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Eastern Orthodoxy 1. any of various Middle Eastern Christian sects in the early church that lacked or rejected theological leaders. 2. a Flagellant. — Achephalist, n. an official in the medieval Greek church who collected the money from a monastery or benefice. a sacrament corresponding to confirmation in the Western church in which a baptized person is anointed with chrism. a diocese. See also greece and greeks. the principal service book of Eastern Orthodoxy. Also Euchology 1. the study of Eastern Orthodox ritual. 2. (cap.) Euchologion. 1. in the early church, the head of a major diocese or province. 2. a bishop inferior to a patriarch but superior to a metropolitan. 3. a deputy of a patriarch, either a priest or a bishop. 4. the head of an autonomous church. — exarchal, adj. the head of a monastery. the quietistic practices of a 14th-century ascetic sect of mystics drawn from the monks of Mt. Athos. Also called Palamitism. — hesychast, n. — hesychastic, adj. 1. the practice of opposing the veneration of icons. 2. the practice of destroying icons. 3. (cap.) the principles of the religious party in the 8th-century Eastern church that opposed the use of icons. — iconoclast, n. — iconoclastic, adj. an iconoclast. the head of an ecclesiastic province. Hesychasm. a bishop’s prayer on behalf of catechumens. — parathetic, adj. the head of any of the ancient sees or the see of another principal city or national church. a theological system centering on the Holy Wisdom developed by the 20th-century Russian priest Sergei Bulgakov. Also called Sophiology. — Sophianist, n. one who reads the synaxarion, or brief narrative of a saint’s life, in Eastern Orthodox liturgies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He was particularly a towering figure in the Ecumenical Movement for Christian unity, to which he devoted a major part of his long life and work as an early pioneer in the 1930s, an architect in the formation of the World Council of Churches, and an influential builder from within the Faith and Order Commission, where he made the voice of Eastern Orthodoxy heard by witnessing to the historic experience and the faith of the early undivided Church. There follow discussions of the ambiguous position of the Apocalypse in Eastern Orthodoxy (John A McGuckin), in Luther's views (Philip D. Its enmity toward the United States draws its intellectual inspiration partly from the generally militant, anti-Western legacy of Eastern Orthodoxy. |
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