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What is Orthodox Christianity? - Angee Licaa - 05-25-2022
Perhaps you've heard the term "orthodox Christianity" before. So, how well do you comprehend orthodox Christianity? If not, come learn about this issue with me. fruits of the spirit wall art
What is the meaning of Orthodox Christianity? It is the Orthodox Church's faith life, inextricably linked to that physical, historic community and encompassing its entire way of life. The orthodox Christian religion is the faith that was "once passed on to the saints" (Jude 3), handed down by Jesus Christ to the apostles, and then passed down from generation to generation another system in the Church, without adding or deleting anything.
The goal of Orthodox Christianity is to save each individual by joining us with Christ in the church, changing us into holiness, and providing us with eternal life. The Good News is that Jesus is the Messiah, that He resurrected from the dead, and that as a result, we can be saved.
Historically, the presence of what is now known as Orthodox Christianity in the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe dates back to the 9th century, when, according to church tradition, missionaries from the capital of The Byzantine Empire in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) spread the faith deeper into Europe. Orthodoxy first came to Bulgaria, Serbia, and Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic), and then, starting in the 10th century, to Russia. After the Schism between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Catholic) churches in 1054, traditionalist activity expanded throughout the Russian Empire from 1300 to 1800.
While Orthodoxy spread across Eurasia, Protestant and Catholic missionaries from Western Europe traveled abroad, across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. The Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British empires, among others, brought Western Christianity (Catholics and Protestants) to sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and the Americas - the region that in the 20th century had a much faster population growth rate than Europe. In general, Orthodox missionary activity outside of Eurasia has received less attention, although the main synagogue churches have achieved some conversions in places as far away as India, Japan, East Asia, and the United States. Africa and North America.
Today, the largest Orthodox Christian population outside of eastern Europe is in Ethiopia. The centuries-old Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has about 36 million adherents, nearly 14% of the world's total Orthodox population. Its orthodox outlook has grown much faster than that of Europe over the past 100 years. And, second, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians have more religious views, by some conventional measures, than Orthodox Christians in Europe. This is consistent with a broader pattern, in which Europeans are on average less religiously committed than those in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, according to Pew Research Center surveys. This is true not only of Christians in Europe but also of Muslims in Europe, who are less religious in general than Muslims in other parts of the world).