What is orhtodox Christianity?

Answer 1

Orthodoxy (in greek language Ορθοδοξία), means the proper faith. Orthodoxy is used to characterize the faith of adherents of Christianism who are members of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Church and other archdioceses that belong to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Orthodoxy is a concept of pure faith to the Holy Trinity released from human commitments to priests or the Patriarch. The most important thing is that every religionist is a free personality, who chooses wittingly to follow the teaching of Jesus Christ. In Orthodoxy, people don't believe in preists-Pope or another human being!The only pure and holy truth is the Holy Trinity. In Orthodoxy people's sins are forgiven through the holy mystery of the confession, which is being done face to face with the priest and not in hidden, in order to make this procedure more difficult and therefore more sincere.

The name orthodoxy came up after the Schism of Christian Church in two parts- The Orthodox and the Catholic Church. The argument was in the frase of the Prayer in which is said that the Holy Spirit derives from God. Catholic church believes that the Holy Spirit derives also from Jesus. That's why after the Schism the Eastern Church was renamed after the term Orthodox, to claim that the real belief was it's rules and prayers. Orthodoxy includes a hudge ecclesiastic tradition of scripts and hymns. Also several of the greatest spiritual scripts are written by Orthodox monks in greek language. Orthodoxy is the most liberal belief existing, because it respects the human being and cures all his debilities.

Answer 2

The Orthodox Church (with a large 'O') is the branch of the Christian Church that separated from the Church based at Rome in 'the Great Schism' and was centred on Constantinople (now Istanbul). Its beliefs are truly Christian, but its structure and tradition are very different from, say, the Protestant Church. For example, services are very dramatic with the copious use of incense, churches are highly decorated and ornate, and services are carried out with great ceremony. There are now many branches of the Orthodox Church, in Greece, Russia, Armenia and other places.

However, 'orthodox' (with a small 'o') simply means churches that follow the accepted Christian teachings of Jesus Christ and which have and uphold the beliefs of the early Church as it began. This includes the doctrines of the Incarnation, the divinity of Jesus, the Trinitarian Godhead, the resurrection, ascension and the second coming - among other doctrines. Unorthodox 'churches' are organisations that call themselves Christian but do not accept the teachings of Christ nor the early Church but, instead, follow either a skewed and heretical theology (such as the Jehovah's Witnesses) or a human-invented religion based on Christ but not Christian in the true sense (like the Mormons).

Answer 3

All of Christiandom in its main stream form condensed, and suited to fit the majority of the members views and personal opinions. In a nutshell the form you find on T.V.