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ApoteichisisOrthodox sources & church history

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Twelve short lessons, in order, from first principles to the hard edges of the question. Each keeps plain explanation, key terms, primary sources, historical example and common misunderstanding distinct, and each ends where the next begins.

  1. 1What does Apoteichisis mean?Read →
  2. 2What is ecclesiastical communion?Read →
  3. 3What is public preaching of heresy?Read →
  4. 4What does “before synodal condemnation” mean?Read →
  5. 5What does Canon 15 say?Read →
  6. 6Is Apoteichisis a schism?Read →
  7. 7Does a heretical bishop automatically lose priesthood?Read →
  8. 8What is meant by spiritual pollution?Read →
  9. 9Validity versus spiritual benefitRead →
  10. 10What is economy (oikonomia)?Read →
  11. 11The dangers of private judgmentRead →
  12. 12What would turn resistance into schism?Read →

Roughly an hour of reading in total. The course states the position of this library and links the disputed points to the pages where both sides are weighed.