This week on the Word of the Lord endures forever we finish our walk through this altar for the time being,

looking at Psalms 71 and 72, my mouth is filled with your praise, I will remind them of your righteousness,

give the king your justice, and blessed be the Lord. Then off into Ecclesiastes with Vanity of vanities.

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Music We generally tend to think about the Roman Catholic Church when we think about some erroneous views of the Virgin Mary.

Lutherans, for their part, highly regard Mary.

We declare her to be blessed among women because that's exactly what God has told us to call her.

And she says even of herself all generations, so call me blessed.

Well, we think about the Roman Catholics.

We think about erroneous views of Mary. We don't

often think about orthodoxy, but their views of Mary are in some ways even more erroneous and

more extreme. Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us for part four of our

series on Eastern Orthodoxy today, the Mariology of Orthodoxy, Pastor Joshua Schuping. He's a former Eastern Orthodoxy today the Maryology of Orthodoxy Pastor Joshua Schuping

he's a former Eastern Orthodox priest pastor of St. John's a Lutheran Church in

Russellville Arkansas Joshua welcome back thank you Pastor Todd it's an honor and a

pleasure to be back with you we concluded our conversation last week talking about

the Orthodox teaching of theosis,

and you were pointing out how integral Mary is to their teaching on theosis.

Do a little review for us what we learned there before we go on to talk a little bit about Mary in Orthodox theology.

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