Orthodoxy Revisited: Contrasting the Faith and Practice of the Eastern Orthodox Church with Evangelical Doctrine

In 207 pages of text the author provides a well written and interesting comparison of the Orthodox perspective on several tenets of the Christian faith as compared with the typical Evangelical Protestant perspective on the same topics. The books starts with a thought provoking comparison of Orthodox Holy Tradition as an authoritative component of Orthodox beliefs compared Protestants' supposed reliance on the Bible as a sole source basis of authority, which is, arguably, their "tradition". The Evangelical-turned-Orthodox author points out that what is now called the Orthodox Church predates and, in fact, created the Bible, relying in essence on inspired tradition as to what constituted authentic Scripture. In contrast the Protestant interpretation of that Bible, sometimes based on questionable translations, created their churches a thousand or more years later. Five additional meaty chapters address topics such as the Orthodox perspective in the Trinity, the Holy Mysteries, Holy Images and Saints, Ecumenism and Celtic Church. Thirty-two pages of footnotes document the text and there is a 14-page bibliography for anyone wishing to explore individual topics further. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to better understand Orthodox tradition and beliefs and there relationship to and contrast with other Christian traditions.