Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith

by Peter E. Gillquist

Publisher:

Ancient Faith

, 2009

Overview

Peter Gillquist tells the story of a handful of courageous men and their congregations who risked stable occupations, security, and the approval of lifelong friends to pursue a call to the Orthodox Church.

This text is also the story of every believer who is searching for the Church—where Christ is Lord; where holiness, human responsibility, and the Sovereignty of God are preached; where fellowship is more than a covered-dish supper in the church basement; and where fads and fashion take a back seat to apostolic worship and doctrine. This revised edition includes a new epilogue, “Coming up on Twenty-Five Years” since the entry of the Evangelical Orthodox into the Holy Orthodox Church.

Key Features

• Provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodox Christianity
• Explains key ideas about the Orthodox Church
• Presents insights into the journey of faith

Contents

• From Arrowhead Springs to Antioch
  • Never Say Never
  • The Phantom Search for the Perfect Church
  • A Week We Will Not Forget
  • Finding the New Testament Church
• Orthodoxy and the Bible
  • The “T” Word
  • Why We Worship the Way We Do
  • Call No Man Father
  • Facing Up to Mary
  • A Sign for All Christians
• The Great Entrance
  • A Decade of Decision
  • Welcome Home!
  • On to the Third Millennium
• Coming up on Twenty-Five Years
• Memory Eternal

Top Highlights

“The early Church was sacramental. She confessed with one voice the sacraments (or ‘mysteries’ as they were usually called) as reality, and she practiced them.” (Page 41)

“In all, 318 bishops of the Church stepped forward to affirm and to sign what we know today as the first and longest part of the Nicene Creed.” (Page 38)

“Actually, it was seen both as symbol and as substance,’ Jack continued. ‘But you don’t find the term ‘transubstantiation’ until many centuries later. The key word is mystery. The Fathers of the Church saw the consecrated bread and wine as the actual body and blood of Christ, but they never explained the how. They confessed it as a blessed mystery.’” (Page 31)

“For Nicea was the first of the seven ecumenical councils which met between a.d. 325 and a.d. 787, each to confront a Christological error, and each emerging with the truth. These seven councils together complete the foundation of the Church’s understanding of the apostolic deposit of the faith and serve as a safeguard of it.” (Page 39)

“Tradition is there not just to preserve the Bible but to interpret it. Without the Church there to interpret, to shed the light of holy tradition on those chapters and verses, you and the Jehovah’s Witness are in a dead heat: his interpretation versus yours.” (Page 67)

Product Details

• Title: Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith
• Author: Peter E. Gillquist
• Publisher: Ancient Faith
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 216
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission › History; Evangelical Orthodox Church › History; Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America › History; Orthodox Eastern Church › United States History; Orthodox Eastern Church › Doctrines; Gillquist, Peter E
• ISBNs: 9781936270002, 0962271330, 1936270005, 9780962271335
• Resource ID: LLS:BCMNGRTHDXCHFTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:11:52Z

About Peter E. Gillquist

Peter E. Gillquist converted to the Orthodox faith from evangelical Protestant Christianity. He was instrumental in leading 2,000 formerly-Protestant Christians, members of the Evangelical Orthodox Church, into canonical Orthodoxy in 1987. He served as an archpriest and chairman of the Department of Missions and Evangelism for the Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America.