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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.—see Eastern Orthodox Church organization) is a body of Christians which claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils, the most authoritative being the Seven Ecumenical Councils held between the 4th and 8th centuries. These councils were convened out of the necessity to resolve conflicts that ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church - Beliefs

Eastern Orthodox Church - Art and Architecture

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Eastern Orthodox Church - History

Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia II - Eastern Orthodox Church - History Eastern Orthodox Church - The early Church. Christianity first spread in the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern half of the Roman Empire. Paul and the Apostles traveled extensively throughout the Empire, establishing Churches in major communities, with the first Churches appearing in Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, and then the two political centres of Rome and Constantinople. Orthodox believe an Apostolic Succession was established; this played a key role in the Church's view of itself as the preserver of ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Autocephaly

In hierarchical Christian churches, especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. When an ecumenical council or a high-ranking bishop, such as a patriarch or other primate, releases an ecclesiastical province from the authority of that bishop while the newly independent church remains in full communion with the hierarchy to which it then ceases to belong, the council or primate is granting autocephaly ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Theosis

In Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis, meaning divinization (or deification or, to become god), is the call to man to become holy and seek union with God, beginning in this life and later consummated in the resurrection. Theosis comprehends salvation from sin, is premised upon apostolic and early Christian understanding of the life of faith, and is conceptually foundational in both the East and the West. Alternative spellings: Theiosis, Theopoiesis Relate ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Kenosis

Kenosis is a Greek word for emptiness, which is used as a theological term. As an ancient Greek word, κένωσις kénōsis means an "emptying", from κενός kenós "empty". The word is mainly used, however, in a Christian theological context, for example Philippians 2:7, "Jesus made himself nothing (ἐκένωσε ekénōse) ..." (NIV) or "...he emptied himself..." (NRSV), using the verb form κενόω kenóō "to empty". Kenosis - Kenosis in Christology. < ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Cassock

The cassock, an item of clerical clothing, is a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. The cassock derives ultimately from the tunic that was formerly worn underneath the toga in classical antiquity. The word cassock probably comes from the word "casaque" which means cloak; or cassaca, which means white. In older days, i ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Vestment

Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religions, especially the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican Churches. Many other Protestant groups also make use of vestments, but this was a point of controversy in the English Reformation. For other garments worn by clergy, see also Clerical clothing. Vestment - Roman Catholic Anglican and Protestant vestments. For the Eucharist, each vestment symbolizes a spiritual dimension of the priesthood, wi ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Holy Week

Holy Week is the Christian week from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday. Each of the days of Holy Week has its own traditions of services in the West. Believers are encouraged to follow in their prayers with readings from the Gospel the account of each of the actions from the time of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and death of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter Sunday. While each day has special mass celebrations in the Western churches, the week's most elaborate services are ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Monastery

A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermit's cell. Western Christian monasteries are also called abbey, priory, charterhouse, friary, and preceptory, while the habitation of nuns can also be called a convent. The number of dedicated monastics in any religion has waxed and waned due to many factors. There have been Christian monasteries such as "The Cappadocian Caves" that used to shelter upwards of 50,000 monks, or St Pantelaimon's on the "Holy Mountain" in Greece, which had 30,000 in its h ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Nun

In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Buddhists, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk. Nun - Catholic. In Roman Catholicism a nun is the term for a female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk. In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of differe ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Binitarianism

Binitarianism is a theology of two in one God, as opposed to one (unitarianism) or three (trinitarianism). Classically, it is understood as strict monotheism — that is, that God is an absolutely single being; and yet there is a "twoness" in God. At times, this monotheism drifted toward a "twoness" of God: that is, two Beings in one "God family" that is in agreement with itself, composed of the Father and the Son. These two strains of a theology of two, and one God developed alongside one ano ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Ascetical theology

Ascetical theology is the organized study or presentation of spiritual teachings found in Scripture and the Church Fathers that help the faithful to more perfectly follow Christ and attain to Christian perfection. The word ascetic is from the Greek word askesis, meaning practice. The English term ascesis means "the practice of self-discipline" (OED). Christian asceticism is commonly thought to imply self-denial for a spiritual purpose. The term ascetical theology is used primarily in Catholic ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Religion and abortion

Most world religions condemn abortion on demand, though most do consider abortion acceptable under very limited circumstances: Anglicanism: [1]. Buddhism: [2] Catholicism:[3] (abortion is always morally prohibited and laws that permit abortion are unjust) Hinduism:[4] Islam: [5] Judaism: [6][7] Sikhism:[8] Likewise, some atheists are also opposed to abortion.[9][10] Abortion, Abortion Law, Morality and legality of ab ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Liturgical year

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catho ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Purgatory

The term purgatory is generally defined as "the means by which the elect reach perfection before entering into the Kingdom of Heaven". The term purgatory in accordance with Catholic teaching, is "a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions." [1] Among many theories on purgatory are: the main Catholic theory, discussed below; the main Protestant belief in ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Panentheism

Panentheism (Greek words: pan=all, en=in and Theos=God; "God-in-all") is the view that God is immanent within all Creation or that God is the animating force behind the universe. Unlike pantheism, panentheism does not mean that the universe is all God or that God contains the universe inside Godself. In panentheism, God maintains a transcendent character, and is viewed as both the creator and the original source of universal morality. The term is closely associated with the Logos of Hellenistic philosophy in the works of Herakleitos, which per ...

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Eastern Orthodox: Encyclopedia - Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a composition of "πάτερ" (pater) meaning father and "άρχων" (archon) meaning leader, chief, ruler, king, etc. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is called the Patriarchal Age. The word has also taken on other meanin ...

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