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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...

LXX 13:3). None is exempt: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). In all this, we show ourselves to be the children of our first parents, who turned away from God and set humanity’s feet on the path of disobedience. A respected desert father expressed this pithily when he said, “All of us look like Adam.”58 In all these effects of sin, we find, indeed, that all humankind is “in Adam.” But how does our being “in Adam” work its way out in us? How are we
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