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Kleronomia, Vol. 5, Issue B, July 1973, 455 pages.

This Issue contains 10 studies and important book presentations.

W. Schneemelcher in his text studies (in German) the history of divine economy in regards to Roman Empire, through the texts of Meliton of Sardica. According to Meliton, the common starting point of the Roman Empire (through August) and of the Church (through Jesus) is not a mere coincidence but reveals a substantial connection.

V. Pseutogas studies the Georgian speech “On the Cross”, which is found in the Georgian code A-144 in Tbilisi. The author translates the text into Greek from the Latin original and makes interesting observations about the whole speech.

W. Bienert describes (in German) code 236 of Vatopedion (monastery), mostly an anti-Origenic Anthology. This contains analyses of excerpts, from Dionysius and Peter of Alexandria, which were previously unknown.

A. de Santos Otero describes (in German) the contents of code 236 of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedion. This code is a valuable collection of patristic texts and the author analyzes the code’s palaeographic problems, which are supplemented in an Appendix by E. Lamberz (pages 327-329).

J. Coman studies the positions of Athanasius the Great regarding human salvation, in his well known work “De Incarnatione”. There is particular reference to redemption and its consequences to humans.

Pan. Christou researches the concept of salvation in Cappadocian Fathers. He explores the problem of sin and its consequences to humans in the patristic texts.

E. Lamberz studies (in German) an unknown manuscript, having the number 16 at the library of the Holy Monastery of Iviron. This research examines the place of the code in the manuscript tradition of the Ethics by Vasileios the Great and is estimated to be from the beginning of the 11^th century.

Archimandrite Nafkratios Tsoulkanakis examines, based on patristic texts, two basic charismata of the Holy Spirit, virginity and prophecy, coming to the conclusion that virginity in Christ is a kind of moral perfection, while the second is a charisma of diakonia, which also contributes to the salvation of the faithful, by revealing and interpreting the will of God.

Finally, Vas. Stogiannos continues the dialogue, initiated by M. Siotis and O. Cullman in Kleronomia issue 5 (1973) 97-144, about salvation in Christ and its adaptation to the modern world.

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 13^th century by protestant theology as an expression of a critical disposition against the modern Church. Research of the 4^th 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 14^th 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”.

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 10^th and 11^th 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.