New Life, Church History.
The Church’s history records the progress of Christ’s work throughout the course of the human experience.
History in Orthodoxy has a theological importance because of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, that just as God chose to become a physical, living, breathing human being, he also chooses to work in and through human history to bring about salvation. Thus, the Church’s history becomes a sacred history, not in the same sense as the Biblical history which forms the salvation story itself, but rather as a record of the continued effects of the salvation story in the experience of man.
| Article | Read Time | Hit Count | Written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Descent of the Holy Spirit | 5 mins | 4,831 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| The Royal Ministry of Christ in His Church | 6 mins | 3,926 | Archbishop Dmitri |
| Life of the First Christians | 2 mins | 3,765 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Church History 1 – The Apostolic Church | 8 mins | 9,783 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Persecution of the Christians by the Jews. The First Martyr St. Stephen | 2 mins | 4,786 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Conversion of Saul | 2 mins | 4,426 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Dormition of the Mother of God | 5 mins | 6,034 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Apostolic Council in Jerusalem | 3 mins | 5,936 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Revelation to St John | 7 mins | 3,574 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Preaching Labors of the Apostles | 3 mins | 3,805 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Lives of the Apostles | 4 mins | 7,790 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| First Century | 3 mins | 4,093 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Worldwide Persecution of Christians – Destruction of Jerusalem | 3 mins | 4,736 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Second Century | 7 mins | 4,475 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Third Century | 10 mins | 4,379 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| End of Persecutions – Finding of the Cross | 5 mins | 5,734 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Fourth Century | 6 mins | 3,918 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Church History 2 – The Establishment of the Imperial Church (312 AD) | 31 mins | 13,101 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| New Enemies of Christianity | 3 mins | 5,224 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Ecumenical Councils | 2 mins | 4,800 | Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy |
| Fifth Century | 5 mins | 4,253 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| A Brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church | 14 mins | 3,721 | Monk Nicodemus |
| Historical Background of the Council Chalcedon | 4 mins | 4,457 | Fr. Alexander Schmemann |
| Sixth Century | 6 mins | 4,727 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |