Salvation History - New Life, Church History

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 4770 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
The Royal Ministry of Christ in His Church 6 mins 3856 Archbishop Dmitri
Life of the First Christians 2 mins 3721 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Church History 1 – The Apostolic Church 8 mins 9724 Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)
Persecution of the Christians by the Jews. The First Martyr St. Stephen 2 mins 4737 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Conversion of Saul 2 mins 4369 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Dormition of the Mother of God 5 mins 5980 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Apostolic Council in Jerusalem 3 mins 5866 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Revelation to St John 7 mins 3526 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Preaching Labors of the Apostles 3 mins 3757 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Lives of the Apostles 4 mins 7735 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
First Century 3 mins 4056 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Worldwide Persecution of Christians – Destruction of Jerusalem 3 mins 4689 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Second Century 7 mins 4419 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Third Century 10 mins 4303 Fr. Thomas Hopko
End of Persecutions – Finding of the Cross 5 mins 5689 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Fourth Century 6 mins 3856 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Church History 2 – The Establishment of the Imperial Church (312 AD) 31 mins 13029 Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)
New Enemies of Christianity 3 mins 5116 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Ecumenical Councils 2 mins 4757 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Fifth Century 5 mins 4209 Fr. Thomas Hopko
A Brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church 14 mins 3667 Monk Nicodemus
Historical Background of the Council Chalcedon 4 mins 4410 Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Sixth Century 6 mins 4685 Fr. Thomas Hopko