https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Sinuhe&feedformat=atomOrthodoxWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T14:58:47ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Sinuhe&diff=118560User:Sinuhe2014-04-04T16:12:46Z<p>Sinuhe: </p>
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<div>I am D. E. Evans. I was raised Mormon, but left after a successful, but disillusioning, mission to England and Wales, ending in 1995. I have since converted to Christianity.<br />
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[[Category:User Pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]</div>Sinuhehttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Sinuhe&diff=80743User:Sinuhe2009-02-10T14:18:53Z<p>Sinuhe: </p>
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<div>I am D E Evans, commonly known as sinuhe in electronic phase space. You can find more about me at my home page: http://deevans.net. However, here's some information about me:<br />
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I was raised Mormon, but left after a successful, but disillusioning, mission to England and Wales, ending in 1995. I am the webmaster for St Stephen's Episcopal Church and am a member of the Confraternity at St Gregory's Abbey. I have been investigating the Orthodox Church for about 4 years now and on occasion attend Prophet Elias in Holladay, Utah.<br />
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By profession, I am a hacker for the GNU project, and was the last volunteer Chief Webmaster for the Free Software Foundation. I am an examiner and instructor for Red Hat, a GNU+Linux instructor for Oracle University, and Hewlett Packard Education and Training, and an instructor, courseware author, and a Unix and GNU+Linux hacker for Guru Labs LC.</div>Sinuhehttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Sinuhe&diff=80742User:Sinuhe2009-02-10T14:18:24Z<p>Sinuhe: Initial content</p>
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<div>I am D E Evans, commonly known as sinuhe in electronic phase space. You can find more about me at home page: http://deevans.net. However, here's some information about me:<br />
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I was raised Mormon, but left after a successful, but disillusioning, mission to England and Wales, ending in 1995. I am the webmaster for St Stephen's Episcopal Church and am a member of the Confraternity at St Gregory's Abbey. I have been investigating the Orthodox Church for about 4 years now and on occasion attend Prophet Elias in Holladay, Utah.<br />
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By profession, I am a hacker for the GNU project, and was the last volunteer Chief Webmaster for the Free Software Foundation. I am an examiner and instructor for Red Hat, a GNU+Linux instructor for Oracle University, and Hewlett Packard Education and Training, and an instructor, courseware author, and a Unix and GNU+Linux hacker for Guru Labs LC.</div>Sinuhehttps://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Branch_theory&diff=80700Branch theory2009-02-08T04:39:20Z<p>Sinuhe: /* Apostolic succession */</p>
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<div>The '''Branch Theory''' is a belief, outside of Orthodoxy, that communities of Christians that are not in communion with each other, may still be a branch of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|One Church]]. Recently this has been expressed as a ''two lung'' theory by [[Roman Catholic]] writers, or there being ''three main branches'' by [[Anglican Communion|Anglican]] writers. Sometimes, by others, the entire “tree” is call an invisible church. <br />
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== Visible unity of faith==<br />
As a matter of faith, Orthodoxy believes in the bond between [[God]] and his Church, the Church is one, even as God is one. There is only one [[Christ]], and so there can be only one Body of Christ. Orthodox theology does not separate the invisible and the visible Church, and therefore it can not say that the Church is invisibly one but visibly divided.<br />
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Unity is one of the essential characteristics of the Church, and since the Church retains its essential characteristics, it remains and always will remain visibly one. Orthodox writers point out that there can be schisms ''from'' the Church, but no schisms ''within'' the Church. Schisms do hurt the Church but they cannot affect the essential nature of the Church.<br />
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==Apostolic succession==<br />
Branch Theory implies that many, if not all, Christians communities can trace their history, through other “braches of Christianity” back to the Apostolic Church. The Orthodox Church believes that more is necessary to claim apostolic succession. The community needs to hold the apostolic teachings, and be as one with all who hold the faith. To choose to hold other beliefs is heresy.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.oca.org/QA.asp?ID=27&SID=3 Orthodox Christianity and The "Branch Theory"] - [[OCA]] Questions and Answers About Orthodoxy<br />
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