ORTHODOXY AND HUMANISM

To the Orthodox Christian faithful it is beyond dispute that the Orthodox Church contains the fullness of Divine revelation, even while consisting of sinful human beings. This apparent anomaly is explained by the fact that the power of God’s Grace operates through our human weakness, as St Paul so movingly describes in his second letter to the Corinthians (12, 9). Outside of Orthodoxy there is Roman Catholicism, a movement which broke away from the Orthodox Church around a millennium ago, as well as a plethora of Protestant denominations that have come into being over the past 500 years. These non-Orthodox groups contain obvious remnants of the Christian Tradition in varying degrees, but none of them has the fullness of Divine revelation. The reason for this lack is found in their rejection of the Christian Tradition and its gradual replacement over a thousand years by humanism, although this truth is not apparent to most Catholics and Protestants.

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