| Timothy Ware (Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)
Orthodoxy claims to be universalnot something exotic and oriental, but simple Christianity. Because of human failings and the accidents of history, the Orthodox Church has been largely restricted in the past to certain geographical areas. Yet to the Orthodox themselves their Church is something more than a group of local bodies. The word Orthodoxy has the double meaning of right belief and right glory (or right worship). The Orthodox, therefore, make what may seem at first a surprising claim: they regard their Church as the Church which guards and teaches the true belief about God and which glorifies Him with right worship, that is, as nothing less than the Church of Christ on earth. How this claim is understood, and what the Orthodox think of other Christians who do not belong to their Church, it is part of the aim of this book to explain.
Introduction
CONTENTS
Map
Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORY
1. The Beginnings
2. Byzantium, I: The Church of the Seven Councils
3. Byzantium, II: The Great Schism
4. The Conversion of the Slavs
5. The Church under Islam
6. Moscow and St Petersburg
7. The Twentieth Century, I: Greeks and Arabs
8. The Twentieth Century, II: Orthodoxy and the Militant Atheists
9. The Twentieth Century, III: Diaspora and Mission
PART TWO: PAITH AND WORSHIP
10. Holy Tradition: The Source of the Orthodox Faith
11. God and Humankind
12. The Church of God
13. Orthodox Worship, I: The Earthly Heaven
14. Orthodox Worship, II: The Sacraments
15. Orthodox Worship, III: Feasts, Fasts, and Private Prayer
16. The Orthodox Church and the Reunion of Christians
Further Reading
Index
Item Number: BKPE777
Publication data: New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1997
Format: softcover
Number of pages: viii + 359
Dimensions (l × w × h): 19.7 cm × 12.9 cm × 1.6 cm
Additional information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN13: 9780140146561
$16.95 (USD)
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