The Historical Coordinates We give the name “pietism” to a phenomenon in church life which certainly has a particular historical and “confessional” starting point, but
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity
Historians have noted with an alarming concern that more than half the world’s civil conflicts after the dissolution of the British, French, Dutch, Belgian and
Paradise and Hell According to Orthodox Tradition
On the Last Sunday of Lent “we commemorate the Second and Incorruptible Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”. The expression in the Synaxarion, “we commemorate”
The Holy Trinity in Creation and Incarnation
Among the other “new teachings” which brought “some strange things to the ears” of the people of the Greco-Roman world (1) Christianity brought also the
Athens and Jerusalem The Bond Between Christianity and Hellas
The survival of nations and mainly of small nations, especially in the critical and difficult periods of their history, depends not only on their physical,
The Fundamental Principles and main Characteristics of the Orthodox Church
I The question of the fundamental principles and main characteristics of the Orthodox Church was first raised not by Orthodox but by Roman Catholic and
The Orthodox Church as seen by the Roman Church
After the Schism between Constantinople and Rome, the Roman Church tended to work on the assumption that there was no Church in the East, but
Russia and Byzantium in the Mid-Tenth Century: The Problem of the Baptism of Princess Olga
The mid-tenth century was a critical point in the relations between Russia and the Byzantine Empire. These relations had begun in-auspiciously a hundred years earlier,
Neohellenic Theology at the Crossroads
After a ten-year destructive war, a tiny part of Greece was liberated from the Turkish occupation and was constituted into an independent small state in
Orthodoxy, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Developments in Eastern and South-eastern Europe during the last decade of the 20th century, following the collapse of the communist regimes in 1989-91, appeared to