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A Quarterly Conservative Journal To Defend The Apostolic Faith, Morals And Canons Of The Ancient Orthodox Church.
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ADDRESS OF HIS BEATITUDE THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM AT ICCI & MUSALAHA
WINTER 2017 ISSUE 1 The Patriarchate of Jerusalem – 14/2/17 On 27th and 28th January / 9th and 10th February 2017, H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos sent his address to the two-day conference of ICCI & MUSALAHA, that is, the International Christian Committee in Israel, which was organized at the Legacy hotel…
How Serbia Welcomed in Russians Fleeing Political Upheavals of 1917
WINTER 2017 ISSUE 1 Professor Andrey Tarasyev from Belgrade University . © SPUTNIK/ SENKA MILOS Sputniknews – 15/2/17 2017 marks the centenary of the February Revolution and the subsequent October Socialist Revolution of 1917, which plunged the country into a civil war and prompted hundreds of thousands from Tsarist society’s upper ranks to flee for…
Havresc: A David & Goliath Story In Iraq
VOLUME XXI WINTER 2017 ISSUE 1 By Lucine Kasbarian on December 20, 2016 in Headline, Interviews An Interview with Filmmaker David Ritter The Iraqi village of Havresc (originally called “Hay Vrej,” the Armenian words for “Armenian revenge”) was once populated with Armenian Genocide survivors and their descendants. Circa 1970, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s military destroyed villages, such as Havresc, that were…
Interviews with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
VOLUME XXI WINTER 2017 ISSUE 1 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: The Patriarch of Solidarity His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. © Sean Hawkey/WCC (Courtesy of the World Council of Churches) 22 December 2016 By Marianne Ejdersten* He earned the title “Green Patriarch” as a religious leader addressing alarming environmental issues over at least two…
Religious Leaders and Dignitaries Congratulate His All-Holiness on 25th Anniversary of Enthronement
VOLUME XXI WINTER 2017 ISSUE 1 Istanbul, Turkey 11/4/2016 Below are a compilation of congratulatory messages from religious leaders and digniatries from around the world to His All-Holiness Bartholomew on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch: His Holiness Pope Francis His Holiness Bartholomaios Archbishop of Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch It was…
The Conflict Between ‘Charismatic’ and ‘Academic’ Theology Not New in Orthodox Christianity
By John G. Panagiotou The Holy John Chrysostom interpreting the epistles of the Apostle Paul In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul writes to his spiritual son Timothy about the “deposit of faith” (in Greek, paradosis) which has been handed down from Christ to His Apostles, to their disciples and to their successors.1 What is this “deposit”…
The Meaning of Grace for the Christian
By John Panagiotou Do Something With Your Life As Christians, we are called to go into the world a little more sensitive, a little more different than when we arrive on this planet at conception. We are called to eternal life in the Kingdom of God with Jesus Christ and to lead others to that…
The Five Tasks of a Theologian in the 21st Century
By John Panagiotou Address delivered at the Opening Convocation of Cummins Theological Seminary, Summerville, South Carolina on September 10, 2016. The students entering seminary to begin their studies might ask “Why such a lofty topic?” “We came to seminary to become pastors and ministers, not scholars or academics.” And to them I respond, “You’re right.”…