Kleronomia, Vol. 6, Issue A, January 1974, 225 pages.
This issue contains 9 research papers, important book reviews and Chronicles of the period.
Nik. Afanassief addresses (in French) an important theological problem regarding the existence of a unified Eucharistic gathering in every city, and expresses the unity of the ancient Church. He analyses the concept of the “home church” –not in the sense of the “household church” but the local church congregating within a home. Later on presbyters come to solve the problem of the great numbers of Christians with the establishment of various liturgical centres, where Eucharist was celebrated in the name of the local Bishop.
W. Schneemelcher studies (in German) the “The era of Constantine”, an expression created in the 13th century by protestant theology as an expression of a critical disposition against the modern Church. Research of the 4th century reveals that the term contains an anachronistic critique of the modern Church by distorting the actual historical reality of the Church during Constantine’s century.
Ger. Zaphiris studies the knowledge of God according to the patristic thought of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. The harmony of the world reveals the internal relationship of the creation with the Creator. This is why humans and the world are inconceivable without reference to God, because they constitute the “surface” of His philanthropic plan.
M. Aubineau studies (in French) various texts of Chrysostom in the manuscripts of Dochiarios 12 and of Koutloumousios 29, 30, 54, 55, according to the standard of the series “Codices Chrysostomici Graeci”.
Chr. Mavropoulou-Tsioumi also studies a manuscript from the Holy Monastery of Vatopedion, number 762, which refers to “heavenly Jerusalem”.
Professor A. Tachiaos studies (in French) the hesychastic movement in the last decade of the 14th century, a difficult period because of an increasingly expansionist policy of the Turks against Byzantium and the southern Slavic states.
The Patriarch Filotheos Kokkinos plays a central role in the hesychastic movement, who in the name of his hesychastic beliefs followed a particular policy towards the autocephalous Slavic Churches.
David Balfour presents us with a complementary list of manuscripts that include known works of Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki.
Kallistos Ware outlines the impressive course of Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow (1782-1876) and cites unpublished liturgical texts of his.
Finally, Metropolitan Stilianos Harkianakis studies (in German) the unity of the Church as a possibility for its mission in the world today, resulting from the essence of God Himself. The necessary precondition for its success is love, truth and freedom.
Then follow various book presentations and an analytical Chronicle of the second Theological Conference of the American Orthodox Theological Society, New York (25-29.9.1972) with the theme “Catholicity of the Church”.