Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . n—as the Papists themselves well know—inan entirely different manner, and in an orthodox spirit; the immovable funda-mental rock on which the Lord built His church, and against which thegates of hell shall not prevail, was understood metaphorically to signify theright confession which Peter had made concerning the Lord: Thou artChrist, the Son of the living God. On this confession of faith re
Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . n—as the Papists themselves well know—inan entirely different manner, and in an orthodox spirit; the immovable funda-mental rock on which the Lord built His church, and against which thegates of hell shall not prevail, was understood metaphorically to signify theright confession which Peter had made concerning the Lord: Thou artChrist, the Son of the living God. On this confession of faith rests firmlythe saving message of the Gospel preached by all the apostles and theirsuccessors. Therefore the heaven-soaring apostle Paul refers manifestly tothis Divine sentence when he declares, bj Divine inspiration: According tothe grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laidthe foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heedhow he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than thatis laid, which is Jesus Christ.—Reply of the Holy Cath. and Apo. of the East to the Ency. of Pope Leo XIII on Reunion, page 7.—Ed.] 200. GREEK CHRISTIANITY. 201 The name Greek Christianity should be employed in strictest ac-curacy to designate the type of thought and life developed under theinfluence of the Gospel, among those peoples which had been pre-viously molded by Greek civilization. As a matter of fact, how-ever, the expression is used as the equivalent of the Greek Church,whose full name is The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic ApostolicChurch. This church includes the Greeks of Turkey, under thePatriarchs of Constantinople, Antioeh, Jerusalem and Alexandria,the National Church of the Kingdom of Greece, vmder the NationalSynod of Greece, and the National Church of the Russian Empire,under a Holy Synod of its own. It embraces a population of 100,-000,000 souls. The Christian Church finally divided into the East-e
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