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The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church and Interreligious Dialogue
The Ecumenical Review, 2020AbstractThis article examines how, through a pan‐Orthodox synodical decision, the Orthodox Church has for the first time officially asserted its obligation to enter into dialogue with people of other cultures and religious beliefs and emphasized the value of serious and clear interreligious dialogue to promote mutual trust, peace, and reconciliation ...
Stylianos Tsompanidis, Angeliki Ziaka
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Response to the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
Journal of World Christianity, 2021ABSTRACT The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church was a momentous event not simply for the Orthodox world, but for all Christians. In this response, I suggest that the Council opened the door to a new set of relations centered on the recognition of the “historic name” of other churches outside the boundaries of Orthodoxy.
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The Preparation and Organization of the Holy and Great Council
The Ecumenical Review, 2020AbstractThis paper, given at the 8th International Conference of Orthodox Theology, held in Thessaloniki, 21–25 May 2018, on the theme “The Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church: Orthodox Theology in the 21st Century,” reviews the preparation, organization, and convocation of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in 2016 and makes ...
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The Holy and Great Council – Communication of the Church Message
The Ecumenical Review, 2020AbstractThe article examines the impressions of observers about the Holy and Great Council in Crete in 2016 that have been most discussed, above all a strong competition between national churches and their leaders, and an enormous discrepancy between the agendas seen as urgent by hierarchs and by laypeople.
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The Documents of the Holy and Great Council on Marriage and Fasting
The Ecumenical Review, 2020AbstractThis article offers a critical response to the documents on marriage and on fasting of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which took place in Crete in 2016. It suggests greater attention be given to the concept of oikonomia in contemporary Orthodoxy, both in the context of the issues raised in these two documents and with ...
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The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: A Roman Catholic Appraisal
Journal of World Christianity, 2021ABSTRACT The article appraises from the Catholic perspective the document titled “The Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World.” It begins by giving a brief overview of the relations between the Catholic Church and the Othodox Church up to the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) as the immediate context to ...
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The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church and the Religious Education
2022Η Αγία και Μεγάλη Σύνοδος της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας (2016) απετέλεσε το τέρμα και τον σκοπό μιας μακράς προ-συνοδικής περιόδου, η οποία ξεκίνησε επισήμως στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα. Η σύγκληση της εν λόγω Συνόδου, έναν σχεδόν αιώνα μετά τις πρώτες σχετικές προσπάθειες, υπήρξε αδιαμφισβήτητα το σπουδαιότερο εκκλησιαστικό γεγονός των τελευταίων αιώνων ...
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The (Holy and Great) Council of the Orthodox Churches: An Ecumenical Perspective
The Ecumenical Review, 2017AbstractFrom 19 to 26 June 2016, the first Pan‐Orthodox Council for more than a thousand years took place in Crete, although the Orthodox churches of Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria, and Antioch, for various reasons, did not participate. This article offers an assessment, from an ecumenical perspective, of the preparation and results of the council, and ...
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The Great and Holy Council and the Orthodox Churches in the Public Sphere
2020This paper explores how the Orthodox churches may be actively present in the public sphere of a plural society. It argues – based on the explicit desire of the Orthodox Church in the Great and Holy Council of Crete (2016) – that the presence of the Orthodox Church in the public sphere must be theologically informed and at the same time sensitive to the
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The Ecumenical Significance of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
The Ecumenical Review, 2017AbstractFrom 20 to 26 June 2016, following a century of preparatory work, the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church met on the island of Crete. Among the various documents agreed by the council, the most controversial before, during, and after the council was the one on “The Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World.”
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