The History of the Christian Church (Part 28) The Eastern Confession of Cyril Lucaris & The Synod of Jerusalem

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Episode Notes.

Season 2 Finale: The Eastern Confession of Cyril Lucaris & The Synod of Jerusalem (1672)

In this final episode of Season Two of the History of the Church Podcast, we close our journey through the Eastern tradition by examining two defining documents: Cyril Lucaris’ Eastern Confession of the Christian Faith (1629) and the response of the Orthodox world in The Confession of Dositheus (1672).

At stake were the deepest questions of authority, salvation, and the gospel itself. Was the East to move closer to Reformed Protestantism, with Scripture at the center, as Lucaris urged? Or would it anchor itself firmly in tradition, sacramentalism, and church authority, as Dositheus declared?

These debates remind us that the gospel is never preserved by accident. Each generation must ask again: what is the foundation of our faith — the Word of God, or the shifting judgments of men?

As evangelicals, we find much to appreciate and much to critique in these confessions. But above all, we are reminded of Jude’s charge to “contend for the faith once delivered to the saints” — a call as urgent today as it was in the seventeenth century.

Season three coming soon:

As Season Two ends, we turn now from the Eastern world to the Western Middle Ages. Season Three — The Medieval West, 500–1500 A.D. — will explore the rise of monasticism, the papacy, scholasticism, corruption, reform, and the movements that prepared the way for Luther and Calvin.

Join us as we cross into a new chapter of church history — and discover how God was at work even in the darkest of centuries, preserving His Word and preparing His Church.

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