Oriental Orthodoxy

Denomination·Founded 451 CE·est. ~60 million worldwide

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → 6 branches

Branch

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum Part of Belief →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The Word has one incarnate nature. Miaphysis: divinity and humanity united without separation in Christ — the confession Chalcedon's language could not hold. Go deeper — context →
The ancient rites are home. Coptic, Ge'ez, Armenian, Syriac: liturgy in the tongues of the first Christian nations, essentially unchanged. Go deeper — context →
Monasticism began in our deserts. Antony walked into the Egyptian desert, and the Christian monastery followed him out. Go deeper — context →
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