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The Victory of the Cross: Salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can Christians claim that the death of Jesus Christ on the cross is a victory? Yet the doctrine of salvation affirms precisely that: in his death and his resurrection, Christ is victorious over the power of sin and death. The expression of this eternal truth has taken different shapes throughout the church’s life and history. The Eastern Orthodox church has made its own contributions to the...

and the Orthodox liturgical tradition. This is necessary if we are to present faithfully those Orthodox perspectives and come to a genuine understanding of them. The important consideration here for Western Christians, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant (of all kinds), is not whether their own tradition follows such a pattern but what pattern the Orthodox follow. If we are to appreciate what Orthodoxy sets forth about salvation, we must look to Scripture as expounded by the church fathers, with
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