Christophoros, the bearer of Christ, the saint and martyr
All we know about him from ancient sources is that he was martyred in Asia Minor. There is a church, built in his name, in Bithynia, dating back to […]
Andrei Rublev Saint
The Orthodox Church commemorates the Russian Saint Andrei Rublev, the icon painter, or icon writer, as some like to say, on the Fourth.
Delivery from a linguistic and ideological standpoint
Linguistically, delivery: The Greek word παράδοσις is derived from the verb παραδίδωμι (to deliver), which means the activity of transferring and sending away from one hand to another.
Delivering God's revelations in the Old Testament
If tradition is the oral transmission of declared truth, this means that there has been tradition and transmission since ancient times, because it accompanies...
Surrender in the New Testament
The New Testament Church arose and spread, as is clear from the testimony of the New Testament books, through oral preaching in many areas, and before
Delivery and church
Christ came to establish a church (Matthew 16:18) because the church is the extension, goal, summit, and fullness of all Christ’s saving work (Ephesians
Delivery and the Bible
In the early church, there was no duality at all between what the apostles and their disciples carried in terms of oral life gospel and what
Sources of tradition
The divine and apostolic tradition constitutes the general balance of all the faith of the early churches, which remains the basis of the constitution of faith of the entire universal Church. We have mentioned it
The vitality of tradition
The reality is that the Church, from the beginning, did not preserve its apostolic tradition as a rigid heritage, but rather used it not only as a basis for faith and for interpreting the Holy Bible.
Factors that help maintain the vitality of tradition
There are many factors that help tradition develop along with life. By which we mean in particular the more and more in-depth representation of the facts
Responding to those who reject imitation
The teaching of the Protestant churches regarding the Bible is summed up as follows: “The word of God contained in the Old and New Testaments is the only law.”
Our position on the Seventh-day Adventists - pdf
The Adventists are an American Shiite (with several centers in our country) founded by William Miller (1782-1849), after his separation from the “Baptists.”