TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ware, Timothy
TI  - The Orthodox Church: an introduction to eastern Christianity 
SN  - 9780141980638
AV  - BX106. W3 2015
U1  - 281.9 23
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - History
KW  - Doctrines
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; History. 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 -- Faith and worship. 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 Christmas
N2  - Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches can be reunited. In this revised and updated edition he explains the Orthodox views on a wide variety of matters, and considers the relation between the different Orthodox Churches
ER  -