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Response to the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Journal of World Christianity, 2021
ABSTRACT 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 Holy and Great Council – Communication of the Church Message

Ecumenical Review, 2020
AbstractThe 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 (Holy and Great) Council of the Orthodox Churches: An Ecumenical Perspective

Ecumenical Review, 2017
AbstractFrom 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 ...
Dagmar Heller
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The Great and Holy Council and the Orthodox Churches in the Public Sphere

2020
This 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 Mission of the Church in the Contemporary World in Light of the Decisions of the Holy and Great Council

Ecumenical Review, 2020
AbstractThis article discusses the place of mission in the Orthodox Church. The document “The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today's World,” which was approved by the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church held in Crete in 2016, is still in the process of reception, as are the other documents, but it constitutes, without doubt, a new era in ...
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The Ecumenical Significance of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Ecumenical Review, 2017
AbstractFrom 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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Disciplinary Trespassing, Historical Analysis, and Geopolitics: A Commentary on the Ecumenical Significance of the Event of the Holy and Great Council of Crete

Journal of World Christianity, 2021
ABSTRACT This essay is a commentary on assessments of the ecumenical significance of the Holy and Great Council (HGC) of the Orthodox Church at Crete in 2016. Relying on methods on Albert Hirschman’s notion of disciplinary trespassing and Jo Guildi and David Armitage’s commitment to long-range historical analysis, the essay considers the
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Reading the Document on Mission of the Holy and Great Council from a Missiological Point of View

International Review of Mission, 2017
AbstractPromulgation of the document on mission by the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Crete in June 2016 ensures an enduring place for mission in the future shape of Orthodoxy. After discussion of the methodological limitations of the document, this article explores the process by which it was prepared, the range of reactions to it ...
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TO A COMMON MISSIONARY TESTIMONY: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS. A HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, POINT OF VIEW

Religious dialogue and cooperation, 2020
In the framework of the World Council of Churches and inthe bilateral theological dialogues between diverse Churches anddenominations, the question of a common missionary testimony is aquite often topic.
Florescu , Marius
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Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: Crete 2016

Ecumenical Review, 2016
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