THE ORTHODOX CHURCHBy the same author, fram SVS Press: The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church Byzantium and the Rise af Russia Catholtenty and the Chierch Christ in Eastern Christian Thou bit Daperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450-680 The Legacy of St. Viaelimir (ed.) THE ORTH O D OX CHURCH Living Tradition: Orthodox Witness in the Contemporary World Tts Past and Its Role in the World Today Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective home, Constantinople, Moscow: Historical and Theologtead Steedies Sit, Gregory Pulamas and Orthodox Sprricucltey Vision of Linity Witness to the World by f JOHN MEYENDORFF with selected revisions by Nicholas Lossky ST ¥VLADIMIR’'S SEMINARY PRESS CRESTWOOD, NY LOO? j } Fourth Revised Edition 1996Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicarion Data CONTENTS Meyendorff, John, 1926-1992 . The Orthodox Church. il Revised translation of VEglise orchodoxe, BARE ecncntencsostinrnie tomart mermeanniteee near x Bibliography: p. Includes index, 1 The Apostles. Holy Scripture. The Apostolic 1, Orthodex Eastern Church—Histary, 1. Tirle, ‘ 5 di eC. mpetateeswepaus | BX290,M¢413 1984 281.9 81-4978 | acthers. The Early Chutrch.. ee ee Se SEN OITSESTS ARGH 2 The Christian Church and the Roman Empire. The Church of the Ecumenical Councils........2...... 15 THE ORTHODOX CHURCH Lae . : at Reunion, ..........00---- 35 Its Past and Its Role in the World Today 3 Schism and Accempts at Reunion 4 The Government, Liturgy, and Spiritualiry of the Copyright © 1981 St, Vladimir's Seminary Press Orthodox Church. Orrhodox Monasticism, ...-..--. 55 All rights reserved : ee 5 The Orthodox Church and Islam, The Confessions Be tates selens TOE of Faith. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries... 75 First published in 1960 under the title 6 ey The Russian Church From its Beginnings to 1917.... 93 LE give Orthodoce: fier of attejarered Pisei, by Editions du Seuil ; Today reer nne VES ISBN 0-913836-81-8 8 The Orthodox Church Today ......-.-- 9 {. the Eoumenical Patriarchare of Canssanturople ....-. 132 2 Vhe Parviarchate af Alexandria .....0.0.00000.----- 133 This revised and augmented edition is che work of Professor Nicholas Lossky, a longtime friend of John Meyendortf, who spared neither his BT PUR aE EB eR 8 rete gamegod i f The Parichat offen sooo. i Prof, Lossky's text From che French. tee Rieko Jor cainslating 5. The Parriarchate af Mascot... 0.6002 ees aa G — Marie Meyendorff 6. The Serbian Orthodox Church. 0000000000008. . 145 7. The Romanian Orthodox Church 9000000000 as iqg 8, The Buigarian Orthodox Church... Soha 2a ae 9. The Church of Greece 0... 0.00220. 0 00 reese $55 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AM ERICA 10. The Church af Georgia 60.00 e ce cee ee 158