Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the Orthodox view, devotion to Mary is considered an important element of Christian spirituality, and indifference to her by other Christian denominations is troubling to the Orthodox. [34] Orthodox theologian Sergei Bulgakov called denominations that do not venerate the Virgin Mary "another type of Christianity". [35] [36]
Orthodox Christians do not hold to the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in which it is taught that Mary was preserved from the ancestral sin that befalls us all as descendants of Adam and Eve, in anticipation of her giving birth to the sinless Christ. The Orthodox believe that Mary, and indeed all mankind, was born ...
Eastern Orthodox theology calls Mary the Theotokos, which means God-bearer. The virginal motherhood of Mary stands at the center of Orthodox Mariology, in which the title Ever Virgin is often used. The Orthodox Mariological approach emphasizes the sublime holiness of Mary, her share in redemption and her role as a mediator of grace. [11] [12]
Orthodox worship, in keeping with the earliest traditions of Christian worship, involves eating as part of services probably more than any other denomination. Besides the bread and wine in the Eucharist, bread, wine, wheat, fruits and other foods are eaten at a number of special services. The kinds of foods used vary widely from culture to culture.
According to these modern Eastern Orthodox theologians, western theology depends too much on kataphatic theology. According to Steenberg, Eastern theologians assert that Christianity in essence is apodictic truth, in contrast to the dialectic, dianoia, or rationalised knowledge which is the arrived at truth by way of philosophical speculation. [31]
Orthodox Easter at All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the East Village, New York, in April this year. Getty Images “Feminized” worship is exactly what pushed Elijah Wee Sit, a 17-year-old ...
A faith in Christ which does not include his mother is another faith, another Christianity from that of the Orthodox church." [166] Although the Catholics and the Orthodox may honor and venerate Mary, they do not view her as divine, nor do they worship her.
At St. Mary’s Syriac Orthodox Church in Shrewsbury, the pursuit of religious freedom very much informs both their past and present. More: Worcester's Orthodox Christian community takes pride in ...