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"Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among Western Christians, and the author believes that an unde... Full description
Table of Contents:
- The beginnings
- Byzantium, I, the church of the seven councils
- Byzantium, II, the great schism
- The conversion of the Slavs
- The church under Islam
- Moscow and St. Petersburg
- The twentieth century, I, Greeks and Arabs
- The twentieth century, II, Orthodoxy and the militant atheists
- The twentieth century, III, diaspora and mission
- Holy tradition, the source of the Orthodox faith
- God and humankind
- The church of God
- Orthodox worship, I, the earthly heaven
- Orthodox worship, II, the sacraments
- Orthodox worship, III, feasts, fasts, and private prayer
- The Orthodox church and the reunion of Christians.