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To some Western evangelicals, the practices of Eastern Orthodoxy seem mysterious and perhaps even unbiblical. Then again, from an Orthodox perspective, evangelicals lack the spiritual roots provided by centuries-old church traditions. Are the differences between these two branches of Christianity so sharp that to shake hands is to compromise the gospel itself? Or is there room for agreement? Are...

even his adversaries had accepted.23 That mystery was based on the foundation of the incarnation. If there were no real union between God and humans in the incarnation, then the Eucharist itself would be meaningless because the Eucharist must, in some way, be described as God’s blood. This differs markedly from the Christology of Cyril’s opponent, Nestorius, which in reality tended to undermine the real union between the human and divine natures in Christ and instead “conjoined” or “juxtaposed” them.
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