what was the orthodox church doing when the western one underwent radical changes like the reformation?

i never hear anything about the eastern church, whereas the western church had the renaissance, reformation, counter-reformation, major missionary projects throughout the world. what scandals, problems and reforms did the orthodox church go through in the past thousand years?

The Orthodox Church hasn’t had any such problems because many eastern countries were part of the Ottoman Empire and everyone clung on to it as religion determined their national identity. Also, it’s rather tolerant (this may or may not be true, I’ve never paid attention in church). Now, as to problems, it has always meddled in politics etc., even though until recently everyone thought it was natural, it has tons of money, the Greek Orthodox Church was involved in some scandals recently…

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November 05 2009 05:50 pm | Uncategorized

4 Responses to “what was the orthodox church doing when the western one underwent radical changes like the reformation?”

  1. Charbel on 05 Nov 2009 at 11:33 pm #

    There is Eastern Catholic church too, Maronite! But Eastern Orthodox church stayed like us. You are speaking of the Protestants who became heretic to Catholic church. Although many Catholic churches became more reformed they stayed much to the same traditional ways as the Orthodox church. No radical change for Catholics and Orthodox, we are the apostolic churches of Christ.
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  2. IJR on 06 Nov 2009 at 12:02 am #

    The Orthodox was minding there own Business and praising God in their unique way.
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  3. Sde on 06 Nov 2009 at 12:08 am #

    The Orthodox Church hasn’t had any such problems because many eastern countries were part of the Ottoman Empire and everyone clung on to it as religion determined their national identity. Also, it’s rather tolerant (this may or may not be true, I’ve never paid attention in church). Now, as to problems, it has always meddled in politics etc., even though until recently everyone thought it was natural, it has tons of money, the Greek Orthodox Church was involved in some scandals recently…
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  4. Roman C on 06 Nov 2009 at 12:23 am #

    They were dealing with their own troubles of Radical Islam overwhelming the entire near and middle east. They were lucky to survive. Pax Christi
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