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Catholic Answers
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Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
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Dave Armstrong's monster site. Eclectic, fun, exhaustingly
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posted on 08/05/2003 5:19 PM PDT by polemikos

I am posting this because I have found Orthodoxy difficult to understand, due to lack of exposure and communication.

Orthodoxy is IMPOSSIBLE to understand by reading (or Internet exchanges) alone. That is because of its radical incarnational nature. The only way to begin to understand Orthodoxy is by experiencing Orthodox worship. And there are English-language Orthodox churches all over the place, so that you can worship in your own language, rather than Greek, Slavonic, Arabic, Romanian, etc.

It was St. Athanasius who first said, "God became man so that man might become God". He is a Western saint, too. Martin Luther also taught that Christians become united with Christ through grace (see "The Freedom of the Christian Man"). But his various misunderstandings of how close or how far away the early Lutheran movement was from Orthodoxy (which he called "the Greek church") could be explained by his not ever experiencing Orthodox worship. However, that was not his fault, since there were no Orthodox communities in his area, and he was hemmed in by the ban of the Empire and the Roman church. Moreover, the Turk separated him from the Orthodox as well.

It was left to the second generation of Lutheran reformers to make contact with the Orthodox, but that is a whole other long story...

I am posting this because I have found Orthodoxy difficult to understand, due to lack of exposure and communication.

We are prone to particularism. May God Bless you for your efforts to reach out and understand us. Please always feel welcome to come for a visit. I will treat you to lunch. And bring your delightful wife, as I think fondly of her and would love to see her again. :-)

It's a good post, btw.