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What Is the Orthodox Church? A Brief Overview of Orthodoxy is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume provides a brief overview of Orthodoxy. Father Marc Dunaway offers a valuable resource as he outlines the history of the Christian Church, with concise explanations and helpful at-a-glance timelines. He includes the age of persecution, the age of councils, the Great Schism, the Protestant Reformation, and more. A perfect introduction for those unfamiliar with the Orthodox Church, it...

and the Byzantine Empire came to an end. As a result, Christians in Greece and the Middle East entered a new age of persecution. Then, in 1917, a similar fate came upon the Church in Russia, as communist revolutionaries overthrew the Tsar and established the atheistic state of the Soviet Union. Under Lenin and Stalin, more than twenty million Orthodox Christians in Russia were killed for their belief in Jesus Christ.
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