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traditional christianity

  1. The Liturgist

    A beautiful perspective on the Priesthood

    I read this quote from the much respected Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, which to me underscores the concept of the priesthood and episcopate in the traditional churches: “The Priest holds a great position in the Divine Liturgy, because he asks the Father to send the Holy...
  2. The Liturgist

    Vincent of Lerins and Ecumenical Ecclesiology for Traditional Churches

    I wouldn’t dream of denying the Christianiy of a denomination that adheres to the Nicene Creed, like the SDA or the Roman Catholic Church. By the way, all legitimate Christian churches are Catholic, however you define legitimate; the exact qualifications for Catholicity are called ecclesiology...
  3. jinc1019

    What's the Most 'Conservative' Mainline Church?

    Hi, Relatively speaking, I'm a traditional Christian (I identify most closely with Anglican), but I'm moving soon far away, to a town with no traditional Anglican churches but many mainline churches (Episcopal Church, PC USA, Evangelical Lutheran, United Methodist, etc.) Of the mainline...
  4. The Liturgist

    Lets talk about traditional liturgical Church Music

    In this forum we haven’t been talking much about Traditional Theology of late, so I thought we might have a thread to talk about the musical heritage of traditional theology. @dzheremi - your church has Tasbeha, one of my favorite traditions of ancient hymnody (as far as ancient church music...