by Fr. John Behr
- Introduction to the Orthodox Church, by Fr. Leonidas Contos
