Tag: John Zizioulas
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The Unity of God’s Church and the Orthodox Church
by Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis | български | Русский | Ελληνικά | Српски Today, the Orthodox Church maintains cordial relations with other Christian churches and communities and participates in joint efforts with them to recover the visible unity of all God’s people. While most of the Orthodox faithful perceive the Church’s involvement in this joint […]
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The Church without the Eucharist Is No Longer the Church
ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски We wish to hear your views on the current situation, since your theology plays a great role in the present circumstances. Metropolitan John: My theology, unfortunately, cannot be applied. In Greece they have already closed the churches, and the Divine Liturgy is not being served. Is it served in Serbia? […]
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Taking off the Mask: Love, Truth, and Communion
by Aristotle Papanikolaou When we first meet someone, we do not immediately expose to them our deepest secrets, the events in our lives that we are most afraid to reveal, which could include our own actions, something that has been done to us, or something that has happened to which we are indirectly related. We […]
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Human Beings or Human Persons?
by Paul Ladouceur One of the liveliest exchanges at the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in June 2016 concerned which Greek words should be used in Council documents to refer to humans: anthrōpos (“human being”); or anthrōpino prosōpo (or simply prosōpon) (“human person”). The main protagonists in this debate were, in the […]