Orthodox Christianity: The Basics

“Denysenko demonstrates with grace that understanding of any one element of Orthodoxy requires some knowledge of the interconnected whole, and that will be of significant pedagogical value (to non-specialists and specialists alike).”- Robert Saler, Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN, USA

“Nicholas Denysenko has impressively accomplished the formidable task of briefly charactering Orthodoxy. He has composed an accessible but not bland and balanced but not belaboured depiction of the history, theology, spirituality, liturgy, lived experience, and current challenges of the Orthodox Church. His expositions of the schism between Christian East and West as well as the past and current issues of church autocephaly are particularly cogent, and his attention to the domestic and daily realities of Orthodox Christians breathes life and fullness into this portrait of Orthodoxy. Perhaps most laudable is unapologetic avoidance of oversimplification; he accurately conveys the organic, sometimes self-contradictory complexity of the Orthodox Church.”- Carrie Frederick Frost, Western Washington University, USA

Nicholas Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair, Valparaiso University, USA.