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 4,827 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
The Royal Ministry of Christ in His Church 6 mins 3,923 Archbishop Dmitri
Life of the First Christians 2 mins 3,763 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Church History 1 – The Apostolic Church 8 mins 9,781 Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)
Persecution of the Christians by the Jews. The First Martyr St. Stephen 2 mins 4,783 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Conversion of Saul 2 mins 4,423 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Dormition of the Mother of God 5 mins 6,031 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Apostolic Council in Jerusalem 3 mins 5,933 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Revelation to St John 7 mins 3,572 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Preaching Labors of the Apostles 3 mins 3,802 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Lives of the Apostles 4 mins 7,788 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
First Century 3 mins 4,089 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Worldwide Persecution of Christians – Destruction of Jerusalem 3 mins 4,733 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Second Century 7 mins 4,473 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Third Century 10 mins 4,376 Fr. Thomas Hopko
End of Persecutions – Finding of the Cross 5 mins 5,730 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Fourth Century 6 mins 3,916 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Church History 2 – The Establishment of the Imperial Church (312 AD) 31 mins 13,098 Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)
New Enemies of Christianity 3 mins 5,221 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Ecumenical Councils 2 mins 4,797 Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
Fifth Century 5 mins 4,250 Fr. Thomas Hopko
A Brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church 14 mins 3,718 Monk Nicodemus
Historical Background of the Council Chalcedon 4 mins 4,455 Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Sixth Century 6 mins 4,726 Fr. Thomas Hopko