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Diarmaid MacCulloch · 2009
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Eastern Christianity survived empire, schism, and conquest by embedding divine light, obedience, and sacred rite into the bones of ordinary life.
faith-and-doubt
I have foolishly run away, O Father, from your glory… take me now repentant and make me as one of your hired servants.
CHR5-RC-036Theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation… all the cosmos was drawn into this transforming journey toward God.
CHR5-RC-022obedience-and-authority
The liturgy describes with relish the wretched end of Nicaea's arch-villain in fatal diarrhoea on the privy.
CHR5-RC-011The Grand Prince Vasilii II summarily declared him deposed and had him imprisoned; he proved to be the last Metropolitan appointed from Constantinople.
CHR5-RC-091belonging
They are bound together by the memory of worship in the Great Church in Constantinople and a common heritage in the theology of theosis.
CHR5-RC-045If anything saved Orthodoxy it was its profound hold over the lives and emotions of ordinary people, contrasting with popular attitudes to state power.
CHR5-RC-1156 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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