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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 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 – 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 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 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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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
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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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
Jette Steen Knudsen
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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
Jette Steen Knudsen
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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, 2017AbstractPromulgation 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 ...
Evangelia Voulgaraki
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Journal of World Christianity, 2021
ABSTRACT The present article looks at the Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete, 2016) and its implications for ecumenical relations between Orthodox and Classical Pentecostals. The text reflects on the Encyclical through an Eastern-European Pentecostal perspective, engaging its inherent ecclesiological ...
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ABSTRACT The present article looks at the Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete, 2016) and its implications for ecumenical relations between Orthodox and Classical Pentecostals. The text reflects on the Encyclical through an Eastern-European Pentecostal perspective, engaging its inherent ecclesiological ...
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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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