Tag: Paul Gavrilyuk
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Hitler and Putin: 1938 and 2022
by Paul Gavrilyuk | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски Hitler delivered his speech of September 12, 1938 to the German Reichstag a few weeks before the German tanks rolled over the German-Czech border to invade Czechoslovakia; Putin delivered his speech of February 21, 2022 to the Russian nation as […]
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God, Evil, and COVID-19
by Paul Gavrilyuk | ελληνικά Our current pandemic has brought us face-to-face with the reality of human mortality, our susceptibility to disease and death. We no longer confront death in the abstract: its long hand has reached out to our communities and, in some cases, even touched our families. In our big extended family called […]
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The International Orthodox Theological Association: Conciliarity from Below
by Paul Gavrilyuk | ελληνικά | ру́сский The Holy and Great Council of Crete (2016) demonstrated that pan-Orthodox gatherings are possible in our time. The Council also made manifest global Orthodoxy’s enduring tensions and divisions. The delegation of the Patriarchate of Antioch did not attend the Council primarily because of its broken communion with the Patriarchate […]
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Salvation and the “Pursuit of Happiness”
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk Our pop culture is presently awash with books offering assistance in the “pursuit of happiness.” A search for “happiness” on amazon.com produces nearly 250,000 results, with books ranging from The Positivity Kit (“instant happiness on every page”), to a volume that more realistically guarantees to make you 10% Happier, to a teen’s […]
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When the Pope and Patriarchs Go Island Hopping: Cuba, Lesbos, and Crete
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk In the effort to draw the world’s attention to the refugee crisis, Patriarch Bartholomew invited Pope Francis to meet on the island of Lesbos on Saturday, April 16, 2016. This is the fifth meeting between the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch in the last three years, beginning with Bartholomew’s unprecedented participation […]
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The Great and Holy Council of Crete and Orthodox-Catholic Relations
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk The forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council of Crete, planned for June 2016, will ratify several important documents, including “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World.” The latest draft of the “Relations” document was adopted by the Fifth Pan-Orthodox Conference in October 2015 and is available online in different […]
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Why Did Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Agree to Meet with Pope Francis?
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk | ру́сский We live in historic times. About a week ago, the leaders of the Orthodox Churches announced their commitment to hold the Pan-Orthodox Council on the island of Crete in mid-June 2016. The failed attempts to organize such a council for more than fifty years have been attributed to a […]
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Can Anything Good Come out of a Pan-Orthodox Council? A Response to Detractors
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk | ру́сский The Patriarchate of Constantinople has been at the forefront of planning a Great and Holy Council, which will gather together the leaders of all fourteen self-governing Orthodox Churches. While the Council has its share of supporters, there are influential groups within the Orthodox Church that oppose the Council for […]
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Diaspora and American Orthodoxy
By Paul L. Gavrilyuk (This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on Autocephaly and Diaspora.) I would like to begin with three questions, for which I would ask for a show of […]