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The Orthodox Church and Society

To Be The Church

by Julie Williams My vision of the Church has been derived from many sources and people, not least the experience of living...
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THE HERESY OF RACISM

Want to add a useful word to your vocabulary? The term etho-phyletism (meaning love of the race, tribe or ethnically-defined nation) was...
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The Given and the Unknown

by Sergei Chapnin / Nezavisimaia gazeta, 18 March 1998 "The question of the participation of the church in the ecumenical movement remains...
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Fr Vassily Kobahidze Interview

From the Bulletin of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, Moscow Patriarchate, 1 August 1997: Turmoil in the Georgian Orthodox...
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Toronto Statement

Highlights from the Toronto Statement received by the World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Toronto, 1950 1) The World Council of...
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Chapter 9

OFFICIAL STATEMENTS 9.1. The Local Synod of Constantinople 1872 The Local Synod of Constantinople was caused by the unilateral establishment of a...
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The Orthodox Church and Peace

Some Reflections By Olivier Clément The spiritual and eschatological meaning that Scripture and Christ Himself give to the word "peace" characterizes the...
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