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
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 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
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
Incarnation and Salvation – an ecclesiological approach
I. The Church confesses in the Creed the common Faith, that “we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, eternally
Byzantium, Iconoclasm and the Monks
The history of the late Byzantine period – from the 8th to the 15th century – has not yet been written in full. This means
Uniatism : A Problem in the Dialogue Between the Orthodox and Roman Catholics
(A paper read at the International Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church Joint Sub-Commission on Uniatism.
The reply of saint photios to the structure and logical dynamics of the filioque
The uneasy tension in Saint Augustine’s own theology between his commitment to the monarch of the Father, on the one hand (1), 91 and his
The teaching of Church on the Devil
According to the Bible and the Patristic tradition, the devil is not the personalization of passions, but an entity created by God as an angel;