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Last Sunday, I was able to visit a parish of the Orthodox Church of America. It was wonderful to hear all the Slavic languages afterwards during the fellowship time, a reminder that the Church encompasses all nations. But, it was also a reminder of the “ethnic problem” in some Orthodox churches. I’m no expert, but [...]
In his “Preface to the 2nd Edition,” Zizioulas states part of his objective in republishing his dissertation–he wants to help restore the ancient authority of the bishop in the Eucharistic assembly. He writes:
“Unfortunately, many Orthodox have it firmly entrenched in their mind that the bishop is in essence an administrator, and that in his liturgical [...]
In the introduction, Zizioulas states his broad project: “… our theology can no longer fall back on the sources of its own confessional riches. The gradual abandonment of the confessional mentality of past generations and the recognition of the need for our theology to be an expression not of one confession but of the one, [...]
What really prompted me to start this blog was reading John D. Zizioulas’s Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries. This book was originally Zizioulas’s doctoral dissertation, done in the sixties, but recently translated and published. In order to give some structure [...]
