How often the fleeting popular consensus has been temporarily ill-formed or misunderstood. How deeply the unity of the community of faith has been severed. How often imbalance has paraded as balance. All the lasting advantages for survival lie on the side of the longer, more nuanced, more refined forms of historical memory. Thus orthodoxy’s extensive memory is its special gift to the faithful. In sum, these are the reasons that orthodoxy is surviving the failures of modern times: it is cross-culturally