Mystery of the Church

By William Bush

If C.S, Lewis were alive today, and a convert to the Orthodox Church, this is the book he would write. Professor Bush has written the most uplifting and at the same tome informative book on. the Orthodox Church I have ever read. If you are going to read only one book on Orthodoxy, this is it.Writing both for the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox, the author explains why, in spite of wide ethnic diversity, Orthodox Christians speak confidently of the Orthodox Church. This stimulating and informative presentation of Orthodoxy as the right glory of apostolic Christianity, still alive in the world today; is illuminated by pertinent examples from Orthodoxy's long, glorious, but often suffering history as the Kingdom of the Holy Trinity on earth.The author proposes that the Holy Fathers' teaching that God is beyond human concepts applies equally to God's Church, its mystery being rooted also in the dual nature of Christ and the triune nature of God. Like holiness, the church's mystery becomes a personal reality only through an on-going, ascetic love for Orthodoxy's liturgical life, whereby the believer gains an ever deepening intimacy with Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition as well as with Jesus Christ as Lord and God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964914174
• ISBN13: 9780964914179
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Solved so many mysteries regarding the Oneness of The Early Church

Often, I have wondered how the prayer of Jesus in John 17 was answered regarding the call to Oneness of The ONE Bride of Christ, His Church. Amazingly, this book opened my eyes in ways I had not thought of before, even after preaching in evangelical churches for over 23 years and reading many of the original Christian writings of the 1st through 4th century. This book challenges the modern Roman catholic and nondenominational or protestant mindset with the reality that we have had ONE FAITH, ONE LORD, ONE BAPTISM for 2000 years and That Christ has been the Head of His ONE BODY for over 2000 years, keeping her, preserving her , and revealing His LIFE through her in a Mystery, we know as "The Church". This goes beyond organizational heierarchial systems of Roman Catholicism into the supernatural Mysterion of the working of The Holy Spirit in keeping Christ's Church faithful for 2000 years despite numerous attacks from without and specially from within. In my humble opinion, there is no other book on the market like this one! Thank you William. humbly in Christ, Anthony