Inheritance and Change in Orthodox ChristianityInheritance and change - the theme of this volume - is a significant dialectic in the lives of the communicants of the Orthodox Church. Her history and evolving institutional life have been in tension since the time of Saint Paul. The thrust of the fifteen essays collected in Inheritance and Change in Orthodox Christianity is toward an informed Orthodox Christian understanding of the historical process of stability and change in the Church. The First Council of Jerusalem generically models these historical processes. The Council's precedent-making acceptance of Paul's Greek converts without circumcision was informed by empirical rationality, Old Testament texts, and the religious inspiration of the Holy Spirit. |
Contents
Applied Inheritance | 9 |
The Hopko Thesis on the Male Character of | 21 |
God His Creation and | 28 |
Contemporary Epistemology Formative Theology and | 31 |
Human Liberty and the Orthodox Church 1980 | 38 |
An Easter Sermon 1985 | 44 |
The American University the Orthodox Church and | 52 |
Documented Change | 69 |
Orthodox Church 1976 | 89 |
Historical Reflections on the Constitutions of the Greek | 96 |
The Ecumenical Patriarchates Contributions to | 108 |
Some | 116 |
Greek Orthodox Church Statistics | 123 |
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America | 129 |
Advocated Future | 153 |
Sources | 169 |
Greek Archdiocese of North and South America 18641989 | 75 |
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