Organic Orthodoxy

“For everything in the Orthodox Church points toward a way of life; the Church is connected to all aspects of life.”

+ FR. ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

Orthodoxy is an ocean without shores. Such magnanimity cannot be confined within the four walls of a church building. Reducing orthodoxy to a few performative rituals is the greatest distortion one could possibly make of it. Orthodoxy is not a religious ideology but the most organic lifestyle initiated, practiced and traditioned to us by Jesus Christ for the integral healing of human beings and the wider creation. There is not a single aspect of human life and ecosystem which Orthodoxy does not encompass. A genuine inculcation of this lifestyle would lead us to the cross of Christ where we would discover our true life which is “hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3).

Organic Orthodoxy envisions to theologically engage with the social evils of the world that strive to upend the divine order and impede the realization of the reign of God on earth.


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Jesus Christ, the Son of God was also a man of brevity. His speeches, instructions and sermons were all crisp. Drawing inspiration from our Lord Himself, Dayroyo Fr. Basil and Suryani_Malankara have composed a compendious work entitled 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 which succinctly presents vital theological reflections. It is intended to be a 𝘊𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 – something to meditate as we sip our morning coffee. Cheers! ☕

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dayroyo Fr. Basil of the Syriac Orthodox Church holds a B.Div from United Theological College, Bangalore and an M.A. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Nagpur University and has served in the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), Nagpur. After having served at Dayro d’Mor Avgin, Arth, Switzerland, he now serves at Dayro d’Mor Ignatios, Manjinikkara, Kerala, India.

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  1. Good initiative! Best wishes!!

    I hope and pray that along with the social evils, Organic Orthodoxy will continue to address the evils and hypocrisy within the Christian Churches including our Church, which are part of the society/world.

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