Kleronomia, Vol. 6, Issue B, July 1974, 444 pages.
This Issue of Kleronomia includes 10 interesting studies, important book reviews and Chronicles of the period.
Styl. Papadopoulos offers a brief description of the term “apostolic fathers” and records their works.
K. N. Papadopoulos makes reference to code 236 of Vatopedion Monastery.
W. Bienert, publisher of Peter of Alexandria’s extracts, offers a response to certain remarks of f. K. Papadopoulos (see p. 235).
Gregor Larentzakis studies the views of Saint Athanasius on Church unity, which is directly linked to the sanctity of Christians, so that unity and perfection can be in complete association. The relationship of the three figures of the Holy Trinity constitutes the model for relation.
V. Pseutogas examines the issue of the Speeches of Vasilios the Great as sources for hymnography. He refers to particular examples of texts used by Romanos the Melodist for the enrichment of our Church’s liturgical texts.
Pan. Christou explores the role of the Kontakion in Greek Christian hymnography, which are two big groups of poems, the stichologic and the apocritic.
Ioan. Fountoulis studies the canon of the Friday matins on Cheese-fare week, in the liturgical book of the Triode of the Great Lent. In this study there is an attempt to resolve the problem on the basis of the Sinai code 734-735 of the 10th and 11th century.
Chr. Mavropoulou-Tsioumi studies various iconographic issues (12 in number) in Code 762 of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedion.
Next is a brief addendum by Nik. Panagiotakis on the list of manuscript works by Symeon of Thessaloniki.
Finally, the French Olivier Clement analyzes the thought of Paul Evdokimov regarding the sacrament of Holy Eucharist. These views refer to three basic points: a) Eucharist in the economy of salvation, which is the basic theological thought of Nicholaos Kavasilas b) the theology of the Eucharist and c) the consequences of this sacrament, i.e. the Eucharistic ecclesiology and the Eucharistic spirituality.
After a generous biographical bulletin and the various publications there is an Obituary of the departed Metropolitan Pringhiponisson Dorotheos by the Metropolitan of Militoupolis Stilianos.