Orthodox Theology

"Stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle."
-St. Paul, Second Epistle to the Church of Thessalonica (2:15)

The Theology of the Holy Orthodox Church
Dedicated to theological inquiry into the faith of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

-ON THE MOST HOLY TRINITY IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY:
On the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity
On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil Great
The Holy Trinity in the Works of St. John & St. Paul the Apostles
The Essence and Energy of God -by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware & Vladimir Lossky
Definitions in Orthodox Theology
On Orthodox Apophatic Theology
On the Two Ways of Knowledge
On Orthodox Gnosiology

-ON THE WORD OF GOD INCARNATE - OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST:
Christ Assumed our Fallen Humanity In Order to Heal It
On the Human Knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
On the Passion of the Christ: Why Did Jesus Have to Die?
How did Jesus, the Incarnate Son of God, Suffer?
The Veneration of Icons of Christ and the Saints: Orthodox Christian Info Center

-ON ST. MARIAM - THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS:
The Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos
The Miraculous Virgin Birth of our Lord
The Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God

-ON MAN:
On the Orthodox Doctrine of Theosi s
Theosis: The Goal of Christian Life -from the OSB & Bishop Youseff
Is the Soul Infused or Generated?
The Trifold Nature of Man -by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Nous: The Eye of the Human Soul -Orthodox Wiki
"Ancestral Sin" vrs. "Original Sin": by Fr. Antony Hughes
On the Soteriology of the Third Century Eastern Fathers
Eternal Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective -by Fr. Isaiah Gillette

-ON CHRISTIAN ETHICS:
The Ethics of the New Testament -by St. Basil the Great
Helping Teens Learn t he Orthodox View on Abortion -by Fr. Joseph F. Purpura
F alse Beliefs Abo ut Abortion -by Fr. Richard Demetrius
The Teaching of the One Holy Catholic & Apostolic Church on Homosexuality -Fr. Boyadjian
Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction -by Fr. Thomas Hopko
OCA Bishop Matthias Reaffirms Orthodox Teaching on Homosexuality
Homosexuality & Same-Sex Union -by Vigen Guroian
Questions and Answers on "Gay Marriage"
The True Meaning of the Rainbow
B eing Healed from the Evil of Pornography -by St. George Orthodox Church

-ON ESCHATOLOGY:
Prayer for Those who Sleep in Christ
Heaven & Hell in the Afterlife According to the Bible -by Peter Chopelas
The Veneration of Saints and Icons -by Ryan Hunter

-ON ECCLESIOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY:
A Summary of the Seven Ecumenical Councils
The Importance of Tertullian and Irenaeus on the Early Church
Principles of Primacy in Eastern Orthodoxy
Can Roman Primacy & O rthodox Theology Exist in One Church ?
The Iconoclastic Developments in Eighth Century Byzantium
The Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople
Dialogue with a Neo-Arian
The Bible and the Apostolic Authority of the Church
The Hierarchical Orders of the O rthodox Church

*All articles, unless otherwise noted, by Sub-Deacon Lazarus W. Der-Ghazarian, M.Th.

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"The Faith of the Church is a summary of what the Prophets predicted, what the Lord fulfilled, what the Apostles preached,
what the Martyrs witnessed, what the Saints lived, and what the Fathers preserved. That is the Christian Faith."
-St. Athanasius the Great

Orthodoxy:

Orthodoxy stands outside the circle of ideas in which western Christians
have moved for the past eight centuries; it has undergone no scholastic
revolution, no Reformation and Counter-Reformation, but still lives in that older
Tradition
of the Fathers which so many in the west now desire to recover.

-Met. Kallistos Ware, from the book The Orthodox Church

Icon of the Most Holy Trinity
by St. Andrei Rublev

Our Holy Fathers Among the Saints,
the Three Holy Hierarchs:
Basil the Great
John Chrysostom and
Gregory the Theologian

Icon of the Incarnation
Vladimir Icon