ORTHODOX CATECHISM TOPICS
The Church
By: Fr. Anthony Alevizopoulos
PhD. of Theology, PhD. of Philosophy
PhD. of Theology, PhD. of Philosophy
http://www.egolpion.com/
The
Church as the Body of Christ is a Divine-human (theanthropic) organism,
i.e. an invisible and visible reality. The invisible dimension of the
Church refers to the communion between God and man having as its model
the communion between the three Persons of the Holy Trinity. With the
creation of the angels the heavenly Church was constituted; to this
Church man was added: " but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of the just men made perfect" (Heb. 12, 22-23).
