Kleronomia, Vol. 4, Issue A, January 1972, 227 pages.
This Issue of Kleronomia includes 9 Studies, 2 book presentations and the Chronicles.
Metropolitan Stylianos Harkianakis in a study (in German) about the Resurrection of Christ and the Church does not attempt, as he notes, to answer to questions posed by the Exegetics and the Apologetics but to respond to these questions: 1) to what extent does the faith in Resurrection constitute an inextricable part of the Christological teaching of the Church and 2) to what extent does Resurrection constitute an inextricable part of the soteriological teaching of the Church.
The holy-monk A. Radosalvievic studies the importance of “TRADITION” for the Church analyzing three points: 1) the significance of Tradition for the Church itself 2) the Church as the guardian of Tradition and 3) the criterion of Tradition being the Church itself and the latter being an organisation constituted by God, where Christ remains the same “yesterday and today”.
Pan. Christou investigates differences in the teaching of Gregory of Nyssa about humans. He differs considerably from other fathers and this he does in full knowledge of the analysis, which does not pursue a new interpretation of the anthropological doctrine but “exercise for the mind”.
C. Tsispanlis in this study (in English) does not limit himself to an analysis and interpretation of the “Essay on the Kingdom Order” of Konstantinos Porfyrogennitos but studies in depth royal coronations and other similar ceremonies in the period from the 5th to the 10th centuries and assesses their significance.
C. Constantellos researches the signs which resulted from the final beatification of John III Doukas Vatatzis, king of the Empire of Nicaea (1222-1254). Even if, according to his critics, he was independent and recalcitrant towards the administrating Church, the people saw considerable merit in him, mostly based on his charity work.
H.M. Hagen researches (in German) the importance of the manuscript of Xenophon’s “Anabasis (the Persian Expedition)” in the Vlatads Code 36, of the 14th century. The researcher considers this manuscript to be more valuable than the one in the Code Parisinus 1640.
E. Lamberz attempts (in German) to track down the fortunes and whereabouts of 33 Greek manuscripts by Doctor Micon, professor of theology in Barcelona, in 1582.
R. Humber (in German) presents a new interpretation of the Incarnation of the Word of God by Apolinarius of Laodicea.
Finally, Metropolitan Harkianakis remarks the utilisation of inconsistent terms and expressions regarding Orthodox ecclesiastical philology.
Lastly, after the presentation of significant books of the period, the Chronicles present facts such as the history of the Preparatory Committee of the Holy and Great Synod and the International Conferences of Patristic and Byzantine Studies.