Tag True Orthodoxy

Archbishop Averky Explains Why We Need the Adjective “True” to Differentiate from the “World Orthodox”.

If we expect to withstand the world, it is first necessary to understand it and keep sensitively in mind that in this present age all that which carries the most holy and dear name of Orthodoxy is not in fact Orthodox. Rather, it is often "A fraudulent and usurped Orthodoxy" which we must fear and eschew as if it were fire. Unlike this spurious faith, true Orthodoxy was given and must be received without novelty

Are the Terms “Christian” and “Orthodox” Accurate For Our Times?

UNTIL RECENTLY (written in 1975), the concepts and terms “Christian” and
“Orthodox” were unambiguous and meaningful.
Now, however, we are living through times so terrible, so filled with
falsehood and deception, that such concepts and terms no longer convey
what is significant when used without further clarification. They do not
reflect the essence of things, but have become little more than deceptive
labels.

TRUE ORTHODOXY

BY ARCHBISHOP AVERKY True Orthodoxy by Archbishop Averky of Blessed Memory Few people today know that the Orthodox Church is nothing less than that Church which has preserved untainted the genuine teachings of Jesus Christ, the very teachings delivered to…

THE 1983 ANATHEMA AGAINST ECUMENISM by Vladimir Moss

THE 1983 ANATHEMA AGAINST ECUMENISM Written by Vladimir Moss      Looking back over the last one hundred years of Church history, we see no acts of primary importance that have been undertaken by the Orthodox Church as a whole, no Ecumenical…