[Kolokotronis]

HD, with all due respect to +Alexander, these books purporting to explicate Orthodoxy are seldom if ever complete or correct. They are a sort of, at best, a foretaste of Orthodoxy. To understand Orthodoxy, one needs to be fully conversant with the scriptures, read the Fathers and the declarations of the Ecumenical Councils and then "experience it" through living a liturgical year at least...or you can be born into it and take it seriously enough to believe.

[HarleyD]

HD, with all due respect to +Alexander, these books purporting to explicate Orthodoxy are seldom if ever complete or correct....To understand Orthodoxy, one needs to be fully conversant with the scriptures, read the Fathers and the declarations of the Ecumenical Councils and then "experience it" through living a liturgical year

YIKES!!! If it's that complicated that one has to read all the Fathers, understand the Ecumenical Councils, have a full grasp on the scriptures and live it at least a year, it's amazing that the Orthodox converts anyone. I find it's a weak argument to say "We can't explain it, you have to experience it."