Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 028
What Is the Church
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos expounds the creedal article on the Church, teaching that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, and the greatest reality upon earth. From Matthew 16:16-18, John 10:16, and Ephesians 4:4-6 he argues that there is one body, one flock, and one faith, so that talk of many churches and of ecumenical union is false; the Church is clergy and laity together, animated by the Holy Spirit since Pentecost. It is holy through its sinless founder Christ, its Gospel, and its mysteries, and catholic because it holds the whole of the truth. He identifies this one Church with Orthodoxy, the unchanged continuation of the Church of the first eight centuries, and rejects the papal Filioque addition to the Creed. Naming the Church the pillar and ground of truth (1 Timothy 3:15) and the ark of salvation, he teaches that the faithful people themselves guard the faith and judge even councils.
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