I am a convert to the Greek Orthodox faith and as someone who came from an evangelical background, the one thing I am currently struggling with is the Church's high mariology doctrines, one of those being that Mary is the ark of the new covenant, but did any of the early church fathers believe...
Natural theology is a branch of theology that seeks to understand God and the divine through observation and reasoning based on the natural world, but did any of the early church fathers believe this or that God works through the observable world or laws of nature in order to form the universe...
The papacy is a distinct doctrine of the Catholic Church and is rejected by both protestants and Orthodox christians, but did any of the early church fathers Fromm the 1st century affirm the papacy or that the bishop of Rome had primacy? (I know the word papacy didn't come along until a lot...
Contrary to the narrative pushed by many more conservative Christian denominations, evidence indicates that there were indeed women who served as church officers in the early church. This could include elders, official teachers, and deaconesses.
Romans 16:1-2
"I commend to you our sister Phoebe...
I find that there is much misunderstanding about the Christian church.
Some of this misunderstanding comes from the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism...
However, history is history and must be accepted by all of us.
So what is the history of the Christian church?
Is it the same...
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