This issue, unity in Christ, is a
complex one. It entails Christology and Ecclesiology. If Jesus Christ is one
then the Church should be one. Therefore, what exists today, with the existence
of countless churches and ecclesiastical groups is a paradox. Nevertheless, how
do the Orthodox understand this topic?
‘Orthodox theology understands
“unity in Christ” as a communion in
the risen and ascended Body of the New Man. “You are dead,” writes St. Paul,
“and your life is hidden in God with Christ” (Col. 3:3). There is, therefore, a
particular manner in which we achieve this closeness to Christ which makes the
Church to be one. This manner, which Paul calls “communion,” transcends
intellectual conviction, moral commitment or ethical principle.’[1]
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