From Ligonier by Panagiotis Kantartzis:
Smells and bells, ancient chants and priests with long robes and beards, people crossing themselves and kissing icons, an atmosphere filled with an “air of antiquity and apparent changelessness.” That is what one observes upon first sight in his or her encounter with the Eastern Orthodox Church. A sense that he or she is visiting an “exotic” country or, to use the expression of an eminent Orthodox theologian, “a new and unknown world.”1
Why, then, should we bother exploring it?
There are several ways to answer this question.
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