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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...

error, He led back the truth, He made our first fruits mount to the royal throne. He accomplished so much good that neither I nor all people together could set it all before your minds in words.2 None of the other church fathers ever claimed they had plumbed the depths of what the Savior had accomplished. As the transmitters of the apostolic message, though, they proclaimed that salvation as fully as they could, according to apostolic emphases. Following the apostles, the church fathers eschewed
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