Category archives: Library
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The Department of Theology of the School of Theology of the Athens University is closely following with special concern the scheduled attempts by the Vatican to reactivate the historical remnants of Unia in the Ukraine, in Moldavia, in Yugoslavia, in Albania and in Czechoslovakia, to the det... [read more]
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5 years ago
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I CONFESS ONE BAPTISM
The Interpretation and Application of Canon VII of the Second Ecumenical Council
by the Kollyvades and Constantine Oikonomos;
A Contribution to the Historical and Canonical Evaluation of the Problem
of the Validity of Western Baptism1
by
Protopresbyter George D. Meta... [read more]
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Foreword
Ο ην απ’ αρχής, ο ακηκόαμεν, Ο εωράκαμεν... απαγγέλομεν υμίν. (1Jn. 1)
WHAT IS ORTHODOXY? Orthodoxy is correct practice (…the Way), correct dogma (…the Truth), correct knowledge of God (…eternal Life); the Word of God, the Word delivered, the Word transmitted; the Transmitter, the Traditi... [read more]
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THE PRINCIPAL FIGURES
The “Kollyvades” Fathers of the Holy Mountain
THE APPEARANCE in the eighteenth century of the Kollyvades on the Holy Mountain, and in Greece in general, constitutes a dynamic return to the roots of Orthodox tradition, to the “philokalic” experience which is at th... [read more]
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INTERPRETATION OF THE CANON
1.Ecclesiological and canonical presuppositions
IN ORDER to understand the manner in which our writers view the Canon in question, we must stay with their presuppositions which are the fruit of the spiritual level of the time, on the hand, and of their theology, on the ... [read more]
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III. APPLICATION OF THE CANON
IT WAS previously stated at the beginning of this study that in the eighteenth century, Canon VII of the Second Ecumenical Council was interpreted in the context of a search for a solution to the problem concerning the reception of converts from the West (i.e. Europe),... [read more]
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CRITICAL EVALUATION
The position of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
FROM THE preceding historical review based on the testimony of our writers, we come away with a picture quite different from the one we had until now. For example, according to I. Karmiris, “the few [sic] instances of reba... [read more]
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EPILOGUE
IN SUMMARIZING all that has been said above, we should emphasize that our writers begin with the specific ecclesiological and canonical presuppositions that we stated in the beginning. Remaining faithful to the principle set by Sts. Cyprian and Basil the Great, they side in favor o... [read more]
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APPENDIX I
Holy Canons dealing with Baptism
Canons of the Holy Apostles (as recorded by Clement)
Canon XLVI (46)
We order that a bishop or presbyter that recognized the baptism or sacrifice of heretics be defrocked. For “what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in c... [read more]
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APPENDIX II
Oros of the Hoy Great Church of Christ [Constantinople]
on the baptism of converts from the West (1755/56)
† Many are the means by which we attain our salvation. And these, so to speak, in a ladderlike fashion are interlinked and interconnected, all aiming at one and the same end... [read more]
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APPENDIX III
(Re)baptism of Latins on the Ionian Islands in the Nineteenth Century
THE OROS of the Eastern Patriarchs (1755), being the last official document on the problem of Western converts to Orthodoxy, was widely applied in the nineteenth century. The Orthodox bishops – those who were bear... [read more]
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Bibliography
Papaderos, Alexandros. Metakenosis: Griechenlands kulturelle Herausforderung durch die Aufklärung in der Sicht des Korais und des Oikonomos. Meisenheim am Glan: 1970 (also for older bibliography).
Patsavos, Lewis J. “Konstantinos Oikonomos of the Oikonomoi.” In Post-Byzantine Eccle... [read more]
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