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Article: THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION FROM AN ALASKAN PERSPECTIVE.
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
- Author:
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MICHAEL OLEKSA [*]
This essay will discuss Orthodox mission and its relation to the church in three ways: first, as mission and the church have related historically, second, as they relate now, specifically in the New World, and finally as they should, in the thinking of this writer, relate in the future.
The historical tradition
The Orthodox church has historically conducted missionary outreach as the geographic expansion of the gospel and the Orthodox faith itself. This has been done through evangelizing various tribes and nations, translating sacred texts and holy scripture into the local language, educating and ordaining indigenous clergy, ...
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