“The Church Which Presides In Love” by Nicholas Afanassieff [source] I . Orthodox polemics against the primacy of Rome now depend, broadly speaking, on Roman Catholic theology. [1] This is not surprising, since the actual aim of Orthodox theology is to refute arguments put forth in favor of Roman primacy. Now the Catholic doctrine of […]
A Recovered Paradigm for Ecclesiology
BEYOND PARTS AND WHOLE : A RECOVERED PARADIGM FOR ECCLESIOLOGY Excerpts taken from Laurent Cleenewerck “The Recovery of Eucharistic and Holographic Ecclesiology as a Promising Avenue of Ecumenical Dialogue and Broader Mutual Recognition” in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Fall 2010 A. Catholicity and the Local Church [Eucharistic Ecclesiology] . . . [states that] the […]
Eucharistic Ecclesiology
by Bijesh Philipm (St. Thomas Orthodox Seminary Nagpur) Too much compartmentalization like theology, spirituality, liturgy etc and further divisions of theology into Christology, ecclesiology, pnuematology etc were alien to the early Christian fathers and thus foreign to the Orthodox Ethos. Because of the integral vision of the fathers, the theme of the church pervades all […]
Ecclesiological Presuppositions of the Lord’s Supper
BY JOHN ZIZIOULAS The Church is not prior to the Eucharist. The position I will develop here is that the Church constitutes the Eucharist while being constituted by it. Church and Eucharist are interdependent, they coincide, and are even in some sense identical. The body of Christ, which is the body of the Eucharist and […]