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1979
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY;
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
'The Holy Spirit within': St Cuthbert as a Western
Orthodox Saint
Vladimir's Solov'ev: A Russian Newman?
A Hymn of St Ephrem to Christ
Holy Spirit and Tradition: The Writings of St
Athanasius
POEM
Presentation of the Virgin
NEWS AND COMMENT
Orthodoxy and the World Council of Churches. . .
REVIEWS
Church, Papacy and Schism by Philip Sherrard . . .
Yearbook of the Orthodox Church, 1978 Edition .
The Lenten Triodion tr. Mother Mary and
Kallistos Ware
Oi Rosoi Onomatolatrai tou Agiou Orous by
Konstantinos Papoulidis
Christian Religion in the Soviet Union by Christel
Lane
Suffering, Innocent and Guilty by Elizabeth
Moberly
Nicolas Berdiaev Bibliographie by Tamara
Klpinine
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George Dragas
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George Every
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Kallistos Ware
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Norman Russell
Kallistos Ware
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Hugh Wybrew
87
Kallistos Ware
89
Philippe Sabant
90
Charles Dilke
91
Philippe Sabant
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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Fellowship Notes
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Fellowship Accounts
Vage
Gerald Bonner
MarkEveritt
Robert Murray SJ
Books Received
Obituary: Patrick Thompson
The Fellowship Conference
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EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
On death
Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the
Churches
The Filioque Question
Mary and the Eucharist
The Woman taken in Adultery
POETRY
Flesh
NEWS AND COMMENT
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Greece and Russia
The role of Exarch Stefan
REVIEW ARTICLE
Confirmation
REVIEWS
The Human Presence by Paulos Gregorios
Living Tradition by John Meyendorff
The New Valamo Consultation introduced by G.
Tsetsis
Motifs from Genesis 1-11 in the Genuine Hymns
ofEphrem the Syrian by Tryggve Kronholm. . .
Aspects of Monasticism and Contemplative Life by
Jean Leclercq
Katalogos Kheirographon tes Vatopdines Sketes
Agiou Demetriou by Erich Lamberz and
Euthemios K. Litsas
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The Early Church Fathers as Educators by Elias
Matsagouras
Church Union: Rome and Byzantium (12041453) by Joseph Gill
Byzantium by M. Yanagi et al
Sergei Hackel
Anthony, Metropolitan
ofSourozh
Norman Russell
Edward Every
Sebastian Brock
Lev Gillet
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60
Laurence Lerner
63
Roger Cowley
John Lawrence
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Grigorii Ivanov
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F.J. Laishley
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A Note on the Illustrations
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Harrowing of Hell
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E.L. Mascall
Rowan Williams
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2 St Mark
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Roger Beckwith
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Michael Weitzman
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Ronald Creighton-Jobe
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Norman Russell
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Norman Russell
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Nicholas Gendle
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1980
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAX
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Paths to reconciliation
The Orthodox Experience of Repentance
Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the
Churches
British Aid to Russian Churchmen in 1919-39. . . .
Sergei
tiackel
Kallistos Ware
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Donald Davis
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42
POETRY
Daniel in the Lion's Den
John Heath-Stubbs
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58
Justin Popovic
Kallistos Ware
EL. Mascall/
Rowan Williams,
Elizabeth Hill
John Lawrence
80
Michael Wadsworth
Kallistos Ware
83
84
Richard Price
86
Athanasius Pekar
89
OBITUARIES
Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira
George Florovsky
REVIEWS
The Lord's Prayer and Jewish Liturgy, ed. Jacob
J. Petuchowski
ne Holy Spirit by C.F.D. Moule
Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian
Egypt by Colin H. Roberts
Sviatii Vasilii i Khristians'ke Asketichne Zhittia by
Pavlo J. Fediuk.
Intoxicated with God: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies
ofMacarius by George A. Maloney
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Ban and Manhattan: Bio
graphy of a Legend by Charles W. Jones
Communauts syriaques en Iran et Irak des origines
1552 by J.-M. Fiey
Marie dans l'pigraphie, les monuments et l'art du
patriarcat d'Antioche du Ille au Vile sicle by
Joseph Nasrallah
Charles Dilke
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90
Norman Russell
92
Sebastian Brock
94
Sebastian Brock
94
J. Gill
96
Victor Swoboda
98
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The rich man in hell
2 Emperor John II Comnenus
Ivan Truman
100
Martin Parmentier
104
John Lawrence
Benedicta Ward
105
107
Nicolas Zemov
Barnabas Burton
109
110
Elizabeth Moberly
Nicholas Gendle
112
113
R. Cormack
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
115
116
118
Basil Minchin
119
Basil Minchin
120
Basil Minchin
121
S.JI.
Gareth Evans
122
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125
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
Baptism in Byzantine Icongraphy
St Ephrem's Dialogue of Reason and Love
Tradition and Translation
A philosopher and his faith: the work of H.A.
Hodges
NEWS AND COMMENT
A visit to the Coptic Church
Ethiopia
The Syrian Orthodox Church in Europe
The Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Central
Europe
...
Sergei Hackel
Christopher Walter
Robert Murray
Nigel Gotten
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Anne Borrowdale/
Ann Loades
50
Isa Glcan/
Andrew Palmer
David Widdows
Sebastian Brock
MEDITATION
'What lack I yet?'- .
LevGillet
77
OBITUARIES
Fr Lev Gillet
Graham Delbridge
Helle Georgiadis
Colin Davey
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REVIEWS
The Name of Jesus by Irne Hausherr
La Spiritualit de l'orient chrtien by Thomas
Spidlk
Understanding Eastern Christianity by George
Every .
Households of God: The Rule of St Benedict by
David Parry
The Future of Coptic Studies by R. McL. Wilson. .
Saint Symeon the New Theologian: The Sin of
Adam tr. from the text of Theophan the
Recluse
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75
Kallistos Ware
87
L. Bouyer
94
Norman Russell
96
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
J. M.Hornus
98
99
Robert Ombres
Joseph Gill
101
Bernard Hamilton
103
George Every
106
E.L. Mascall
107
Kallistos Ware
112
E.L. Mascall
114
Elizabeth Moberly
Kallistos Ware
Christopher Walter
116
118
119
BOOKS RECEDED
Chant grgorien by the Dlier Consort
Easter on Mount Athos celebrated at Xenophontos
Icons at Oxford
Basil Minchin
Basil Minchin
Oliver Nicholson
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Gareth Evans
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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1
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
Sergei Hackel
Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware
ARTICLES
The Conclbrant at Clamart: Lev Gillet in the
years 1927-8
Elizabeth Behr-Sigel
Evdokimov and the monk within
Cho D. Phan
The mystery of the human person
Kallistos Ware
Jacob of Serugh on the Veil of Moses
Sebastian Brock
NEWS AND COMMENT
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue: Patmos and Rhodes Norman Russell and
Louis Bouyer
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue : Llandaff
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Communion of.
Saints (agreed statement)
Ecumenical work in India
Edouard Hambye
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86
93
94
97
Michael Ramsey
119
E.L. Mascall
Methodios Fouyas
120
123
Nicholas Behr
Elizabeth Moberly
124
126
Sergei Hackel
127
128
Norman Russell
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Nicolas Zernov
The Fellowship Conference 1980
South-East Europe Seminar
A Fellowship Retreat in Greece
132
Gareth Evans
A.M. Allchin
Elizabeth Moberly
Stella Alexander
Jean R. Demos
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
OBITUARIES
Patriarch Benedict
Mother Mary
Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware
REVIEWS
The Holy Land by Jeremy Murphy O'Connor.... Edward Every
Hai Odai Solomontos by Vassilios Fanourgakis. . . Sebastian Brock
O megas Basileios by Panayotis C. Christou
Gerald Bonner
HellenikePatrologia by ?ana.yotis C. Christou. . . . Norman Russell
The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451-553)
by Patrick T.R. Gray
Richard Price
On the Divine Images by St John of Damascus . . . Elizabeth Moberly
Filioque und Verbot eines anderen Glaubens auf
dem Florentinum by Hans-JurgenMarx
Martin Parmentier
The Theology of Purgatory by Robert Ombres . . . Geoffrey Howell
Three Anglican Divines on Prayer: Jewel, Andrewes,
and Hooker by Paul Wessinger
Hugh Wybrew
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1 Nicolas Zernov (1965)
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1981
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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
The blessed dead in Anglican piety
One Body in Christ': Death and the Communion
of Saints
The Communion of Saints
Authority in the Orthodox Church
Sheptycky and the quest for union
Sergei Hackel
158
E.R. Hardy
160
Kallistos Ware
Michael Ramsey
Chrysostomos
Konstantinidis
Myroslaw Tataryn
179
192
197
210
Georgiana Bell
221
224
OBITUARIES
Geoffrey Curtis
Christopher Morris
Anne Pennington
John Lawrence
Norman Russell
Hugh Wybrew
227
229
230
Richard Price
232
Symeon Lash
Elizabeth Brire
/. Gill
233
236
237
Sergei Hackel
J.Gill
239
240
Robert Murray
Malcolm V. Jones
Barry Fogden
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
Elizabeth Moberly
Norman Russell
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243
247
249
250
252
REVIEWS
It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight by Jean-Michel
Hormis
Ethiopie Astronomy and Computus by Otto
Neugebauer .
Kosmas ho Melodos. by Theoharis Detorakis
Popes, Lawyers and Infidels by James Muldoon. . .
The Ecclesiastical Career of Gregory Camblak by
Muriel Heppell
GennadiosB'ScholariosbyTheodorosN.Zissis
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Blessed Paisius Velichkovsky by Schema-monk
Metrophanes
Mat'Mariia (1891-1945) by S. Gakkel' [Hackel] . .
Jacob's Ladder hy Charles C. Hefling
The Way of the Heart by Henri J.M. Nouwen . . . .
The Fool and Other Writings by Mother Maria . . .
Perfect Fools by John Saward
155
Sergei Hackel
256
Jean-Michel Hornus
Charles Dilke
260
262
Michael Fortounatto
Ralph Hyde
265
270
BOOKS RECEIVED
272
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes
For your diary
Gareth M. Evans
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Merovingian tombstone from Civaux
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
St Symeon of Thessalonica: a polemical hesychast
Ecclesiology: some dangers and temptations
Paradosis: the Orthodox understanding of
Tradition
Bishop Grafton of Fond du Lac and the Orthodox
Church
Beholding the light of His countenance: Solzhenitsyn and U-81
John Arnold
49
POEM
Prologue for a carol service
John Heath-Stubbs
55
Kallistos Ware/
Sebastian Brock
Colin Davey
S6
REPORTS
The D.J. Chitty Papers
Anglican-Orthodox Discussions 1981
OBITUARIES
Bishop Samuel
Patriarch Elias IV
..:..;......
DavidBalfour
Vladimir Lossky
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22
Constantine Scouteris
30
Ernest C. Miller
Use Friedeberg
Andreas Tillyrides/
Sebastian Brock
Clare Birch Amos
Helle Georgiadis
38
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60
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Louis Bouyer
Charles Dilke
70
74
E.L. Mascall
Edward Every
76
79
Edward Yarnold
82
Louis Bouyer
George Every
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86
John Gillingham
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1981
The Secretary's Notes
For your diary
87
SergeiHackel
Kallistos Ware
91
92
Peter C. Phan
Peter C. Phan
Philip Walters
John Lawrence
Hugh Wybrew
96
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100
101
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BOOKS RECEDED
105
Hugh Bates
Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans
108
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61
In the symposium Spirit of God - Spirit of Christ (reviewed below) the World
Council of Churches recently published a carefully prepared Memorandum which
urges that 'the original form of the third article of the Creed, without filioque,
should everywhere be recognised as the normative one and restored'. It is a recom
mendation by an ecumenical working party with no particular authority and it does
not in itself bring nearer the day when all those who use the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (the sixteenth centenary of which was celebrated last year) are at
one both in their formulations and their faith. But it could certainly stimulate
fresh discussion of this and of related issues. In Britain, at least, the British
Council of Churches (prompted by the Orthodox) has already raised the question
with its members.
Such questions are not easy to discuss in the current ecumenical climate; and
their resolution is not impeded merely by theological or historical factors, important
though these are. Paradoxically, growth in mutual understanding is too often
seriously frustrated by the apparently positive by-products of ecumenism: courtesy,
familiarity and tolerance. As a result the promotion of this or any other cause in
order to serve/accommodate/please/respect Our Orthodox friends' can blur the
issue, which is one of truth.
Furthermore, when the Orthodox seek to point this out, they are not infrequently
discounted for being rigoristic, intransigent, unyielding, uncooperative. Sinning as
they do against those ecumenical virtues of courtesy and tolerance (= indifferentism?),
their insistence on regrettably divisive truths is taken in ill part. Yet it could be
argued that the ecumenical movement is as much hampered by friendliness and
facile fellowship as by divisive truths.
For there is a danger that a body like the World Council of Churches, as it
completes a further term between Assemblies, might yet find (the recent
Memorandum notwithstanding) that 'speaks the truth with love' (Eph. 4:15) is less
likely to appear on its end of term report than 'neither hot nor cold' (Rev. 3:15).
And such a condemnation can too easily be earned by any body, however large or
small. Only by care, sobriety and painful effort can it be avoided.
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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
DITORIAL
RTICLES
he Prayer of the Heart in Syriac Tradition
he spirituality of St Augustine and its influence
on Western mysticism
he Holy Name of Jesus in East and West: the
Hesychasts and Richard Rolle
he influence of Denys the Areopagite on Eastern
and Western spirituality in the fourteenth
century
he Spiritual Testament of St Teodosi of Turnovo.
[emories of Fr Lev Gillet
BITUARIES
rchbishop Alexis van der Mensbrugghe
EPORTS
lie Coptic Orthodox Church
he Ethiopian Orthodox Church
he Anglican Orthodox Joint Doctrinal
Discussions
rchdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
EVIEWS
eoplatonism and Early Christian Thought ed.
H.J. Blumenthal and R.A. Markus
yzantium and the Classical Tradition ed. M.
Mullett and R. Scott
he Byzantine Saint ed. S. Hackel
regory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses tr. A.J.
Malherbe and E. Ferguson
'ayer of the Heart by G. Maloney
a Chiesa Latina in Oriente by G. Fedalto
toes Chalcedon Divide or Unite? ed. Paulos
Gregorios et al
130
Sebastian Brock
131
Gerald Bonner
143
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163
Andrew Louth
Muriel Heppell
David Balfour
185
201
203
Norman Russell
E.L. Mascall
236
237
Norman Russell
238
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
239
Basil Minchin
Nicholas Gendle
240
241
BOOKS RECEIVED
245
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
249
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
253
ILLUSTRATIONS
W. Jardine Grisbrooke
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1 Anonymous stylite
2 St Augustine at work on one of his books (Durham MS. BII. 22)
3 A hesychast at prayer
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Nicholas Gendle
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Nicholas Gendle
Helle Georgiadis
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Richard Price
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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK7 ROBERT MURRAY.
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wl 12PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
SergeiHackel
ARTICLES
What is a martyr?
+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Extended notions of martyrdom in the Byzantine
ascetical tradition
David Balfour
Neomartyrs of the Greek Calendar
Norman Russell
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REPORTS
Lebanon
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue 1982
Dr Runcie in Bulgaria and Romania
The Nicolas Zernov Memorial Lecture
Alan Amos
Louis Bouyer
Michael Moore
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OBITUARIES
Jean-Michel Hormis
Joice Loch
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71
George Every
73
Richard Price
74
Nicholas Gendle
75
SergeiHackel
76
J.Gill
78
REVIEWS
Byzance ou l'autre Rome by Jean Decarreaux . . .
The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church by
John Meyendorff.
Egeria's Travels in the Holy Land ed. and tr. J.
Wilkinson
St Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons tr.
Catherine P. Roth
Byzantium and the Rise of Russia by John
Meyendorff
To Elleniko Kollegio tis Romis kai i Mathites tou
(1576-1700) by Z.N. Tsirpanlis
Die Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Kirche in
Griechenland by Philippos Spyropoulos
Das Eucharistieversammlung als Kirche by Peter
Blank
Christianity in the Holy Land ed. D.-M. A. Jaeger .
A Vanquished Hope, the Movement for Church
Renewal in Russia, 1905-1906 by James W.
Cunningham
3
Gerald Bray
79
Gerald Bray
Edward Every
80
82
Peter Scorer
83
86
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1982
The Secretary's Notes
A Participant
Gareth M. Evans
87
ACCOUNTS
93
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
98
ILLUSTRATIONS
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At the end of April 1703, a Christian priest in Cairo was sentenced to death for
refusing to abjure his faith. That 'the Greek Church fasted for three days before the
execution in support of the martyr' might seem only proper. Yet the condemned
man was a Catholic; and his martyrdom was thus experienced as something which
superseded and possibly even counteracted the divisions of the Christian world. Nor
were the Greeks alone in making this response. As Fr Norman Russell points out in
his article below, 'the Copts and Armenians also expressed their solidarity with
messages to the Catholic community'.
Such solidarity in suffering can be an important ingredient, even a catalyst, in
ecumenism. It can inspire and undergird, it can at times correct, the academic
ecumenism of the 'professionals'. As Fr Lev Gillet wrote almost twenty years ago
in Sobornost,
There are many varieties of ecumenism. We are all well acquainted with the
ecumenism of Stockholm, Lausanne, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Lund,
Evanston, the ecumenism of theological exchange. This variety is certainly
useful and perhaps necessary. [But] there are other forms of ecumenism,
among which I shall mention one above all the ecumenism of the concen
tration camps.
For it was in such places as Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz (not to mention
the camps of the Stalinist world) that 'Christians belonging to different Churches
discovered through their common sufferings and their_ burning charity a deep unity
at the foot of the cross'. Furthermore, 'this ecumenism had its witnesses, its
martyrs'. And Fr Lev mentions three to represent them all: the Protestant pastor
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45), the Catholic priest Josef Metzger (1887-1944), and
the Orthodox nun Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945).
All three were killed for Christ, all three were witnesses for the ecumenical
fellowship of blood which is expressed in this sentence from the [1943]
testament of Metzger: feel myself as closely united to my believing and
conscientious Protestant brothers in Christ Jesus through Baptism and our
common experience in the same Lord, as to the brethren with whom I share
the fellowship of the Holy Sacrament'.
The symbolic lighting of candles in the chapel of the twentieth-century martyrs in
Canterbury Cathedral at the outset of Pope John Paul's visit to Great Britain was,
among other things, a reminder of what such ecumenism can mean.
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Martyrdom: its place in the Church
Feodorit, a Russian non-Possessor, priest and
martyr
Dialogue hymns of the Syriac Churches
A war-time visit to the Russian Church
Wolves and monks: life on the Holy Mountain today
Muriel Heppell
Sebastian Brock
Francis House
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REPORT
Coptic monasticism: some Anglican impressions . .
Stephen Tucker
69
REVIEW ARTICLE
The Syriac Churches: some recent books from
India
Sebastian Brock
74
COMMENT
Gennadios Scholarios
David Balfour
81
John Macquarrie
85
Sebastian Brock
Benedicta Ward
Gerald Bray
Garth Fowden
Sebastian Brock
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87
87
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REVIEWS
Discerning the Mystery by Andrew Louth
History and Thought of the Early Church by
Henry Chadwick
The Dual Nature of Man by Anna-Stina Ellverson .
Le deuxime Concile Oecumnique (a symposium)
East of Byzantium d. N.G. Garsoian et al
Rabban Jausep Hazzaya by Gabriel Bunge
Patriarch Photius of Constantinople by Despina
S. White
The Patriarch and the Prince by Despina S. White
and J.R. Berrigan
Augsburg and Constantinople by George
Mastrantonis
GeraldBonner
92
George Every
92
Gerald Bray
93
Editorial
Gerald Bray
94
Benedicta Ward
Norman Russell
Gerald Bray
94
96
98
Gerald Bray
99
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
100
101
Norman Russell
102
BOOKS RECEIVED
104
FELLOWSHIP NOTES
105
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
108
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Lesnovo fresco, 1349)
2 The monastery at Solovki (nineteenth century photo)
3 St Ephrem of Syria with two other saints (Novgorod tablet-icon,
early 16th century)
4 Zacharias struck dumb at the temple (the doors of Santa Sabina,
Rome, c.422-40)
5 Reception at the Moscow Patriarchate, October 1943
6 Simonos Petras monastery, Athos
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The few who first met together on 11 January 1927 for an ecumenical conference
at St Albans (there were 42 participants in all) and who continued their discussions
a year later (by which time their number had risen to 65) could hardly have
expected that the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius which grew out of their
friendships it was founded in January 1928 would last, let alone flourish,
throughout the succeeding half century or more. Still less could they have antici
pated the importance of the unobtrusive yet catalytic role it was to play in the
developing ecumenical world of the 1930s and 40s. Yet it provided a rare if not
unique forum for Anglicans and Orthodox not only to meet but worship together,
and this long before the development of such local, regional and international
councils of churches as we expect to find in most parts of the Christian world
today.
It would be rash to suggest that such consultations as the Anglican-Orthodox
Joint Doctrinal Discussions (the most recent session of which has just successfully
taken place at Odessa) could not have been held without the preparatory
encounters between Christian East and West which the Fellowship did so much
to encourage. Yet the tone of these discussions, and of those like them, could
hardly have been the same without the Fellowship's quiet contribution over the
previous years.
But what of the present and the immediate future? With the current proliferation
of ecumenical bodies, conferences and publications, has the Fellowship still a role
to play? If so (and which of its members would seek to doubt it?) should it still
be played in the established and long-since accepted fashion?
Such questions require to be pondered by its members and its council. But most
obviously of all (in the wake of Fr Gareth Evans' resignation, which is announced
below) they need to be pondered and no doubt are already being pondered by
its newly elected secretary-general, the present vicar of Pinner, Canon Hugh
Wybrew. It need hardly be said that his experience in the field of AnglicanOrthodox (and not only Anglican-Orthodox) relations provide him with the
necessary perspectives. Yet this is not to say that ready answers are at hand. In any
case, ready answers are likely to be suspect, flimsy and counterproductive. In this
sphere, as in others, fruit has to be brought forth with patience. The preceding
fifty-five years have already given Fellowship members an awareness of this. It
remains for current and future members to distinguish patience from passivity,
while yet avoiding all temptation to confuse forced growth with organic, if subtly
fostered, maturation.
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REVIEW
volume 6 number I
1984
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS. WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Associate Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
'Never as gods': icons and their veneration
Martyrdom
The Oxford Movement, the Fathers and the Bible .
Raphael Popov, Bulgarian Uniate bishop: problems
of Uniatism and Autocephaly
5
Constantine Scouteris
A.M. Allchin
Andrew Louth
6
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30
Christopher Walter
46
REPORTS
The Anglican/Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions
1983
Lebanon
Symeon Lash
Alan Amos
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64
+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Elias Mastroiannopoulos
Christos Yannaras
A;M. Allchin
67
71 -,.
72
73
Etta Gullick
Michael Silver
Basil and Margaret
Minchin
Alberic Stacpoole
Carl Witton-Davies
78
79
OBITUARIES
Eric Abbott
Ivan Young
Harry Byrom
Irina Findlow
81
82
Alexander Schmemann
REVIEW ARTICLE
Translating the Liturgy
REVIEWS
New and Old in God's Revelation by Benedict
Englezakis
/ Thessalonians. A Commentary by Paul Nadim
Tarazi
Early Syriac Theology by S.G. Beggiani
The Life of Samuel of Kalamun ed. and tr. Anthony
Alcock
83
David Balfour
84
R. Morgan
97
John Hargreaves
Sebastian Brock
97
99
Sebastian Brock
99
+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Norman Russell
Benedicta Ward
Nicholas Gendle
DavidBalfour
KyrilJenner
Sebastian Brock
+Robert Cantuar
+Kallistos ofDioklek
Sergei Hackel
Norman Russell
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1983
Gareth Evans
The Secretary's Notes
The Associate Secretary's Notes
For your diary
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Muriel Heppell
AM. Allchin
Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Briere
ILLUSTRATIONS
Editorial
The ecumemnical scene is not limited to, it is certainly not rooted in such elaborate
assemblies as took place in Vancouver last year. There can be no doubt that there is
an important role for broadly-based structures and institutions which seek to
further accord between divided Christians. But the larger the body, the less personal
its activities are likely to be. Whereas union with God and by extension, unity in
his Church remains (in Lossky's words) 'a mystery [...] worked out in human
persons'.
The value of the personal contribution to this end is demonstrated in the
remarkable life of Demetrios Koutroubis, some notes on which are published
below. Remarkable, yet unremarked the more remarkable, it could be said, since
unremarked. Eirenically and unobtrusively, this man sowed seeds in ground that
might well have remained fallow, if not untended altogether, had he not perceived
its promise.
In respect of ecumenism, his was not the way of reductionism or of compromise.
It none the less involved an unblinkered, positive and perceptive approach to the
world beyond the confines of his Church. The Fellowship of St Alban and St
Sergius (whose 'ideals and spirit [. ..] were close to his heart') has much to gain
from the model of a Koutroubis.
The funds which it now so urgently requires to sustain its modest activities1 will
not be used to emulate the structures, programmes or pretensions of bodies like the
WCC. Rather will they ensure the continued provision and cultivation of a fertile
oasis la Koutroubis; of a milieu where people may encounter each other as
persons, and so deepen their understanding of what it means to be fellow-Christians.
Hence the designation of this body. It is not simply a council, committee or asso
ciation. It is a fellowship.
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CHURCHES
REVIEW
volume 6 number 2
1984
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY.
KALL1STOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Associate Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The fool in Christ as prophet and apostle
Prophecy and the establishment: the challenge of
biblical criticism
POEM
Sinai
LEV GILLET MEMORIAL LECTURE
The heart strangely warmed: Eastern Orthodoxy
and the Free Church tradition in the West ..
REPORTS
The House of St Gregory and St Macrina: the first
quarter century
OBITUARIES
Alexander Schmemann
Last sermon
Vsevolod Shpiller
5
+Kallistos of Diokleia
David Balfour
29
Ioanna Tsatsos/
tr. Jean Demos
41
John Newton
43
+Kallistos of
Diokleia/Ralph
Townsend
55
Peter Scorer
Alexander Schmemann
John Lawrence
64
68
69
REVIEWS
The Message of the Bible by George Cronk . . . John Platt
The First Day of the New Creation by Veselin
Kesich
Edward Yarnold
Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church by
Christopher Walter
Nicholas Gendle
Theologika Meletima 4: Ymnographika by
Panayiotis K. Christou
Elizabeth Briere
Ending the Byzantine Schism by James Likoudis Norman Russell
Gregory Palamas: The Triads ed. J. Meyendorff,
tr. N. Gendle
David Balfour
Catholics and Sultans by Charles A. Frazee . . . Joseph Gill
Valamo and its Message by Archbishop Paul et al. Pegeen O 'Flaherty
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83
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Elizabeth Moberly
Helle Georgiadis
86
89
John Alachouzos
89
Basil Minchin
91
Elizabeth Fenton
92
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretaries' Report
Orthodox-Methodist contacts
For your diary
95
Hugh Wybrew/
Elizabeth Briere
Elizabeth Briere
98
102
103
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
104
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Two Muscovite Fools: Basil and Maxim
2 The Pokrov (Novgorod tablet icon)
3 The Prophet Isaiah (Meteora)
4 St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
5 John Wesley in 1766
6 The House of St Gregory and St Macrina: at the opening
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Editorial
There used to be advertisements in the papers, perhaps still are, which assured
prospective clients that they need only suscribe to a course in Pelmanism to be
successful in life. Was this possibly the secular equivalent of similar offers made
by some sectarians? In either case it was the antithesis of that for which any selfdenigrating Fool for Christ would wish to strive or prophet either. Rather would
they expect many would actively seek to be despised and rejected of men.
And in this at least they would be in accord with that prophet who was 'much more
than a prophet' (Luke 7:20) and who (as Bishop Kallistos suggests below) might
also even be seen as the supreme Fool, Christ himself.
This issue of Sobornost/ECR dwells much on the peculiar folly of the Fools.
It dwells inter alia on its prophetic nature. It dwells also on the importance of
prophecy as such. Indeed, in each of the two papers taken over from last summer's
Fellowship Conference there is a comparable insistence on the need to recognise ,
'two types of hierarchy' in the life of the Church (Bishop Kallistos), 'the importance
of establishment and prophets alike' (David Balfour).
Much of this discussion concerns Orthodox Christianity. But the concept of the
holy Fool is not the prerogative of the Christian East. Among Western Christians,
the Free Churches (the subject of John Newton's paper) also 'have had their "Fools
in Christ" '. And although John Wesley was careful to insist that 'religion and reason
go hand in hand' and that 'all irrational religion is false religion', he would no doubt
have appreciated the intention of one of his followers [Billy Bray] not to accept
any limitations on his prophetic preaching. Despised and rejected of men though
he might be and thus forcibly confined to a barrel, would [insisted Bray] shout
"Glory!" through the bung-hole'.
Fools and prophets, uncomfortable and inconvenient as they are, reach out beyond
at times they modify the confines of the day's religious establishment. They
move in uncharted realms. And it is thus among them that it is possible to encounter
those few who can say (in the words of Ioanna Tsatsos' poem Sinai), hear things
not heard before'.
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REVIEW
volume 7 number 1
1985
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove London Wll 2 PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Liturgy and eschatology
'Rejoice, sceptre of Orthodoxy'
Anglican or Orthodox? The Scottish dimension of
the 'Palmer affair'
REPORTS
The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo
The Byzantine Rite at Niederaltaich
The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
and all the East
REVIEWS
The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective
by Pinchas Lapide
Easter Enigma by John Wenham
Cyrillonas. L'Agneau vritable: hymnes, cantiques,
homlies tr. Dominique Cerbelaud; Jean
d'Apame. Dialogues et Traits tr. Ren
Lavenant
Symeon the New Theologian: The Practical and
Theological Chapters [...] tr. Paul McGuckin
The Philokalia: The Complete Text, volume iii, tr.
and ed. G.E.H. Palmer et al
Muhammad and the Christian by Kenneth Cragg
The Joy of All Creation by A.M. Allchin
Bishops: But What Kind? ed. Peter Moore . . . .
Luther et la reforme allemande dans une
perspective oecumnique by W. Schneemelcher
et al
Baptism and Eucharist: Ecumenical Convergence
in Celebration ed. M. Thurian and G.
Wainwright
Voir Dieu tel qu 'il est by Archimandrite Sophrony
BOOKS RECEIVED
Alexander Schmemann
Elizabeth Briere
6
15
Christopher Knight
25
Ivan Truman
Christian Leisy
44
50
Sebastian Brock
53
Helle Georgiadis
Helle Georgiadis
56
57
Sebastian Brock
59
Nicholas Gendle
60
Nicholas Gendle
Alan Amos
Nicholas Lossky
Symeon Lash
61
63
64
66
Gerald Bray
69
Gerald Bray
Maxime Gimenez
71
72
74
COMMENT ON A COMMENT
'Translating the Liturgy'
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretaries' Notes
The Fellowship Conference 1984
The Athens chapter Retreat
Philoxenia
David Balfour
76
Hugh Wybrew/
Elizabeth Briere
Kenneth Storer
Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Briere
79
82
87
87
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
90
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Christ offering the chalice to his apostles (St Michael's, Kiev,
1108-13)
2 Head of the Virgin (Kariye Djami, Constantinople: early
fourteenth century)
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Editorial
'All the peoples of Europe share a Christian past', noted Cardinal Basil Hume on
the festival of St Methodius (27 February 1985); and 'many share a Christian faith
and commitment'. It is a fair generalisation, though the Jews remain to be accounted
for. And it quietly draws attention to the dissonance between its two parts, to the
potential implied in the first and the strictly limited realisation of it in the second.
So limited indeed, that there is talk of a 'post-Christian' era: 'an era has finished',
argues Fr Alexander Schmemann below, 'an era characterised by the existence of
a Christian Church [...], a Christian world'. So much so, insisted Cardinal Hume
on St Methodius' day, that the evangelisation of Europe must start all over again
'as if it had never happened'. Certainly, there was no room for complacency on
the 1100th anniversary of St Methodius' death.
No longer, as in the days of Sts Cyril and Methodius, is any kind of mission likely
to raise thorny questions of alternative languages or rites. Nor should it involve
merely the question of modifying the Church's traditional mode of discourse in
what Fr Alexander terms 'a desperate search for a common language with the world',
whether political or scientific in its terminology or (more ominous) presuppositions.
It is not such language which is likely to heal or redeem a 'post-Christian' world:
least of all if the language is not rooted in the simplicity and integrity of the gospel,
that source of energy which (in Schmemann's words) 'the Church possessed when
it was conquering the world'. Then was the Church sustained, then was it imbued
by 'the truth, the righteousness, the joy of the Kingdom of God'.
It can still be so imbued. Even in a Christian context which no longer allows for
a Methodius to be simultaneously an emissary of the pope of Rome and the patriarch
of Constantinople, even in a world which can be designated 'post-Christian', there
is room, there is the more room, for light to shine in the darkness. And it could
yet be, as it should be, that those many peoples 'who once shared a Christian past'
will again and more profoundly share an authentically Christian present.
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volume 7 number 2
1985
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2 PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Anglicans and Eastern Christendom
The Liturgy as Tradition and Tradition as Liturgy
The thrice-holy hymn in the Liturgy
Idols and Images: early definitions and controver
sies
g.
Colin Davey
John Chryssavgis
Sebastian Brock
6
18
24
Irven M. Resnick
35
REVIEW ARTICLE
The Dublin Agreed Statement 1984: a Uniate view
Serge Keleher
52
Benedicta Ward
Norman Russell
57
59
Norman Russell
61
Serge R. Keleher
62
Norman Russell
64
Frederick J. Copleston
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
Nicholas Gendle
65
68
69
Gerald Bray
John V. Heyes
71
73
REVIEWS
The Oxford Book of Prayer ed. G. Appleton and
Seasons of the Spirit ed. G. Every et al
Athos, the Holy Mountain by Philip Sherrard .
Prince-Bishop Njegosh 's Religious Philosophy by
Z.R. Prvulovich
Our People, Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descen
dants in North America by'P.R. Magocsi
Orthodoxy in Finland, Past and Present ed. V.
Purmonen
Pavel Florenksy: A Metaphysics of Love by R.
Slesinski
The Communion of Love by Matthew the Poor
The Jesus Prayer Today by A.A. Vogel
La thologie dans l'glise et dans le monde ed. D.
Theraios et al
The Orthodox Vigil by John Tavener
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretaries Notes
Greece
75
Hugh Wybrew/
Elizabeth Briere
Elizabeth Briere
11
81
Editorial
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Metrophanes Kritopoulos in 1627
2 The Pantokrator with seraphim and four winged creatures (Suzdal)
3 Satan is cast down (Suzdal)
4 The evangelist Luke as iconographer
'Dogma cannot be understood apart from experience', wrote Vladimir Lossky: 'the
fulness of experience cannot be had apart from true doctrine.' Such an attitude
informs, undergirds and justifies much of the Fellowship's life. More than that,
the stance of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius on this matter over the
last half century or more has come to be reflected in undertakings further afield,
such as the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions, an assessment of whose
second Agreed Statement (1984) is given below. 'Faith and worship are inseparable'
notes this Report. 'Dogmas are not abstract ideas existing for themselves [. . .].'
To many readers of our journal this may seem self-evident. Yet it was not so
long ago that respectable ecumenists were attempting to negotiate some academic,
inorganic 'recognition of orders' or 'terms of intercommunion', as Colin Davey
indicates in his article on 'Anglicans and Eastern Christendom'. Ecumenism was
wedded to diplomacy, at times confused with it, and the whole business could thus
be conducted in an inappropriate manner and, worse, on entirely the wrong level.
Not that emotionalism is to be preferred. As Lossky was careful to point out,
'experience' is insufficient in itself, profound though it may be. Nor is it neces
sarily stabilised by concern for outlandish imagery or rites. The contemplation, even
the investigation of such imagery or rites may prove to be a distraction, may prove
to be idolatrous. Certainly, in Lossky's terms, neither is likely to come to fruition
('fulness') unless 'true doctrine' shapes the experience and validates it. At the same
time, the ultimate validation of doctrine and experience alike is beyond individuals
as it is beyond commissions. For it pertains to the Church.
SERGEI HACKEL
SOBORNOST
incorporating
EASTERN
CHURCHES
REVIEW
volume8 number 1
1986
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Revelation of the Spirit, language beyond words
The Mystery of the Church in the Dublin Agreed
Statement
Unity and disunity today
Isaac of Nineveh: some newly-discovered works
The Saints of Durham
Boris Bobrinskoy
Hugh Wybrew
Militza Zernov
Sebastian Brock
Gerald Bonner
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REPORT
An active community of Coptic Orthodox nuns
John Wraw
47
OBITUARIES
Archbishop Basil (Krivoshein)
Paul Anderson
Kallistos of Diokleia
Donald E. Davis
51
55
Gerald Bray
59
Norman Russell
60
Nicholas Gendle
61
Nicholas Gendle
63
Norman Russell
64
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
65
67
Norman Russell
68
Nicholas Gendle
69
Kyril Jenner
71
REVIEWS
The Early Fathers on War and Military Service
by L.J. Swift
Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings tr.
G.C. Berthold
The Deification of Man: St Gregory Palamas and
the Orthodox Tradition by G.I. Matzaridis ..
St Symeon of Thessalonike: A Treatise on Prayer
tr. H.L.N. Simmons
New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke tr. L.J.
Papadopulos et al
Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and,
Reformed Churches ed. T.F. Torrance
Growth in Agreement ed. H. Meyer and L. Vischer
Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual by Boden
Clarke
Byzantine Churches of Greece and Cyprus by E.
Mastrogiannopoulos
I Pankosmios Ekchysis tou Agiou Pneumatos (and
two other works) by Eusebius Stephanou . . . .
73
BOOKS RECEIVED
COMMENT
Comment on 'The Serbian Orthodox Church in
Kosovo' by Ivan Truman
A response to the comment
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1985
The Secretaries' report
Zaga Gavrilovic
Ivan Truman
76
77
80
83
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
88
89
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Baptism of Christ: icon of the sixteenth century
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Editorial
Was Christ 'imprisoned in human words'? As Fr Boris Bobrinskoy suggests below,
this was an important, if neglected, aspect of his incarnation and of his humiliation.
Certainly, if the Word himself accepts the limitation of mere words, then he must
revitalise the language of the human race, just as he brings new life to those who
use it. Even so, 'we know in part, and we prophesy in part'. Only in part, for
language remains the product and the tool of an imperfect world. And only 'when
that which is perfect shall come' shall that 'which is in part' be done away.
Language is to be superseded, and even in the present, necessarily limited state
of man's perception it is possible for him to speak, and to speak in all sobriety,
of 'language beyond words', to aspire to its use, at times and at best to engage in
it. That such aspirations and such practice find their distorting mirror in aspects
of the pentecostal movement (see Fr Kyril Jenner's remarks below) is insufficent
reason to ignore them.
At present, even with the best will in the world (and the Fellowship is in business
to promote no less), Christians of different traditions cannot but encounter 'the
difficulty of finding a language, let alone a common language, in which to speak
coherently of the Church'. The comment is made on the basis of the Fellowship's
own conference (see the conference report). But it might also have been made by
the participants of the Dublin discussions, on which Fr Hugh Wybrew reported to
the same conference (and on the pages of this issue). It might have been made by
any ecumenical body, and it could have concerned many a question in addition to
that of the Church.
The answer is not to retire into some easy-going non-committal comprehensiveness,
th dangers of which are noted by Dr Militza Zernov in her comment on 'Unity
and disunity today'. Of course the permissive use of 'Church' or any other concept
would liberate all and sundry from the burden of controversy. But it would bring
people together only on/the level of phraseology, not commitment or belief.
Hence the need to treat words with due concern. Hence the need also to look beyond
words, to that language which in part is 'the language of praise' (to use Bobrinskoy's
formulation). It must be accepted that 'the mystery of the Church cannot be fully
defined or described', as the Dublin Agreed Statement points out. Otherwise what
sort of mystery would that be? But it can be experienced, and if experienced, shared.
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EASTERN
CHURCHES
REVIEW
voIume8 number 2
1986
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK
ROBERT MURRAX KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The human person as an icon of the Trinity .. .
St Athanasios: the dynamics of salvation
Pobedonostsev and Riley: a conversation
of 1889
Nadezhda Gorodetskaia: the study and the
practice of kenosis
Kallistos of Diokleia
George Bebawi
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24
J.F. Coakley
42
Elizabeth Hill
51
POEM
The tree of the cross
C.A. Trypanis
62
OBITUARY
Panayiotis Nellas
Niphon Alexiou
64
REPORTS
Synaxi
Gilbert Shaw
Sotiris Gounelas
Rod Hacking
66
68
COMMENT
'The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo':
further responses
S.H.
71
David Balfour
73
Nicholas Gendle
75
Mary Cunningham
Norman Russell
Benedicta Ward
77
78
80
Nicholas Gendle
81
Sebastian Brock
Gerald Bray
George Theokritoff
Gerald Bray
Helle Georgiadis
84
85
86
87
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REVIEWS
The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
by J.M. Hussey
Gregory Nazianzen: Selected Poems
tr. J. McGuckin
The Life of St Nicholas of Sion
tr. I. and N.P. Sevcenko
Man and the Cosmos by Lars Thunberg
The Prologue from Ochrid by Nikolai Velimirovic
The Mosaics of S. Marco in Venice
by Otto Demus
The Period of Annunciation-Nativity in the East
Syrian Calendar by John Moolan
Apostolic Faith Today by Hans-Georg Link . . .
Go Forth in Peace ed. I. Bria
Towards a Fuller Vision by E.C. Miller
Rome and Constantinople ed. R. Barringer . . .
90
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Farewell
Secretary's Notes
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Brtere
Editorial
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95
99
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Old Testament Trinity by Andrei Rublev
13
19
Nativity
33
4 Konstantin Pobedonostsev
45
Nadezhda Gorodetskaia
61
Hugh Wybrew,
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It does not take many words to profess faith in the Trinity. Over the last twentyfive years, all member-Churches of the World Council of Churches have been for
mally required to make this ancient and orthodox profession; and it is willingly made.
But the words are one thing, their implications another. In many a Church, even
the most tradition-bound, there may yet be found Christians, as Bishop Kallistos
suggests below, for whom trinitarian teaching is 'an embarrassing complication,
unhelpful and irrelevant'. Thus many of them, 'for all their orthodox profession
of faith in the Trinity, are almost just "monotheist" in their actual religious
experience'. So suggests Karl Rahner; so also Bishop Kallistos, who quotes him.
This may lead them in various directions. An increased emphasis on the humanity
of Christ may lead to a near-Arian understanding of his person; or a commitment
to Pentecostalism may involve a disproportionate emphasis on the role of the Holy
Spirit. In either case, that dynamic unity in diversity of which so eloquent a symbol
is provided in Rublev's early-fifteenth-century icon (page 17) is challenged or ignored.
But it should not be ignored, since central to the faith. By the same token, neither
should challenges to it be treated merely as an academic matter. The exploration
of such questions necessarily concerns the specialist. But the mystery he or she
explores relates to the spiritual stability and salvation of all. For those whose bap
tism and prayers are performed in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
the question 'am I just a monotheist after all?' deserves a rigorous response.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY and KALUSTOS WARE
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Ordination and Vocation
Tears and Fire: recovering a neglected tradition
The American YMCA and the Russian
emigration
The Church of Macedonia: 'limited autocephaly' or schism?
POEM
Meteora manasteries of the air
REPORTS
The Panorthodox Preconciliar Conference of 1986
Week of Profound Unity': The general
assembly of Syndesmos
The St Theosevia Centre
Lay Academy in Finland
REVIEWS
The Study of Spirituality edited by Cheslyn
Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright and Edward
Yarnold
The World of the Desert Fathers: Stories and
Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the
Apopthegmata patrum by Columbia Stewart
OSB. L'vangile au dsert: origines et developpment de la spiritualit monastique by Placide
Deseille
Death and Resurrection by J.E. McW. Dewart.
The Eucharist by D.T. Sheerin
Being as Communion. Studies in Personhood
and the Church by John D. Zizioulas
Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A Concise
Exposition
/ aghii ton Vretanikon Nison by Bishop
Christophoros Kommodatos
Les dialogues oecumniques hier et aujourd'hui
edited by D, Theraios et al
5
H.J.M. Turner
Maggie Ross
6
14
Donald E. Davies
24
Stevan K. Pavlowitch
42
Heather Buck
60
Philippe Sabant
62
Elizabeth Briere
A.M. Allchin
Elizabeth Briere
67 71
Norman Russell
72
Norman Russell
75
Gerald Bray
11
Paul McPartlan
78
Mark Stokoe
81
Norman Russell
82
Gerald Bray
83
R.M. Price
BOOKS RECEIVED
84
Editorial
87
COMMENT
'Towards a fuller vision'
A.M. Allchin
90
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Report
Elizabeth Briere
92
Elizabeth Briere
95
100
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
101
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Dr John Mott, Mother Maria Skobtsova, Metropolitan Evlogii
31
37
3 St Clement of Ohrid
49
53
5 Meteora
61
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ELIZABETH BRIERE,=SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY .and'KALUSTOS WARE
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The Church of the Councils: the 'onslaught of the
intellect' and the potential of doubt
+ Anthony of
Sourozh
The priesthood of the baptised: some Syriac
perspectives
Sebastian Brock
Towards reconciliation: a report on the Anglican
Church by a Russian priest (1865)
Iosif Vasil'ev
23
POEM
Icon
Heather Buck
41
OBITUARY
Basil Minchin 1910-87
+ Oliver Tomkins
42
Thomas Fitzgerald
46
48
Nicholas Gendle
53
Norman Russell
55
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
57
58
Martin Corner
59
Michael Fortounatto
61
REPORTS
An
Orthodox-Catholic
Apostolicity
The Agreed Statement
Statement
14
on
REVIEWS
Icon and Logos tr. D.J. Sahas
Pioneer for Unity: Metrophanes Kritopoulos
(1589-1639) by Colin Davey
glise d'glises: l'cclsiologie de communion
by J.M.R. Tillard
Church, Kingdom, Word ed. G. Limouris . . . .
Dostoevsky's Critique of the West by Bruce K.
Ward
The Russian Orthodox Church, A Contemporary
History by Jane Ellis
BOOKS RECEIVED
COMMENT ON A COMMENT
'Towards a Fuller Vision'
64
Gerald Bray
67
Editorial
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes
Elizabeth Briere
68
71
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
72
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787)
The Creation of Adam
11
17
Basil Minchin
44
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1988
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SERGEI HACKELeditot;
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY and KALLISTOS WARE
&&&*,
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Protection, autonomy and reform: the Russian
Orthodox Church 1905-29
The icon and the image of Christ: the second
Council of Nicaea and Byzantine tradition . . .
Icons in music? Two works by Tavener
Word as icon in Greek patristic theology
OBITUARY
Kliment Naumov (1905-88)
Sergei Hackel
Martin Corner
Christopher Walter
Ivan Moody
Verna E.F. Harrison
23
34
38
Methodie Kusseff
50
Stephen Medcalf
52
REVIEWS
Lancelot Andrewes, le prdicateur
by Nicholas Lossky
The Life of St Irene
edited by J.O. Rosenquist
The Rape of Man and Nature
by Philip Sherrard
Mary Cunningham
57
Andrew Sherwood
59
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Conference of 1987
Secretary's Notes
Valerie Karras
Elizabeth Briere
63
66
ILLUSTRATIONS
Patriarch Tikhon (1865-1925) after his release from prison
17
25
27
29
31
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Editorial
This number of our journal straddles two anniversaries. It reflects last year's commemmoration of of the seventh ecumenical council (787), and the Fellowship con
ference devoted to it. But it also forestalls the Fellowship conference of 1988, which
is devoted to the millennium of Christianity in Russia and related lands. So we have
three articles concerning the first, as yet only one concerning the other.
Neither commemmoration is merely academic. The council of 787 confirmed the
use of icons as orthodox. Their use remains orthodox to this day, and not only
in the estimation of the Orthodox Church. Any new consideration of the role
assigned to icons in the history of Christian liturgy and thought thus involves a
reappraisal of present practices and attitudes as well. It was appropriate for Basil
Minchin to use the present participle in the title of his last publication, Praying
with ikons more active and more personal it is than 'prayer'.
The Russian millennium has also had its practical application, and to a degree
that noone could have expected when preparations for it first began. Then it was
feared that it would result in idle pomp and circumstance, and not simply in the
interests of the Church. In the event, pomp and circumstance were peripheralised
by the vigour and integrity of that which undergirded the proceedings. In particular,
the recent council of the Russian Orthodox Church revealed a keen appreciation
of the tasks ahead, and approved appropriate new structures for them to be faced
responsibly at every level of church life. Many of these tasks are administrative,
some political. But all could be and should be and let it be said in faith shall be
subsumed under the general heading 'iconic'. For in the words of St Paul, 'we all,
with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into
the same image from glory to glory'.
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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY and KALLISTOS WARE
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Millennium greetings
Same homeland, different future
'People so beset with saints': Anglican attitudes to
Orthodoxy 1555-1725
Ecumenism and the need for vision
Michael Ramsey and the beatific vision
Michael Ramsey and the Orthodox world
The Mother of God in early Byzantine homilies
POEM
Knots
Sergei Hackel
+ Robert Runcie
Kirill Golovin
6
12
Christopher Knight
+John Zizioulas
Owen Chadwick
A.M. Allchin
Mary Cunningham
25
37
44
49
53
Maggie Ross
68
Francis House
69
REPORT
Pilgrimage to Russia: an Anglican's impressions
REVIEWS
73
BOOKS RECEIVED
79
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes
The Fellowship Conference of 1988
Elizabeth Briere
Michael Gunton
Elizabeth Wayne
81
85
87
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
88
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Millennium procession in a Russian village
10-11
20-1
29
4 Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury 19615 The Mother of God: Sinai icon of the
sixth century
6 The vision of Andras the Fool: Suzdal cathedral
gates, thirteenth century
Editorial
The Russian millennial celebrations were planned in the early 1980s, and in cir
cumstances which differed radically from those which came to prevail in 1988. Even
then they were intended to be something spectacular, a demonstration to the out
side world that 'freedom of religion' was part and parcel of the soviet way of life.
In pondering the question of whether to accept invitations, potential guests (or rather,
those potential guests with a sense of responsibility for the life of Russian Chris
tians not all potential guests, by any means) might have looked on those inverted
commas in one of two ways.
Some may have thought that they were too prominent for them to accept invita
tions in case they might thus seem to approve and confirm the facades and limita
tions of the day. Yet others might have been moved to accept the invitations in
case this might, to however modest a degree, help to erode the facades and reduce
the limitations. But no one could have expected the inverted commas themselves
to be challenged in so forceful'a fashion as proved to be the case.
And so, by the summer of 1988, the burdensome and untoward expenses of the
day began to seem less inappropriate at least to the extent that something tangible
and lasting was emerging from it all. Tangible, since here were new church buildings,
institutions and activities. Lasting, since here already were excellent new statutes
of the Church which seemed to undergird them, as well as promise of revised state
legislation which in turn would undergird the undergirding.
It would be tempting to explain all this in social and political terms, and to align
it all with perestroka. Indeed, many a Russian church leader has already done so,
and in all sincerity. But this kind of reasoning also brings in its train the question,
'will it last?'; as if the Church lives entirely at the behest of the Constantines or
Gorbachevs of the moment.
It hardly needs to be emphasised that the current perestroka, with all its pro
mise, is hardly three years old. By contrast, an earlier perestroka, initiated in the
days of St Vladimir, has a richer pedigree and more profound potential.
Of course, no pedigree or potential is to the point unless responsibly exploited.
Even so, 'will it last?' is hardly the appropriate question when, at the end of this
millennium, the Church has demonstrably and wondrously weathered the most con
certed efforts ever mounted to diminish and destroy her.
The millennial celebrations will undoubtedly fade into the background soon, as
Kirill Golovin notes in his article below. But the Church which was their subject
has no end. And this regardless of how 'freedom of religion' is described.
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Sergei Hackel
+ Robert Runcie
Christopher Knight
18
Elizabeth Briere
Myroslaw Tataryn
31
41
A.M. Allchin
53
Ephrem of Syria
Daniel M. Rogich
65
69
REPORTS
The St Ephrem Ecumenical Centre
Peace with justice (Basel 1989)
Ecumenical Institute Graduate School, 1988-9..
Sebastian Brock
John Arnold
Elizabeth Briere
82
85
88
OBITUARY
Miloje Nikolich (1910-89)
Zaga Gavrilovic
94
John Chryssavgis
96
ARTICLES
Reflections on the millennium of the baptism of
Kievan Rus'
'Had the Czar not died': Peter the Great and
the nonjurors
Creation, incarnation and transfiguration:
material creation and our understanding of it
The Eastern tradition and the cosmos
Danish spirituality and the role of three great
feasts
marriage for all eternity': the consecration
of a Syrian bride of Christ
St Sava on Athos: his monastic rule .. :
REVIEWS
Monk Moses, Oi engamoi aghio tis Ekklesias ..
Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East
and West
Claude Slis, Les Syriens orthodoxes et
catholiques
Catachse orthodoxe: Vocabulaire thologique
and Le Credo
H.-G. Link, One God, One Lord, One Spirit ..
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Le ministre de la femme
dans l'glise
Un moine de l'Eglise d'Orient, L'an de grce
du Seigneur
Ephrem (Lash)
102
Sebastian Brock
105
Barnabas (Burton)
Gerald Bray
106
107
Mary Cunningham
109
Barnabas (Burton)
111
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
112
113
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
114
115
Martin Reith
Jill Storer
117
117
Jill Storer
120
BOOKS RECEIVED
125
SECRETARY'S NOTES
128
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
134
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The actual poverty of the Church: the
congregation at the church
2 The congregation at Sverdlovsk
3 Thomas Brett (1667-1743): engraving of a
portrait by Ch de Lasfontaine
4 The Transfiguration: Byzantine miniature
mosaic, twelfth-thirteenth century, Louvre
5 Adam names the animals: engraved gates of
Suzdal' Cathedral, c.1227-37
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Editorial
It is an idyllic scene, that of our illustration, 'Adam names the animals'. Like any
idyll, it brings sharp reminders of departures from it. We see it as paradise iost.
But paradise lost is nowadays not always what it was. Too often is it overshadowed
by such concepts as 'ecological disaster'. And it is this which helps to define that
'catastrophic crisis' to which John Arnold refers in his account of this summer's
ecumenical assembly at Basel.
All the more timely may be our two papers on the subject of 'material creation
and our understanding of it'. For least of all should our understanding involve nearpagan veneration of creation, 'mother-earth' itself. Admittedly, so seemingly in
spired an elder as Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov was once not far removed
from such an attitude as this, nor are various kinds of greens. But (as Myroslaw
Tataryn urges) the views of Damascene are to be preferred. It was not matter that
he worshipped: rather 'the creator of matter, who became matter for my sake'.
On, therefore, from that all-too-familiar phrase 'integrity of creation', a phrase
which 'seems to have appeared out of nowhere in the World Council of Churches
vocabulary and with very little thought of its theological implications' (as Elizabeth
Briere points out): on to a comprehensive and a trinitarian understanding of it.
In its absence, the recent BCC/WWF conference on Christian faith and ecology
at Canterbury could allow a four-day-long discussion of the world and all that therein
is to pass without a single obvious reference to the Holy Spirit. Yet green (Rublev
would tell us) was once the colour which referred to Him.
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MARY CUNNINGHAM reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
ELIZABETH THEOKRITOFF, KALLISTOS WARE
Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in Gregory
Nazianzen and John Calvin
Radical honesty about the self: the practice of the
desert fathers
care-free and painless existence'? Observations
of St Symeon the New Theologian on the monastic
life
A neglected manual of the spiritual life: the
Synagoge of Paul Evergetinos
OBITUARY
David Balfour
REPORTS
The Christian and the world
'Church and Culture': Orthodox women's meeting
in Crete (1990)
Joint commission for dialogue between the
Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches:
agreed statement
Convergence in christology:
Amba Bishoi 1990
Agreed statement on Conciliarity and Primacy in
the Church
REVIEWS
A.M. Allchin, d., Heart of Compassion
Sebastian Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, tr.,
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient
Sergei Hackel
Thomas F. Torrance
Columba Stewart
25
H.J.M. Turner
40
Gregory Collins
47
+ Kallistos
of Diokleia
52
62
Elizabeth Theokritoff
72
78
William Taylor
80
Thomas Fitzgerald
84
Robert Murray
90
Robert Murray
91
Philip Sherrard
93
Martin Parmentier
94
W. Jardine Grisbrooke
Ephrem Lash
95
98
Ephrem Lash
BOOKS RECEIVED
SECRETARY'S NOTES
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 St Gregory the Theologian: Kievan mosaic
(1043-6)
2 John Calvin: contemporary portrait
3 The Holy Trinity: a Russian panaghia
(fifteenth century)
4 John Calvin: sketch by Jacques Bourgoin
5 St Antony of Egypt: icon by Michael
Damaskinos of Crete (sixteenth century)
6 Elders and disciples: detail from 'The death
of St Ephraim of Syria' by Emmanuel
Tzanphournaris of Crete (sixteenth century)
7 David Balfour (1903-89)
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107
Elizabeth Theokritoff
110
121
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Editorial
It is a depressingly dull phrase, 'agreed statement'. Yet without the earnest, timeconsuming labour which produces utterances of that kind, participants in the
ecumenical movement could well be floundering in rhetoric which is outdated, illfocused and, what is worse, ill-founded.
Such was, indeed, the situation which perpetuated the estrangement and mutual
condemnation of 'Eastern' and 'Oriental' Orthodox Churches until the common
sense and charity and skill of some dedicated modern pioneers began to treat the
accumulated inhibitions and frustrations of past ages as something like a sacred
log-jam: formidable, yes, but at the same time finite. In a matter of decades, water
was once more flowing freely where, for a millennium and a half, stagnation had
prevailed.
Nor is this the only log-jam to which attention has been paid in recent years.
Our section of Reports points to progress in several other, and at times related,
areas. In each and every case the point is underlined: nothing is achieved by cutting
corners. Statements which have been agreed simply because they are vapid, vain
or platitudinous will hardly bring new vigour to depleted currents.
Such has been the realisation of serious ecumenists throughout the disputations,
the dialogues and the discoveries of modern times. Such should be the realisation
also of those who, in the Fellowship, contribute in their own way to the formula
tion and, equally important, to the application, of statements which will have been
authentically, hence lovingly, agreed.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE, with the Fellowship's Secretary
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
129
Sebastian Brock
131
ARTICLES
Humanity and the natural world in the Syriac
tradition
Radical honesty about the self: the tradition of the
desert fathers and their heirs
'Clerical liberalism' in the Russian Orthodox
Church: the failure of reform
Columba Stewart
143
Lewis Shaw
157
POETRY
'And he said unto them, It is enough'
Sergei Averintsev
166
OBITUARIES
Joseph Gill (1901-89)
Mary Scott (1920-89)
Robert Murray
Robert Murray
168
170
John McGuckin
172
/;'// Storer
\1A
180
John Binns
182
Dietrich Schuld
Sheila Gordon-Duff
184
185
REVIEWS
The Forgotten Trinity
Genadios Limouris, d., Icons: Windows on
eternity
Roman Cholij, Clerical Celibacy in East and
West
Lawrence Cross, Eastern Christianity: the
Byzantine Tradition
Urs von Arx, d., Koinonia auf Altkirchlicher
Basis
Martin Reith, d., God in our midst
R. CD. Jasper, The Development of the Anglican
Liturgy 1662-1980
Lev Gillet, Encounter at the Well
190
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretary's Notes
St Basil's House
Conference 1990
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
193
Elizabeth Theokntoff
^
Sampson
97
Mendel Sophia Holland 198
Brian
206
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Adam names the animals: damascene panel,
thirteenth century (Suzdal)
2 St Isaac of Syria: fifteenth-century illumination
3 shepherd and his flock': eleventh-century
illumination
4 'Monks will have expectations of their superiors':
a miniature of the fifteenth century
5 Jesus in Gethsemane: the betrayal of Judas:
fresco, c.1200 (Cappadocia)
134
137
147
150
Editorial
A Syrian-Orthodox bishop calls for a 'reverent-receptive' attitude to creation (p. 141).
His is an acceptable and increasingly familiar kind of call, involving not so much
a green as Christian an approach. And there are many who probably prefer such
terminology to the neologisms of the 'Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation' lobby
of the ecumenical movement; the more so, since tradition undergirds it.
Yet if traditional, it can also be unduly comfortable, unchallenging and safe.
However vital such a concept, complacency may lurk around the corner. The most
sacred of formulations may be stifled or nullified by those who seek to offer them,
or think they offer them, respect. Thus the very preservation of tradition may in
volve its degradation. It was an old man of the Egyptian desert who said (p. 145),
The prophets wrote books, then came our fathers who put them into practice.
Those who came after them learnt them by heart. [But] then came the present
generation, who have written them out and put them into their window seats
without using them.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor/
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAX
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke. Grove London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The spirituality of the Philokalia
The ordination of women: an ecumenical
problem
Theodore of Tarsus: a Greek archbishop of
Canterbury
Sergei Hackel
+Kallistos of Diokleia
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
25
Benedicta Ward
41
POEM
Meditation on St Cedd
Heather Buck
54
OBITUARIES
Aleksandr Men' (1935-90)
John Alexander Ramsbotham (1906-89)
John Gordon Davies (1919-90)
Sergei Hackel
Francis House
Walter Hollenweger
56
59
60
REPORTS
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue
John Wesley and Eastern Orthodoxy
Hugh Wybrew
A.M. Allchin
63
65
John McGuckin
68
Robert Murray
69
REVIEWS
John Meyendorff, Imperial Unity and Christian
Divisions
Sebastian Brock, tr., A Garland of Hymns from the
Early Church
Ronnie Bowman Thurston, The Widows. A
Women's Ministry in the Early Church
Gennadios Limouris, d., Justice, Peace and the
Integrity of Creation
Krister Stendhal, Energy for Life
Let the Spirit Speak to the Churches
Emilio Castro, d., To the Wind of God's Spirit
Emilio Castro, d., The Ecumenical Review 41:3
M. Cunningham Corran 71
Robert Murray
72
Gerald Bray
73
Editorial
Gerald Bray
+ Oliver Tomkins
75
76
BOOKS RECEIVED
78
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
80
Dietrich Schuld
80
83
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, 1819
2 The Philokalia, title page of the first edition, 1782
3 The face of Eve (Kariye Djami), c. 1315-21
4 King Hlothere's charter, 679
5 The Rothwell Cross, c.700
6 The pagan threat: viking invaders on a
Lindisfarne stone, c. eighth century
7 Aleksandr Men' (1935-90)
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The publication of yet another Lev Gillet memorial lecture (pp.6-24) cannot but
confront us with the memory of their venerable and enigmatic dedicatee: all the
more so, since the introduction to the lecture so effectively evokes his manner and
his message. Almost imperceptively, the same Fr Lev surfaces also in another of
our papers (p.35). In either case he is acknowledged as a formative influence, 'a
master of the spiritual life'.
It was Fr Lev1s very unobtrusiveness which made him so impressive a com
municator of the truths he cherished. He was at his best in such gatherings of 'not
more than a dozen altogether' to which Bishop Kallistos refers (p.6). Here too were
tested and refined those utterances which later penetrated to the printed page. It
is often forgotten that many of them must have been generated in the stillness of
the chapel at St Basil's House or the related silence of the shabby basement cell
below. Yet these were the settings which the Fellowship provided for him over many
a decade, and to his dying day. In every sense was it a good thing for the Fellowship
to do.
Never since has there been a regular, let alone a resident Orthodox chaplain at
the house. Nor would he choose to occupy the basement cell, were he to act as Fr
Lev's successor. In any case, the cell itself has now been set aside for non-Fellowship
use.
But in a busier and possibly more business-like period of our corporate life, Fr
Lev's approach to things all the more deserves to be remembered. The unassuming
gatherings of his day, rooted in his silence as they were, offered spiritual and
ecumenical perspectives which then created and, it must be hoped, could still main
tain that which was given with due consideration, faith and hope the designa
tion 'Fellowship': itself an unassuming title, yet a challenge for us all.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN: reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY/
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke. Grove, London WII 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Symbiosis and sobornost: the ECR Trust and the
Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
Bulgakov and sophiology
Satan and the sinful women: a dialogue poem
from the Syriac Churches
Robert Murray
Aidan Nichols
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Sebastian Brock
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REPORTS
The Eastern Catholic Churches and Ecumenism
Hugh Wybrew
Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue: a report and its
recommendations (1991)
A comment on the joint report
Serge Keleher
Syndesmos consultation on cooperation between
Orthodox and Oriental youth movements ( 1991 )
REVIEWS
Sebastian Brock, intr. and tr Hymns on Paradise
by St Ephrem the Syrian
Andrew Palmer, Monk and Mason on the Tigris
Frontier
Pierre Yousif, d., A Classified Bibliography on
the East Syrian Liturgy
Rosemary Morris, d., Church and People
in Byzantium
Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevfenko, d.,
Proceedings of the International Congress
Commemorating the Millennium of Christianity
in Rus'-Ukraine
L'Icne dans la thologie et l'art
Martin Dudley and Geoffrey Rowell, Confession
and Absolution
Joseph Areeplackal, Spirit and Ministries
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Sebastian Brock
72
Ken Parry
73
Sergei Hackel
Gerald Bray
76
77
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
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Editorial
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83
84
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93
BOOKS RECEIVED
95
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
98
Helen Brock
98
John Binns
103
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
106
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volume 14 number 1
1992
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke.Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Orthodox arguments against the ordination of
women as priests
The Holy Spirit, beauty and transfiguration . . .
St Gregory the Theologian: three principles of
spiritual direction
6
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Thomas Fitzgerald
44
POEM
Homage to Saint Hubert
Robert Murray
54
OBITUARY
Patriarch Dimitrios of Constantinople (1914-91)
+Kallistos of Diokleia
58
REPORTS
The election of the new ecumenical patriarch ..
Faith in Lebanon: present crisis and future hope
The Churches in Jerusalem
The Christiana project
+ Kallistos of Diokleia
Alan Amos
Hugh Wybrew
Ian Bates/Bede Pearce
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65
74
84
John McGuckin
85
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Hugh Wybrew
Gordon Kendal
Philip Sherrard
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91
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Juliet du Bouley
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REVIEWS
E. Ferguson, d., The Encyclopedia of Early
Christianity
Johanna Manley, The Bible and the Holy
Fathers for Orthodox
P. W.L. Walker, Holy City, Holy Places?
Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus: The Enneads . . .
Andrew Louth, The Wilderness of God
Graeme Ferguson and John Chryssavgis, d.,
The Desert is Alive. Dimensions of Australian
Spirituality
Michael Kinnamon, d., Signs of the Spirit . . .
In Spirit and in Truth
Confessing the One Faith
Gerald Bray
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Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
97
98
Donal Savage
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102
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Acting General Secretary's Report
Editonal
Donal Savage
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Mother of God 'of tenderness', fourteenth-century mosaic
2 Maria Orans, twelfth-century mosaic, Ravenna
3 The descent of the Holy Spirit, icon of the Novgorod school,
sixteenth century
4 St Gregory the Theologian, detail of a fifteenth-century icon,
Pskov school
5 The apparition of the stag to Eustace [Hubert], stained glass, Chartres
6 Patriarch Dimitrios of Constantinople (1914-91)
7 Russian pilgrims on the approaches to Jerusalem c.1911
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During the long years of communist rule, ecumenism in the 'socialist' world was
too often tolerated, if not promoted, by the state for reasons of its own. In this
peculiar field the powers that were could hope to use the eloquence and gravitas
of churchmen in order to gain credence for various foreign policy concerns. The
churchmen selected for this work sought to persuade themselves that such a price
as this was well worth paying so that the surviving institutions of the Church could
be safeguarded. At the very least, here was a quid pro quo. But more than that,
if offered opportunities for dialogue with fellow-Christians. And dialogue, authentic
in itself, might surely justify an enterprise like this.
The ecumenists in question were not necessarily typical of their Church, nor were
they required to be so. Rather was ecumenism at a discount in the Orthodox milieu
at large (an obvious, though by no means isolated example). Not only did state
backing make it suspect. There was also simply lack of understanding of its largely
western principles and practice, not to mention ignorance as such.
In the post-communist world, the marked increase of friction between the various
major Churches of Eastern Europe must be related, at least in part, to the paucity
of precedents in fellowship and dialogue between divided Christians in situ and at
the grass-roots level. For westerners (Orthodox not least), who take such fellowship
and dialogue for granted, it is difficult to comprehend how fraught the situation
is. Others (who are rigorists and there are Orthodox among them too) feel
prompted by it to reflect that ecumenism could never be the answer to any of the
present problems since it itself involves relativisation of the truth and therefore sin.
Theirs are not principles on which the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius has
based its life over these sixty years or so. Its resources now are limited, as they always
were. But chief among them are the fruits of prayerful meditation and experience
in the field of dialogue between divided Christians. These it can offer to those who
were prevented from generating or from tasting them till now. In so doing it will
have to reach across frontiers which are only partly political. The most profound
of borders is created by a time-lag. And this can be breached and nullified only
in patience, humility and love.
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MARY CLJNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke. Grove, London Wll 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Praying with the body: the hesychast method and
some non-Christian parallels
St Bernard of Clairvaux and the tradition of the
Christian East
+Kallistos of Diokleia
G.L.C. Frank
37
POEM
The Lintel
Heather Buck
49
REPORTS
Documents on the conflict in former Yugoslavia
Syndesmos Fourteenth General Assembly 1992
Christos B. Christakis
53
58
Mary Cunningham
Corran
61
/ . McGuckin
63
Verna Harrison
Mary Cunningham
Corran
64
Ken Parry
68
Ken Parry
70
Bryan D. Spinks
Bryan D. Spinks
71
72
REVIEWS
/. McManners, d., The The Oxford Illustrated
History of Christianity
S.G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early
Church
Ben Witherington III, Women in the Earliest
Churches
A.P. Kazhdan et al, d., The Oxford Dictionary
of Byzantium
Jaroslav Pelikan, Imago Dei: the Byzantine
Apologia for Icons
Mary Cunningham, ed. and tr., The Life of
Michael the Synkellos
Thomas M. Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the
Catechumenate: West and East Syria
Pauly Kannookadan, The East Syrian Lectionary
66
Bryan D. Spinks
73
Gerald Bray
75
Gerald Bray
76
Gerald Bray
77
Gerald Bray
Mary Cunningham
Corran
78
Richard Price
80
79
82
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1992
Gordon Kendal
Gordon Kendal
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Title page of The way of a Pilgrim (1930)
2 A hesychast at prayer (twelfth-century
miniature)
3 Nikiphoros the Hesychast, fourteenthcentury manuscript of his On Guarding the
Heart
4 St Theophan the Recluse (nineteenth-century
engraving)
5 St Bernard sees a vision (altar piece, c. 1290)
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The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius in its time has prompted and pro
moted the publication of various books and pamphlets. These appeared under several
imprints, most commonly that of SPCK. But its own publications, apart from the
one which you hold in your hands (and the studies 'supplementary' to it), have been
few and far between.
All the more noteworthy was the Fellowship's publication of a pale-green paper
back in 1950, which was to be reprinted repeatedly in the years to come, and which
(having passed to other promoters after 1970) remains in print today. This was On
the Invocation of the Name of Jesus, the work of 'a Monk of the Eastern Church ',
whose anonymity was scrupulously safeguarded at the time. Nevertheless he marked
the foreword of February 1949 'St Basil's House'. Only later did it transpire that
this was indeed his permanent address. It was to remain so until his death in 1980.
The green paperback was one of several works which Fr Lev Gillet devoted to
the Jesus prayer, and it is thus appropriate that the current number of
Sobornost/ECR, appearing as it does in his centenary year, should be devoted largely
to this subject. No doubt he would have judged it doubly appropriate that Bishop
Kallistos's article should be matched by a study of St Bernard of Clairvaux since
the 'many generations of Western Christians' who practiced the invocation of the
holy Name, as he noted in his foreword, included none other than Bernard himself.
Hence there is no room for 'possessive' narrowly denominational treat
ment of the Jesus prayer. As Fr Lev insisted, its appeal is 'to all kinds of Christians
of both Eastern and Western traditions'. This could render it a token and, more
than this, a means for healing otherwise intractable divisions. For in the words of
Fr Lev (formerly a monk of the Western Church as well),
In pronouncing the Name of Jesus we inwardly meet all them that are united with
our Lord, all them of whom he said, 'Where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the midst of them'.
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1993
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House,52 Ladbroke Grove,London W11 2PB
Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue: its past, its present
and its future
'The ordination of women: an ecumenical
problem': a reply to a reply
Athos after ten years: the good news and the bad
OBITUARIES
Oliver Stratford Tomkins (1908-92)
Peter Cowen (1942-93)
REPORTS
Orthodox-Catholic dialogue
The Benedictine abbey of St Alban
The Syrian Orthodox diocese of Jezirah and
Euphrates
REVIEWS
George Papademetriou, Essays in Orthodox
Christian-Jewish Relations
Michael P. Carroll, The Cult of the Virgin Mary:
Psychological Boundaries
Benedicta Ward, Signs and Wonders, Saints,
Miracles and Prayers
J. Durand et al., sa., Byzance: L'art byzantin dans
les collections publiques franaises
Pauline Allen and Cornells Datema, tr., Leontius,
Presbyter of Constantinople
J. Breck et al., ed, The Legacy of St Vladimir
David Daniel, The Orthodox Church of India:
History
Murad Saliba Barsom, tr., Anaphoras
Sergei Hackel
Hugh Wybrew
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
+Kallistos of Diokleia
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Mary Tanner
Alan Amos, Colin Davey
et al
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+Kallistos of Diokleia
and Edward Yarnold
Jane Kelsall
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Alan Amos
54
Andrew J. Sopko
60
Gerald Bray
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Sebastian Brock
Sebastian Brock
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Columba Graham Flegg, 'Gathered under
Apostles', A Study of the Catholic Apostolic
Church
Carnegie Samuel Calian, Theology without
Boundaries
Joan L. Roccasalvo, The Eastern Catholic
Churches
Paul McPartlan, d., One in 2000? Towards
Catholic-Orthodox Unity
A Monk of the Eastern Church, Serve the Lord
with Gladness
Directory of Orthodox Parishes and Institutions in
North America
Editorial
Edwin Robertson
73
Gerald Bray
75
Gerald Bray
77
Edward Yarnold
78
John Chryssavgis
81
Elizabeth Theokritoff
83
BOOKS RECEIVED
85
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The General Secretary's report
Annual conference 1993
Gordon Kendal
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
It is not often that a paper given at the Fellowship's annual conference could provoke
a reassessment of all that this Fellowship once seemed to support. Not that the paper
was intended to serve this function or perceived as serving it when it was first
presented. But now that it appears between the covers of our journal, its potential role
as catalyst is less easy to ignore.
Hugh Wybrew's statement on Anglican-Orthodox dialogue is not concerned directly
with the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. Indeed there is only one reference
to it in the whole text, and an indirect one at that. Nevertheless, here speaks its former
Secretary General, he also the former chairman of its council, while its conference
and its journal serve as the paper's first and most appropriate sounding boards.
All the more appropriate is it for the Fellowship to ponder Fr Hugh's conclusions
at a time like this, when it has other potent reasons to review its former life. For these
pages also carry the present Secretary General's rationale (now his council's also) for
a total transfer from St Basil's House of that which seemed so long to give the
Fellowship its cachet and its definition - 'a traumatic but positive move forward' this,
in the sixty fifth year of its existence.
Forward, let us hope, and only forward, whatever all our moves and readjustments.
Much as ecumenists may need to wean themselves of dated plans and aspirations, all
are personally diminished, rendered less complete, while age-long boundaries and
barriers continue to prevail unchecked. If indeed 'we ought to love our fellow
Christians', as Edward Yarnold notes below, then 'to be separated from them should
be pain'.
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SERGEI HACKEL editor,
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
+Kallistos of Diokleia
ARTICLES
Father Lev Gillet and the Fellowship
ofStAlban
and St Sergius
The 'Monk of the Eastern Church ' and the Jesus
prayer
Catholic-Orthodox relations: the need for love as
well as knowledge
'Holy Russia' and related problems
+Kallistos of Diokleia
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Boris Bobrinskoy
Nikolai Balashov
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OBITUARIES
John Meyendorff (1926-92)
Eric Mascall (1905-93)
Dimitri Obolensky
Gerald Bray
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52
Eric Mascall
56
POEM
Ecumenism exemplified: Reminiscences
Anglo-Orthodox Summer-school
of an
REPORTS
'Continuity and renewal ': third academic meeting
between Orthodoxy and Judaism
REVIEWS
John Breck, The Spirit of Truth, vol.1
Thomas M. Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the
Catechumenate
Verna E. F. Harrison, Grace and Freedom
according to St Gregory ofNyssa
John R.K. Fenwick, The Anaphoras of St Basil
and St James
R.M. Price, tr., Lives of the Monks of Palestine...
Catia Galatariotou, The Making of a Saint. The
Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the
Recluse
60
John McGuckin
67
Bryan D. Spinks
68
R.M. Price
69
Bryan D. Spinks
Andrew Louth
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Andrew Louth
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K.P. Wesche, tr., On the Person of Christ: the
Christology of the Emperor Justinian
John Meyendorff, d., The Primacy of Peter
Philip Sherrard, Human Image: World Image-The
Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology ..
A. Heron, d., The Forgotten Trinity. 3. A
Selection of Papers presented to the BCC Study
Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine Today
Christine Hall, d., The Deacon's Ministry
E.L. Mascall, Saraband
John McGuckin
R.M. Price
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76
John Chryssavgis
78
John McGuckin
Teresa CSA
Gerald Bray
81
82
85
BOOKS RECEIVED
87
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The General Secretary's report
Gordon Kendal
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Fr Lev Gillet at the Fellowship conference of
1929
2. The pilgrim 'with a special gift as friend and
spiritual guide to women ': Fr Lev Gillet in the
early 1930s
3. From the Foreword to On the Invocation of
the Name of Jesus (1950)
4. Pope Paul VI greets Patriarch Athenagoras in
the Vatican (1967)
5. Fr John Meyendorff at the time of his
retirement (1992)
6. Ruins of the 2nd-century synagogue at
Capernaum on the site of which Jesus often
taught
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It was a farewell visit, in its way, the visit which I paid in late October to Fr Lev
Gillet's old basement room in what will soon no longer be St Basil's House. Hardly
anything evoked the memory of Fr Lev. Only a stray copy of his On the Invocation
of the Name of Jesus, which had somehow found its way home, served as a
reminder that this was once the setting of the author's work and prayer.
And yet, despite itself, the room insistently conveyed the message, si monumentum
requiris, circumspice. Not that this meant looking round at things. As Bishop
Kallistos points out below, Fr Lev 'seemed to possess virtually nothing that he
could call his own'. Accordingly, there could not be any expectation that a
monument of his would be susceptible of measurement of height or breadth or
weight.
Rather is his monument located in the hearts and minds of those to whom he
ministered, of those to whom he spoke, of those (most numerous of all) who read
his publications and responded to them. This includes many a Fellowship member,
if not most. But it also includes countless individuals who never even knew that it
was Fr Lev who gave them guidance, so resolutely did he veil himself from view
as Monk of the Eastern Church'.
It is the centenary of his birth. Hence we naturally discuss some of his achieve
ments. In addition, and following in his footsteps, we reflect some of his interests
and concerns. There is an article on Catholic-Orthodox relations; a rumination on
the suspect, even anti-evangelical, piety of some Russian churchmen of the present
time; a report on dialogue between representatives of Judaism and Christian
Orthodoxy - the mere prospect of which would have delighted the author of
Communion in the Messiah (1942) (who else but Lev Gillet?).
So, with gratitude to Fr Lev, this issue also serves as part of the memorial.
It stands to gain considerably therefrom.
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MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Communion and otherness
The prayers of St Isaac the Syrian
+John (Zizioulas)
Sebastian Brock
SERMON
Bell's memorial: a Chichester sermon
Sergei Hackel
POETRY
Bronze Christ
Heather Buck
OBITUARIES
Dumitru Staniloae (1903-93)
Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896-1993)
REPORTS
Faith and Order pilgrims
Faith and Order at Santiago: 'Towards koinonia
infaith, life and witness'
Monastic encounters in Egypt and Ethiopia
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A.M. Allchin
Philip Steer
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44
Keith Clements
50
Nicholas Lossky
John Binns
53
59
REVIEWS
John Wenham, Christ and the Bible
Gerald Bray
Marianne Dorman, d., The Liturgical Sermons of
LancelotAndrewes
Nicholas Lossky
David Gosling, New Earth: Covenanting for
Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation
D.P. Niles, d., Between the Flood and the
Rainbow: Interpreting the Conciliar Process
(Covenant) to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of
Creation
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Giinther Gassmann, d., Documentary History of
Faith and Order 1963-1993
Gerald Bray
Crawford Knox, Changing Christian Paradigms
and their Implications for Modern Thought
Gerald Bray
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Alexander Schmemann, The Celebration ofFaith:
I believe
Alexey Young, The Russian Orthodox Church
Outside Russia
Basil Zion, Eros and Transformation: Sexuality
and Marriage. An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
Aristarchos Maurakis, The Law of Marriage and
Divorce in the Church of England and the
Church of Greece in recent times (1850-1980) ...
George Capsanis, The Eros of Repentance
Elizabeth Behr-Sigel, The Place of the Heart: An
Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality
Yannis Spiteris, La teologia ortodossa neo-greca
Michel Quenot, The Icon: Window on the
Kingdom
Elizabeth Theokritoff
78
Sergei Hackel
81
David C. Ford
82
Christos B. Christakis
John Chryssavgis
85
86
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Gerald Bray
86
89
John Baggley
90
BOOKS RECEIVED
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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The General Secretary's report
Gordon Kendal
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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Editorial
Short cuts there aren't: it is the sort of motto which ecumenists have learned to
value ever since the days of Bishop Bell (pp.32-6), and even earlier than that. For
there can be few of them indeed who favour anything resembling that 'cheap unity
which avoids contested issues because they disturb the peace of the Church'; by
contrast, they would argue, 'costly unity will not be afraid of legitimate conflict'.
Such certainly are the words which issued from the recent Faith and Order
conference at Santiago (pp.50-9). Such was the conviction also of our founding
fathers in the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, and it was this which led them
to those theological mini-conferences which used to be held in the context of the
annual conferences in the pre- and post-war years, with their creative and wellremembered confrontations.
Such confrontations still have their part to play. Furthermore the Orthodox of
Western Europe are unusually well placed to take them further in the years to come.
For it is they (in the words of Metropolitan John Zizioulas) who can be 'authentic
interpreters and bridges between historical Orthodoxy and Western culture in a way
which no other Orthodox can' (pp.7-19).
Not that such confrontations need to be anything other than eirenic. But they must
be honest, so they may be painful. Hence Keith Clements' challenging dictum
(pp.50-2): shared vulnerability is where a common future begins'.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Romanesque carving, church of San Juan de
la Pena, Navarre
2. Moldavian encolpion, ivory, 1623, Historical
Museum, Moscow
3. Palestinian miniature, 9th century, BN cod. gr.
914, f 237 v
4. George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: portrait by
A.R. Middleton Todd(1955)
5. Fr Sophrony in his later years (1981)
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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Knowing the unknowable: hesychasm and
theKabbalah
Russia and the Arab Orthodox Community
inPalestine 1882-1917
Andrew Louth
Derek Hopwood
24
POETRY
Self-doubt
Heather Buck
33
A.M. Allchin
Wendy Robinson
Alexander Popescu
Sebastian Brock
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OBITUARIES
Militza Zernov (1899-1994)
Petre Tutea (1902-91)
Andr de Halleux (1924-94)
REPORTS
On the question of Anglicans who may
seek to be received into the Orthodox
Church: an Orthodox response
Thoughts on Santiago
A week in Constantinople
Pro
Oriente
Consultation
(1994):
Orthodoxy and Catholicity in the Syriac
Tradition'
53
Mary Tanner and
Sergei Hackel
George Woodman
54
56
Sebastian Brock
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Militza and Nicolas Zernov, Easter 1965 (see obituaries, pp. 34-47)
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Documents:
The Vienna christological
formula (1971)
Joint communiqu of Pro Oriente
consultation (1994)
The Christian history of the holy land: a
Jerusalem conference 1994
REVIEWS
Veselin Kesich, The Gospel Image of
Christ
Graham Gould, The Desert Fathers on
Monastic Community
P.M. Blowers, Exegesis and Spiritual
Pedagogy inMaximus the Confessor
Robert F. Taft SJ, The Byzantine Rite: A
Short History
Getatchew Haile, The Mariology of
Emperor Zar'a Ya'iqob of Ethiopia
J.F. Coakley, The Church of the East and
the Church of England: A History of the
Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian
Mission
Brenda Meehan, Holy Women of Russia ....
Basilio Petr, Tra Cielo e Terra:
Introduzione
alia
teologia
morale
ortodossa contemporanea
John H. Erickson, The Challenge of our
Past
Ren Gothoni, Paradise within Reach:
Monasticism and Pilgrimage onMtAthos
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Lev Gillet 'Un
Moine de l'glise d 'Orient '
63
64
Andrew Palmer
67
Gerald Bray
75
Andrew Louth
76
John McGuckin
79
Hugh Wybrew
80
John Binns
82
Robert Murray
Elizabeth Theokritoff
83
88
Gerald Bray
91
Gerald Bray
93
Graham Speake
94
Sergei Hackel
97
BOOKS RECEIVED
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Militza and Nicolas Zernov, 1965
(Zernov archive)
2. Russian pilgrims in the holy land early
in the twentieth century (original print,
Ianova collection)
3. Militza in a Russian student group of
the mid-1920s, Paris (Zernov archive)
4. Militza with Nicolas and the Zernov
family early in the 1930s (Zernov
archive).
5. St Francis of Assist 'at home among the
Orthodox saints': a Cretan fresco of
the early fourteenth century
101
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SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6 LU
Contents
EDITORIAL.
ARTICLES
How Greek, how Palestinian?
The
patriarchate of Jerusalem in the mid-war
years
The need for 'long memories': interChurch relations and their 16th/17th
century background
St Ephrem of Syria's Hymn on Faith 7: an
ode on his own name
REPORTS
Problems of mission: a colloquium at
Chevetogne (1994)
Religious education and the environment:
a seminar at Halki (1994)
The Roman Catholic Church and the
Assyrian Church of the East (1994): a
common declaration
Patristic theology in the modern world: a
conference at King's College, London
First impressions: a Quaker, aged eleven,
at a Russian Christmas Vigil (London
1995)
REVIEWS
Bishop Dimitri, The Kingdom of God: the
Sermon on the Mount
Vasiliki Limberis, Divine Heiress, The
Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian
Constantinople
Sergei Hackel
Sotirios Roussos
Colin Davey
19
Andrew Palmer
28
Colin Davey
41
David L.Gosling
46
Sebastian Brock
52
Mary B.Cunningham
55
Lara Lea
60
John Chryssavgis
62
Mary B.Cunningham
63
CONTENTS
Lionel
R.Wickham
and
Caroline
P.Bammel (eds.), Christian Faith and
Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Paul McPartlan, The Eucharist Makes the
Church: Henri de Lubac and John
Zizioulas in dialogue
Paul Bradshaw and Bryan Spinks (eds.),
Liturgy in Dialogue
Martin Dudley and Geoffrey Rowell (eds.)
The Oil of Gladness. Anointing in the
Christian Tradition
John N.Karmiris, The Status and Ministry
of the Laity in the Orthodox Church
Nikolai Leskov, On the Edge of the World
Michael J.Oleksa, Orthodox Alaska: A
Theology of a Mission
Vladislav Tsypin, Istoriia
Russkoi
Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi 1917-1990
Ren
Gothoni,
Tales
and
Truth:
Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and
Present
Thomas F.Best and Gunther Gassmann,
On the Way to Fuller Koinonia: Official
report of the Fifth World Conference on
Faith and Order
Returning Pilgrims
The Fifth World Conference on Faith and
Order (The Ecumenical Review 45. 1
[1993])
Clive Marsh, Questioning Evangelism: A
Contribution from a Liberal Perspective
John Saxbee, Liberal Evangelism: A
Flexible Response to the Decade
Douglas Dales, Living Through Dying:
The Spiritual Experience of St Paul
BOOKS RECEIVED
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66
Hugh Wybrew
69
Gordon
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Stephen Parsons
80
John Chryssavgis
S.A.Mousalimas
82
84
S.A.Mousalimas
89
Richard Price
93
Graham Speake
95
Gerald Bray
98
Andy Lie
101
Andy Lie
103
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Members of the Confraternity of the
Holy Sepulchre, early 1930s
2. George Abbot (1562-1633), Archbishop
of Canterbury, a painting of 1610
3. Metrophanes Kritopoulos (1589-1639),
an etching of 1627
4. 'Chaste men spread a cloth/so as not to
look': the sons of Noah depicted in a
miniature from the Vienna Genesis,
early sixth century
5. 'He rode in a boat/and they thought
him human ': Romanesque miniature,
early eleventh century
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Contents
EDITORIAL
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Sergei Hackel
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ARTICLES
C.S.Lewis: an 'anonymous Orthodox '?
An offering of prayer': the witness of Paul
Evdokimov(1900-70)
EXHIBITION
Byzantium: treasures of Byzantine art and
culture from British collections
Michad plekon
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OBITUARY
Philip Sherrard (1922-95)
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REVIEWS
Walter H.Wagner, After the ApostlesChristianity in the Second Century
John Polkmghorne Science and Belief
G.Beb s, The Mmd.ofthe Fathers
Henryk Paprocki, Le Mystre de
L Eucharistie: Gense et interpretation de
la liturgie eucharistique byzantine
Kathleen Corrigan, Visual Polemics in the
Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters
Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby (d.),
The Theotokos Evergetis and eleventhcentury monasticism
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John Binns
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REPORTS
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55
Alistair Stewart-Sykes 58
Columba Graham Flegg 60
John Chryssavgis
67
Hugh Wybrew
69
Leslie Brubaker
71
Andrew Louth
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Leon Litvack, John Mason Neale and the
Quest for Sobornost
A.G.Lough (sel), The Wisdom of John
Mason Neale - From his Sermons
Edwin Robertson, Unshakeable Friend:
George Bell and the German Churches
William van den Bercken, Christian
Thinking and the End of Communism in
Russia
Patrick Michel, Politique et religion. La
grande mutation
Alexander Schmemann, Celebration of
Faith: The Church Year
Sergei Hackel, The Orthodox Church
Mahmoud Zibawi, The icon: its meaning
andhistory
Stuart Brown, The Nearest in Affection:
Towards a Christian Understanding of
Islam
ILLUSTRATIONS
J.F.Coakley
77
11
Sergei Hackel
80
32
42
Richard Price
81
85
Andy Lie
86
BOOKS RECEIVED
88
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Gordon Kendal
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
93
96
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MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
The development of eucharistie worship
Sursum Corda
Church and praise in the hymnody of the
Wesleys
Hugh Wybrew
Ephrem Lash
9
19
David Carter
30
POETRY
Three poems
Heather Buck
48
Colin Davey
52
Andrew Palmer
John Baggley
67
70
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
74
76
Andrew Louth
77
Wendy Mayer
79
W.H.C. Frend
82
Iain Torrance
85
REPORTS
The successor of Peter and Paul
Conference survey
Oriental Christian festival (SOAS, 1995)
Syndesmos assembly (1995)
REVIEWS
Raymond Brown, The Death of the Messiah
Norbert Brox, A History of the Early Church
Douglas Burton-Christie, Scripture and the
Quest for Holiness in Early Christian
Monasticism
J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth. The Story of
John Chrysostom
J. McGuckin, St Cyril of Alexandria.
The Christological Controversy
Albert Van Roey and Pauline Allen,
ed. and tr., Monophysite Texts of
the Sixth Century
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Ambrosius Giakalis, Images of the Divine:
the Theology of Icons at the Seventh
Ecumenical Council
George Papademetriou, Maimonides and
Palamas on God
Yannis Spiteris and Bruno Gianesin,
Vedere Dio. Incontro tra Oriente e
Occidente
Vittorio Peri, Orientalis Veritas:
Rome e la Chiesa d'Orient Storia e diritto canonico
Victor Bychkov, The Aesthetic Face of Being:
Art in the Theology of Pavel Florensky
Dumitru Staniloae, The Experience of God....
E. Carr et al, d., Evlogema: Studies in
Honour of Robert Taft, S.J.
Rowan Williams, Open to Judgement:
Sermons and Addresses
Gennadios Limouris, Orthodox Visions of
Ecumenism
ILLUSTRATIONS
Ken Parry
Andrew Louth
Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Fie
Columba Graham Fie
Hugh Wybrew
Gerald Bray
Colin Davey
BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
ERRATA AND CORRIGENDA
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Gregory Nazianzen on the importance
of Christian doctrine
The worship of the whole creation:
Merton and the Eastern Fathers
Spiritual direction: problems and
perspectives in the early monastic
tradition
The Estonian crisis: a salutary
warning?
Nicholas Armitage
A. M. Allchin
28
John Chryssavgis
43
+ KallistosofDiokleia
59
REPORTS
A crisis in dialogue: the patriarch of
Constantinople addresses Pope John
Paul II
REVIEWS
Catherine Osborne, Eros Unveiled
A. Brent, Hippolytus and the Roman
Church in the Third Century
[Ephrem Lash et a/.,tr.,], The Divine
Liturgy of our Father among the Saints
John Chrysostom
69
John McGuckin
72
A. Stewart-Sykes
74
Elizabeth Theokritoff
76
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Elizabeth Theokritoff
79
ILLUSTRATIONS
Andrew Louth
81
85
87
Hugh Wybrew
89
Gerald Bray
91
Gerald Bray
92
Gerald Bray
93
Gerald Bray
95
96
97
BOOKS RECEIVED
99
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
105
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
108
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MARY CUNNINGHAM CORRAN reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
Sebastian Brock
ARTICLES
St Isaac the Syrian: two unpublished texts....
'We must pray for all': salvation according
toStSilouan
Orthodox
ecclesiology
and
cultural
pluralism
+ Kallistos of Diokleia
34
Myroslaw Tataryn
56
POEM
The flowering of the cross
Heather Buck
68
OBITUARIES
Helle Georgiadis (1916-96)
Hildegart Nicholas (1913-95)
JoanRutt
Wendy Robinson
70
76
REPORTS
Dialogue within the Syriac tradition
Sebastian Brock
78
John Chryssavgis
86
Robert Jordan
Graham Speake
88
91
Paul Stephenson
94
Gerald Bray
96
Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Flegg
97
99
REVIEWS
John Binns, Ascetics and Ambassadors of
Christ
Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in
Byzantium (843-1118)
Chris Hellier, Monasteries of Greece
Dimitri Obolensky, Byzantium and the
Slavs
Jobe Abbass, Apostolic See' in the New
Eastern Code of Canon Law
Varghese Pathikulangara,
Liturgy Experience
Denis Engleman, Ultimate Things
CONTENTS
Angelo Scola, Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Raymond Gawronski, Word and Silence.
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Spiritual
Encounter between East and West
Editorial
Gerald Bray
BOOKS RECEIVED
101
103
108
Most scholars must have given up any hope of recovering the so-called
Second Half of St Isaac's writings. Yes, they had once been found by Paul
Bedjan in Urmiah (present-day Iran). But the turbulent history of that
region had caused these invaluable writings to disappear earlier in the
century. By that time only a sample of the text had been published (1909).
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Yet a comparable manuscript was there all the time. It is not even as if
it had been immured in some dingy and distant monastery in the Near East.
As its discoverer, Sebastian Brock, noted in our journal (18:1), it was
'virtually on my doorstep in Oxford', and at the Bodleian library, no less.
Editors and translators have been at work on the manuscript ever since.
A fruit of these labours appears below. Here is the first English translation
of some all-important and impressive texts.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Their author was St Isaac the Syrian, Bishop Isaac of Nineveh, as his
flock would have known him briefly before he retired into monastic
seclusion. His reputation was soon to spread well beyond the boundaries
of his diocese and Church. Indeed, his spiritual authority is respected
throughout the Christian world to this day.
37
3. Helle Georgiadis:
photograph of 1949
72
All of this suggests that fonnal membership of this or that church body
is no criterion of orthodoxy, still less of sanctity. For there can be no
doubt that the man belonged to a heretical Church (Nestorian) and could
therefore have been dismissed by most of medieval Christendom as a
heretic himself. And not only then. At an earlier stage of our own history,
he might have been refused full membership of the Fellowship, belonging,
as he did, to a 'fringe' Church.
The absolute nature of church boundaries should always be doubted.
To echo one Russian Orthodox patriarch of modern times, 'we know
where the Church is: we cannot know where the Church is not'.
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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
The Church of England and its relationship
with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox
worlds
Mary Tanner
St Leo's Tome (449) in the light of his later
writings
George Every
Columba of lona and Augustine of
Canterbury: two missionary saints
Gerald Bonner
9
23
30
POEM
Picking raspberries on the feast of the
Transfiguration
Hannah Hunt
45
REPORTS
'Towards a common date for Easter':
Aleppo 1997
John Halliburton
The community of Bose and its congresses
HughWybrew
46
48
REVIEWS
Bruce J. Malina, The Social World of Jesus
and the Gospel
Erich Renhart, Das syrische Bema: liturgischarchdologische Untersuchungen
Andrew Louth, Maximus the Confessor
Lucy Menzies, Columba of lona
Diana Leatham, They Built on Rock
St Symeon the New Theologian, On the
Mystical Life: Ethical Discourses, vol. i:
The Church and the Last Things
Paul McPartlan, Sacrament of Salvation: An
Introduction to Eucharistie Ecclesiology.
Peter Hocken, The Strategy of the Spirit
3
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
51
Andrew Palmer
Lars Thunberg
53
61
66
John McGuckin
68
Hugh Wybrew
Gerald Bray
69
71
CONTENTS
H. J.M. Turner, To Serve the Present Age
Edmund P. Cloney, The Church
John Broadhurst, d., Quo vasitis? The state
of churches in northern Europe
Brian E. Cope and Michael Kinnamon, d.,
The ecumenical movement. An anthology of
key texts and voices
Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, Homilies, vol. I...
Archbishop Averky Taushev, The Apocalypse
in the Teaching ofAncient Christianity
Sophocles Sophocleous, Icons of Cyprus,
7th-20th century.
Hugh Wybrew
John Turner
73
75
Gerald Bray
76
Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Flegg
77
78
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
79
Jill Storer
80
BOOKS RECEIVED
83
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General Secretary's report
Stephen Platt
88
FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS
92
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION.
93
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
94
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Archbishop
Michael
Ramsey
and
Archbishop Athenogoras ( 1964)
2. Vicarius urbis Romae: from the Probianus
dyptychon (c.400)
3. Seventh-century binding of St John's
Gospel (the Stonyhurst MS)
4. St Gregory the Great: eleventh-century
illumination
5. The Transfiguration: twelfth-century icon
(Sinai)
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27
32
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Contents
EDITORIAL..
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
The relevance of post-Holocaust theology to
the thought and practice of the Russian
Orthodox Church
Ancestral guilt according to St Maximus the
Confessor: a bridge between Eastern and
Western conceptions
Love and concern: searching St Paul for a
vision of ecumenism
Jean-Claude Larchet
26
John Jillions
49
OBITUARY
Konstantin Andronikof (1916-97)
Sergei Hackel
64
Gerald Bray
67
68
72
76
77
79
Richard Price
81
Richard J. Mammana
83
Gerald Bray
84
REVIEWS
William McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock, d.,
Mary is for everyone
Anthony Meredith, The Cappadocians
Jean Bernardi, Saint Grgoire de Nazianze....
Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys, The
Sixth Century
Sebastian Brock, tr., The Wisdom of Saint
Isaac the Syrian
Lars Thunberg, Microcosm and Mediator.
Alice-Mary Talbot, d., Holy Women of
Byzantium
B.V. Kienzle et al., d., Models of Holiness
in Medieval Sermons
Vyacheslav Ivanov, The Russian Orthodox
Church ofAlaska and the Aleutian Islands..
Johann Adam Mhler Institut, Kleine
Konfessionskunde
Sergei Hackel
CONTENTS
Robert Hannaford, d., The Future of
Anglicanism
John Polkinghorne, Scientists and Theo
logians
David Melling and Michael Coppock, d.,
Let Our Hearts be in High
Jim Forest, Praying with Icons
YvesHamant, Alexander Men
Elizabeth Roberts and Ann Shukman, d.,
Christianity for the Twenty-First Century....
Konrad Raiser, To be the Church
John Turner
85
87
Andrew Louth
AnnaHulbert
88
90
Richard Price
Gerald Bray
91
93
BOOKS RECEIVED
95
FELLOWSFHP AFFAIRS
General Secretary's report.
Stephen Platt
99
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
102
FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS
103
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
104
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Burial of defiled Torah scrolls at Vitebsk
(1944)
2. Pope John xxin receives a Russian
Orthodox observer at Vatican n
3. Pope John xxill (1963)
4. Adam and Eve after the Fall: fresco at
Voronef (sixteenth century)
5. Maximus the Confessor: Athonite fresco
(fourteenth century)
6. St Paul in Damascus: twelfth-century
mosaic at Palermo
7. Konstantin Andronikof with Leonid
Brezhnev and Georges Pompidou
(1970)
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Editorial
It is not as if Christians have not enough to do in relating to each other. This
journal certainly sees its principal role in manifesting and furthering the
fellowship between Christians of East and West. Hence also the title of its
parent body, the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. Its members are so
acclimatised to it that they use it adjectivally. 'The Fellowship conference' is a
familiar phrase. And there used to be a Fellowship retreat.
But none of this should beguile us into seeking fellowship only between likeminded Christians. It is also possible to look at religions other than our own.
We may do this as individual Churches. We may also work collectively or
ecumenically. Thus we might work through the WCC or (as did Fr Lev Gillet)
through the World Congress of Faiths.
Most promising, since most natural, of all the inter-faith relations to be fostered
are the Judeo-Christian. Not that 'natural' means easy. Rather did moral and
spiritual obligations in this sphere come to be ignored and even spurned by
many a Church throughout the ages.
Any creative rethinking of our often sorry past cannot but be welcomed. Such
thinking may not involve all and sundry at the outset. But our inter-Church
relations should be such as to permit each Church or church tradition to hed
the insights of its neighbours. This should certainly involve us easterners
gaining from our partners in the west. Otherwise 'fellowship' ceases to be a
helpful or an honest designation.
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with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Reunion in the service of an empire? Russia
and the Ethiopian Church
A spiritual father for the whole Church: Si
Ephraem the Syrian
Canon for the great and angelic Schema
Sergei Hackel
Sydney H. Griffith
Ephrem Lash
21
41
Sebastian Brock
Hugh Wybrew
58
59
Elizabeth Theokritoff
62
63
65
Richard J. Mammana
68
Andrew Louth
68
Andrew Louth
70
Martin Palmer
72
REPORTS
The cultural heritage of the monastery of St
Saba
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue 1998
REVIEWS
Michael Prokurat et ai,
Historical
Dictionary of the Orthodox Church
Derek Krueger, Symeon the Holy Fool:
Leontius 's Life and the Late Antique City....
Theodora Antonopolou, The Homilies of the
Emperor Leo vi.
Archimandrite loanichie Balan, Romanian
Patericon: Saints of the Romanian
Orthodox Church
Benedict Engelzakis, Studies on the History
of the Church of Cyprus, 4th-20th centuries
Catherine Evtuhov, The Cross and the Sickle.
Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian
Religious Philosophy
Archimandrite
Monasticism
Vasileios,
Ecology
and
CONTENTS
Editorial
Richard J. Mammana
74
Hannah Hunt
77
Gregory Woolfenden
78
Elizabeth Theokritoff
79
Gerald Bray
80
Gerald Bray
82
BOOKS RECEIVED
85
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Stephen Platt
89
90
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
91
CORRIGENDA 20:1
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FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS
93
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Patriarch Tewoflos on an official visit to
Zagorsk (1968)
2. St Ephraem the Syrian, icon, Novgorod
school, late fifteenth century (Novgorod
museum, no.3097)
3. The dormition of Ephraem Syrus, fresco,
1568, Docheiariou (Athos)
4. A schema-monk at Valaam monastery
(1931)
Among the pamphlets for sale at one of Moscow's metro stations this autumn
was the fourth in a series called Orthodoxy or death'. Its anonymous authors
urged its readers ('the plenitude of the Russian Orthodox Church') to 'prevent
a fall into the abyss of ecumenism'. They therefore praised those patriarchates
who had already heeded comparable calls, Jerusalem and Georgia first among
them.
Such calls issue from fundamentalists. But their presuppositions are not
discounted elsewhere. Indeed they have their currency even among the very
practitioners of ecumenism. All the more readily will many of their fellowchurchmen see them burdened with a last-ditch stand in its defence.
Hence the Thessalonica agreement which was reached by Orthodox
representatives earlier this year. This seeks to avoid positive involvement in
the forthcoming WCC assembly in Harare (hardly any voting and no
participation 'in ecumenical services, common prayer or other religious
ceremonies' whatsoever).
Meanwhile, most Orthodox Churches were
conspicuous by their absence at the Anglican-Orthodox discussions in
Bucharest (see 'Reports', below). Also missing was the long-established
'Fellowship' practice of alternative Anglican and Orthodox worship.
So at one end of the scale is the burning of books by Schmemann, Meyendorff
or Men' on the orders of a crazed provincial bishop. But equally disturbing is
last year's calculated refusal of the patriarch of Moscow even to meet the pope
of Rome at all.
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Jane Ellis (1951-98)
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The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius marked its fiftieth year in 1978. A
letter went to Fr Georges Florovsky in the previous year, inviting him to
contribute to the anniversary number of our journal. shall be glad to have
my essays appear once more on the pages of Sobornosf, replied our one-time
vice-president. He sent us 'The Fourth Century' {Sobornost 7:6, pp.432-47),
and hoped that it would fit into our programme. In an editorial note I was able
to assure him that 'no article of his could fail to do so'. All veiy gracious.
But it was no less true for that. Florovsky was undoubtedly pleased to be
back. Whereas we were well aware of the extent to which his articles had
enriched, even shaped our programmes over the years. And not only ours,
moreover.
In the early days of the ecumenical movement Florovsky made an all-important
contribution to its ethos and its structure. Much of his contribution was made
in the confines of committee meetings, not least those of the provisional
committee of the future WCC (1938-48). But it was the first assembly of the
WCC (1948) which gave him the opportunity to spell out his principles and
plans to the widest range of Christians yet gathered under a single roof. Within
that year the text was published, and two different strands of his ecumenical
work were thereby brought together. For the text appeared in Sobornost (3:4
[1948]).
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(early fourth century)
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Richard Price
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Andrew Louth
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Andrew Louth
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Gerald Bonner
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Andrew Louth
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Dimitri Conomos
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Aram. I ofCilicia, (Geneva 1999)
2.
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3.
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4.
5.
There should be a tremor in the print to register that this is positively the last
Sobornost/ECR editorial for the millennium that very nearly isn't any more.
Dionysius Exiguus long ago persuaded us that the date of Christ's birth (wrongly
calculated though it was) should count as the beginning of a new era (=AD). With
nave self-confidence, the formerly ascendant nations of the West, hardly
Christian though they are, have none the less assumed that their way of counting
out the centuries cannot but be universal. And all mankind should therefore
celebrate the arrival of the new millennium come what may. Jews (who call the
current year 5760) or Muslims (for whom it is 1420) look like being spoil sports.
Even so, it is fair enough that Christians should ascribe some special value to
Christmas and related feasts this year. Better still if they can celebrate Christ's
incarnation with increased awareness of their shared beliefs in this particular
respect. Hence the gathering of the Holy Land's Christian leaders at Bethlehem
this year, an ecumenical event of great promise (12 December). This in turn
could provide the context for the Christmas Liturgy which the heads of the
world's Orthodox Churches will concelebrate on 7 January not many yards away.
For the divisions of the first millennia should have prepared the various Christian
bodies of the world to consider and to further reconciliation in the third. It is
exactly with such thoughts that Catholicos Aram I brings his persuasive
presentation to an end (below). Not that reconciliation can be taken for granted.
Rather does it require the constant endeavours of all who are involved. Of
course, these could involve some risk. At the same time, 'where there is no risk,
there is no growth'.
Aram speaks of the WCC. But his remarks apply to every kind of ecumenical
endeavour, the Fellowship's included. No profit, therefore, in anything that is
diminished by acceptance of the desacralised (since unduly universalised)
millennium to come.
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Nicholas Armitage
Charles A. Metteer
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John Arnold
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HeatherBuck
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A.M. Allchin
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John Chryssavgis
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John Newbury
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Knowing and
spirituality
unknowing
in
Orthodox
REPORTS
Communiqu
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consultation on Orthodox theological
education (Athens 2000)
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Bishop Maximos Aghiorgoussis, In the image
of God.
Archimandrite Ioannikos, An Athonite
Gerontikon
Hieromonk Makarios, The Synaxarion [vol. i]
Gerald Bray
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Elizabeth Theokritoff
Robert Jordan
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John Chryssavgis
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Elizabeth Theokritoff
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Gerald Bray
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Martin Conway
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Gerald Bray
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. St John Damascene
2. The tree in the middle of garden
3. The rigour of the dessert
4. r/fe/jageo/Chartacumenica
5. Peter Hammond's bookplate for
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It is not so often that it happens. Here (Athens in the year 2000) was a fullblooded Orthodox consultation on the setting of agendas. Admittedly, its overt
aim was to consider problems in the field of Orthodox theological education.
For good measure, there was also consideration of 'ecumenical themes'. But
the assembled theologians were not content to leave it at that. In their report
(below) they would not accept the shelter of safe limits.
More than that, they urge that keeping to safe limits could endanger spiritual
health. For they fear 'frozen traditionalism', an 'excessively narrow reading of
church history', a 'legalistic approach to the canons'. In their estimation, here
are the makings of an Orthodox fundamentalism. Post-communist countries
know it only too well.
Any one of these factors is likely to inhibit 'an honest, forthright, and
charitable discussion' of ecumenical commitments and concerns. By contrast,
the participants of the consultation urge that the generally accepted limits of the
Church need 'much theological reflection' in other words, creative
reassessment.
Only then will the Orthodox come to accept the assertion of the Russian bishop
who was asked about those limits in the 1930s. 'We know very well where the
Church is', he replied, 'what we do not know is where the Church is not'.
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Ephrem Lash
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TurAbdin: a time of change
Stephen Griffith
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Father Alexander Men, Son of Man
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The photographer says 'cheese', and his subjects do their best to smile. It is
not clear what the smile is all about, nor is there any expectation that it should
reflect authentic feelings. True hilarity is nowhere to be found, not to mention
anything more permanent, let alone profound.
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Yet even when photographers are absent we still persist in trying out the smile.
Indeed, it is felt to be a disadvantage if we fail to smile enough, or smile at all,
when inter-Church relations are the order of the day. For smiles supposedly
give evidence of estrangement overlooked or even overcome, of fellowship
achieved.
And they offer comfort and assurance, even though they
demonstrate no more than willingness to further unity among divided
Christians, rather than unity as such.
Not that 'there's daggers in men's smiles', as in Shakespeare's phrase. In fact
it all too rare to have divisive factors treated with sufficient vigour. Rather
might one worry that issues tend to be evaded. Whereas in this respect, as in
any other, a Christian should feel obliged to opt for 'yea' or 'nay'.
All the more can we sympathise with the predicament of a seventeenth-century
patriarch like Cyril Loukaris, whose political alignments required him to
replace his 'yea' with 'nay' abruptly and in quick succession. As Colin Davey
demonstrates below, his 'yea' was Orthodox to an astonishing degree. Yet his
subsequent Confession, so Calvinist in its assertions, provided a corresponding
'nay'. Neither saved him from assassination by orders of the Porte (1638).
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In fact, Loukaris was concerned with inter-Church relations insofar as these
reflected the power-politics of the day. So hardly ecumenical, to use our
modern term. Nor likely to encourage or elicit smiles.
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'It is time for the Lord to act': the
Divine Liturgy as heaven on earth
Mary andwomen
Jacob of Serugh: a poem on the
soul.
'Suffering wonders' and 'wonderful
sufferings': Maximus the Confessor
and hisfifthAmbiguum
POEM
The devils ' advocate
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Adam G. Cooper
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Heather Buck
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REPORTS
An Orthodox diaconate for women?
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel et al 60
Pope John xxiii
Henry Docherty
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Dominus Iesus
Jonathan Gorsky
66
'Together in mission ': CMS in Moscow... Julia Kokoshari
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Stephen Platt
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Augustine Holmes, A Life Pleasing to
God
Augustine Casiday
77
Hilarion Alfeyev, St Symeon the New
Theologian and Orthodox Tradition
John Turner
78
Daniel Liderbach, Christ in the Early
Christian Hymns
Elizabeth Theokritoff
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Ken Parry et al. d., The Blackweli
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Eucharist, mosaic, eleventh
century, St Sophia, Kiev
2. Mary, Catalan carving, early twelfth
century
3. Dormition of the Mother of God,
icon, fourteenth century.
4. St Maximus the Confessor, modern
icon
5. CMS Conference in Moscow,
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The flurry caused by the publication ofDominus Iesus last year has
not yet died down (see Reports below). Had it been written before
the days of Vatican it would not have attracted much attention.
But when, in our very different context, it deals as sternly as it does
with Churches and religions beyond the boundaries of the Catholic
world this cannot but give rise to apprehensions.
What sort of beavers are at work to weaken all those bridges which
were so carefully erected over many decades by Catholics in
cooperation with their fellow-Christians? Or with the followers of
other faiths? Possibly, it has been suggested, the texts were not as
well translated from their Latin as they might have been. Yet even
if the English version is less eloquent than Cardinal Ratzinger's
original pronouncement, it hardly deviates in spirit from it. In any
case the subtlest of translation cannot provide the validation for a
suspect cause.
I was reminded of this simple truth when I read the official English
version of a Russian text which deals with similar concerns ('the
attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church toward the other Christian
confessions'). The text was adopted by the bishops of the Moscow
patriarchate last summer when they met in council. And its
translation is exceptionally good. If only that were sufficient to
commend it.
In fact the document, which seeks to defend a degree of ecumenism
from the assault of Russian diehards, is itself lamentably lacking in
ecumenical perspectives.
Based though it is on Orthodox
foundations, here also is a Dominus Iesus mentality at work. At
best, and in spite of 'the rupture of unity' with the Orthodox
Church, there remains for the non-Orthodox only 'a certain
incomplete fellowship which serves as the pledge of a return to
unity in the Church, to catholic fullness and oneness'. Even so,
'[their] way to unity lies through repentance, conversion and
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EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Managerial patterns in a patriarchal
Church
Sergei Hackel
St Augustine on deification: his homily
on Psalm 81
Augustine Casiday
The doctrine of theosis and its
ecumenical potential
Veli-Matti Krkkinen
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For Anna
Elizabeth Theokritoff
78
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Orthodoxy and the future ofEurope '....
The Greek College'
Esther Hookway
Peter Doll
79
Augustine Casiday
83
Augustine Casiday
84
Wendy Mayer
John A. McGuckin
Gerald Bray
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Paul Stephenson
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REVIEWS
Georgia Frank, The Memory of the
Eyes
Simon Peter Iredale, The Interior
Mountain: Encountering God with the
Desert Saints
Martin Illert, Johannes Chrysostomus
und
das antiochenisch-syrische
Milnchtum
Norman Russell, Cyril ofAlexandria
Trefor Jones, The English saints
A-E. N. Tachiaos, Cyril and Methodius
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Gerald Bray
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Elizabeth Theokritoff
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Andrew Louth
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Heritage/ Canli Kiiltiir Mirasi
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Editorial
I was always bemused by the designation of the Templeton award
as one 'for progress in religion'. How is one expected to progress, I
wondered. How is that progress measured, and by whom? Not that
I devoted hours and hours to pondering the question. The whole
idea of progress, I suspected, was at best a nineteenth-century
construction, and pretty secular at that.
Which is not to say that we are fated to retain and cherish the
perspectives of our predecessors, as fundamentalists might urge.
Scholarship and insight may modify perspectives. It is not a
question of inventing new foundations, rather one of focussing
afresh on data which were previously ill-interpreted or ignored.
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Russian Orthodox Church
2. Metropolitan Nikodim addresses the
council of 1971
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ARTICLES
The incarnation and the human
person
Nonna Verna Harrison
Bulgakov's ecumenical thought
Anastassy Galaher
The Sinful Woman: a memra by Jacob
ofSerugh
Scott F. Johnson
REVIEWS
Anestis G Keselopoulos, Man and the
Environment: A Study of St Symeon
the New Theologian
Hannah Hunt
J. Behr, The Formation of Christian
Theology, 1 : The Way to Nicaea
Augustine Casiday
Melito of Sardis, On Pascha
Richard Price
Thomas Pott, La rforme liturgique
byzantine. tude du phenomena de
l'volution non-spontane de la
liturgie, byzantine
Gregory Woolfenden
Christopher Hookway (tr.),
The
Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of
the Orthodox Church, Volume II, by
Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos
Tetra
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopediia, torn I, AAleksij Studit
Richard Price
Bishop Kallistos Ware, The Inner
Kingdom
John Chryssavgis
Emmanuel Clapsis, Orthodoxy in
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The healing of the man born blind:
Palestinian illumination of the
ninth century
2. Bulgakov and Florenskii c. 1917:
painting by M. V. Nesterov,
Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
3. Fr Sergii Bulgakov towards the end
of his life
4. 'They were engrossed in the
delicacies that Simon brought in.
Jesus was delighted in the
repentance which loves ': the sinful
woman at the feet of Jesus
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Nostalgia does not get us far. Rather can it fix us in a misremembered past. Hence we arrive at concepts of some golden age.
'Those were the days', we say, and abandon any thought of
emulation. Probably we lack the will, the dignity, the strength.
The early days of the ecumenical movement are far enough
removed in time for us to mourn their passing. Where now the
bishops of our yesteryear, we ask, people like Sderblom or Bell or
Germanos of Thyateira? Our Fellowship itself provides the fodder
for romantic ruminations on the past. Frere and Bulgakov are
among the names on which we sometimes dwell.
All the more important that historians should promote clear-minded
reassessment of our founding fathers. The first part of an article on
Bulgakov appears below. It helps to introduce the person in the
context of his day before proceeding (see next autumn's issue) to
ponder
his
proposal
for
Anglican-Orthodox
'partial
intercommunion' in the summer of 1933. It was a revolutionary
concept, and it was to provoke anguished and intense debate not
only in the conference of the Fellowship that year, but in the years
that followed.
It looked as if the Orthodox could then produce prophetic figures at
the very cutting edge of ecumenical endeavour. Those days are no
more, and similar proposals could hardly be propounded in the
circumspect encounters of the present day - least of all by Russian
spokesmen of the Orthodox communion. All the more reason not to
draw nostalgic veils over our immediate past.
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Anastassy Gallaher
John Hughes
29
Philip Walters
48
Augustine Cassiday
68
Augustine Cassiday
70
Frederick W. Norris
72
Augustine Cassiday
75
Andrew Louth
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Glenn
Peers,
Subtle
Bodies:
Representing angels in Byzantium
Andrew Louth
79
Andrew Louth
82
Andrew Louth
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ARTICLES
religious
REVIEWS
Graham Speake, d., Encyclopedia
Greece and the Hellenic tradition
of
Lists.
CONTENTS
Ashraf
and
Bernadette
Sadek,
L'Incarnation de la Lumire: Le
renouveau iconographique copte
travers l Oeuvre d 'Isaac Fanous
Sister Magdalen, Conversations with
Children. Communicating our Faith...
Jessica Rose, Sharing Spaces? Prayer
and the Counselling Relationship
John D. Zizioulas, Eucharist, Bishop,
Church
Michel Henry, Incarnation. Une
philosophie de la chair
Wendy Meyer and Pauline Allen, John
Chrysostom
Nadieszda Kizenko, Father John oj
Kronstadt and the Russian people
John Binns, An Introduction to the
Christian Orthodox Churches
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Mary B. Cunningham
90
Juliette Day
Gregory Woolfenden
96
Mihail Neamtu
98
Richard Price
101
Richard Price
103
Elizabeth Theokritoff
105
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. At the Fellowship conference oj
1935. Walter Frere, Bulgakov and
Florovsky.
2. At the Fellowship conference oj
1935.
The group includes
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Approach
An
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Leslie MacCoull
51
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Hugh Wybrew
79
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Jaroslav Pelikan, Divine Rhetoric. The
Sermon on the Mount as Message and
as Model in Augustine, Chrysostom
and Luther
MaryB. Cunningham
J. Ferreira, The Hymn of the Pearl.
Augustine Casiday
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Pachomius
Penkett
and
John
Chryssavgis, In the Footsteps of the
Lord, The Teaching of Abba Isaias of
Scetis
John Binns
Nonna Harrison
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Richard Price
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Gerald Bonner
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Deification in St Symeon the New
Theologian
+ Kallistos of Diokleia
St Possidius of Calama
Augustine the monk
and St
Augustine Casiday
Faith
in the
John A. McGuckin
REPORT
Marcus Plested
OBITUARY
Anthony, Metropolitan
(1914-2003)
of
Sourozh
Sergei Hackel
Funeral Address
Funeral Address
+ Rowan Williams of
Canterbury
REVIEWS
Carol Harrison, Augustine: Christian
Truth and Fractured Humanity
Augustine Casiday
Peter Brown, Poverty and Leadership
in the Later Roman Empire
Augustine Casiday
Graham
Speake, Mount
Renewal in Paradise
Athos:
Andrew Louth
and
Elizabeth Theokritoff
CONTENTS
Dumitru
Staniloae,
Orthodox
Spirituality. A practical guide for the
faithful and manual for the scholar
Andrew Louth
CONTENTS
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
The Mother of God as mediatrix in
Orthodox and
Roman Catholic
thought
M.C. Steenberg
The
Filioque:
Church-dividing
issue
27
John T. Pawlikowski
61
Stephen Platt
REVIEWS
Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of
Early Christian Thought: Seeking the
Face of God.
Tim Vivian
Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient
Philosophy?; and Jonathan Barnes,
Porphyry: Introduction
Augustine Casiday
80
85
85
87
89
91
93
Friedhelm
Winkelmann,
Der
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monenergetisch-monothlitischeStreit
97
Stephen J. Shoemaker,
Ancient
Traditions of the Virgin Mary's
Dormition and Assumption
Mary B. Cunningham
99
103
105
106
107
108
110
113
116
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Hannah Hunt
126
BOOKS RECEIVED
128
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133
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William
Harmless
SJ,
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Christians: An Introduction to the
Tim Vivian
Literature of Early Monasticism
90
94
Contents
EDITORIAL
Sergei Hackel
ARTICLES
Orthodox theology
millennium:
What
important question?
in the
is the
new
most
+Kallistos Ware
Daniel P. Payne
39
Bernard Hamilton
64
REPORT:
Appeal
for
Orthodox
Sergei Hackel
69
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72
REVIEWS
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Apostolic Times Until the Council of
Florence
M. J. Edwards, Origen against Plato ..
Alberto
Camplani, Atanasio
di
Alessandria,
Lettere
Festali
&
Anonimo, Indice dette Lettere Festali..
Sarah Coakley, d., Re-Thinking
Gregory of Nyssa
76
Augustine Casiday
Torstein Tollefsen
76
78
John Wortley
80
Morwenna Ludlow
81
96
98
100
102
Editorial
Ecclesiology is the constant concern of the Orthodox Church since it
reveals and defines its nature. As Bishop Kallistos suggests below, it
could be described as the 'dominant theme' in Orthodox theology of
the preceding century. Moreover, it could 'continue to absorb our
attention' in the future, with appropriate adjustments in focus and
commitment.
Such commitment should involve the theological register of church
life, and (as taught by Afanas'ev and Zizioulas) the eucharistie also;
indeed, the eucharistie most of all. In its grace-endowed coherence,
the Church should manifest itself as 'a living miracle of free
unanimity'; and this by virtue of its 'collgial catholicity', its spirit of
sobornost. In Bishop Kallistos' rsum of Slavophiles like
Khomiakov, it is not 'power of jurisdiction' which holds the Church
together, it is mutual love.
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Would that it were altogether so. Too many a church leader in the
Orthodox milieu yearns as much as anything for just that power of
jurisdiction, and thus perpetuates divisive and disruptive 'norms'.
These may result from the claims of Churches in diaspora, which, by
definition, find themselves far removed from the frontiers of the given
'mother Church'.
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88
91
92
95
98
100
103
106
EDITORIAL
M.C. Steenberg
26
'The
conversation
between
St
Seraphim and Motovilov ': the author,
the texts and the publishers
Ann Shukman
47
63
Peter Scorer
71
76
A.M. Allchin
78
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and HUGH WYBREW
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Contents
EDITORIAL
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80
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85
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Ioannis Vassis,
Choirosphaktes
95
ARTICLES
Pope Benedict XVI and
Orthodox relations
CatholicRichard Price
8
27
OBITUARIES
Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek
Sebastian Brock
57
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
Marcus Plested
62
REPORTS
Fellowship Conference 2005
Sally Milner
65
Fellowship Affairs
Stephen Platt
70
REVIEWS
Linda Woodhead, An introduction to
Christianity
Gerald Bray
74
74
Leon
Magistros
Andrew Louth
114
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Tir y Blaenau, by David Jones, 19245. Pencil, ink and watercolour. In the
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Wales,
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Contents
Jennifer
L.
Hevelone-Harper,
Disciples of the Desert. Monks, Laity,
and Spiritual Authority in SixthCentury Gaza
John Chryssavgis
63
67
70
72
55
75
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58
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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Reconciliation: The major conflict in
postmodernity
Athanasios N. Papathanasiou
21
St Maximus
initiation
41
the
Confessor:
An
Monk Melchisedec
52
OBITUARIES
Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Andrew Louth
55
REPORT
Orthodox-Evangelical Seminar
52
Andrew Louth
60
of
Tim Vivian
85
Editorial
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88
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92
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and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Severos of Antioch:
View
an Orthodox
Andrew Louth
Metropolitan Julius
19
28
51
George Bebawi
51
Andrew Louth
56
60
REPORTS
Fellowship Conference: the Cross
Sally Milner
74
77
Frederica
Mathewes-Green,
First
Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey
Through the Canon of St Andrew
Augustine Casiday
82
84
86
87
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91
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OBITUARIES
Marcus Plested,
The
Macarian
Legacy: The Place of MacariusSymeon in the Eastern Christian
Tradition
Tim Vivian
60
67
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and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Andrew Louth
ARTICLES
Louis Massignon as priest: Eastern
Christianity and Islam
Anthony O'Mahony
42
Tim Grass
67
83
OBITUARY
87
John Heath-Stubbs
Noel White
REPORTS
General Secretary's Report
108
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
112
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115
60
87
95
Stephen Platt
REVIEWS
Mary and the Creation
I. Dorfmann-Lazarev, Armniens et
Byzantins l'poque de Photius: Deux
dbats thologiques aprs le triomphe
de l'orthodoxie
Andrew Louth
95
100
George Woodman
100
106
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and HUGH WYBREW
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Andrew Louth
Corrigenda
4
5
ARTICLES
A.M.C.
Adrian Thatcher
JohnBehr
24
Andrew Louth
51
A revised
marriage?
Orthodox
ceremony
of
75
OBITUARY
Joan Mary Rutt
Gerald Bonner
85
REPORTS
Casiday,
Tradition
and
Tim Vivian
E. TeSelle, Augustine
Elena Martin
Sally Milner
89
95
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Fellowship
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Scripture in the Church
2007:
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JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Andrew Louth
REVIEW ESSAY
ARTICLES
Beauty will save the world
Metropolitan Kallistos of
Diokleia
21
54
OBITUARY
Metropolitan Vitaly (Ustinov)
Nadieszda Kizenko
72
94
REVIEWS
J.A. McGuckin (d.), The Westminster
Adam Cooper
Handbook to Origen
101
C. Kannengiesser,
Patristic Exegesis
102
Handbook
of
Augustine Casiday
104
105
107
110
REPORTS
'Staretz Sophrony, the Theologian of
the Uncreated Light': Conference in
Athens, 19-21 October 2007
Zo Papagiannouli
85
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Igor Kotlyarov & Sergei
European Union
Mudrov
87
Orthodox-Evangelical
dialogue:
Exploratory meeting, Oxford, 17 April
2008
Tim Grass
92
Editorial
111
112
115
116
120
121
124
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
126
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128
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129
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JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, AUGUSTINE CASIDAY,
MARY B. CUNNINGHAM, ANTHONY O'MAHONY,
RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU
Contents
EDITORIAL
Andrew Louth
94
95
C. Humfress, Orthodoxy
Courts in Late Antiquity
David Wagschal
97
Augustine Casiday
100
ARTICLES
Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue:
The Ravenna Agreed Statement
Colin Davey
37
What is a Troparion?
59
Dimitri Conomos
REVIEW ESSAY
Christos Yannaras, Postmodern
Metaphysics, Variations on the Song
of Songs, Orthodoxy and the West, and
Person and Eros
Andrew Louth
81
REVIEWS
W. Mayer, P. Allen and L. Cross,
Prayer and Spirituality in the Early
Church vol. 4
Patricia M. Rumsey
G.E. Demacopoulos, Five Models of
Spiritual Direction in the Early
Church
Patricia M. Rumsey
and
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102
104
106
109
A. Papadiamandis,
Garden
Andrew Louth
111
114
The
Boundless
Editorial
116
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118
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119
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JOHN BTNNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, AUGUSTINE CASIDAY,
MARY B. CUNNINGHAM, ANTHONY O'MAHONY,
RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
Andrew Louth
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The Orthodox Understanding
Primacy and Catholicity
of
The Primacy
Canterbury
of
of
the
See
Hilarion Alfeyev
J. Robert Wright
18
Andrew Louth
29
Andrew Louth
Tamar Goguadze
45
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61
Andrew Louth
64
REVIEW ESSAY
Anglicans and Orthodoxy
REVIEWS
P.C. Bouteneff, Beginnings: Ancient
Christian Readings of the Biblical
Jonathan L. Zecher
Creation Narratives
72