Seven study paths

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• Orthodox Christianity: start here

  The full introductory course, from encountering Christ in the Church to visiting a parish and speaking with a priest.

  16 lessons — about 127 minutes of reading

• The apostolic and early Church

  From the generation after the apostles to the Church settled in the empire: persecution, controversy, worship and withdrawal.

  5 lessons — about 34 minutes of reading

• Reading the Fathers with the Church

  How to read an ancient text without misusing it: genre, edition, attribution, reception — and a guided reading.

  4 lessons — about 27 minutes of reading

• How the biblical canon formed

  A gradual ecclesial process, witness by witness — and a direct answer to the claim that a council chose the books.

  6 lessons — about 39 minutes of reading

• The seven ecumenical councils

  What each council faced, what it confessed, how it was received, and what it cost.

  8 lessons — about 43 minutes of reading

• The canons of Nicaea

  All twenty canons of the first council, studied one at a time, with the fourth-century problem beside each.

  3 lessons — about 23 minutes of reading

• Orthodox worship and spiritual life

  The daily cycle, the year, the Psalter, spiritual fatherhood and the shape of Christian conduct.

  5 lessons — about 33 minutes of reading