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Analogio, Art and Worship, issue 5 (2003), p. 175.

The 5^th issue of Analogio, quarterly edition of the Holy Metropolis of Servia and Kozani, has as its main topic the relations of art and worship in the ecclesiastical past, but also the regenerating proposals for the present. In the foreword, there is an introductive reflection on the tribute of the issue, which is illustrated with the artistic work of Nikolaos Masteropoulos.

In the first essay Petros Vassiliadis pinpoints the ideological reasons of the reactions against the demand of the liturgical renewal of the Orthodox Church in the individualistic approach of worship and the mistaken regard of eschatology. He considers the liturgical renewal as a theological and ecclesiological demand, which leads to the total and equal participation of the people in the life of the Church, principally as a eucharistic gathering, where the Trinitarian life of equality and brotherhood is reflected and the historical and social evil is overcome.

Demetrios D. Triantafillopoulos, from his side, numbers a plethora of counterfeiting in the worship and art of the Church, seeking, at the same time, the authentic eschatological meaning of tradition, while Dimitrios G. Mavropoulos, in the article “Position and content of preaching”, follows historically the decline of preaching from proclamation of Resurrection and coming of the Kingdom to a simple “speech” with socio-moral characteristics.

“The solution to our liturgical problems is interwoven with… the solution of the multifaceted crisis in the theological, ecclesiastical and in broader terms our cultural/existential horizon”, is the main thesis of Fr. Georgios Basioudis.

In his article titled “The reception of the world as element of the philocalic tradition of the Church”, Georgios Fousteris concludes that contemporary ecclesiastic art expresses the isolation of the Church from its cultural environment, which did not happen in the Byzantine past, when the codes of this art were common both in its ecclesiastical and secular expression.

In an extensive liturgiological study Panagiotis Skaltsis discusses Church as the people of God and “πλήρωματουταπάνταενπάσιπληρουμένου” Christ, expressing the theanthropic unity where everyone, clergy and laity, continue, increase and extend eucharistically the Incarnation.

“Directed” is the adjective that Joseph Roilidis uses to characterize the traditionalism of the contemporary “Byzantine-like” temples, claiming that they do not have the least relation with the Byzantine construction of temples, the basic principles of which he briefly exposes. Fr. Nektarios Paris, in a liturgical, but also historical and theological article, exposes the related to the “utterances” issues in the Divine Liturgy.

An abundance of historical, theoretical and experiential elements concerning the music of the orthodox Eastern Church is found in the interview that the associate of the journal Thanasis Nevrokoplis took from the Lord Cantor Leonidas Asteris.

In the theological essays unit of the journal two essays are hosted: the first is by the Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani Ambrosios Yakalis, who delves into the theology of the 7^th Ecumenical Council (Nice, 787) and the second, titled “Ontological and cosmological encounters of natural sciences and Theology”, is by Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos; there he deduces that modern science has slipped out of the womb of the traditional western metaphysical tradition and sends out challenges of fertile philosophical dialogue with the tradition of the Eastern orthodox Christianity.

The journal is complemented with the usual material, the Anthology of poets, Synaxarion, Idiomela, timely and untimely and Vivliostasion.

Analogio, Greek intellect and Orthodoxy, issue 6 (2003), p. 162.

The 6^th issue of Analogio,quarterly edition of the Holy Metropolis of Servia and Kozani, has as its main subject the relations of the Greek intellect with Orthodoxy and the Church in the past and present. In the foreword, there is an introductory reflection on the tribute of the issue, which is illustrated with the work of Marios Spiliopoulos.

In the essay titled “Ancient Greek intellect and patristic theology” Theophilos Abatzidis examines the effects, convergences and divergences, on either side, between the spiritual sizes of Christianity and Hellenism in the first Christian centuries when the classic patristic theology was formed, particularly in cosmology, anthropology and theology.

Reciprocal suspiciousness, ignorance and absence of a context of serious and scientific dialogue are what Nikos Matsoukas detects as elements of the relations of Modern Greek intellect and theology from the 17^th c. and on, when he finds “breaches” in the Greek cultural life, but also recognizes an admirable assimilation of elements of Orthodoxy in the work of creators, at least of the 20th c., as well as the weaknesses of a confessional scientific theology.

Giorgos Karabelias focuses on the special case of the relations of the left intellect with Orthodoxy, after a short retrospection of the history and intellectual course of Hellenism from the 11^th c. and on, while Christos Ath. Terezis examines the religious-philosophical aspect of the work of Evangelos Papanoutsos, his theoretical approach on faith and knowledge, the meaning of religious truth and God, the relations of religion and history, revelation and Church.

Secularism, religious and modernizing, is pinpointed by Demetris Kosmopoulos as the problem of the Church in the present, while the retail not self-defining afflicts, in his opinion, the Greek intellect. On the contrary, art is characterized as “the most honest thing we have as a collective subject”, and the ecclesiastical field has to converse with it, overcoming its ankylosis.

Giorgos Th. Hatziiakovou makes a retrospection of the fermentations and the cultural osmoses that were incubated with their centre the Christian-socialist Student Movement and the activation of Christians in society, while he detects in the present stagnation and indifference on the side of the ecclesiastical field with regard to major issues of participation in social events.

Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis locates the criterion that ought to determine the social testimony of the Church in its eschatological identity, while I.A. Nikolaidis, in an extensive essay, explores faith and the Christian experience in modern Greek poetry.

Next comes an interview that the journal’s associate, Sotiris Gounelas, took from Kostas Georgousopoulos and then, in the theological essays section of the journal two studies are hosted: the first is by the Metropolitan of Pergamos Ioannis Zizioulas, in which he theologically examines the necessity for the synthesis of Christology and pneumatology on the level of ecclesiology and the consequences of this synthesis on the ecclesiastical institutions; the second, by Stavros Yagazoglou, is titled “Protology and eschatology” and analyses concisely Origen’s theology as the one which paved the way for a more mature encounter of Christianity with Hellenism in the after him Alexandrian School, in the patristic theology of the 4^th c., the Cappadocian fathers etc.

The journal is complemented with the usual material, the Anthology of poets, Synaxarion, Idiomela, timely and untimely and Vivliostasion.

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