1st Edition

The Eastern Orthodox Church Its Thought and Life

By Ernst Benz Copyright 1957
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many strata of prejudices and misunderstandings, partly political in nature. One of the obstacles has been the natural tendency to confound the ideas and customs of the Orthodox Church with familiar... Read more
1: The Orthodox Icon; 2: Liturgy and Sacraments; 3: Dogma; 4: Constitution and Law of the Orthodox Church; 5: National Churches, Schismatic Churches, Emigrant Churches; 6: Monasticism; 7: Missionary Work and the Spread of the Orthodox Church; 8: Orthodox Culture; 9: The Ethical Ideas of Orthodoxy; 10: The Political Ideas of Orthodoxy; 11: Rome, Byzantium, Moscow; 12: Russia and Europe; 13: Orthodoxy within the Universal Church Today; 14: Greatness and Weakness of Orthodoxy

Biography

Ernst Benz