Synoro, Issue30, (1964), 128 pages.
The 1st essay of the volume, by Tassos Zannis, is dedicated to the nine biblical odes- entire hymns or solemn prayers of high lyric elation and divine inspiration.
The 2nd essay comes from Stergios Vitti and concerns the continuous fight of the Swedish writer Pär Lagerskvist with himself and the permanent and ceaseless search of God.
The 3rd essay of the Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky refers to the relation of man and Church beginning from the interpretation of the notion of catholicity, essential quality that it is attributed from the beginning to the Church and through it, to the exploration of the significance of the person.
In the 4th essay, Nikos Zias attempts an assessment of the great Byzantine Exhibition of Zappeion focusing, besides the artistic, on the spiritual or theological message of the exhibition as well.
In the next text of S.T. Eliot, translated by Eleni Tsigkris, the mental and sentimental ways of approach of Christianity are presented, as well as the need of spiritual development of people in the near future, with the simultaneous attempt to define the latter, the projection of family as its fundamental means and the underline of its agreement with nature.
In the section that follows, Sotos Chondropoulos presents his short story “Up in the Village”. Then, the short story by Keti Chiotellis “Pleasant environment” is published. The section is completed with the text of Chr. Yannaras “Niphonas Kelliotis, anonymous hagiographer” and the “Diary of a priest of the village” by George Bernanos, translated by Eleutherios Mainas.
In the section “Poetry” the poems “Prayer” and “Greek Summer” by Angelos Parthenis are presented, as well as the poems “Genesis”, “the bird”, “complaint”, “words of shepherds” by Tasos Romanos, and the poem “the caravan” by Matthew Mountes. The section is completed with “I loved you so much my friend…” by Andreas Aggelakis.
The permanent informative column “Comments” emphasizes the feeble presence of Theology in the spiritual life of Greece and the efforts made for discipleship in the particular formulations that the living word of Theology found in Tradition, through the pages of the journal Synoro.