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Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Exploring Belief Systems through the Lens of the Ancient Christian Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Are you an Orthodox Christian who wonders how to explain to your Baptist grandmother, your Buddhist neighbor, or the Jehovah’s Witness at your door how your faith differs from theirs? Or are you a member of another faith, curious what Orthodoxy is all about? In Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick covers the gamut of ancient heresies, modern Christian denominations, fringe groups,...

Renaissance and Baroque art, with their highly sensual (and even erotic) character, and the realistic, three-dimensional statuary that is standard in church ornamentation. Orthodox iconography is deliberately non-realistic, to take the viewer away from this world and to the world beyond. Roman Catholicism has also (at least before the modern introduction of Protestant-style pop and folk music) been home to a complicated musical style whose focus is not on the texts being delivered but on the ornateness
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