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CEC Thematic Group Ecclesiology & Mission webinar on "The mutual recognition of baptism in Europe... more CEC Thematic Group Ecclesiology & Mission webinar on "The mutual recognition of baptism in Europe" 3 December 2020: https://youtu.be/rD10kmqwgRU 16 views
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Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium, 2019
Dionysius Exiguus (sixth century) contributed to making Greek patristic literature available in L... more Dionysius Exiguus (sixth century) contributed to making Greek patristic literature available in Latin. He was also the creator of the Dionysian Era (Common Era), which we still use today. His Collectio Dionysiana became a basic collection of canonical ius in the Western church during the first millennium. The Collectio Dionysiana was composed of two books: the Liber canonum, and the Liber decretalium. The Liber canonum is a collection of disciplinary decrees from church councils: mostly Eastern, but with some Western (Latin) councils. The Liber decretalium is a collection of decretal letters by the bishops of Rome (plus one imperial statute). The Collectio Dionysiana originated at a time of internal conflicts in the Church of Rome, when various factions used forgeries to claim legitimacy. The Collectio Dionysiana may have been a reaction against the use of forgeries. Dionysius attempted to make the “authentic” sources of church discipline available. The Collectio Dionysiana was later augmented in the form of the Collectio Dionysiana-Hadriana under Pope Hadrian I (eighth century) and sent to Charlemagne. This became the standard collection of canons and decretals for the Frankish Empire.
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Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not b... more Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not been a study of the ecclesiology of the canons regulating marriage. Marriage is an object of right regulated both by civil law and the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Marriage as an object of right is at the intersection of two legal orders - the ecclesial and the civil. The canonical regulation of marriage as an object of right confronts us with a twofold ecclesiological problem: (a) how does the Church perceive the civil legal order in relation to its own legal order; and, (b) how is the self-understanding of the Church, i.e. its ecclesiology, reflected in its canon law? Thus, the ecclesiological problem examined in this study is the question of how the ecclesial polity (politeuma), as the Eucharistic ekklēsia of the people (laos) of the new covenant, actualizes itself as taxis within a concrete society. The hypothesis is that the aim of the ecclesial polity is covenant holiness, and, furthermore, that the aim of the canonical taxis is to establish and maintain covenant holiness within the concrete socio-historical setting of the ecclesial polity. By actualization, this means the diachronic institutional process whereby the ecclesial polity subsists in a society as an institution determined by its finality and institutional potentiality.
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Θεολογία, 2024
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Listening to the East. Synodality in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church Traditions
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ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 67.1–2, 2023
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Theologicon, Dec 1, 2015
The „title or ordination” refers to the requirement of an ordinand to be assigned to a specific p... more The „title or ordination” refers to the requirement of an ordinand to be assigned to a specific place of worship. This requirement is derived from canon 6 of the Council of Chalcedon (451). In Latin canon law the title of ordination came to be perceived as a way of guaranteeing clerical income (e.g., titulus beneficii). This essay studies how the title of ordination is interpreted in the doctrine of Eastern Orthodox canon law.
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ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 66.3–4 , 2022
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Theologische Quartalschrift 201:4, 2021
This essay attempts to provide an Eastern Orthodox perspective on the statement Together at the L... more This essay attempts to provide an Eastern Orthodox perspective on the statement Together at the Lord’s Table by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians in Germany. The statement and its conclusions are compared with the principles of Eastern Orthodox ecumenism, which were formulated in official documents of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Additionally, it is examined from the perspective of the agreed statements that were produced by the various international bilateral ecumenical dialogues of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
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Kanon: Yearbook for the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches 26, 2022
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Oikonomia, dispensatio and aequitas canonica, 2016
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This essay will analyze the status of non-Orthodox persons in Eastern Orthodox canon law and eccl... more This essay will analyze the status of non-Orthodox persons in Eastern Orthodox canon law and ecclesiastical law. The first part will analyze confessional status in the ordre public with focus on the historical development of the concept of state. The second part will analyze confessional status in relation to the Eastern Orthodox Church per se with focus on the concepts of communion and communicatio in sacris. The parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism as well as the antithesis between heresy and orthodoxy in the development of Christian doctrine made the theological idea of universal church (καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία) explicit. The communicatio in sacris was viewed as the manifestation of this idea. This communicatio in sacris presupposed certain bonds of unity (e.g., the rule of faith, the episcopal ministry, and the creed). The development of the regulation of confessional status in canon law aimed at ensuring the visibility of the universal church through the communicatio in sacris. After Constantine, the Roman state bestowed various privileges on the Christian church; however, this forced the state to legislate on Christian doctrine in order to determine which theological party was the legitimate beneficiary of these privileges. According to the worldview of antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine state also came to view Christian orthodoxy as a part of the salus publica. This also led to the discrimination and criminalization of other religious affiliations.
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Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2010
This study presents the historical development of marriage as a legal object in Eastern Orthodox ... more This study presents the historical development of marriage as a legal object in Eastern Orthodox canon law. The argument of the article is that the need of the ecclesial polity to adapt to a new situation following the Islamic conquests of the seventh century led to the development an ecclesiastical common law independent of Byzantine-Roman civil law in order to survive under Muslim rule. The sources of the canon law of marriage were Scripture, patristic customary law, and Byzantine-Roman civil law. It is further argued that the ...
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Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2011
This article analyses the doctrine of free will (autexousion) in the confessions of St. Peter Mog... more This article analyses the doctrine of free will (autexousion) in the confessions of St. Peter Mogila and Dositheos II Notaras of Jerusalem. Free will is a central concept in Eastern Christian anthropology and these two monuments of theology represent how the understanding of the concept of free will developed in Eastern Orthodox theology in the context of the confrontation with Western theologies in the seventeenth century.
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Труды и переводы № 1 (4), 2021
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