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EvangelicalBaptist

Does Eastern Orthodoxy Have the "Fullness of the Faith?"

Theologian

Gavin Ortlund


Duration

28.04


Uploaded to YouTube

10 February 2024

Added to Database

25 November 2025


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In this video I respond to Jonathan Pageau's claims that Eastern Orthodoxy has the fullness of the faith. I show that this is not the historic Orthodox view, nor the historic Roman Catholic view, and then suggest reasons why the Protestant approach to discerning the one true church is superior.

See the original video here: https://youtu.be/vzapf-qtF9A?si=Rg8-p_Vfx1Gb3Hoq

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00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - The "One True Church" as a Hierarchy
03:31 - The "One True Church" as Noah's Ark
04:54 - Views in the Early Church
06:40 - Orthodox Views From 9th-19th Centuries
07:50 - The Filioque as Damnable Heresy
09:01 - Paisius Velichkovsky
11:26 - The 1672 Synod of Jerusalem
12:42 - The Patriarchal Encyclical of 1895
13:57 - The 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs
15:05 - Other Examples of Orthodox Exclusivism
16:35 - Medieval Roman Catholic Views
19:14 - Modern Roman Catholic Developments
20:59 - The Protestant Alternative
24:53 - Assurance of Salvation
26:57 - Final Matters