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First published in 1672 by Patriarch Dositheus II of Jerusalem as a summation of the decisions of that year’s Synod of Jerusalem, this confession of faith provides not only a summary of Orthodox Christian doctrine in the seventeenth century, but also a unique interaction between Orthodox theology and the Calvinists of the Protestant Reformation, as well as the Roman Catholic church of that same...

in His marvellous providence permitting this, and shewing that he who is not adorned with the Church’s name, cannot even be called a Christian, much less be a Christian; and teaching them that they should, therefore, join the Catholic Church, though they have not understood this. And this [they do], not as maintaining that our [teaching] is altogether true. For if that were so, they would not in other matters have maligned us, but would have agreed [with us] in all things; nor would they have desired
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