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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seventh Century | 6 mins | 3879 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Eighth Century | 5 mins | 4058 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Holy Icons | 9 mins | 4310 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Ninth Century | 8 mins | 4640 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Encyclical Letter of Saint Photius (867) | 12 mins | 7426 | Saint Photius the Great |
| Cyril and Methodius | 9 mins | 4450 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Tenth Century | 4 mins | 3957 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Baptism of Russia: The Kiev period (988-1237) | 7 mins | 6605 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Church History 3 – The Church of Imperial Byzantium (about AD 1000) | 30 mins | 6557 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Eleventh Century | 5 mins | 3606 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Great Schism | 54 mins | 4848 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Twelfth Century | 2 mins | 3289 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Thirteenth Century | 5 mins | 2601 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Fourteenth Century | 7 mins | 3795 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Fifteenth Century | 5 mins | 3457 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Church History 4 – Orthodoxy Under the Ottomans (1453-1821) | 6 mins | 5825 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Moscow the third Rome | 13 mins | 6579 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Church History 5 – The Church of Russia (1448-1800) | 8 mins | 3968 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Sixteenth Century | 6 mins | 2934 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Seventeenth Century | 7 mins | 3008 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Synodical period (1700-1917) | 22 mins | 4094 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Eighteenth Century | 7 mins | 2364 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |
| Church History 6 – The Orthodox Churches In the 19th Century | 8 mins | 3939 | Timothy Ware ( Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia) |
| Nineteenth Century | 9 mins | 2829 | Fr. Thomas Hopko |