Prophecy and the Church
What a prophet is in the biblical and Orthodox sense — not first of all a predictor but the mouth of God and covenant-enforcer, moved by the Spirit of Christ — and the Church’s claim that the prophets are her saints, venerated by name with feast days. This section sets the frame for the whole compendium.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox
The compendium opens by defining its subject twice over. The first file, what-is-a-prophet.md, sets out the prophetic office: the nābîʾ / prophētēs as the spokesman of God; the Spirit who “spake by the prophets” (the Creed); the Church’s christological claim that the prophets spoke by the Spirit of Christ (Luke 24:27); and, per METHODOLOGY §4.1, the christological reading confessed alongside the historical-critical alternatives, which are deferred to the Scripture collection. The second file, the-prophets-as-saints.md, treats the fact of veneration — an emphasis largely lost in the West — with the prophets’ feast days and the two great Sundays before the Nativity, the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers and the Sunday of the Holy Fathers.
Contents
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| what-is-a-prophet.md | The mouth of God, not primarily a predictor; the Spirit of Christ in the prophets; the christological reading and the critical alternatives (§4.1) |
| the-prophets-as-saints.md | The prophets venerated by name with feasts; the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers and the Sunday of the Holy Fathers before Nativity |
See Also
- The Holy Prophets (master README)
- Christ the Key to the Scriptures — the christological reading, at length
- John the Seal of the Prophets — where the prophetic line comes to its point
- METHODOLOGY.md — the repository standard, esp. §4.1–4.2