Kleronomia, vol. 1, issue A, January 1969, 216 pages.
The first issue of Kleronomia, of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies (Thessaloniki), includes letters with wishes for the effort of Prof. Panagiotits Christou, seven studies, 14 book reviews and the chronicles.
J. Ratzinger writes (in German) on the alienation of contemporary theology from the Fathers of the Church seeking for the causes of this alienation. The main idea of this study is the importance of the “ecumenical Fathers”, who constitute the common past of the undivided Church of the first centuries, as well as the common future of all Christians.
S. Agouridis presents the times of the Apologists and focuses on their Christology, making the following remark: on the one hand the Apologists preserve and interpret the teaching on the person of Christ, but on the other hand, by introducing the notion of the Word’s cosmology into Christology, they lead the theological thought towards rationalism. The works of the Apologists are works that defend the Christian faith against the roman authorities aiming at the legal tolerance of Christianity at the end of persecutions.
P. Christou deals with the work of Meliton of Sarde on Easter, examining the correctness of the celebration of Easter on the 14th of Nissan. Looking in the liturgical texts of Holy Friday (Antifona), he explores their approval by the ecclesiastical community, as well as the adoption of new hymns following the needs of the time.
H. Hunger describes (in German) the eschatological image of Heaven according to Byzantine Literature and explains its different depictions in iconography.
S. Harkianakis presents (in German) the teachings of St. Gregory Nazianzus on the doctrine of the Trinity based on his five theological homilies. He emphasizes the direct relationship between theology and anthropology, which is after all the basis of Trinitarian theology as well as of the Christian anthropology of St. Gregory.
G. Mantzaridis analyzes the terms theology, theologian, doingtheology, which come from the ancient Greek literature and the texts of the Scripture. He attempts a historical approach of the terms in order to reach the conclusion that even though there is a decline of the value of theology today, in fact its inner essence is preserved, which is nothing but the vision of God (theoptia), i.e. the mystical experience of God.
Finally, E. Chryssos makes a comparative study of two academic dissertations on Anastasios of Sinai; that of G. Weiss from Germany, who studies the research on Anastasios and his contribution to the patristic, mid-byzantine period, and that of S. Sakkos, who studies the whole problem of Anastasios from Sinai on the basis of some manuscripts from Mount Athos. The two studies are complementary and have a significant contribution in promoting the theological research on the above issue.
In the end there are some book reviews while at the Chronicles there is a presentation of the deeds of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and of the theological work in Greece.