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1979
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY;
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES

ARTICLES
'The Holy Spirit within': St Cuthbert as a Western
Orthodox Saint
Vladimir's Solov'ev: A Russian Newman?
A Hymn of St Ephrem to Christ
Holy Spirit and Tradition: The Writings of St
Athanasius
POEM
Presentation of the Virgin
NEWS AND COMMENT
Orthodoxy and the World Council of Churches. . .
REVIEWS
Church, Papacy and Schism by Philip Sherrard . . .
Yearbook of the Orthodox Church, 1978 Edition .
The Lenten Triodion tr. Mother Mary and
Kallistos Ware
Oi Rosoi Onomatolatrai tou Agiou Orous by
Konstantinos Papoulidis
Christian Religion in the Soviet Union by Christel
Lane
Suffering, Innocent and Guilty by Elizabeth
Moberly
Nicolas Berdiaev Bibliographie by Tamara
Klpinine

1 St Cuthbert's pectoral cross

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2 The Prophet Amos: embroidery from 'St Cuthbert's Vestments '

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3 The Apostle James: embroidery from'St Cuthbert's Vestments'

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George Dragas

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4 The Translation of St Cuthbert's relics in 1104: recorded in a Durham


manuscript (Durham Ms.A.IV.35) of the late twelfth century

George Every

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Kallistos Ware

74

Norman Russell
Kallistos Ware

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86

Hugh Wybrew

87

Kallistos Ware

89

Philippe Sabant

90

Charles Dilke

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Philippe Sabant

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

Fellowship Notes
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Fellowship Accounts

Vage

Gerald Bonner
MarkEveritt
Robert Murray SJ

Books Received
Obituary: Patrick Thompson
The Fellowship Conference

ILLUSTRATIONS

Helle Georgiadis/Anthony Hanson


Valerie Chamberlain
Stephen Parsons.
Nicolas Zernov
Gareth Evans

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5 Vladimir Solov'ev (1853-1900)

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6 Russian Orthodox representatives at the WCC: Protopresbyter Vitalii


Borovoi and Archbishop Kirill of Vyborg

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7 Patriarch German of Serbia visits Bossey, where he is welcomed by the


Institute's (Orthodox) Director, Dr N. Nissiotis

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The price of our journal


The Council of the Fellowship, meeting at High Leigh (August,
1979), decided that an increase in the price of subscriptions could
no longer be avoided. Accordingly we give notice that the annual
subscription for one volume of two issues will be 4.00 as from
volume 2 (1980). We much regret this increase.

SERGEI HACKEL editor,


NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY
KALL1STOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
On death
Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the
Churches
The Filioque Question
Mary and the Eucharist
The Woman taken in Adultery
POETRY
Flesh
NEWS AND COMMENT
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Greece and Russia
The role of Exarch Stefan
REVIEW ARTICLE
Confirmation
REVIEWS
The Human Presence by Paulos Gregorios
Living Tradition by John Meyendorff
The New Valamo Consultation introduced by G.
Tsetsis
Motifs from Genesis 1-11 in the Genuine Hymns
ofEphrem the Syrian by Tryggve Kronholm. . .
Aspects of Monasticism and Contemplative Life by
Jean Leclercq
Katalogos Kheirographon tes Vatopdines Sketes
Agiou Demetriou by Erich Lamberz and
Euthemios K. Litsas
.
The Early Church Fathers as Educators by Elias
Matsagouras
Church Union: Rome and Byzantium (12041453) by Joseph Gill
Byzantium by M. Yanagi et al

Sergei Hackel
Anthony, Metropolitan
ofSourozh

Norman Russell
Edward Every
Sebastian Brock
Lev Gillet

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60

Laurence Lerner

63

Roger Cowley
John Lawrence
Kallistos Ware/
Grigorii Ivanov

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66

F.J. Laishley

77

Christians in the Arab East by Robert Brenton


Betts
Sebastian Brock
Strannik by Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Elizabeth Moberly
Father John of Kronstadt by Bishop Alexander
(Semenoff-Tian-Chansky) . .'.
Elizabeth Moberly
The VedicExperience,Mantramanjari by
Raimundo Panikkar
A.M. Allchin
Easter on Mount Athos recorded by ARCHIV. . . . BasilMinchin
Byzantine, Greek and Russian Icons exhibited at
the Temple Gallery, London
Nicholas Gendle

106

Fellowship Affairs
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
A Note on the Illustrations

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Harrowing of Hell

frontispiece

E.L. Mascall
Rowan Williams

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2 St Mark

17

Roger Beckwith

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3 The Saviour in Majesty

27

Michael Weitzman

90

Ronald Creighton-Jobe

93

4 Patriarch Aleskii of Moscow (left) with guests (Moscow 1948):


Catholicos-Patriarch Kallistrat of Georgia, Exarch Stefan I
of Bulgaria and Metropolitan Germanos of Thyateira

Norman Russell

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Norman Russell

95

Norman Russell
Nicholas Gendle

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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
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Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Paths to reconciliation
The Orthodox Experience of Repentance
Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the
Churches
British Aid to Russian Churchmen in 1919-39. . . .

Sergei
tiackel
Kallistos Ware

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18

Norman Russell
Donald Davis

29
42

POETRY
Daniel in the Lion's Den

John Heath-Stubbs

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58

Justin Popovic

Kallistos Ware
EL. Mascall/
Rowan Williams,
Elizabeth Hill

NEWS AND COMMENT


William Palmer of Magdalen

John Lawrence

80

Michael Wadsworth
Kallistos Ware

83
84

Richard Price

86

Athanasius Pekar

89

OBITUARIES
Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira
George Florovsky

REVIEWS
The Lord's Prayer and Jewish Liturgy, ed. Jacob
J. Petuchowski
ne Holy Spirit by C.F.D. Moule
Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian
Egypt by Colin H. Roberts
Sviatii Vasilii i Khristians'ke Asketichne Zhittia by
Pavlo J. Fediuk.
Intoxicated with God: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies
ofMacarius by George A. Maloney
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Ban and Manhattan: Bio
graphy of a Legend by Charles W. Jones
Communauts syriaques en Iran et Irak des origines
1552 by J.-M. Fiey
Marie dans l'pigraphie, les monuments et l'art du
patriarcat d'Antioche du Ille au Vile sicle by
Joseph Nasrallah

Charles Dilke

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90

Norman Russell

92

Sebastian Brock

94

Sebastian Brock

94

La papaut et les missions d'orient au moyen ge


(XIIIe-XVe sicles) by Jean Richard
The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian
Rus'1848-1948by?za\R.y[aigocu
Church and State in Yugoslavia since 1945 by Stella
Alexander
Die Russisch-Orthodoxe Landpfarrei zu Beginn des
XX Jahrhunderts by P. Erwin Immekus
The Unknown Homeland: A Samizdat MS tr.
Marite Sapiets
The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
Orthodox Theology: An Introduction by Vladimir
Lossky
Mother Maria: Her Life in Letters ed. Sister Thekla
The Witness of the Armenian Church in a Diaspora
Situation by Aram Keshishian
Armenian Art by Sirapie der Nersessian
L'art du Mont-Athos by Emmanuel Amand de
Mendieta
Praying with Icons by Basil Minchin
Books Received
Musique byzantine recorded by Lycourgos Angelopoulos
Bulgarian Sacred Melodies recorded by the Ivan
Koukousel Vocal Ensemble
Orthodox Church Music: To the Glory of God
recorded by the male voice choir of St Michael's
Cathedral, Belgrade
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
A new Orthodox president
The Secretary's Notes
Annual Accounts
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
A Note on the Illustrations

J. Gill

96

Victor Swoboda

98

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The rich man in hell
2 Emperor John II Comnenus

Ivan Truman

100

Martin Parmentier

104

John Lawrence
Benedicta Ward

105
107

Nicolas Zemov
Barnabas Burton

109
110

Elizabeth Moberly
Nicholas Gendle

112
113

R. Cormack
Ronald Creighton-Jobe

115
116
118

Basil Minchin

119

Basil Minchin

120

Basil Minchin

121

S.JI.
Gareth Evans

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3 Daniel in the lions ' den

S.H.

4 Archbishop A thenagoras of Thyateira


5 Archpriest George Florovsky
6 Archimandrite Justin Popovic

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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wl! 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
Baptism in Byzantine Icongraphy
St Ephrem's Dialogue of Reason and Love
Tradition and Translation
A philosopher and his faith: the work of H.A.
Hodges
NEWS AND COMMENT
A visit to the Coptic Church
Ethiopia
The Syrian Orthodox Church in Europe
The Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Central
Europe
...

Sergei Hackel

Christopher Walter
Robert Murray
Nigel Gotten

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26
41

Anne Borrowdale/
Ann Loades

50

John and Alison Millbank 57


Roger Cowley
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66
Sebastian Brock
68

Pastoral Ministry in the Church of Greece


The Byzantine Saint

Isa Glcan/
Andrew Palmer
David Widdows
Sebastian Brock

MEDITATION
'What lack I yet?'- .

LevGillet

77

OBITUARIES
Fr Lev Gillet
Graham Delbridge

Helle Georgiadis
Colin Davey

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REVIEWS
The Name of Jesus by Irne Hausherr
La Spiritualit de l'orient chrtien by Thomas
Spidlk
Understanding Eastern Christianity by George
Every .
Households of God: The Rule of St Benedict by
David Parry
The Future of Coptic Studies by R. McL. Wilson. .
Saint Symeon the New Theologian: The Sin of
Adam tr. from the text of Theophan the
Recluse

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75

Kallistos Ware

87

L. Bouyer

94

Norman Russell

96

Ronald Creighton-Jobe
J. M.Hornus

98
99

Robert Ombres

La Critica Bizantina del Primato Romano nel


secolo XII by Jannis Spiteris
Byzantium and the Papacy 1198-1400 by Joseph
Gill
Church and Society in the Last Centuries of
Byzantium by Donald Nicol
Church, World and Mission by Alexander
Schmemann . .
The Kingdom of Love and Knowledge by A.M.
Allchin
Multiple Echo: Explorations in Theology by
Cornelius Ernst
Christ is in our Midst by Fr John/The Heart in
Pilgrimage by Christopher Bryant
-. .
The Russian Journal - II by H.P. Liddon. . . . . . .
Bulgarian Monasteries by Georgi Chavrukov
He Naodomia kai he Sygkhrone Tekhne by Kosta
Kalokyris

Joseph Gill

101

Bernard Hamilton

103

George Every

106

E.L. Mascall

107

Kallistos Ware

112

E.L. Mascall

114

Elizabeth Moberly
Kallistos Ware
Christopher Walter

116
118
119

Alexander Fostiropoulos 119

BOOKS RECEDED
Chant grgorien by the Dlier Consort
Easter on Mount Athos celebrated at Xenophontos
Icons at Oxford

Basil Minchin
Basil Minchin
Oliver Nicholson

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

Gareth Evans

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Baptism of St Paul

Frontispiece

Zeus and Dionysius

13

The Baptism of Christ

13

The Baptism of Eustathius

18

Nachor asks for Baptism and is baptised

19

St Pelagia before Bishop Nonnus of Antioch

20

Archimandrite Lev Gillet

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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES

Sergei Hackel

IN MEMORIAM NICOLAS ZERNOV


Nicolas Zernov (1898-1980)
The writings of Nicolas Zernov

Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware

ARTICLES
The Conclbrant at Clamart: Lev Gillet in the
years 1927-8
Elizabeth Behr-Sigel
Evdokimov and the monk within
Cho D. Phan
The mystery of the human person
Kallistos Ware
Jacob of Serugh on the Veil of Moses
Sebastian Brock
NEWS AND COMMENT
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue: Patmos and Rhodes Norman Russell and
Louis Bouyer
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue : Llandaff
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Communion of.
Saints (agreed statement)
Ecumenical work in India
Edouard Hambye

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70

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93
94
97

Christus Redemptor et Consumator: A Study in


the Theology ofB.F. Westcott by Folke
Olofsson
L'Eglise visible selon Serge Bulgakov by Stanislaw
Swierkosz
The Church and Unity by B.C. Butler
Procs-verbaux du deuxime congrs de thologie
orthodoxe Athnes 19-29 aot 1976 d. Savas
Agourides
The Faith We Hold by Archbishop Paul of Finland
Die russischen orthodoxen Bischofe von 1893 bis
1965 by Metropolit Manuil (Lemesevskij) . . . .
0 Holy Mountain! Journal of a Retreat on Mount
Athos by M. Basil Pennington
Ta monasteria kai hoi hagioi tou Olympou tes
Bithynias by Bernardin Menthon

Michael Ramsey

119

E.L. Mascall
Methodios Fouyas

120
123

Nicholas Behr
Elizabeth Moberly

124
126

Sergei Hackel

127
128

Norman Russell

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Nicolas Zernov
The Fellowship Conference 1980
South-East Europe Seminar
A Fellowship Retreat in Greece

132
Gareth Evans
A.M. Allchin
Elizabeth Moberly
Stella Alexander
Jean R. Demos

OUR CONTRIBUTORS
OBITUARIES
Patriarch Benedict
Mother Mary

Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware

REVIEWS
The Holy Land by Jeremy Murphy O'Connor.... Edward Every
Hai Odai Solomontos by Vassilios Fanourgakis. . . Sebastian Brock
O megas Basileios by Panayotis C. Christou
Gerald Bonner
HellenikePatrologia by ?ana.yotis C. Christou. . . . Norman Russell
The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451-553)
by Patrick T.R. Gray
Richard Price
On the Divine Images by St John of Damascus . . . Elizabeth Moberly
Filioque und Verbot eines anderen Glaubens auf
dem Florentinum by Hans-JurgenMarx
Martin Parmentier
The Theology of Purgatory by Robert Ombres . . . Geoffrey Howell
Three Anglican Divines on Prayer: Jewel, Andrewes,
and Hooker by Paul Wessinger
Hugh Wybrew

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Nicolas Zernov (1965)

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2 Nicolas Zernov (1910)

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3 Nicolas Zernov (c. 1921)

15

4 Nicolas Zernov (mid 1920s)

15

5 Nicolas Zernov (1932)

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6 Nicolas Zernov (1977)

33

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7 The Ustiug Annunciation (Novgorod, c.1119-30). Photo: Hackel.

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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London WH 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES
ARTICLES
The blessed dead in Anglican piety
One Body in Christ': Death and the Communion
of Saints
The Communion of Saints
Authority in the Orthodox Church
Sheptycky and the quest for union

Sergei Hackel

158

E.R. Hardy

160

Kallistos Ware
Michael Ramsey
Chrysostomos
Konstantinidis
Myroslaw Tataryn

179
192
197
210

NEWS AND COMMENT


The Ethiopian Church 1974-81: an observer's
report
Yugoslavia and Athos

Georgiana Bell

221
224

OBITUARIES
Geoffrey Curtis
Christopher Morris
Anne Pennington

John Lawrence
Norman Russell
Hugh Wybrew

227
229
230

Richard Price

232

Symeon Lash
Elizabeth Brire
/. Gill

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237

Sergei Hackel
J.Gill

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240

Robert Murray
Malcolm V. Jones
Barry Fogden
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
Elizabeth Moberly
Norman Russell

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REVIEWS
It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight by Jean-Michel
Hormis
Ethiopie Astronomy and Computus by Otto
Neugebauer .
Kosmas ho Melodos. by Theoharis Detorakis
Popes, Lawyers and Infidels by James Muldoon. . .
The Ecclesiastical Career of Gregory Camblak by
Muriel Heppell
GennadiosB'ScholariosbyTheodorosN.Zissis
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Blessed Paisius Velichkovsky by Schema-monk
Metrophanes
Mat'Mariia (1891-1945) by S. Gakkel' [Hackel] . .
Jacob's Ladder hy Charles C. Hefling
The Way of the Heart by Henri J.M. Nouwen . . . .
The Fool and Other Writings by Mother Maria . . .
Perfect Fools by John Saward
155

Martyria/Mission edited by Ion Bria


Theology of a Classless Society by Mar Ostathios
(Geervarghese)
The Art of God Incarnate by Aidan Nichols
Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom: Music
compiled and edited by Andrea Keck
Ex occidente Lex by Victor Pospishil

Sergei Hackel

256

Jean-Michel Hornus
Charles Dilke

260
262

Michael Fortounatto
Ralph Hyde

265
270

BOOKS RECEIVED

272

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes
For your diary

Gareth M. Evans

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Merovingian tombstone from Civaux

167

2 The shrine of St Sergius of Radonezh

175

3 The funeral of a monk at the Trinity St Sergius Monastery (Zagorsk)

181

4 Metropolitan Andrew Sheptycky

211

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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL NOTES

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
St Symeon of Thessalonica: a polemical hesychast
Ecclesiology: some dangers and temptations
Paradosis: the Orthodox understanding of
Tradition
Bishop Grafton of Fond du Lac and the Orthodox
Church
Beholding the light of His countenance: Solzhenitsyn and U-81

John Arnold

49

POEM
Prologue for a carol service

John Heath-Stubbs

55

Kallistos Ware/
Sebastian Brock
Colin Davey

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REPORTS
The D.J. Chitty Papers
Anglican-Orthodox Discussions 1981
OBITUARIES
Bishop Samuel
Patriarch Elias IV

..:..;......

Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III


Bishop Ceslaus Sipovich
REVIEWS
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition by
Andrew Louth
Jeremiah Prophet of God by Mother Maria. . . . . .
The Incarnation: Ecumenical Studies in theNiceneConstantinopolitan Creed ed. Thomas F.
Torrance
Spirit of God - Spirit of Christ ed. Lukas Vischer.

DavidBalfour
Vladimir Lossky

6
22

Constantine Scouteris

30

Ernest C. Miller

Use Friedeberg
Andreas Tillyrides/
Sebastian Brock
Clare Birch Amos
Helle Georgiadis

38

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Louis Bouyer
Charles Dilke

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E.L. Mascall
Edward Every

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The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition


by Sebastian Brock
The Philokalia. The Complete Text tr. and ed.
G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos
Ware
La vie religieuse Byzance by Jean Gouillard . . . .
The Latin Church and the Crusader States by
Bernard Hamilton
St Innocent: Apostle to America by Paul D.
Garrett
The Dynamic of Tradition by A.M. Allchin
Towards Reunion. The Orthodox and Catholic
Churches by Edward J. Kilmartin
Le buisson ardent by Paul Evdokimov
Many Worlds: A Russian Life by Sophie Koulomzin.
Zakatnyegody by N.M. Zernov
Christ the New Passover by Valentina Z a n d e r . . . .

Edward Yarnold

82

Louis Bouyer
George Every

84
86

John Gillingham

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1981
The Secretary's Notes
For your diary

87

SergeiHackel
Kallistos Ware

91
92

Peter C. Phan
Peter C. Phan
Philip Walters
John Lawrence
Hugh Wybrew

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BOOKS RECEDED

105
Hugh Bates
Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans

108
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1 St Symeon of Thessalonica from Cod. Vatoped. 4 7 (dated 1763)

13

ILLUSTRATIONS

2 StDemetrios of Salonica (Xenophontos, Athos)

17

3 The Descent of the Holy Spirit (Suzdal)

27

4 "The Picture': at the consecration of Bishop WeUer( 1900)

Editorial Notes

43

5 The Angel and the Shepherds (Ottoman MS)

54

6 Bishop Samuel with Pope Shenouda III (1979)

61

In the symposium Spirit of God - Spirit of Christ (reviewed below) the World
Council of Churches recently published a carefully prepared Memorandum which
urges that 'the original form of the third article of the Creed, without filioque,
should everywhere be recognised as the normative one and restored'. It is a recom
mendation by an ecumenical working party with no particular authority and it does
not in itself bring nearer the day when all those who use the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (the sixteenth centenary of which was celebrated last year) are at
one both in their formulations and their faith. But it could certainly stimulate
fresh discussion of this and of related issues. In Britain, at least, the British
Council of Churches (prompted by the Orthodox) has already raised the question
with its members.
Such questions are not easy to discuss in the current ecumenical climate; and
their resolution is not impeded merely by theological or historical factors, important
though these are. Paradoxically, growth in mutual understanding is too often
seriously frustrated by the apparently positive by-products of ecumenism: courtesy,
familiarity and tolerance. As a result the promotion of this or any other cause in
order to serve/accommodate/please/respect Our Orthodox friends' can blur the
issue, which is one of truth.
Furthermore, when the Orthodox seek to point this out, they are not infrequently
discounted for being rigoristic, intransigent, unyielding, uncooperative. Sinning as
they do against those ecumenical virtues of courtesy and tolerance (= indifferentism?),
their insistence on regrettably divisive truths is taken in ill part. Yet it could be
argued that the ecumenical movement is as much hampered by friendliness and
facile fellowship as by divisive truths.
For there is a danger that a body like the World Council of Churches, as it
completes a further term between Assemblies, might yet find (the recent
Memorandum notwithstanding) that 'speaks the truth with love' (Eph. 4:15) is less
likely to appear on its end of term report than 'neither hot nor cold' (Rev. 3:15).
And such a condemnation can too easily be earned by any body, however large or
small. Only by care, sobriety and painful effort can it be avoided.
SERGEI HACKEL

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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
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Contents
DITORIAL
RTICLES
he Prayer of the Heart in Syriac Tradition
he spirituality of St Augustine and its influence
on Western mysticism
he Holy Name of Jesus in East and West: the
Hesychasts and Richard Rolle
he influence of Denys the Areopagite on Eastern
and Western spirituality in the fourteenth
century
he Spiritual Testament of St Teodosi of Turnovo.
[emories of Fr Lev Gillet
BITUARIES
rchbishop Alexis van der Mensbrugghe
EPORTS
lie Coptic Orthodox Church
he Ethiopian Orthodox Church
he Anglican Orthodox Joint Doctrinal
Discussions
rchdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
EVIEWS
eoplatonism and Early Christian Thought ed.
H.J. Blumenthal and R.A. Markus
yzantium and the Classical Tradition ed. M.
Mullett and R. Scott
he Byzantine Saint ed. S. Hackel
regory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses tr. A.J.
Malherbe and E. Ferguson
'ayer of the Heart by G. Maloney
a Chiesa Latina in Oriente by G. Fedalto
toes Chalcedon Divide or Unite? ed. Paulos
Gregorios et al

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Sebastian Brock

131

Gerald Bonner

143

+Kallistos of Diokleia

163

Andrew Louth
Muriel Heppell
David Balfour

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201
203

Pearl of Great Price. The Life of Mother Maria


Skobtsova 1891-1945 by S. Hackel
L'Etre ecclsial by J. Zizioulas
The Representatives: The Real Nature and Func
tion of Papal Legates by M. Oliveri
A Touch of God. Eight Monastic Journeys ed. M.
Boulding
The Holy Passion sung by the Patriarchal choirs,
patriarchate of Constantinople
Icons at the Temple Gallery

Norman Russell
E.L. Mascall

236
237

Norman Russell

238

Ronald Creighton-Jobe

239

Basil Minchin
Nicholas Gendle

240
241

BOOKS RECEIVED

245

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

249

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

253

ILLUSTRATIONS
W. Jardine Grisbrooke

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217
218

Colin Davey/
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Sergei Hackel

1 Anonymous stylite
2 St Augustine at work on one of his books (Durham MS. BII. 22)
3 A hesychast at prayer

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4 Denys in the West (Paris BN Gr437)

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.5 Fr Lev Gillet in the late 1920s

209

6 Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia

223

7 St Peter, an icon of the fourteenth century

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A Meredith

225

Nicholas Gendle
John Meyendorff

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228

Nicholas Gendle
Helle Georgiadis
/. Gill

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232

Richard Price

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1983
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK7 ROBERT MURRAY.
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wl 12PB

Contents
EDITORIAL

SergeiHackel

ARTICLES
What is a martyr?
+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Extended notions of martyrdom in the Byzantine
ascetical tradition
David Balfour
Neomartyrs of the Greek Calendar
Norman Russell

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REPORTS
Lebanon
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue 1982
Dr Runcie in Bulgaria and Romania
The Nicolas Zernov Memorial Lecture

Alan Amos
Louis Bouyer
Michael Moore
+Kallistos ofDiokleia

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OBITUARIES
Jean-Michel Hormis
Joice Loch

Susan Ashbrook Harvey


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George Every

73

Richard Price

74

Nicholas Gendle

75

SergeiHackel

76

J.Gill

78

REVIEWS
Byzance ou l'autre Rome by Jean Decarreaux . . .
The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church by
John Meyendorff.
Egeria's Travels in the Holy Land ed. and tr. J.
Wilkinson
St Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons tr.
Catherine P. Roth
Byzantium and the Rise of Russia by John
Meyendorff
To Elleniko Kollegio tis Romis kai i Mathites tou
(1576-1700) by Z.N. Tsirpanlis
Die Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Kirche in
Griechenland by Philippos Spyropoulos
Das Eucharistieversammlung als Kirche by Peter
Blank
Christianity in the Holy Land ed. D.-M. A. Jaeger .
A Vanquished Hope, the Movement for Church
Renewal in Russia, 1905-1906 by James W.
Cunningham
3

Gerald Bray

79

Gerald Bray
Edward Every

80
82

Peter Scorer

83

86

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1982
The Secretary's Notes

A Participant
Gareth M. Evans

87

ACCOUNTS

93

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

98

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Mother Maria Skobtsova (portrait by N. Verevkina)

13

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'Dying, and behold we live': icon of St Paraskeve, martyr

3 St John Chrysostom: mosaic icon (formerly at Vatopedi, Athos)

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4 St Philothei, neomartyr (popular printed icon)

45

5 St George of Yannina, neomartyr (painting by Nicholas Vranos)

47

6 Patriarch Gregory V (bust by John Kossosj

Editorial

57

At the end of April 1703, a Christian priest in Cairo was sentenced to death for
refusing to abjure his faith. That 'the Greek Church fasted for three days before the
execution in support of the martyr' might seem only proper. Yet the condemned
man was a Catholic; and his martyrdom was thus experienced as something which
superseded and possibly even counteracted the divisions of the Christian world. Nor
were the Greeks alone in making this response. As Fr Norman Russell points out in
his article below, 'the Copts and Armenians also expressed their solidarity with
messages to the Catholic community'.
Such solidarity in suffering can be an important ingredient, even a catalyst, in
ecumenism. It can inspire and undergird, it can at times correct, the academic
ecumenism of the 'professionals'. As Fr Lev Gillet wrote almost twenty years ago
in Sobornost,
There are many varieties of ecumenism. We are all well acquainted with the
ecumenism of Stockholm, Lausanne, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Lund,
Evanston, the ecumenism of theological exchange. This variety is certainly
useful and perhaps necessary. [But] there are other forms of ecumenism,
among which I shall mention one above all the ecumenism of the concen
tration camps.
For it was in such places as Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz (not to mention
the camps of the Stalinist world) that 'Christians belonging to different Churches
discovered through their common sufferings and their_ burning charity a deep unity
at the foot of the cross'. Furthermore, 'this ecumenism had its witnesses, its
martyrs'. And Fr Lev mentions three to represent them all: the Protestant pastor
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45), the Catholic priest Josef Metzger (1887-1944), and
the Orthodox nun Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945).
All three were killed for Christ, all three were witnesses for the ecumenical
fellowship of blood which is expressed in this sentence from the [1943]
testament of Metzger: feel myself as closely united to my believing and
conscientious Protestant brothers in Christ Jesus through Baptism and our
common experience in the same Lord, as to the brethren with whom I share
the fellowship of the Holy Sacrament'.
The symbolic lighting of candles in the chapel of the twentieth-century martyrs in
Canterbury Cathedral at the outset of Pope John Paul's visit to Great Britain was,
among other things, a reminder of what such ecumenism can mean.

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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY
KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
Martyrdom: its place in the Church
Feodorit, a Russian non-Possessor, priest and
martyr
Dialogue hymns of the Syriac Churches
A war-time visit to the Russian Church
Wolves and monks: life on the Holy Mountain today

Muriel Heppell
Sebastian Brock
Francis House
+Kallistos ofDiokleia

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REPORT
Coptic monasticism: some Anglican impressions . .

Stephen Tucker

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REVIEW ARTICLE
The Syriac Churches: some recent books from
India

Sebastian Brock

74

COMMENT
Gennadios Scholarios

David Balfour

81

John Macquarrie

85

Sebastian Brock
Benedicta Ward
Gerald Bray
Garth Fowden
Sebastian Brock

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87
87
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REVIEWS
Discerning the Mystery by Andrew Louth
History and Thought of the Early Church by
Henry Chadwick
The Dual Nature of Man by Anna-Stina Ellverson .
Le deuxime Concile Oecumnique (a symposium)
East of Byzantium d. N.G. Garsoian et al
Rabban Jausep Hazzaya by Gabriel Bunge
Patriarch Photius of Constantinople by Despina
S. White
The Patriarch and the Prince by Despina S. White
and J.R. Berrigan
Augsburg and Constantinople by George
Mastrantonis

GeraldBonner

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George Every

92

Gerald Bray

93

The Historical and Ecumenical Significance of


Jeremias IPs Correspondence with the Lutherans
by Constantine N. Tsirpanlis
Synodica V: Congrs pour l'examen de la question
d'une clbration commune de Pques (a sym
posium)
IEleftheria tou Ithous by Christos Yannaras
Person und Eros by Christos Yannaras
Orthodoxy: Faith and Life. Christ and the Life of
the Church by Gerasimos Papadopoulos
Der theologische Dialog zwischen der RbmischKatolischen Kirche by Gerassime-Chrysostom
Zaphiris
Communio Sanctorum (a symposium)
Russia's Catacomb Saints by Ivan Andreyev

Editorial
Gerald Bray

94

Benedicta Ward
Norman Russell
Gerald Bray

94
96
98

Gerald Bray

99

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

100
101

Norman Russell

102

BOOKS RECEIVED

104

FELLOWSHIP NOTES

105

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

108

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Lesnovo fresco, 1349)
2 The monastery at Solovki (nineteenth century photo)
3 St Ephrem of Syria with two other saints (Novgorod tablet-icon,
early 16th century)
4 Zacharias struck dumb at the temple (the doors of Santa Sabina,
Rome, c.422-40)
5 Reception at the Moscow Patriarchate, October 1943
6 Simonos Petras monastery, Athos

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59

The few who first met together on 11 January 1927 for an ecumenical conference
at St Albans (there were 42 participants in all) and who continued their discussions
a year later (by which time their number had risen to 65) could hardly have
expected that the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius which grew out of their
friendships it was founded in January 1928 would last, let alone flourish,
throughout the succeeding half century or more. Still less could they have antici
pated the importance of the unobtrusive yet catalytic role it was to play in the
developing ecumenical world of the 1930s and 40s. Yet it provided a rare if not
unique forum for Anglicans and Orthodox not only to meet but worship together,
and this long before the development of such local, regional and international
councils of churches as we expect to find in most parts of the Christian world
today.
It would be rash to suggest that such consultations as the Anglican-Orthodox
Joint Doctrinal Discussions (the most recent session of which has just successfully
taken place at Odessa) could not have been held without the preparatory
encounters between Christian East and West which the Fellowship did so much
to encourage. Yet the tone of these discussions, and of those like them, could
hardly have been the same without the Fellowship's quiet contribution over the
previous years.
But what of the present and the immediate future? With the current proliferation
of ecumenical bodies, conferences and publications, has the Fellowship still a role
to play? If so (and which of its members would seek to doubt it?) should it still
be played in the established and long-since accepted fashion?
Such questions require to be pondered by its members and its council. But most
obviously of all (in the wake of Fr Gareth Evans' resignation, which is announced
below) they need to be pondered and no doubt are already being pondered by
its newly elected secretary-general, the present vicar of Pinner, Canon Hugh
Wybrew. It need hardly be said that his experience in the field of AnglicanOrthodox (and not only Anglican-Orthodox) relations provide him with the
necessary perspectives. Yet this is not to say that ready answers are at hand. In any
case, ready answers are likely to be suspect, flimsy and counterproductive. In this
sphere, as in others, fruit has to be brought forth with patience. The preceding
fifty-five years have already given Fellowship members an awareness of this. It
remains for current and future members to distinguish patience from passivity,
while yet avoiding all temptation to confuse forced growth with organic, if subtly
fostered, maturation.
SERGEI HACKEL
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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY,
KALLISTOS. WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Associate Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
'Never as gods': icons and their veneration
Martyrdom
The Oxford Movement, the Fathers and the Bible .
Raphael Popov, Bulgarian Uniate bishop: problems
of Uniatism and Autocephaly

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Constantine Scouteris
A.M. Allchin
Andrew Louth

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Christopher Walter

46

REPORTS
The Anglican/Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions
1983
Lebanon

Symeon Lash
Alan Amos

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IN MEMORIAM DEMETRIOS KOUTROUBS


Athens to Walsingham
A monk-of-the-world
The Master Builder
A vision of unity in diversity

+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Elias Mastroiannopoulos
Christos Yannaras
A;M. Allchin

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71 -,.
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Etta Gullick
Michael Silver
Basil and Margaret
Minchin
Alberic Stacpoole
Carl Witton-Davies

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OBITUARIES
Eric Abbott
Ivan Young
Harry Byrom
Irina Findlow

81
82

Alexander Schmemann
REVIEW ARTICLE
Translating the Liturgy
REVIEWS
New and Old in God's Revelation by Benedict
Englezakis
/ Thessalonians. A Commentary by Paul Nadim
Tarazi
Early Syriac Theology by S.G. Beggiani
The Life of Samuel of Kalamun ed. and tr. Anthony
Alcock

83
David Balfour

84

R. Morgan

97

John Hargreaves
Sebastian Brock

97
99

Sebastian Brock

99

The Lives of the Desert Fathers tr. Norman Russell


L'Esprit qui dit 'PreV ' by Jean-Miguel Garrigues.
John Qimacus, The Ladder of Divine Assent tr.
Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell
Art and Eloquence in Byzantium by Henry Maguire.
To Syngraphikon Ergon tou Oikoumenikou Patriarchou Kallistou / b y Demetrios Gones
Orthodox Liturgical Dress by Archimandrite
Chrysostomos
The Christians of St Thomas [...] and their
Syriac Manuscripts by J.P.M. van der Ploeg. . . .
Sunset Years: A Russian Pilgrim in the West by
Nicolas Zernov
Mia de Beausobre: A Russian Christian in the
West by Constance Babington Smith
The Orthodox Church in Russia ed. Archbishop
Pitirim of Volokolamsk

+Kallistos ofDiokleia
Norman Russell
Benedicta Ward
Nicholas Gendle
DavidBalfour
KyrilJenner
Sebastian Brock
+Robert Cantuar

The Festivals of Greek Easter by Carole Papoutsis.

+Kallistos ofDioklek
Sergei Hackel
Norman Russell

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1983
Gareth Evans
The Secretary's Notes
The Associate Secretary's Notes
For your diary
OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Muriel Heppell
AM. Allchin
Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Briere

ILLUSTRATIONS

Editorial
The ecumemnical scene is not limited to, it is certainly not rooted in such elaborate
assemblies as took place in Vancouver last year. There can be no doubt that there is
an important role for broadly-based structures and institutions which seek to
further accord between divided Christians. But the larger the body, the less personal
its activities are likely to be. Whereas union with God and by extension, unity in
his Church remains (in Lossky's words) 'a mystery [...] worked out in human
persons'.
The value of the personal contribution to this end is demonstrated in the
remarkable life of Demetrios Koutroubis, some notes on which are published
below. Remarkable, yet unremarked the more remarkable, it could be said, since
unremarked. Eirenically and unobtrusively, this man sowed seeds in ground that
might well have remained fallow, if not untended altogether, had he not perceived
its promise.
In respect of ecumenism, his was not the way of reductionism or of compromise.
It none the less involved an unblinkered, positive and perceptive approach to the
world beyond the confines of his Church. The Fellowship of St Alban and St
Sergius (whose 'ideals and spirit [. ..] were close to his heart') has much to gain
from the model of a Koutroubis.
The funds which it now so urgently requires to sustain its modest activities1 will
not be used to emulate the structures, programmes or pretensions of bodies like the
WCC. Rather will they ensure the continued provision and cultivation of a fertile
oasis la Koutroubis; of a milieu where people may encounter each other as
persons, and so deepen their understanding of what it means to be fellow-Christians.
Hence the designation of this body. It is not simply a council, committee or asso
ciation. It is a fellowship.
SERGEI HACKEL

1 St John Damascene (fresco by Frankos Katelanos, 1548)


2 Edward Bouverie Pusey (drawing by Edward Kilvert, 1843)

1. See the Chairman's statement on the inside back "Cover.

3 Title page of Pusey's 'condemned' sermon (1843)


4 The baptism of the Bulgarians (Bulgarian miniature, 1344/5)
5 Demetrios Koutroubis (photograph by Louise Taylor)
6 St Basil the Great (Greek icon, sixteenth century)
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EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
SEBASTIAN BROCK, ROBERT MURRAY.
KALL1STOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowships Associate Secretary
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The fool in Christ as prophet and apostle
Prophecy and the establishment: the challenge of
biblical criticism
POEM
Sinai
LEV GILLET MEMORIAL LECTURE
The heart strangely warmed: Eastern Orthodoxy
and the Free Church tradition in the West ..
REPORTS
The House of St Gregory and St Macrina: the first
quarter century
OBITUARIES
Alexander Schmemann
Last sermon
Vsevolod Shpiller

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David Balfour

29

Ioanna Tsatsos/
tr. Jean Demos

41

John Newton

43

+Kallistos of
Diokleia/Ralph
Townsend

55

Peter Scorer
Alexander Schmemann
John Lawrence

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REVIEWS
The Message of the Bible by George Cronk . . . John Platt
The First Day of the New Creation by Veselin
Kesich
Edward Yarnold
Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church by
Christopher Walter
Nicholas Gendle
Theologika Meletima 4: Ymnographika by
Panayiotis K. Christou
Elizabeth Briere
Ending the Byzantine Schism by James Likoudis Norman Russell
Gregory Palamas: The Triads ed. J. Meyendorff,
tr. N. Gendle
David Balfour
Catholics and Sultans by Charles A. Frazee . . . Joseph Gill
Valamo and its Message by Archbishop Paul et al. Pegeen O 'Flaherty

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Women and the Priesthood ed. Thomas Hopko


The Light of the World by Sergius S. Verhovskoy
Christianity and Marxism ed. Alan Scarfe and
Patrick Sookhdeo
The Chimes and Hymns of the Russian Orthodox
Church (records)
COMMENT
'Translating the Liturgy'

Elizabeth Moberly
Helle Georgiadis

86
89

John Alachouzos

89

Basil Minchin

91

Elizabeth Fenton

92

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretaries' Report
Orthodox-Methodist contacts
For your diary

95
Hugh Wybrew/
Elizabeth Briere
Elizabeth Briere

98
102
103

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

104

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Two Muscovite Fools: Basil and Maxim
2 The Pokrov (Novgorod tablet icon)
3 The Prophet Isaiah (Meteora)
4 St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
5 John Wesley in 1766
6 The House of St Gregory and St Macrina: at the opening

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Editorial
There used to be advertisements in the papers, perhaps still are, which assured
prospective clients that they need only suscribe to a course in Pelmanism to be
successful in life. Was this possibly the secular equivalent of similar offers made
by some sectarians? In either case it was the antithesis of that for which any selfdenigrating Fool for Christ would wish to strive or prophet either. Rather would
they expect many would actively seek to be despised and rejected of men.
And in this at least they would be in accord with that prophet who was 'much more
than a prophet' (Luke 7:20) and who (as Bishop Kallistos suggests below) might
also even be seen as the supreme Fool, Christ himself.
This issue of Sobornost/ECR dwells much on the peculiar folly of the Fools.
It dwells inter alia on its prophetic nature. It dwells also on the importance of
prophecy as such. Indeed, in each of the two papers taken over from last summer's
Fellowship Conference there is a comparable insistence on the need to recognise ,
'two types of hierarchy' in the life of the Church (Bishop Kallistos), 'the importance
of establishment and prophets alike' (David Balfour).
Much of this discussion concerns Orthodox Christianity. But the concept of the
holy Fool is not the prerogative of the Christian East. Among Western Christians,
the Free Churches (the subject of John Newton's paper) also 'have had their "Fools
in Christ" '. And although John Wesley was careful to insist that 'religion and reason
go hand in hand' and that 'all irrational religion is false religion', he would no doubt
have appreciated the intention of one of his followers [Billy Bray] not to accept
any limitations on his prophetic preaching. Despised and rejected of men though
he might be and thus forcibly confined to a barrel, would [insisted Bray] shout
"Glory!" through the bung-hole'.
Fools and prophets, uncomfortable and inconvenient as they are, reach out beyond
at times they modify the confines of the day's religious establishment. They
move in uncharted realms. And it is thus among them that it is possible to encounter
those few who can say (in the words of Ioanna Tsatsos' poem Sinai), hear things
not heard before'.
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1985
EDITORIAL BOARD
SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove London Wll 2 PB

Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Liturgy and eschatology
'Rejoice, sceptre of Orthodoxy'
Anglican or Orthodox? The Scottish dimension of
the 'Palmer affair'
REPORTS
The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo
The Byzantine Rite at Niederaltaich
The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
and all the East
REVIEWS
The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective
by Pinchas Lapide
Easter Enigma by John Wenham
Cyrillonas. L'Agneau vritable: hymnes, cantiques,
homlies tr. Dominique Cerbelaud; Jean
d'Apame. Dialogues et Traits tr. Ren
Lavenant
Symeon the New Theologian: The Practical and
Theological Chapters [...] tr. Paul McGuckin
The Philokalia: The Complete Text, volume iii, tr.
and ed. G.E.H. Palmer et al
Muhammad and the Christian by Kenneth Cragg
The Joy of All Creation by A.M. Allchin
Bishops: But What Kind? ed. Peter Moore . . . .
Luther et la reforme allemande dans une
perspective oecumnique by W. Schneemelcher
et al
Baptism and Eucharist: Ecumenical Convergence
in Celebration ed. M. Thurian and G.
Wainwright
Voir Dieu tel qu 'il est by Archimandrite Sophrony
BOOKS RECEIVED

Alexander Schmemann
Elizabeth Briere

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Christopher Knight

25

Ivan Truman
Christian Leisy

44
50

Sebastian Brock

53

Helle Georgiadis
Helle Georgiadis

56
57

Sebastian Brock

59

Nicholas Gendle

60

Nicholas Gendle
Alan Amos
Nicholas Lossky
Symeon Lash

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63
64
66

Gerald Bray

69

Gerald Bray
Maxime Gimenez

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COMMENT ON A COMMENT
'Translating the Liturgy'
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretaries' Notes
The Fellowship Conference 1984
The Athens chapter Retreat
Philoxenia

David Balfour

76

Hugh Wybrew/
Elizabeth Briere
Kenneth Storer
Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Briere

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82
87
87

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Christ offering the chalice to his apostles (St Michael's, Kiev,
1108-13)
2 Head of the Virgin (Kariye Djami, Constantinople: early
fourteenth century)

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3. The Mother of God and Child, (Byzantine Museum, Athens:


fourteenth century)

23

4 William Palmer (engraving by Joseph Brown)

27

5 Bishop Skinner's letter to the President of Magdalen, 1846


(Library of Magdalen College, Oxford)
6 Gracanica: fresco of St Constantine and St Helena (fourteenth
century)

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Editorial
'All the peoples of Europe share a Christian past', noted Cardinal Basil Hume on
the festival of St Methodius (27 February 1985); and 'many share a Christian faith
and commitment'. It is a fair generalisation, though the Jews remain to be accounted
for. And it quietly draws attention to the dissonance between its two parts, to the
potential implied in the first and the strictly limited realisation of it in the second.
So limited indeed, that there is talk of a 'post-Christian' era: 'an era has finished',
argues Fr Alexander Schmemann below, 'an era characterised by the existence of
a Christian Church [...], a Christian world'. So much so, insisted Cardinal Hume
on St Methodius' day, that the evangelisation of Europe must start all over again
'as if it had never happened'. Certainly, there was no room for complacency on
the 1100th anniversary of St Methodius' death.
No longer, as in the days of Sts Cyril and Methodius, is any kind of mission likely
to raise thorny questions of alternative languages or rites. Nor should it involve
merely the question of modifying the Church's traditional mode of discourse in
what Fr Alexander terms 'a desperate search for a common language with the world',
whether political or scientific in its terminology or (more ominous) presuppositions.
It is not such language which is likely to heal or redeem a 'post-Christian' world:
least of all if the language is not rooted in the simplicity and integrity of the gospel,
that source of energy which (in Schmemann's words) 'the Church possessed when
it was conquering the world'. Then was the Church sustained, then was it imbued
by 'the truth, the righteousness, the joy of the Kingdom of God'.
It can still be so imbued. Even in a Christian context which no longer allows for
a Methodius to be simultaneously an emissary of the pope of Rome and the patriarch
of Constantinople, even in a world which can be designated 'post-Christian', there
is room, there is the more room, for light to shine in the darkness. And it could
yet be, as it should be, that those many peoples 'who once shared a Christian past'
will again and more profoundly share an authentically Christian present.
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NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2 PB

Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Anglicans and Eastern Christendom
The Liturgy as Tradition and Tradition as Liturgy
The thrice-holy hymn in the Liturgy
Idols and Images: early definitions and controver
sies
g.

Colin Davey
John Chryssavgis
Sebastian Brock

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18
24

Irven M. Resnick

35

REVIEW ARTICLE
The Dublin Agreed Statement 1984: a Uniate view

Serge Keleher

52

Benedicta Ward
Norman Russell

57
59

Norman Russell

61

Serge R. Keleher

62

Norman Russell

64

Frederick J. Copleston
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
Nicholas Gendle

65
68
69

Gerald Bray
John V. Heyes

71
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REVIEWS
The Oxford Book of Prayer ed. G. Appleton and
Seasons of the Spirit ed. G. Every et al
Athos, the Holy Mountain by Philip Sherrard .
Prince-Bishop Njegosh 's Religious Philosophy by
Z.R. Prvulovich
Our People, Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descen
dants in North America by'P.R. Magocsi
Orthodoxy in Finland, Past and Present ed. V.
Purmonen
Pavel Florenksy: A Metaphysics of Love by R.
Slesinski
The Communion of Love by Matthew the Poor
The Jesus Prayer Today by A.A. Vogel
La thologie dans l'glise et dans le monde ed. D.
Theraios et al
The Orthodox Vigil by John Tavener
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Secretaries Notes
Greece

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Elizabeth Briere
Elizabeth Briere

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For your diary

Editorial

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Metrophanes Kritopoulos in 1627
2 The Pantokrator with seraphim and four winged creatures (Suzdal)
3 Satan is cast down (Suzdal)
4 The evangelist Luke as iconographer

'Dogma cannot be understood apart from experience', wrote Vladimir Lossky: 'the
fulness of experience cannot be had apart from true doctrine.' Such an attitude
informs, undergirds and justifies much of the Fellowship's life. More than that,
the stance of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius on this matter over the
last half century or more has come to be reflected in undertakings further afield,
such as the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions, an assessment of whose
second Agreed Statement (1984) is given below. 'Faith and worship are inseparable'
notes this Report. 'Dogmas are not abstract ideas existing for themselves [. . .].'
To many readers of our journal this may seem self-evident. Yet it was not so
long ago that respectable ecumenists were attempting to negotiate some academic,
inorganic 'recognition of orders' or 'terms of intercommunion', as Colin Davey
indicates in his article on 'Anglicans and Eastern Christendom'. Ecumenism was
wedded to diplomacy, at times confused with it, and the whole business could thus
be conducted in an inappropriate manner and, worse, on entirely the wrong level.
Not that emotionalism is to be preferred. As Lossky was careful to point out,
'experience' is insufficient in itself, profound though it may be. Nor is it neces
sarily stabilised by concern for outlandish imagery or rites. The contemplation, even
the investigation of such imagery or rites may prove to be a distraction, may prove
to be idolatrous. Certainly, in Lossky's terms, neither is likely to come to fruition
('fulness') unless 'true doctrine' shapes the experience and validates it. At the same
time, the ultimate validation of doctrine and experience alike is beyond individuals
as it is beyond commissions. For it pertains to the Church.
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SERGEI HACKEL editor,
NORMAN RUSSELL reviews editor,
ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Revelation of the Spirit, language beyond words
The Mystery of the Church in the Dublin Agreed
Statement
Unity and disunity today
Isaac of Nineveh: some newly-discovered works
The Saints of Durham

Boris Bobrinskoy

Hugh Wybrew
Militza Zernov
Sebastian Brock
Gerald Bonner

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34

REPORT
An active community of Coptic Orthodox nuns

John Wraw

47

OBITUARIES
Archbishop Basil (Krivoshein)
Paul Anderson

Kallistos of Diokleia
Donald E. Davis

51
55

Gerald Bray

59

Norman Russell

60

Nicholas Gendle

61

Nicholas Gendle

63

Norman Russell

64

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

65
67

Norman Russell

68

Nicholas Gendle

69

Kyril Jenner

71

REVIEWS
The Early Fathers on War and Military Service
by L.J. Swift
Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings tr.
G.C. Berthold
The Deification of Man: St Gregory Palamas and
the Orthodox Tradition by G.I. Matzaridis ..
St Symeon of Thessalonike: A Treatise on Prayer
tr. H.L.N. Simmons
New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke tr. L.J.
Papadopulos et al
Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and,
Reformed Churches ed. T.F. Torrance
Growth in Agreement ed. H. Meyer and L. Vischer
Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual by Boden
Clarke
Byzantine Churches of Greece and Cyprus by E.
Mastrogiannopoulos
I Pankosmios Ekchysis tou Agiou Pneumatos (and
two other works) by Eusebius Stephanou . . . .

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COMMENT
Comment on 'The Serbian Orthodox Church in
Kosovo' by Ivan Truman
A response to the comment
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Fellowship Conference 1985
The Secretaries' report

Zaga Gavrilovic
Ivan Truman

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77
80

Hugh Wybrew and


Elizabeth Briere

83

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

88

FOR YOUR DIARY

89

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Baptism of Christ: icon of the sixteenth century

27

2 Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov


3

The Crucifixion: carving of the fifteenth/sixteenth

century

4 Symeon of Durham: two initials from the oldest manuscripts of


his History (twelfth century)
5 A Coptic church in Egypt

11

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Editorial
Was Christ 'imprisoned in human words'? As Fr Boris Bobrinskoy suggests below,
this was an important, if neglected, aspect of his incarnation and of his humiliation.
Certainly, if the Word himself accepts the limitation of mere words, then he must
revitalise the language of the human race, just as he brings new life to those who
use it. Even so, 'we know in part, and we prophesy in part'. Only in part, for
language remains the product and the tool of an imperfect world. And only 'when
that which is perfect shall come' shall that 'which is in part' be done away.
Language is to be superseded, and even in the present, necessarily limited state
of man's perception it is possible for him to speak, and to speak in all sobriety,
of 'language beyond words', to aspire to its use, at times and at best to engage in
it. That such aspirations and such practice find their distorting mirror in aspects
of the pentecostal movement (see Fr Kyril Jenner's remarks below) is insufficent
reason to ignore them.
At present, even with the best will in the world (and the Fellowship is in business
to promote no less), Christians of different traditions cannot but encounter 'the
difficulty of finding a language, let alone a common language, in which to speak
coherently of the Church'. The comment is made on the basis of the Fellowship's
own conference (see the conference report). But it might also have been made by
the participants of the Dublin discussions, on which Fr Hugh Wybrew reported to
the same conference (and on the pages of this issue). It might have been made by
any ecumenical body, and it could have concerned many a question in addition to
that of the Church.
The answer is not to retire into some easy-going non-committal comprehensiveness,
th dangers of which are noted by Dr Militza Zernov in her comment on 'Unity
and disunity today'. Of course the permissive use of 'Church' or any other concept
would liberate all and sundry from the burden of controversy. But it would bring
people together only on/the level of phraseology, not commitment or belief.
Hence the need to treat words with due concern. Hence the need also to look beyond
words, to that language which in part is 'the language of praise' (to use Bobrinskoy's
formulation). It must be accepted that 'the mystery of the Church cannot be fully
defined or described', as the Dublin Agreed Statement points out. Otherwise what
sort of mystery would that be? But it can be experienced, and if experienced, shared.
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ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK
ROBERT MURRAX KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
St Basil's House, 52 Ladbroke Grove, London Wll 2PB

Contents
EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
The human person as an icon of the Trinity .. .
St Athanasios: the dynamics of salvation
Pobedonostsev and Riley: a conversation
of 1889
Nadezhda Gorodetskaia: the study and the
practice of kenosis

Kallistos of Diokleia
George Bebawi

6
24

J.F. Coakley

42

Elizabeth Hill

51

POEM
The tree of the cross

C.A. Trypanis

62

OBITUARY
Panayiotis Nellas

Niphon Alexiou

64

REPORTS
Synaxi
Gilbert Shaw

Sotiris Gounelas
Rod Hacking

66
68

COMMENT
'The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo':
further responses

S.H.

71

David Balfour

73

Nicholas Gendle

75

Mary Cunningham
Norman Russell
Benedicta Ward

77
78
80

Nicholas Gendle

81

Sebastian Brock
Gerald Bray
George Theokritoff
Gerald Bray
Helle Georgiadis

84
85
86
87
88

REVIEWS
The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
by J.M. Hussey
Gregory Nazianzen: Selected Poems
tr. J. McGuckin
The Life of St Nicholas of Sion
tr. I. and N.P. Sevcenko
Man and the Cosmos by Lars Thunberg
The Prologue from Ochrid by Nikolai Velimirovic
The Mosaics of S. Marco in Venice
by Otto Demus
The Period of Annunciation-Nativity in the East
Syrian Calendar by John Moolan
Apostolic Faith Today by Hans-Georg Link . . .
Go Forth in Peace ed. I. Bria
Towards a Fuller Vision by E.C. Miller
Rome and Constantinople ed. R. Barringer . . .

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Farewell
Secretary's Notes

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Hugh Wybrew
Elizabeth Brtere

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Old Testament Trinity by Andrei Rublev

13

The Old Testament Trinity: detail

19

Nativity

33

4 Konstantin Pobedonostsev

45

Nadezhda Gorodetskaia

61

Hugh Wybrew,

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It does not take many words to profess faith in the Trinity. Over the last twentyfive years, all member-Churches of the World Council of Churches have been for
mally required to make this ancient and orthodox profession; and it is willingly made.
But the words are one thing, their implications another. In many a Church, even
the most tradition-bound, there may yet be found Christians, as Bishop Kallistos
suggests below, for whom trinitarian teaching is 'an embarrassing complication,
unhelpful and irrelevant'. Thus many of them, 'for all their orthodox profession
of faith in the Trinity, are almost just "monotheist" in their actual religious
experience'. So suggests Karl Rahner; so also Bishop Kallistos, who quotes him.
This may lead them in various directions. An increased emphasis on the humanity
of Christ may lead to a near-Arian understanding of his person; or a commitment
to Pentecostalism may involve a disproportionate emphasis on the role of the Holy
Spirit. In either case, that dynamic unity in diversity of which so eloquent a symbol
is provided in Rublev's early-fifteenth-century icon (page 17) is challenged or ignored.
But it should not be ignored, since central to the faith. By the same token, neither
should challenges to it be treated merely as an academic matter. The exploration
of such questions necessarily concerns the specialist. But the mystery he or she
explores relates to the spiritual stability and salvation of all. For those whose bap
tism and prayers are performed in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
the question 'am I just a monotheist after all?' deserves a rigorous response.
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ELIZABETH BRIERE, SEBASTIAN BROCK,
ROBERT MURRAY and KALUSTOS WARE

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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Ordination and Vocation
Tears and Fire: recovering a neglected tradition
The American YMCA and the Russian
emigration
The Church of Macedonia: 'limited autocephaly' or schism?
POEM
Meteora manasteries of the air
REPORTS
The Panorthodox Preconciliar Conference of 1986
Week of Profound Unity': The general
assembly of Syndesmos
The St Theosevia Centre
Lay Academy in Finland
REVIEWS
The Study of Spirituality edited by Cheslyn
Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright and Edward
Yarnold
The World of the Desert Fathers: Stories and
Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the
Apopthegmata patrum by Columbia Stewart
OSB. L'vangile au dsert: origines et developpment de la spiritualit monastique by Placide
Deseille
Death and Resurrection by J.E. McW. Dewart.
The Eucharist by D.T. Sheerin
Being as Communion. Studies in Personhood
and the Church by John D. Zizioulas
Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A Concise
Exposition
/ aghii ton Vretanikon Nison by Bishop
Christophoros Kommodatos
Les dialogues oecumniques hier et aujourd'hui
edited by D, Theraios et al

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H.J.M. Turner
Maggie Ross

6
14

Donald E. Davies

24

Stevan K. Pavlowitch

42

Heather Buck

60

Philippe Sabant

62

Elizabeth Briere
A.M. Allchin
Elizabeth Briere

67 71

Norman Russell

72

Norman Russell

75

Gerald Bray

11

Paul McPartlan

78

Mark Stokoe

81

Norman Russell

82

Gerald Bray

83

Sviashch. Anatolii Zhurakovskii: Materialy k


zhitiiu

R.M. Price

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84

Editorial

87

COMMENT
'Towards a fuller vision'

A.M. Allchin

90

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Report

Elizabeth Briere

92

Fellowship Conference 1986

Elizabeth Briere

95

For your Diary

100

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

101

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Dr John Mott, Mother Maria Skobtsova, Metropolitan Evlogii

31

2 The cover of the journal Put'

37

3 St Clement of Ohrid

49

4 Patriarch German and Archbishop Angelarij

53

5 Meteora

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6 Christos Yannaras at the Fellowship conference

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It is not as if Sobornost/ECR deliberately avoids contentious issues. But it so happens


that this issue (some may breathe a sigh of relief) devotes no more than one foot
note to the ordination of women in the Church of England. The footnote it
belongs to the article on Ordination and vocation' is important enough to open
up a new dimension in the unhappy inter-Anglican debate, where sociological or
psychological answers have too often been proffered in preference to, or in ignorance
of, such as are properly speaking theological.
The principle of Anglican comprehensiveness has been brought into play in order
to validate yet another step in the direction of a female priesthood. And within the
Anglican Communion it is a principle which clearly has its part to play. But com
prehensiveness inevitably also has its side effects. The more a ship takes on board,
the greater the displacement of the waters which surround it. Among those who
are displaced are the Orthodox.
In the Pendeli statement of 1978, the Orthodox members of the AnglicanOrthodox Joint Doctrinal Commission issued a firm warning that this would in
deed be so. They spoke of the likelihood of women's ordination as 'a disastrous
reverse for all our hopes of unity between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy' and, in
an appeal to the Lambeth Conference of that year, entreated Anglicans 'not to pro
ceed further' with it. It was, after all, no minor modification of discipline that was in
volved. Were not Christians today, no less than previously, 'bound to remain faithful
to the example of our Lord, to the testimony of Scripture, and to the constant,
unvarying practice of the Church for two thousand years'?
Even if reason, rather than tradition should be the determining factor in such
matters (as at least one Anglican bishop has urged), can such weighty considera
tions be simply swept aside? Our lonely footnote gives notice of a debate within
the Fellowship which has hardly begun.
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Contents
EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
The Church of the Councils: the 'onslaught of the
intellect' and the potential of doubt
+ Anthony of
Sourozh
The priesthood of the baptised: some Syriac
perspectives
Sebastian Brock
Towards reconciliation: a report on the Anglican
Church by a Russian priest (1865)
Iosif Vasil'ev

23

POEM
Icon

Heather Buck

41

OBITUARY
Basil Minchin 1910-87

+ Oliver Tomkins

42

Thomas Fitzgerald

46
48

Nicholas Gendle

53

Norman Russell

55

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

57
58

Martin Corner

59

Michael Fortounatto

61

REPORTS
An
Orthodox-Catholic
Apostolicity
The Agreed Statement

Statement

14

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REVIEWS
Icon and Logos tr. D.J. Sahas
Pioneer for Unity: Metrophanes Kritopoulos
(1589-1639) by Colin Davey
glise d'glises: l'cclsiologie de communion
by J.M.R. Tillard
Church, Kingdom, Word ed. G. Limouris . . . .
Dostoevsky's Critique of the West by Bruce K.
Ward
The Russian Orthodox Church, A Contemporary
History by Jane Ellis
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COMMENT ON A COMMENT
'Towards a Fuller Vision'

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Gerald Bray

67

Editorial

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes

Elizabeth Briere

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FOR YOUR DIARY

71

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

72

ILLUSTRATIONS
The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787)
The Creation of Adam

11
17

Basil Minchin

44

It is not easy to translate the term 'comprehensiveness' into another language. In


deed, not every dictionary offers even a translation into non-Anglican English. The
meaning often has to be deduced from the related adjective 'comprehensive'. 'Of
broad scope or content' suggests Collins: 'Including all or much'.
But if 'all or much' is to be included from all the various yet Anglican positions,
what is to be excluded? The problem is rendered all the more- acute when tradi
tional English qualities like tolerance are invoked, inciting generous (in this con
text 'charitable') acceptance of the other's point of view.
Thus the General Synod of the Church of England avoids a firm decision on ques
tions of sexual morality (November 1987). Yet when an eminent bishop writes to
the Church Times from his retirement to express his regret at the Synod's mismanage
ment of 'a matter of such grave concern' he chooses to speak of its 'somewhat am
bivalent attitude' to it. The 'somewhat' is itself ambivalent, and part of the pro
blem to which the writer draws attention.
Things were not altogether different in 1864. Poor Iosif Vasil'ev, a Russian priest
on his first visit to England, was thoroughly bemused by what he called 'the confu
sion and lack of clarity of Anglican belief. 'The opinions and thought of Anglican
theologians above all suffer from a lack of firm foundations', he reported to his
superiors, 'and this deficiency leads to weakness and arbitrariness in their conclu
sions'. Yet he visited Pusey, Liddon and Bright.
Vasil'ev's account (which is printed below) deserves to be pondered, and not only
as a comment on the past. Comprehensiveness, as members of the Fellowship know
well, can claim to have its positive, even its glorious aspect. However, another aspect
of its adjectival cousin comes to mind. In the context of insurance 'comprehensive'
means 'protection against most risks'. Yet 'protection against most risks' is hardly
what a Church should seek, either for its own well-being or the sake of fellowship
with others.
Happily, another of our texts {Reports) speaks of 'fearless confession of the
apostolic faith 'in season and out of season'. And here there is no question of the
confession suffering from ambivalence, still less the faith.

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ROBERT MURRAY and KALLISTOS WARE

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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Protection, autonomy and reform: the Russian
Orthodox Church 1905-29
The icon and the image of Christ: the second
Council of Nicaea and Byzantine tradition . . .
Icons in music? Two works by Tavener
Word as icon in Greek patristic theology
OBITUARY
Kliment Naumov (1905-88)

Sergei Hackel

Martin Corner

Christopher Walter
Ivan Moody
Verna E.F. Harrison

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34
38

Methodie Kusseff

50

Stephen Medcalf

52

REVIEWS
Lancelot Andrewes, le prdicateur
by Nicholas Lossky
The Life of St Irene
edited by J.O. Rosenquist
The Rape of Man and Nature
by Philip Sherrard

Mary Cunningham

57

Andrew Sherwood

59

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Conference of 1987
Secretary's Notes

Valerie Karras
Elizabeth Briere

63
66

ILLUSTRATIONS
Patriarch Tikhon (1865-1925) after his release from prison

17

'Wondrous Nikephorus', patriarch of Constantinople, indicates a


clipeate image of Christ (Khludov Psalter)

25

David prophesies the coming of Christ (Khludov Psalter)

27

St Spyridon at prayer before an icon of Christ (Barberini Psalter)


The Holy Face (Kato Leukara, Cyprus)

29
31

'Ikon of Light' by John Tavener, the Opening page: two kinds of


silence
The writings of the Fathers: the library of the Mechitarists (Vienna)

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Editorial
This number of our journal straddles two anniversaries. It reflects last year's commemmoration of of the seventh ecumenical council (787), and the Fellowship con
ference devoted to it. But it also forestalls the Fellowship conference of 1988, which
is devoted to the millennium of Christianity in Russia and related lands. So we have
three articles concerning the first, as yet only one concerning the other.
Neither commemmoration is merely academic. The council of 787 confirmed the
use of icons as orthodox. Their use remains orthodox to this day, and not only
in the estimation of the Orthodox Church. Any new consideration of the role
assigned to icons in the history of Christian liturgy and thought thus involves a
reappraisal of present practices and attitudes as well. It was appropriate for Basil
Minchin to use the present participle in the title of his last publication, Praying
with ikons more active and more personal it is than 'prayer'.
The Russian millennium has also had its practical application, and to a degree
that noone could have expected when preparations for it first began. Then it was
feared that it would result in idle pomp and circumstance, and not simply in the
interests of the Church. In the event, pomp and circumstance were peripheralised
by the vigour and integrity of that which undergirded the proceedings. In particular,
the recent council of the Russian Orthodox Church revealed a keen appreciation
of the tasks ahead, and approved appropriate new structures for them to be faced
responsibly at every level of church life. Many of these tasks are administrative,
some political. But all could be and should be and let it be said in faith shall be
subsumed under the general heading 'iconic'. For in the words of St Paul, 'we all,
with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into
the same image from glory to glory'.
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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Millennium greetings
Same homeland, different future
'People so beset with saints': Anglican attitudes to
Orthodoxy 1555-1725
Ecumenism and the need for vision
Michael Ramsey and the beatific vision
Michael Ramsey and the Orthodox world
The Mother of God in early Byzantine homilies
POEM
Knots

Sergei Hackel

+ Robert Runcie
Kirill Golovin

6
12

Christopher Knight
+John Zizioulas
Owen Chadwick
A.M. Allchin
Mary Cunningham

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37
44
49
53

Maggie Ross

68

Francis House

69

REPORT
Pilgrimage to Russia: an Anglican's impressions
REVIEWS

73

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79

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Secretary's Notes
The Fellowship Conference of 1988

Elizabeth Briere
Michael Gunton
Elizabeth Wayne

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FOR YOUR DIARY

87

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

88

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Millennium procession in a Russian village

10-11

2 Blessing of the waters: a millennium celebration


3 The meeting of two worlds: Moscow in the seven
teenth century

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29

4 Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury 19615 The Mother of God: Sinai icon of the
sixth century
6 The vision of Andras the Fool: Suzdal cathedral
gates, thirteenth century

Editorial
The Russian millennial celebrations were planned in the early 1980s, and in cir
cumstances which differed radically from those which came to prevail in 1988. Even
then they were intended to be something spectacular, a demonstration to the out
side world that 'freedom of religion' was part and parcel of the soviet way of life.
In pondering the question of whether to accept invitations, potential guests (or rather,
those potential guests with a sense of responsibility for the life of Russian Chris
tians not all potential guests, by any means) might have looked on those inverted
commas in one of two ways.
Some may have thought that they were too prominent for them to accept invita
tions in case they might thus seem to approve and confirm the facades and limita
tions of the day. Yet others might have been moved to accept the invitations in
case this might, to however modest a degree, help to erode the facades and reduce
the limitations. But no one could have expected the inverted commas themselves
to be challenged in so forceful'a fashion as proved to be the case.
And so, by the summer of 1988, the burdensome and untoward expenses of the
day began to seem less inappropriate at least to the extent that something tangible
and lasting was emerging from it all. Tangible, since here were new church buildings,
institutions and activities. Lasting, since here already were excellent new statutes
of the Church which seemed to undergird them, as well as promise of revised state
legislation which in turn would undergird the undergirding.
It would be tempting to explain all this in social and political terms, and to align
it all with perestroka. Indeed, many a Russian church leader has already done so,
and in all sincerity. But this kind of reasoning also brings in its train the question,
'will it last?'; as if the Church lives entirely at the behest of the Constantines or
Gorbachevs of the moment.
It hardly needs to be emphasised that the current perestroka, with all its pro
mise, is hardly three years old. By contrast, an earlier perestroka, initiated in the
days of St Vladimir, has a richer pedigree and more profound potential.
Of course, no pedigree or potential is to the point unless responsibly exploited.
Even so, 'will it last?' is hardly the appropriate question when, at the end of this
millennium, the Church has demonstrably and wondrously weathered the most con
certed efforts ever mounted to diminish and destroy her.
The millennial celebrations will undoubtedly fade into the background soon, as
Kirill Golovin notes in his article below. But the Church which was their subject
has no end. And this regardless of how 'freedom of religion' is described.

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ROBERT MURRAY and KALLISTOS WARE

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Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

+ Robert Runcie

Christopher Knight

18

Elizabeth Briere
Myroslaw Tataryn

31
41

A.M. Allchin

53

Ephrem of Syria
Daniel M. Rogich

65
69

REPORTS
The St Ephrem Ecumenical Centre
Peace with justice (Basel 1989)
Ecumenical Institute Graduate School, 1988-9..

Sebastian Brock
John Arnold
Elizabeth Briere

82
85
88

OBITUARY
Miloje Nikolich (1910-89)

Zaga Gavrilovic

94

John Chryssavgis

96

ARTICLES
Reflections on the millennium of the baptism of
Kievan Rus'
'Had the Czar not died': Peter the Great and
the nonjurors
Creation, incarnation and transfiguration:
material creation and our understanding of it
The Eastern tradition and the cosmos
Danish spirituality and the role of three great
feasts
marriage for all eternity': the consecration
of a Syrian bride of Christ
St Sava on Athos: his monastic rule .. :

REVIEWS
Monk Moses, Oi engamoi aghio tis Ekklesias ..
Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East
and West
Claude Slis, Les Syriens orthodoxes et
catholiques
Catachse orthodoxe: Vocabulaire thologique
and Le Credo
H.-G. Link, One God, One Lord, One Spirit ..
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Le ministre de la femme
dans l'glise
Un moine de l'Eglise d'Orient, L'an de grce
du Seigneur

Ephrem (Lash)

102

Sebastian Brock

105

Barnabas (Burton)
Gerald Bray

106
107

Mary Cunningham

109

Barnabas (Burton)

111

A. Borrely and M. Eutizi, L'Oecumnisme


spirituel
T.F. Best, d., Instruments of Unity
Robert Morgan, The Religion of the
Incarnation
Jan Milk Lochman, Christ and Prometheus? ..
Freda Collins, Words of Wisdom from Fr
Gilbert Shaw
Eugne Troubetzkoi, Trois tudes sur l'icne ..
John Baggley, Doors of perception icons
and their spiritual significance

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

112
113

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

114
115

Martin Reith
Jill Storer

117
117

Jill Storer

120

BOOKS RECEIVED

125

SECRETARY'S NOTES

128

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

134

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The actual poverty of the Church: the
congregation at the church
2 The congregation at Sverdlovsk
3 Thomas Brett (1667-1743): engraving of a
portrait by Ch de Lasfontaine
4 The Transfiguration: Byzantine miniature
mosaic, twelfth-thirteenth century, Louvre
5 Adam names the animals: engraved gates of
Suzdal' Cathedral, c.1227-37

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Editorial
It is an idyllic scene, that of our illustration, 'Adam names the animals'. Like any
idyll, it brings sharp reminders of departures from it. We see it as paradise iost.
But paradise lost is nowadays not always what it was. Too often is it overshadowed
by such concepts as 'ecological disaster'. And it is this which helps to define that
'catastrophic crisis' to which John Arnold refers in his account of this summer's
ecumenical assembly at Basel.
All the more timely may be our two papers on the subject of 'material creation
and our understanding of it'. For least of all should our understanding involve nearpagan veneration of creation, 'mother-earth' itself. Admittedly, so seemingly in
spired an elder as Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov was once not far removed
from such an attitude as this, nor are various kinds of greens. But (as Myroslaw
Tataryn urges) the views of Damascene are to be preferred. It was not matter that
he worshipped: rather 'the creator of matter, who became matter for my sake'.
On, therefore, from that all-too-familiar phrase 'integrity of creation', a phrase
which 'seems to have appeared out of nowhere in the World Council of Churches
vocabulary and with very little thought of its theological implications' (as Elizabeth
Briere points out): on to a comprehensive and a trinitarian understanding of it.
In its absence, the recent BCC/WWF conference on Christian faith and ecology
at Canterbury could allow a four-day-long discussion of the world and all that therein
is to pass without a single obvious reference to the Holy Spirit. Yet green (Rublev
would tell us) was once the colour which referred to Him.
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45

6 John of Damascus and Ephrem of Syria:


fourteenth-century icon, Sinai

64

7 The Karejski Tipik: concluding lines,


including signature and seal

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in Gregory
Nazianzen and John Calvin
Radical honesty about the self: the practice of the
desert fathers
care-free and painless existence'? Observations
of St Symeon the New Theologian on the monastic
life
A neglected manual of the spiritual life: the
Synagoge of Paul Evergetinos
OBITUARY
David Balfour
REPORTS
The Christian and the world
'Church and Culture': Orthodox women's meeting
in Crete (1990)
Joint commission for dialogue between the
Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches:
agreed statement
Convergence in christology:
Amba Bishoi 1990
Agreed statement on Conciliarity and Primacy in
the Church
REVIEWS
A.M. Allchin, d., Heart of Compassion
Sebastian Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, tr.,
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient

Sergei Hackel

Thomas F. Torrance

Columba Stewart

25

H.J.M. Turner

40

Gregory Collins

47

+ Kallistos
of Diokleia

52

Study group, diocese


of Sourozh

62

Elizabeth Theokritoff

72
78

William Taylor

80

Thomas Fitzgerald

84

Robert Murray

90

Robert Murray

91

Sebastian Brock, tr., The Syrian Fathers on Prayer


and the Spiritual Life
Henry Hill, d., A Symposium on the Oriental
Orthodox and Assyrian Churches
Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist: Sacrament
of the Kingdom
Hugh Wybrew, The Orthodox Liturgy
John Breck, The Power of the Word in the
Worshiping Church

Philip Sherrard

93

Martin Parmentier

94

W. Jardine Grisbrooke
Ephrem Lash

95
98

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BOOKS RECEIVED
SECRETARY'S NOTES
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 St Gregory the Theologian: Kievan mosaic
(1043-6)
2 John Calvin: contemporary portrait
3 The Holy Trinity: a Russian panaghia
(fifteenth century)
4 John Calvin: sketch by Jacques Bourgoin
5 St Antony of Egypt: icon by Michael
Damaskinos of Crete (sixteenth century)
6 Elders and disciples: detail from 'The death
of St Ephraim of Syria' by Emmanuel
Tzanphournaris of Crete (sixteenth century)
7 David Balfour (1903-89)

102
107

Elizabeth Theokritoff

110
121

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Editorial
It is a depressingly dull phrase, 'agreed statement'. Yet without the earnest, timeconsuming labour which produces utterances of that kind, participants in the
ecumenical movement could well be floundering in rhetoric which is outdated, illfocused and, what is worse, ill-founded.
Such was, indeed, the situation which perpetuated the estrangement and mutual
condemnation of 'Eastern' and 'Oriental' Orthodox Churches until the common
sense and charity and skill of some dedicated modern pioneers began to treat the
accumulated inhibitions and frustrations of past ages as something like a sacred
log-jam: formidable, yes, but at the same time finite. In a matter of decades, water
was once more flowing freely where, for a millennium and a half, stagnation had
prevailed.
Nor is this the only log-jam to which attention has been paid in recent years.
Our section of Reports points to progress in several other, and at times related,
areas. In each and every case the point is underlined: nothing is achieved by cutting
corners. Statements which have been agreed simply because they are vapid, vain
or platitudinous will hardly bring new vigour to depleted currents.
Such has been the realisation of serious ecumenists throughout the disputations,
the dialogues and the discoveries of modern times. Such should be the realisation
also of those who, in the Fellowship, contribute in their own way to the formula
tion and, equally important, to the application, of statements which will have been
authentically, hence lovingly, agreed.

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KALLISTOS WARE, with the Fellowship's Secretary

Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

129

Sebastian Brock

131

ARTICLES
Humanity and the natural world in the Syriac
tradition
Radical honesty about the self: the tradition of the
desert fathers and their heirs
'Clerical liberalism' in the Russian Orthodox
Church: the failure of reform

Columba Stewart

143

Lewis Shaw

157

POETRY
'And he said unto them, It is enough'

Sergei Averintsev

166

OBITUARIES
Joseph Gill (1901-89)
Mary Scott (1920-89)

Robert Murray
Robert Murray

168
170

John McGuckin

172

/;'// Storer

\1A

+ Peter of New York

180

John Binns

182

Dietrich Schuld
Sheila Gordon-Duff

184
185

REVIEWS
The Forgotten Trinity
Genadios Limouris, d., Icons: Windows on
eternity
Roman Cholij, Clerical Celibacy in East and
West
Lawrence Cross, Eastern Christianity: the
Byzantine Tradition
Urs von Arx, d., Koinonia auf Altkirchlicher
Basis
Martin Reith, d., God in our midst
R. CD. Jasper, The Development of the Anglican
Liturgy 1662-1980
Lev Gillet, Encounter at the Well

W. Jardine Grisbrooke 186


Deborah Honor
188

190

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
Secretary's Notes
St Basil's House
Conference 1990
OUR CONTRIBUTORS

193
Elizabeth Theokntoff
^
Sampson
97
Mendel Sophia Holland 198

Brian

206

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Adam names the animals: damascene panel,
thirteenth century (Suzdal)
2 St Isaac of Syria: fifteenth-century illumination
3 shepherd and his flock': eleventh-century
illumination
4 'Monks will have expectations of their superiors':
a miniature of the fifteenth century
5 Jesus in Gethsemane: the betrayal of Judas:
fresco, c.1200 (Cappadocia)

134
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147
150

Editorial
A Syrian-Orthodox bishop calls for a 'reverent-receptive' attitude to creation (p. 141).
His is an acceptable and increasingly familiar kind of call, involving not so much
a green as Christian an approach. And there are many who probably prefer such
terminology to the neologisms of the 'Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation' lobby
of the ecumenical movement; the more so, since tradition undergirds it.
Yet if traditional, it can also be unduly comfortable, unchallenging and safe.
However vital such a concept, complacency may lurk around the corner. The most
sacred of formulations may be stifled or nullified by those who seek to offer them,
or think they offer them, respect. Thus the very preservation of tradition may in
volve its degradation. It was an old man of the Egyptian desert who said (p. 145),
The prophets wrote books, then came our fathers who put them into practice.
Those who came after them learnt them by heart. [But] then came the present
generation, who have written them out and put them into their window seats
without using them.

167

It is not that any generation is deprived of opportunities to bring those precepts


into play. As with the Sinaite monks of the illustration on page 147, all are equally
faced with the teaching of the Church. Here, one greets it eagerly and, literally,
with open arms. Another is more tentative in his acceptance of it. A third ponders
it carefully, perhaps with reservations in his mind. By contrast, a fourth expects
his revelations altogether from elsewhere. Least of all can he be numbered with
the reverent-receptive. Yet his window seat is no doubt littered with prophetic scrolls,
and his reputation as a guardian of tradition hardly challenged.
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KALLISTOS WARE and HUGH WYBREW
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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The spirituality of the Philokalia
The ordination of women: an ecumenical
problem
Theodore of Tarsus: a Greek archbishop of
Canterbury

Sergei Hackel

+Kallistos of Diokleia

Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

25

Benedicta Ward

41

POEM
Meditation on St Cedd

Heather Buck

54

OBITUARIES
Aleksandr Men' (1935-90)
John Alexander Ramsbotham (1906-89)
John Gordon Davies (1919-90)

Sergei Hackel
Francis House
Walter Hollenweger

56
59
60

REPORTS
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue
John Wesley and Eastern Orthodoxy

Hugh Wybrew
A.M. Allchin

63
65

John McGuckin

68

Robert Murray

69

REVIEWS
John Meyendorff, Imperial Unity and Christian
Divisions
Sebastian Brock, tr., A Garland of Hymns from the
Early Church
Ronnie Bowman Thurston, The Widows. A
Women's Ministry in the Early Church
Gennadios Limouris, d., Justice, Peace and the
Integrity of Creation
Krister Stendhal, Energy for Life
Let the Spirit Speak to the Churches
Emilio Castro, d., To the Wind of God's Spirit
Emilio Castro, d., The Ecumenical Review 41:3

M. Cunningham Corran 71
Robert Murray

72

Gerald Bray

73

Martin van Elderen, Introducing the World Council


of Churches
Christopher Ellis, Together on the Way
R.D. Hacking, Such a Long Journey

Editorial
Gerald Bray
+ Oliver Tomkins

75
76

BOOKS RECEIVED

78

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

80

The General Secretary's Report


OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Dietrich Schuld

80
83

ILLUSTRATIONS
1 St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, 1819
2 The Philokalia, title page of the first edition, 1782
3 The face of Eve (Kariye Djami), c. 1315-21
4 King Hlothere's charter, 679
5 The Rothwell Cross, c.700
6 The pagan threat: viking invaders on a
Lindisfarne stone, c. eighth century
7 Aleksandr Men' (1935-90)

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The publication of yet another Lev Gillet memorial lecture (pp.6-24) cannot but
confront us with the memory of their venerable and enigmatic dedicatee: all the
more so, since the introduction to the lecture so effectively evokes his manner and
his message. Almost imperceptively, the same Fr Lev surfaces also in another of
our papers (p.35). In either case he is acknowledged as a formative influence, 'a
master of the spiritual life'.
It was Fr Lev1s very unobtrusiveness which made him so impressive a com
municator of the truths he cherished. He was at his best in such gatherings of 'not
more than a dozen altogether' to which Bishop Kallistos refers (p.6). Here too were
tested and refined those utterances which later penetrated to the printed page. It
is often forgotten that many of them must have been generated in the stillness of
the chapel at St Basil's House or the related silence of the shabby basement cell
below. Yet these were the settings which the Fellowship provided for him over many
a decade, and to his dying day. In every sense was it a good thing for the Fellowship
to do.
Never since has there been a regular, let alone a resident Orthodox chaplain at
the house. Nor would he choose to occupy the basement cell, were he to act as Fr
Lev's successor. In any case, the cell itself has now been set aside for non-Fellowship
use.
But in a busier and possibly more business-like period of our corporate life, Fr
Lev's approach to things all the more deserves to be remembered. The unassuming
gatherings of his day, rooted in his silence as they were, offered spiritual and
ecumenical perspectives which then created and, it must be hoped, could still main
tain that which was given with due consideration, faith and hope the designa
tion 'Fellowship': itself an unassuming title, yet a challenge for us all.
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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Symbiosis and sobornost: the ECR Trust and the
Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
Bulgakov and sophiology
Satan and the sinful women: a dialogue poem
from the Syriac Churches

Robert Murray
Aidan Nichols

6
17

Sebastian Brock

33

REPORTS
The Eastern Catholic Churches and Ecumenism
Hugh Wybrew
Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue: a report and its
recommendations (1991)
A comment on the joint report
Serge Keleher
Syndesmos consultation on cooperation between
Orthodox and Oriental youth movements ( 1991 )
REVIEWS
Sebastian Brock, intr. and tr Hymns on Paradise
by St Ephrem the Syrian
Andrew Palmer, Monk and Mason on the Tigris
Frontier
Pierre Yousif, d., A Classified Bibliography on
the East Syrian Liturgy
Rosemary Morris, d., Church and People
in Byzantium
Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevfenko, d.,
Proceedings of the International Congress
Commemorating the Millennium of Christianity
in Rus'-Ukraine
L'Icne dans la thologie et l'art
Martin Dudley and Geoffrey Rowell, Confession
and Absolution
Joseph Areeplackal, Spirit and Ministries

46
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55
65

Susan Ashbrook Harvey 68


David G K Taylor

70

Sebastian Brock

72

Ken Parry

73

Sergei Hackel
Gerald Bray

76
77

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

78
79

Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry 1982-1990


Church and World: The Unity of the Church and
the Renewal of Human Community
The Ecumenical Future and the WCC
Gerald Bray
H.J.M. Turner, Ordination and Vocation
Gerald Bray
George Lemopoulos, d., Your will be done
Orthodoxy in Mission
Elizabeth Theokritoff
D. Preman Niles, Resisting the threats to life:
Covenanting for Justice, Peace and the
Integrity of Creation
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Lon Tretjakewitsch, Bishop Michel d'Herbigny SJ
and Russia
Gerald Bray
Ronald G. Roberson, The Eastern
Christian Churches
Didier Ranee, Chrtiens du Moyen-Orient
Sebastian Brock

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81

83
84

87
90

93

BOOKS RECEIVED

95

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS

98

The Fellowship Conference 1991

Helen Brock

98

The Chairman's notes

John Binns

103

OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS

106

Ariccia? Hardly a byword for ecumenical initiatives or blueprints. No atlas of the


Christian world will bother with the place, nor hardly any gazeteer. Yet suddenly
it swims into our ken, for there it is, appended in bold letters to the document on
uniatism which was produced there in the summer and is due to be submitted to
its sponsoring body, the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue commission, when it meets
in June (1992). This document's very subject matter 'Uniatism as a method of
union' once had power to delay and distract the dialogue itself. All the more
welcome are the sobriety, balance and eirenic spirit which distinguish the report,
a working draft, and could make of it a landmark in the troubled history of
Orthodox-Uniate encounters (too often a euphemism for conflicts) both of the dis
tant past and of the urgent present. It is a past which was discussed at Chevetogne
in September, as one of our reports recounts. More important, it is indeed an urgent
present, as an extended commentary on the Ariccia document makes plain (given,
with the document itself, below).
Neither past nor present failures can be rectified by any sort of fiat. Rather is
there a need 'to re-establish genuine fraternal love and mutual trust'. For 'only the
dialogue of love can overcome the obstacles which seem unsurmountable'. Hence
the importance of Ariccia in formulating the need and in proceeding boldly with
proposals for its resolution.
Not that one swallow makes a summer. Yet a clement summer would be even
further off for lack of such a harbinger as is provided here. So may the day soon
come when any self-respecting atlas of the Christian world will proudly print
ARICCIA, and even take its date for granted.

1. Dom Bede Winslow, 1944


2. The Hammersmith Christian Unity Conference,
1965
3. Bulgakov and Florensky c. 1917
4. Bulgakov at the Fellowship Conference of 193 7
5. Mary Magdalen anoints the Saviour
(12th century illumination)

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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Orthodox arguments against the ordination of
women as priests
The Holy Spirit, beauty and transfiguration . . .
St Gregory the Theologian: three principles of
spiritual direction

Verna E.F. Harrison


Patrick Sherry

6
25

Thomas Fitzgerald

44

POEM
Homage to Saint Hubert

Robert Murray

54

OBITUARY
Patriarch Dimitrios of Constantinople (1914-91)

+Kallistos of Diokleia

58

REPORTS
The election of the new ecumenical patriarch ..
Faith in Lebanon: present crisis and future hope
The Churches in Jerusalem
The Christiana project

+ Kallistos of Diokleia
Alan Amos
Hugh Wybrew
Ian Bates/Bede Pearce

63
65
74
84

John McGuckin

85

Elizabeth Theokritoff
Hugh Wybrew
Gordon Kendal
Philip Sherrard

86
89
91
92

Juliet du Bouley

94
96
96
96

REVIEWS
E. Ferguson, d., The Encyclopedia of Early
Christianity
Johanna Manley, The Bible and the Holy
Fathers for Orthodox
P. W.L. Walker, Holy City, Holy Places?
Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus: The Enneads . . .
Andrew Louth, The Wilderness of God
Graeme Ferguson and John Chryssavgis, d.,
The Desert is Alive. Dimensions of Australian
Spirituality
Michael Kinnamon, d., Signs of the Spirit . . .
In Spirit and in Truth
Confessing the One Faith

Konrad Reiser, Ecumenism in Transition


C. Williams, d., The Letters of Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism
Dana Green, Artist of the Infinite Life
Ion Bria, The Sense of Ecumenical Tradition ..
Directories of the Orthodox Parishes and Clergy
in the British Isles

Gerald Bray

97
97
97

Gerald Bray
Gerald Bray

97
98

Donal Savage

99
102

BOOKS RECEIVED
FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
The Acting General Secretary's Report

Editonal

Donal Savage

107
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 The Mother of God 'of tenderness', fourteenth-century mosaic
2 Maria Orans, twelfth-century mosaic, Ravenna
3 The descent of the Holy Spirit, icon of the Novgorod school,
sixteenth century
4 St Gregory the Theologian, detail of a fifteenth-century icon,
Pskov school
5 The apparition of the stag to Eustace [Hubert], stained glass, Chartres
6 Patriarch Dimitrios of Constantinople (1914-91)
7 Russian pilgrims on the approaches to Jerusalem c.1911

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During the long years of communist rule, ecumenism in the 'socialist' world was
too often tolerated, if not promoted, by the state for reasons of its own. In this
peculiar field the powers that were could hope to use the eloquence and gravitas
of churchmen in order to gain credence for various foreign policy concerns. The
churchmen selected for this work sought to persuade themselves that such a price
as this was well worth paying so that the surviving institutions of the Church could
be safeguarded. At the very least, here was a quid pro quo. But more than that,
if offered opportunities for dialogue with fellow-Christians. And dialogue, authentic
in itself, might surely justify an enterprise like this.
The ecumenists in question were not necessarily typical of their Church, nor were
they required to be so. Rather was ecumenism at a discount in the Orthodox milieu
at large (an obvious, though by no means isolated example). Not only did state
backing make it suspect. There was also simply lack of understanding of its largely
western principles and practice, not to mention ignorance as such.
In the post-communist world, the marked increase of friction between the various
major Churches of Eastern Europe must be related, at least in part, to the paucity
of precedents in fellowship and dialogue between divided Christians in situ and at
the grass-roots level. For westerners (Orthodox not least), who take such fellowship
and dialogue for granted, it is difficult to comprehend how fraught the situation
is. Others (who are rigorists and there are Orthodox among them too) feel
prompted by it to reflect that ecumenism could never be the answer to any of the
present problems since it itself involves relativisation of the truth and therefore sin.
Theirs are not principles on which the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius has
based its life over these sixty years or so. Its resources now are limited, as they always
were. But chief among them are the fruits of prayerful meditation and experience
in the field of dialogue between divided Christians. These it can offer to those who
were prevented from generating or from tasting them till now. In so doing it will
have to reach across frontiers which are only partly political. The most profound
of borders is created by a time-lag. And this can be breached and nullified only
in patience, humility and love.
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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Praying with the body: the hesychast method and
some non-Christian parallels
St Bernard of Clairvaux and the tradition of the
Christian East

+Kallistos of Diokleia

G.L.C. Frank

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POEM
The Lintel

Heather Buck

49

REPORTS
Documents on the conflict in former Yugoslavia
Syndesmos Fourteenth General Assembly 1992

Christos B. Christakis

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58

Mary Cunningham
Corran

61

/ . McGuckin

63

Verna Harrison
Mary Cunningham
Corran

64

Ken Parry

68

Ken Parry

70

Bryan D. Spinks
Bryan D. Spinks

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REVIEWS
/. McManners, d., The The Oxford Illustrated
History of Christianity
S.G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early
Church
Ben Witherington III, Women in the Earliest
Churches
A.P. Kazhdan et al, d., The Oxford Dictionary
of Byzantium
Jaroslav Pelikan, Imago Dei: the Byzantine
Apologia for Icons
Mary Cunningham, ed. and tr., The Life of
Michael the Synkellos
Thomas M. Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the
Catechumenate: West and East Syria
Pauly Kannookadan, The East Syrian Lectionary

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Mari
Gatan Baillargeon, Perspectives orthodoxes
sur l'Eglise-Communion. L'oeuvre de Jean
Zizioulas
Aram Keshishian, Conciliar Fellowship: A
Common Goal
Ernst C. Suttner, Church Unity: Union or
Uniatism?
Anthony Duncan, The Mind of Christ: Meditations
on Christian Themes
Sister Magdalen, Children in the Church Today:
An Orthodox Perspective
Duane W.-H. Arnold, The Early Episcopal Career
of Athanasius of Alexandria

Bryan D. Spinks

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Gerald Bray

75

Gerald Bray

76

Gerald Bray

77

Gerald Bray
Mary Cunningham
Corran

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Richard Price

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
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Gordon Kendal

The General Secretary's Report

Gordon Kendal

OUR CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Title page of The way of a Pilgrim (1930)
2 A hesychast at prayer (twelfth-century
miniature)
3 Nikiphoros the Hesychast, fourteenthcentury manuscript of his On Guarding the
Heart
4 St Theophan the Recluse (nineteenth-century
engraving)
5 St Bernard sees a vision (altar piece, c. 1290)

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The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius in its time has prompted and pro
moted the publication of various books and pamphlets. These appeared under several
imprints, most commonly that of SPCK. But its own publications, apart from the
one which you hold in your hands (and the studies 'supplementary' to it), have been
few and far between.
All the more noteworthy was the Fellowship's publication of a pale-green paper
back in 1950, which was to be reprinted repeatedly in the years to come, and which
(having passed to other promoters after 1970) remains in print today. This was On
the Invocation of the Name of Jesus, the work of 'a Monk of the Eastern Church ',
whose anonymity was scrupulously safeguarded at the time. Nevertheless he marked
the foreword of February 1949 'St Basil's House'. Only later did it transpire that
this was indeed his permanent address. It was to remain so until his death in 1980.
The green paperback was one of several works which Fr Lev Gillet devoted to
the Jesus prayer, and it is thus appropriate that the current number of
Sobornost/ECR, appearing as it does in his centenary year, should be devoted largely
to this subject. No doubt he would have judged it doubly appropriate that Bishop
Kallistos's article should be matched by a study of St Bernard of Clairvaux since
the 'many generations of Western Christians' who practiced the invocation of the
holy Name, as he noted in his foreword, included none other than Bernard himself.
Hence there is no room for 'possessive' narrowly denominational treat
ment of the Jesus prayer. As Fr Lev insisted, its appeal is 'to all kinds of Christians
of both Eastern and Western traditions'. This could render it a token and, more
than this, a means for healing otherwise intractable divisions. For in the words of
Fr Lev (formerly a monk of the Western Church as well),
In pronouncing the Name of Jesus we inwardly meet all them that are united with
our Lord, all them of whom he said, 'Where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the midst of them'.
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Contents
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue: its past, its present
and its future
'The ordination of women: an ecumenical
problem': a reply to a reply
Athos after ten years: the good news and the bad
OBITUARIES
Oliver Stratford Tomkins (1908-92)
Peter Cowen (1942-93)
REPORTS
Orthodox-Catholic dialogue
The Benedictine abbey of St Alban
The Syrian Orthodox diocese of Jezirah and
Euphrates
REVIEWS
George Papademetriou, Essays in Orthodox
Christian-Jewish Relations
Michael P. Carroll, The Cult of the Virgin Mary:
Psychological Boundaries
Benedicta Ward, Signs and Wonders, Saints,
Miracles and Prayers
J. Durand et al., sa., Byzance: L'art byzantin dans
les collections publiques franaises
Pauline Allen and Cornells Datema, tr., Leontius,
Presbyter of Constantinople
J. Breck et al., ed, The Legacy of St Vladimir
David Daniel, The Orthodox Church of India:
History
Murad Saliba Barsom, tr., Anaphoras

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Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
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Mary Tanner
Alan Amos, Colin Davey
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Jane Kelsall

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Alan Amos

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Andrew J. Sopko

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Gerald Bray

61

Mary Cunningham Corran 62


Mary Cunningham Corran 65
Iain Torrance
Muriel Heppell

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Sebastian Brock
Sebastian Brock

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Columba Graham Flegg, 'Gathered under
Apostles', A Study of the Catholic Apostolic
Church
Carnegie Samuel Calian, Theology without
Boundaries
Joan L. Roccasalvo, The Eastern Catholic
Churches
Paul McPartlan, d., One in 2000? Towards
Catholic-Orthodox Unity
A Monk of the Eastern Church, Serve the Lord
with Gladness
Directory of Orthodox Parishes and Institutions in
North America

Editorial
Edwin Robertson

73

Gerald Bray

75

Gerald Bray

77

Edward Yarnold

78

John Chryssavgis

81

Elizabeth Theokritoff

83

BOOKS RECEIVED

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The General Secretary's report
Annual conference 1993

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Anglican-Orthodox dialogue: Odessa, 1983


Eucharist mosaic in St Sophia, Kiev
The balconies at Dionysiou, Athos (1936)
Athonite scenes by Rallis Kopsidis
The shrine of St Alban, restored and rehallowed

It is not often that a paper given at the Fellowship's annual conference could provoke
a reassessment of all that this Fellowship once seemed to support. Not that the paper
was intended to serve this function or perceived as serving it when it was first
presented. But now that it appears between the covers of our journal, its potential role
as catalyst is less easy to ignore.
Hugh Wybrew's statement on Anglican-Orthodox dialogue is not concerned directly
with the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. Indeed there is only one reference
to it in the whole text, and an indirect one at that. Nevertheless, here speaks its former
Secretary General, he also the former chairman of its council, while its conference
and its journal serve as the paper's first and most appropriate sounding boards.
All the more appropriate is it for the Fellowship to ponder Fr Hugh's conclusions
at a time like this, when it has other potent reasons to review its former life. For these
pages also carry the present Secretary General's rationale (now his council's also) for
a total transfer from St Basil's House of that which seemed so long to give the
Fellowship its cachet and its definition - 'a traumatic but positive move forward' this,
in the sixty fifth year of its existence.
Forward, let us hope, and only forward, whatever all our moves and readjustments.
Much as ecumenists may need to wean themselves of dated plans and aspirations, all
are personally diminished, rendered less complete, while age-long boundaries and
barriers continue to prevail unchecked. If indeed 'we ought to love our fellow
Christians', as Edward Yarnold notes below, then 'to be separated from them should
be pain'.
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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

+Kallistos of Diokleia

ARTICLES
Father Lev Gillet and the Fellowship
ofStAlban
and St Sergius
The 'Monk of the Eastern Church ' and the Jesus
prayer
Catholic-Orthodox relations: the need for love as
well as knowledge
'Holy Russia' and related problems

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Boris Bobrinskoy
Nikolai Balashov

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OBITUARIES
John Meyendorff (1926-92)
Eric Mascall (1905-93)

Dimitri Obolensky
Gerald Bray

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Eric Mascall

56

POEM
Ecumenism exemplified: Reminiscences
Anglo-Orthodox Summer-school

of an

REPORTS
'Continuity and renewal ': third academic meeting
between Orthodoxy and Judaism
REVIEWS
John Breck, The Spirit of Truth, vol.1
Thomas M. Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the
Catechumenate
Verna E. F. Harrison, Grace and Freedom
according to St Gregory ofNyssa
John R.K. Fenwick, The Anaphoras of St Basil
and St James
R.M. Price, tr., Lives of the Monks of Palestine...
Catia Galatariotou, The Making of a Saint. The
Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the
Recluse

60

John McGuckin

67

Bryan D. Spinks

68

R.M. Price

69

Bryan D. Spinks
Andrew Louth

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Andrew Louth

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K.P. Wesche, tr., On the Person of Christ: the
Christology of the Emperor Justinian
John Meyendorff, d., The Primacy of Peter
Philip Sherrard, Human Image: World Image-The
Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology ..
A. Heron, d., The Forgotten Trinity. 3. A
Selection of Papers presented to the BCC Study
Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine Today
Christine Hall, d., The Deacon's Ministry
E.L. Mascall, Saraband

John McGuckin
R.M. Price

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76

John Chryssavgis

78

John McGuckin
Teresa CSA
Gerald Bray

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Fr Lev Gillet at the Fellowship conference of
1929
2. The pilgrim 'with a special gift as friend and
spiritual guide to women ': Fr Lev Gillet in the
early 1930s
3. From the Foreword to On the Invocation of
the Name of Jesus (1950)
4. Pope Paul VI greets Patriarch Athenagoras in
the Vatican (1967)
5. Fr John Meyendorff at the time of his
retirement (1992)
6. Ruins of the 2nd-century synagogue at
Capernaum on the site of which Jesus often
taught

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It was a farewell visit, in its way, the visit which I paid in late October to Fr Lev
Gillet's old basement room in what will soon no longer be St Basil's House. Hardly
anything evoked the memory of Fr Lev. Only a stray copy of his On the Invocation
of the Name of Jesus, which had somehow found its way home, served as a
reminder that this was once the setting of the author's work and prayer.
And yet, despite itself, the room insistently conveyed the message, si monumentum
requiris, circumspice. Not that this meant looking round at things. As Bishop
Kallistos points out below, Fr Lev 'seemed to possess virtually nothing that he
could call his own'. Accordingly, there could not be any expectation that a
monument of his would be susceptible of measurement of height or breadth or
weight.
Rather is his monument located in the hearts and minds of those to whom he
ministered, of those to whom he spoke, of those (most numerous of all) who read
his publications and responded to them. This includes many a Fellowship member,
if not most. But it also includes countless individuals who never even knew that it
was Fr Lev who gave them guidance, so resolutely did he veil himself from view
as Monk of the Eastern Church'.
It is the centenary of his birth. Hence we naturally discuss some of his achieve
ments. In addition, and following in his footsteps, we reflect some of his interests
and concerns. There is an article on Catholic-Orthodox relations; a rumination on
the suspect, even anti-evangelical, piety of some Russian churchmen of the present
time; a report on dialogue between representatives of Judaism and Christian
Orthodoxy - the mere prospect of which would have delighted the author of
Communion in the Messiah (1942) (who else but Lev Gillet?).
So, with gratitude to Fr Lev, this issue also serves as part of the memorial.
It stands to gain considerably therefrom.

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1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU

Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Communion and otherness
The prayers of St Isaac the Syrian

+John (Zizioulas)
Sebastian Brock

SERMON
Bell's memorial: a Chichester sermon

Sergei Hackel

POETRY
Bronze Christ

Heather Buck

OBITUARIES
Dumitru Staniloae (1903-93)
Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896-1993)
REPORTS
Faith and Order pilgrims
Faith and Order at Santiago: 'Towards koinonia
infaith, life and witness'
Monastic encounters in Egypt and Ethiopia

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A.M. Allchin
Philip Steer

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Keith Clements

50

Nicholas Lossky
John Binns

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REVIEWS
John Wenham, Christ and the Bible
Gerald Bray
Marianne Dorman, d., The Liturgical Sermons of
LancelotAndrewes
Nicholas Lossky
David Gosling, New Earth: Covenanting for
Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation
D.P. Niles, d., Between the Flood and the
Rainbow: Interpreting the Conciliar Process
(Covenant) to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of
Creation
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Giinther Gassmann, d., Documentary History of
Faith and Order 1963-1993
Gerald Bray
Crawford Knox, Changing Christian Paradigms
and their Implications for Modern Thought
Gerald Bray
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Alexander Schmemann, The Celebration ofFaith:
I believe
Alexey Young, The Russian Orthodox Church
Outside Russia
Basil Zion, Eros and Transformation: Sexuality
and Marriage. An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
Aristarchos Maurakis, The Law of Marriage and
Divorce in the Church of England and the
Church of Greece in recent times (1850-1980) ...
George Capsanis, The Eros of Repentance
Elizabeth Behr-Sigel, The Place of the Heart: An
Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality
Yannis Spiteris, La teologia ortodossa neo-greca
Michel Quenot, The Icon: Window on the
Kingdom

Elizabeth Theokritoff

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Sergei Hackel

81

David C. Ford

82

Christos B. Christakis
John Chryssavgis

85
86

Elizabeth Theokritoff
Gerald Bray

86
89

John Baggley

90

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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Editorial
Short cuts there aren't: it is the sort of motto which ecumenists have learned to
value ever since the days of Bishop Bell (pp.32-6), and even earlier than that. For
there can be few of them indeed who favour anything resembling that 'cheap unity
which avoids contested issues because they disturb the peace of the Church'; by
contrast, they would argue, 'costly unity will not be afraid of legitimate conflict'.
Such certainly are the words which issued from the recent Faith and Order
conference at Santiago (pp.50-9). Such was the conviction also of our founding
fathers in the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, and it was this which led them
to those theological mini-conferences which used to be held in the context of the
annual conferences in the pre- and post-war years, with their creative and wellremembered confrontations.
Such confrontations still have their part to play. Furthermore the Orthodox of
Western Europe are unusually well placed to take them further in the years to come.
For it is they (in the words of Metropolitan John Zizioulas) who can be 'authentic
interpreters and bridges between historical Orthodoxy and Western culture in a way
which no other Orthodox can' (pp.7-19).
Not that such confrontations need to be anything other than eirenic. But they must
be honest, so they may be painful. Hence Keith Clements' challenging dictum
(pp.50-2): shared vulnerability is where a common future begins'.
SERGEI HACKEL

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Romanesque carving, church of San Juan de
la Pena, Navarre
2. Moldavian encolpion, ivory, 1623, Historical
Museum, Moscow
3. Palestinian miniature, 9th century, BN cod. gr.
914, f 237 v
4. George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: portrait by
A.R. Middleton Todd(1955)
5. Fr Sophrony in his later years (1981)

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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Knowing the unknowable: hesychasm and
theKabbalah
Russia and the Arab Orthodox Community
inPalestine 1882-1917

Andrew Louth

Derek Hopwood

24

POETRY
Self-doubt

Heather Buck

33

A.M. Allchin
Wendy Robinson
Alexander Popescu
Sebastian Brock

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47
49

OBITUARIES
Militza Zernov (1899-1994)
Petre Tutea (1902-91)
Andr de Halleux (1924-94)
REPORTS
On the question of Anglicans who may
seek to be received into the Orthodox
Church: an Orthodox response
Thoughts on Santiago
A week in Constantinople
Pro
Oriente
Consultation
(1994):
Orthodoxy and Catholicity in the Syriac
Tradition'

53
Mary Tanner and
Sergei Hackel
George Woodman

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Sebastian Brock

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Militza and Nicolas Zernov, Easter 1965 (see obituaries, pp. 34-47)

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CONTENTS
Documents:
The Vienna christological
formula (1971)
Joint communiqu of Pro Oriente
consultation (1994)
The Christian history of the holy land: a
Jerusalem conference 1994
REVIEWS
Veselin Kesich, The Gospel Image of
Christ
Graham Gould, The Desert Fathers on
Monastic Community
P.M. Blowers, Exegesis and Spiritual
Pedagogy inMaximus the Confessor
Robert F. Taft SJ, The Byzantine Rite: A
Short History
Getatchew Haile, The Mariology of
Emperor Zar'a Ya'iqob of Ethiopia
J.F. Coakley, The Church of the East and
the Church of England: A History of the
Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian
Mission
Brenda Meehan, Holy Women of Russia ....
Basilio Petr, Tra Cielo e Terra:
Introduzione
alia
teologia
morale
ortodossa contemporanea
John H. Erickson, The Challenge of our
Past
Ren Gothoni, Paradise within Reach:
Monasticism and Pilgrimage onMtAthos
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Lev Gillet 'Un
Moine de l'glise d 'Orient '

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Andrew Palmer

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Gerald Bray

75

Andrew Louth

76

John McGuckin

79

Hugh Wybrew

80

John Binns

82

Robert Murray
Elizabeth Theokritoff

83
88

Gerald Bray

91

Gerald Bray

93

Graham Speake

94

Sergei Hackel

97

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Militza and Nicolas Zernov, 1965
(Zernov archive)
2. Russian pilgrims in the holy land early
in the twentieth century (original print,
Ianova collection)
3. Militza in a Russian student group of
the mid-1920s, Paris (Zernov archive)
4. Militza with Nicolas and the Zernov
family early in the 1930s (Zernov
archive).
5. St Francis of Assist 'at home among the
Orthodox saints': a Cretan fresco of
the early fourteenth century

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with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6 LU

Contents
EDITORIAL.
ARTICLES
How Greek, how Palestinian?
The
patriarchate of Jerusalem in the mid-war
years
The need for 'long memories': interChurch relations and their 16th/17th
century background
St Ephrem of Syria's Hymn on Faith 7: an
ode on his own name
REPORTS
Problems of mission: a colloquium at
Chevetogne (1994)
Religious education and the environment:
a seminar at Halki (1994)
The Roman Catholic Church and the
Assyrian Church of the East (1994): a
common declaration
Patristic theology in the modern world: a
conference at King's College, London
First impressions: a Quaker, aged eleven,
at a Russian Christmas Vigil (London
1995)
REVIEWS
Bishop Dimitri, The Kingdom of God: the
Sermon on the Mount
Vasiliki Limberis, Divine Heiress, The
Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian
Constantinople

Sergei Hackel

Sotirios Roussos

Colin Davey

19

Andrew Palmer

28

Colin Davey

41

David L.Gosling

46

Sebastian Brock

52

Mary B.Cunningham

55

Lara Lea

60

John Chryssavgis

62

Mary B.Cunningham

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Lionel
R.Wickham
and
Caroline
P.Bammel (eds.), Christian Faith and
Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Paul McPartlan, The Eucharist Makes the
Church: Henri de Lubac and John
Zizioulas in dialogue
Paul Bradshaw and Bryan Spinks (eds.),
Liturgy in Dialogue
Martin Dudley and Geoffrey Rowell (eds.)
The Oil of Gladness. Anointing in the
Christian Tradition
John N.Karmiris, The Status and Ministry
of the Laity in the Orthodox Church
Nikolai Leskov, On the Edge of the World
Michael J.Oleksa, Orthodox Alaska: A
Theology of a Mission
Vladislav Tsypin, Istoriia
Russkoi
Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi 1917-1990
Ren
Gothoni,
Tales
and
Truth:
Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and
Present
Thomas F.Best and Gunther Gassmann,
On the Way to Fuller Koinonia: Official
report of the Fifth World Conference on
Faith and Order
Returning Pilgrims
The Fifth World Conference on Faith and
Order (The Ecumenical Review 45. 1
[1993])
Clive Marsh, Questioning Evangelism: A
Contribution from a Liberal Perspective
John Saxbee, Liberal Evangelism: A
Flexible Response to the Decade
Douglas Dales, Living Through Dying:
The Spiritual Experience of St Paul
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Columba Graham Flegg 72

Stephen Parsons

80

John Chryssavgis
S.A.Mousalimas

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S.A.Mousalimas

89

Richard Price

93

Graham Speake

95

Gerald Bray

98

Andy Lie

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Andy Lie

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Members of the Confraternity of the
Holy Sepulchre, early 1930s
2. George Abbot (1562-1633), Archbishop
of Canterbury, a painting of 1610
3. Metrophanes Kritopoulos (1589-1639),
an etching of 1627
4. 'Chaste men spread a cloth/so as not to
look': the sons of Noah depicted in a
miniature from the Vienna Genesis,
early sixth century
5. 'He rode in a boat/and they thought
him human ': Romanesque miniature,
early eleventh century

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ARTICLES
C.S.Lewis: an 'anonymous Orthodox '?
An offering of prayer': the witness of Paul
Evdokimov(1900-70)
EXHIBITION
Byzantium: treasures of Byzantine art and
culture from British collections

Michad plekon

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OBITUARY
Philip Sherrard (1922-95)
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Walter H.Wagner, After the ApostlesChristianity in the Second Century
John Polkmghorne Science and Belief
G.Beb s, The Mmd.ofthe Fathers
Henryk Paprocki, Le Mystre de
L Eucharistie: Gense et interpretation de
la liturgie eucharistique byzantine
Kathleen Corrigan, Visual Polemics in the
Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters
Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby (d.),
The Theotokos Evergetis and eleventhcentury monasticism

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John Binns

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REPORTS

Extracts from a Moscow journal (1995)


An ecumenical week of the Focolare
movement(1995)

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Alistair Stewart-Sykes 58
Columba Graham Flegg 60
John Chryssavgis
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Hugh Wybrew

69

Leslie Brubaker

71

Andrew Louth

CONTENTS

CONTENTS
Leon Litvack, John Mason Neale and the
Quest for Sobornost
A.G.Lough (sel), The Wisdom of John
Mason Neale - From his Sermons
Edwin Robertson, Unshakeable Friend:
George Bell and the German Churches
William van den Bercken, Christian
Thinking and the End of Communism in
Russia
Patrick Michel, Politique et religion. La
grande mutation
Alexander Schmemann, Celebration of
Faith: The Church Year
Sergei Hackel, The Orthodox Church
Mahmoud Zibawi, The icon: its meaning
andhistory
Stuart Brown, The Nearest in Affection:
Towards a Christian Understanding of
Islam

ILLUSTRATIONS

J.F.Coakley

77

1. C.S.Lewis in his study c. 1958

11

Sergei Hackel

80

2. Evdokimov and Fr Lev

32

3. St George and the youth of Mytilene:


icon from the Holy Land, mid-thirteenth
century

42

Richard Price

81

Columba Graham Flegg 83


Mary B.Cunningham
84
Jill Storer

85

Andy Lie

86

BOOKS RECEIVED

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Gordon Kendal

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

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Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
The development of eucharistie worship
Sursum Corda
Church and praise in the hymnody of the
Wesleys

Hugh Wybrew
Ephrem Lash

9
19

David Carter

30

POETRY
Three poems

Heather Buck

48

Colin Davey

52

Andrew Palmer
John Baggley

67
70

Alistair Stewart-Sykes
Alistair Stewart-Sykes

74
76

Andrew Louth

77

Wendy Mayer

79

W.H.C. Frend

82

Iain Torrance

85

REPORTS
The successor of Peter and Paul
Conference survey
Oriental Christian festival (SOAS, 1995)
Syndesmos assembly (1995)
REVIEWS
Raymond Brown, The Death of the Messiah
Norbert Brox, A History of the Early Church
Douglas Burton-Christie, Scripture and the
Quest for Holiness in Early Christian
Monasticism
J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth. The Story of
John Chrysostom
J. McGuckin, St Cyril of Alexandria.
The Christological Controversy
Albert Van Roey and Pauline Allen,
ed. and tr., Monophysite Texts of
the Sixth Century

CONTENTS

CONTENTS
Ambrosius Giakalis, Images of the Divine:
the Theology of Icons at the Seventh
Ecumenical Council
George Papademetriou, Maimonides and
Palamas on God
Yannis Spiteris and Bruno Gianesin,
Vedere Dio. Incontro tra Oriente e
Occidente
Vittorio Peri, Orientalis Veritas:
Rome e la Chiesa d'Orient Storia e diritto canonico
Victor Bychkov, The Aesthetic Face of Being:
Art in the Theology of Pavel Florensky
Dumitru Staniloae, The Experience of God....
E. Carr et al, d., Evlogema: Studies in
Honour of Robert Taft, S.J.
Rowan Williams, Open to Judgement:
Sermons and Addresses
Gennadios Limouris, Orthodox Visions of
Ecumenism

ILLUSTRATIONS
Ken Parry
Andrew Louth

Gerald Bray

Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Fie
Columba Graham Fie

1. The elevation of the host, by the


Master of St Giles, c. 1500
2. Orantfrom a Christian sarcophagus,
early third century
3. John Wesley preaching in Ireland by
Maria Spilisbury, c. 1815
4. 'Abide with me ', miniature by
Rallis Kopsidis (1967)

Hugh Wybrew
Gerald Bray
Colin Davey

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ARTICLES
Gregory Nazianzen on the importance
of Christian doctrine
The worship of the whole creation:
Merton and the Eastern Fathers
Spiritual direction: problems and
perspectives in the early monastic
tradition
The Estonian crisis: a salutary
warning?

Nicholas Armitage
A. M. Allchin

28

John Chryssavgis

43

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59

REPORTS
A crisis in dialogue: the patriarch of
Constantinople addresses Pope John
Paul II

REVIEWS
Catherine Osborne, Eros Unveiled
A. Brent, Hippolytus and the Roman
Church in the Third Century
[Ephrem Lash et a/.,tr.,], The Divine
Liturgy of our Father among the Saints
John Chrysostom

69

John McGuckin

72

A. Stewart-Sykes

74

Elizabeth Theokritoff

76

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Ephrem Lash, tr., On the Life of Christ:


Kontakia by St Romanes the Melodist
G. E. H. Palmer et al.,ed, and tr., The
Philokalia. The complete text
John Fennell, A History of the Russian
Church to 1448
Nikolai Leskov, Schism in High Society,
Lord Radstock and his Followers
W. Jardine Grisbrook, d., Counsels on
the Christian Priesthood f...]
by St John of Kronstadt
Telesphora Pavlou, Saggio di Cristologia
Neo-ortodossa
Gianfranco Brunelli, d., Monachesimo,
Laid ta e Vita Religiosa
G. R. Evans, The Church and the
Churches
Thomas F. Best and Dagmar Heller, d.,
So We Believe, So We Pray
Oliver Davies and Fiona Bowie, d., Celtic
Christian Spirituality: An Anthology of
Medieval and Modern Sources
[ Roger Williamson et ai], The United
Nations Fifty Years On

Elizabeth Theokritoff

79

ILLUSTRATIONS

Andrew Louth

81

Columba Graham Flegg

85

Columba Graham Flegg

87

Hugh Wybrew

89

Gerald Bray

91

Gerald Bray

92

1 Si Gregory Nazianzus leaching:


miniature from the Sacra parallela, early ninth
century, Paris gr. 923f. 189v.
2 St Maximus the Confessor:
fresco in the Proiaton, Mount Athos,
late thirteenth early fourteenth century
3 'Advice is counsel without compulsion ':
a spiritual father with his disciples,miniature
from the Ladder of St John Climacus,
eleventh century, Princeton, Garrett 16.
4 Metropolitan Alexander Paulus, presiding
bishop of the Autonomous Church in Estonia,
1923-41.

Gerald Bray

93

Gerald Bray

95

Columba Graham Flegg

96

Columba Graham Flegg

97

BOOKS RECEIVED

99

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105

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EDITORIAL

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Sebastian Brock

ARTICLES
St Isaac the Syrian: two unpublished texts....
'We must pray for all': salvation according
toStSilouan
Orthodox
ecclesiology
and
cultural
pluralism

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34

Myroslaw Tataryn

56

POEM
The flowering of the cross

Heather Buck

68

OBITUARIES
Helle Georgiadis (1916-96)
Hildegart Nicholas (1913-95)

JoanRutt
Wendy Robinson

70
76

REPORTS
Dialogue within the Syriac tradition

Sebastian Brock

78

John Chryssavgis

86

Robert Jordan
Graham Speake

88
91

Paul Stephenson

94

Gerald Bray

96

Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Flegg

97
99

REVIEWS
John Binns, Ascetics and Ambassadors of
Christ
Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in
Byzantium (843-1118)
Chris Hellier, Monasteries of Greece
Dimitri Obolensky, Byzantium and the
Slavs
Jobe Abbass, Apostolic See' in the New
Eastern Code of Canon Law
Varghese Pathikulangara,
Liturgy Experience
Denis Engleman, Ultimate Things

CONTENTS
Angelo Scola, Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Raymond Gawronski, Word and Silence.
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Spiritual
Encounter between East and West

Editorial
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It was an extraordinary find.

108

Most scholars must have given up any hope of recovering the so-called
Second Half of St Isaac's writings. Yes, they had once been found by Paul
Bedjan in Urmiah (present-day Iran). But the turbulent history of that
region had caused these invaluable writings to disappear earlier in the
century. By that time only a sample of the text had been published (1909).

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Yet a comparable manuscript was there all the time. It is not even as if
it had been immured in some dingy and distant monastery in the Near East.
As its discoverer, Sebastian Brock, noted in our journal (18:1), it was
'virtually on my doorstep in Oxford', and at the Bodleian library, no less.
Editors and translators have been at work on the manuscript ever since.
A fruit of these labours appears below. Here is the first English translation
of some all-important and impressive texts.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Their author was St Isaac the Syrian, Bishop Isaac of Nineveh, as his
flock would have known him briefly before he retired into monastic
seclusion. His reputation was soon to spread well beyond the boundaries
of his diocese and Church. Indeed, his spiritual authority is respected
throughout the Christian world to this day.

1. St Isaac the Syrian:


a modern icon
2. St Silouan the Athonite:
photograph of 1937.

37

3. Helle Georgiadis:
photograph of 1949

72

All of this suggests that fonnal membership of this or that church body
is no criterion of orthodoxy, still less of sanctity. For there can be no
doubt that the man belonged to a heretical Church (Nestorian) and could
therefore have been dismissed by most of medieval Christendom as a
heretic himself. And not only then. At an earlier stage of our own history,
he might have been refused full membership of the Fellowship, belonging,
as he did, to a 'fringe' Church.
The absolute nature of church boundaries should always be doubted.
To echo one Russian Orthodox patriarch of modern times, 'we know
where the Church is: we cannot know where the Church is not'.

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The Church of England and its relationship
with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox
worlds
Mary Tanner
St Leo's Tome (449) in the light of his later
writings
George Every
Columba of lona and Augustine of
Canterbury: two missionary saints
Gerald Bonner

9
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POEM
Picking raspberries on the feast of the
Transfiguration
Hannah Hunt

45

REPORTS
'Towards a common date for Easter':
Aleppo 1997
John Halliburton
The community of Bose and its congresses
HughWybrew

46
48

REVIEWS
Bruce J. Malina, The Social World of Jesus
and the Gospel
Erich Renhart, Das syrische Bema: liturgischarchdologische Untersuchungen
Andrew Louth, Maximus the Confessor
Lucy Menzies, Columba of lona
Diana Leatham, They Built on Rock
St Symeon the New Theologian, On the
Mystical Life: Ethical Discourses, vol. i:
The Church and the Last Things
Paul McPartlan, Sacrament of Salvation: An
Introduction to Eucharistie Ecclesiology.
Peter Hocken, The Strategy of the Spirit
3

Alistair Stewart-Sykes

51

Andrew Palmer
Lars Thunberg

53
61

Columba Graham Flegg

66

John McGuckin

68

Hugh Wybrew
Gerald Bray

69
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CONTENTS
H. J.M. Turner, To Serve the Present Age
Edmund P. Cloney, The Church
John Broadhurst, d., Quo vasitis? The state
of churches in northern Europe
Brian E. Cope and Michael Kinnamon, d.,
The ecumenical movement. An anthology of
key texts and voices
Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, Homilies, vol. I...
Archbishop Averky Taushev, The Apocalypse
in the Teaching ofAncient Christianity
Sophocles Sophocleous, Icons of Cyprus,
7th-20th century.

Hugh Wybrew
John Turner

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75

Gerald Bray

76

Gerald Bray
Columba Graham Flegg

77
78

Alistair Stewart-Sykes

79

Jill Storer

80

BOOKS RECEIVED

83

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
General Secretary's report

Stephen Platt

88

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

92

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION.

93

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

94

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Archbishop
Michael
Ramsey
and
Archbishop Athenogoras ( 1964)
2. Vicarius urbis Romae: from the Probianus
dyptychon (c.400)
3. Seventh-century binding of St John's
Gospel (the Stonyhurst MS)
4. St Gregory the Great: eleventh-century
illumination
5. The Transfiguration: twelfth-century icon
(Sinai)

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Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
The relevance of post-Holocaust theology to
the thought and practice of the Russian
Orthodox Church
Ancestral guilt according to St Maximus the
Confessor: a bridge between Eastern and
Western conceptions
Love and concern: searching St Paul for a
vision of ecumenism

Jean-Claude Larchet

26

John Jillions

49

OBITUARY
Konstantin Andronikof (1916-97)

Sergei Hackel

64

Gerald Bray

67

Nonna (Verna) Harrison


Andrew Louth

68
72

Mary Cunningham Corran


Andrew Louth

76
77

Mary Cunningham Corran

79

Richard Price

81

Richard J. Mammana

83

Gerald Bray

84

REVIEWS
William McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock, d.,
Mary is for everyone
Anthony Meredith, The Cappadocians
Jean Bernardi, Saint Grgoire de Nazianze....
Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys, The
Sixth Century
Sebastian Brock, tr., The Wisdom of Saint
Isaac the Syrian
Lars Thunberg, Microcosm and Mediator.
Alice-Mary Talbot, d., Holy Women of
Byzantium
B.V. Kienzle et al., d., Models of Holiness
in Medieval Sermons
Vyacheslav Ivanov, The Russian Orthodox
Church ofAlaska and the Aleutian Islands..
Johann Adam Mhler Institut, Kleine
Konfessionskunde

Sergei Hackel

CONTENTS
Robert Hannaford, d., The Future of
Anglicanism
John Polkinghorne, Scientists and Theo
logians
David Melling and Michael Coppock, d.,
Let Our Hearts be in High
Jim Forest, Praying with Icons
YvesHamant, Alexander Men
Elizabeth Roberts and Ann Shukman, d.,
Christianity for the Twenty-First Century....
Konrad Raiser, To be the Church

John Turner

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Columba Graham Flegg

87

Andrew Louth
AnnaHulbert

88
90

Richard Price
Gerald Bray

91
93

BOOKS RECEIVED

95

FELLOWSFHP AFFAIRS
General Secretary's report.

Stephen Platt

99

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

102

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

103

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

104

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Burial of defiled Torah scrolls at Vitebsk
(1944)
2. Pope John xxin receives a Russian
Orthodox observer at Vatican n
3. Pope John xxill (1963)
4. Adam and Eve after the Fall: fresco at
Voronef (sixteenth century)
5. Maximus the Confessor: Athonite fresco
(fourteenth century)
6. St Paul in Damascus: twelfth-century
mosaic at Palermo
7. Konstantin Andronikof with Leonid
Brezhnev and Georges Pompidou
(1970)

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23

Editorial
It is not as if Christians have not enough to do in relating to each other. This
journal certainly sees its principal role in manifesting and furthering the
fellowship between Christians of East and West. Hence also the title of its
parent body, the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. Its members are so
acclimatised to it that they use it adjectivally. 'The Fellowship conference' is a
familiar phrase. And there used to be a Fellowship retreat.
But none of this should beguile us into seeking fellowship only between likeminded Christians. It is also possible to look at religions other than our own.
We may do this as individual Churches. We may also work collectively or
ecumenically. Thus we might work through the WCC or (as did Fr Lev Gillet)
through the World Congress of Faiths.
Most promising, since most natural, of all the inter-faith relations to be fostered
are the Judeo-Christian. Not that 'natural' means easy. Rather did moral and
spiritual obligations in this sphere come to be ignored and even spurned by
many a Church throughout the ages.
Any creative rethinking of our often sorry past cannot but be welcomed. Such
thinking may not involve all and sundry at the outset. But our inter-Church
relations should be such as to permit each Church or church tradition to hed
the insights of its neighbours. This should certainly involve us easterners
gaining from our partners in the west. Otherwise 'fellowship' ceases to be a
helpful or an honest designation.
SERGEI HACKEL

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Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Reunion in the service of an empire? Russia
and the Ethiopian Church
A spiritual father for the whole Church: Si
Ephraem the Syrian
Canon for the great and angelic Schema

Sergei Hackel

Sydney H. Griffith
Ephrem Lash

21
41

Sebastian Brock
Hugh Wybrew

58
59

Elizabeth Theokritoff

62

Mary Cunningham Corran

63

Mary Cunningham Corran

65

Richard J. Mammana

68

Andrew Louth

68

Andrew Louth

70

Martin Palmer

72

REPORTS
The cultural heritage of the monastery of St
Saba
Anglican-Orthodox dialogue 1998
REVIEWS
Michael Prokurat et ai,
Historical
Dictionary of the Orthodox Church
Derek Krueger, Symeon the Holy Fool:
Leontius 's Life and the Late Antique City....
Theodora Antonopolou, The Homilies of the
Emperor Leo vi.
Archimandrite loanichie Balan, Romanian
Patericon: Saints of the Romanian
Orthodox Church
Benedict Engelzakis, Studies on the History
of the Church of Cyprus, 4th-20th centuries
Catherine Evtuhov, The Cross and the Sickle.
Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian
Religious Philosophy
Archimandrite
Monasticism

Vasileios,

Ecology

and

CONTENTS

Editorial

Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin), The Living


Witness ofthe Holy Mountian
St Symeon the New Theologian, On the
Mystical Life: Ethical Discourses, vol. 3:
Life, Times and Theology

Richard J. Mammana

74

Hannah Hunt

77

Hugh Wybrew, Orthodox Lent, Holy Week


and Easter

Gregory Woolfenden

78

Hugh Wybrew, Orthodox Feasts of Christ


and Mary

Elizabeth Theokritoff

79

Jean-Georges Boeglin, La question de la


Tradition dans la thologie catholique
contemporaine

Gerald Bray

80

Michael Root and Risto Saarinen, d.,


Baptism and the unity of the Church

Gerald Bray

82

BOOKS RECEIVED

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General Secretary's report

89
90

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

91

CORRIGENDA 20:1

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Patriarch Tewoflos on an official visit to
Zagorsk (1968)
2. St Ephraem the Syrian, icon, Novgorod
school, late fifteenth century (Novgorod
museum, no.3097)
3. The dormition of Ephraem Syrus, fresco,
1568, Docheiariou (Athos)
4. A schema-monk at Valaam monastery
(1931)

Among the pamphlets for sale at one of Moscow's metro stations this autumn
was the fourth in a series called Orthodoxy or death'. Its anonymous authors
urged its readers ('the plenitude of the Russian Orthodox Church') to 'prevent
a fall into the abyss of ecumenism'. They therefore praised those patriarchates
who had already heeded comparable calls, Jerusalem and Georgia first among
them.
Such calls issue from fundamentalists. But their presuppositions are not
discounted elsewhere. Indeed they have their currency even among the very
practitioners of ecumenism. All the more readily will many of their fellowchurchmen see them burdened with a last-ditch stand in its defence.
Hence the Thessalonica agreement which was reached by Orthodox
representatives earlier this year. This seeks to avoid positive involvement in
the forthcoming WCC assembly in Harare (hardly any voting and no
participation 'in ecumenical services, common prayer or other religious
ceremonies' whatsoever).
Meanwhile, most Orthodox Churches were
conspicuous by their absence at the Anglican-Orthodox discussions in
Bucharest (see 'Reports', below). Also missing was the long-established
'Fellowship' practice of alternative Anglican and Orthodox worship.
So at one end of the scale is the burning of books by Schmemann, Meyendorff
or Men' on the orders of a crazed provincial bishop. But equally disturbing is
last year's calculated refusal of the patriarch of Moscow even to meet the pope
of Rome at all.

10

24
26
45

Not surprisingly, therefore, the displeasure of the Moscow patriarchate is


increasingly vented on ecumenists among its parish clergy. Since the winter of
1997, no cleric is supposed to broadcast on Moscow's ecumenically-minded
radio station, the 'Religiozno-obshchestvennyi kanal', and anyone who does so
puts himself at risk. The community at the Bobrynev monastery (which
maintained the ecumenical spirit of the murdered Fr Aleksandr Men') has just
been broken up, and its abbot (Fr Ignatii Krekshin) has sought temporary
refuge in the West.
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ARTICLES
The Lord's
translators

Prayer:

the

text

and

Sergei Hackel

EphremLash

its

The human person and the person of Christ


according to the Cappadocians

Peter Bouteneff

22

Florovsky at Amsterdam: his ecumenical


'aims and doubts'

Thomas FitzGerald

37

Sergei Hackel

52

XeniaDennen

55

Philip Walters

58

P. Allen et al. d., Prayer and Spirituality in


the Early Church, vol 1

Janet Rutherford

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Marie-France Auzpy, La Vie d'Etienne le


Jeune par Etienne le Diacre

Mary Cunningham Corran

61

J.A. Munitiz et al. d., The Letter of the Three


Patriarchs to the Emperor Theophilos and
Related Texts

Mary Cunningham Corran

63

J. Hamilton and B. Hamilton, tr., Christian


Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World
C.650-C.J405

Janet Rutherford

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The Orthodox at Harare. A conversation with
Paul Oestreicher
OBITUARY
Jane Ellis (1951-98)

REVIEWS

Theodore Hall Partrick, Traditional Egyptian


Christianity

CONTENTS

Nelly van Doom-Harder and Kari Vogt, d.,


Between Desert and City: The Coptic
Orthodox Church Today

JohnBinns

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Donald Nicholl, Triumphs of the Spirit in


Modern Russia
Constantine Cavarnos, Ecumenism Examined..

Andrew Louth
Columba Graham Flegg

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GeraldBray

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Editorial

R. van Drimmelen, Faith in a global economy.


B de G Fonman and B. K. Goldewijk, God and
the goods
J.B. Martin-Schramm, Population perils and
the Churches' response
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The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius marked its fiftieth year in 1978. A
letter went to Fr Georges Florovsky in the previous year, inviting him to
contribute to the anniversary number of our journal. shall be glad to have
my essays appear once more on the pages of Sobornosf, replied our one-time
vice-president. He sent us 'The Fourth Century' {Sobornost 7:6, pp.432-47),
and hoped that it would fit into our programme. In an editorial note I was able
to assure him that 'no article of his could fail to do so'. All veiy gracious.
But it was no less true for that. Florovsky was undoubtedly pleased to be
back. Whereas we were well aware of the extent to which his articles had
enriched, even shaped our programmes over the years. And not only ours,
moreover.
In the early days of the ecumenical movement Florovsky made an all-important
contribution to its ethos and its structure. Much of his contribution was made
in the confines of committee meetings, not least those of the provisional
committee of the future WCC (1938-48). But it was the first assembly of the
WCC (1948) which gave him the opportunity to spell out his principles and
plans to the widest range of Christians yet gathered under a single roof. Within
that year the text was published, and two different strands of his ecumenical
work were thereby brought together. For the text appeared in Sobornost (3:4
[1948]).

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Lord's Prayer from Codex Sinaticus
(early fourth century)

12

2. St Gregory ofNazianzus, (fresco)

27

3. Christ asleep in the boat (icon)

33

hi these post-Harare days we could have reprinted Florovsky's speech.


Might we not own the copyright ourselves? In any case, here was an
opportunity missed, as I can see now. But we have proceeded with the next
best thing. Dealing with 'Florovsky at Amsterdam', Thomas FitzGerald offers
an analysis of that fundamental speech (below). Our contributor's quotations
are generous enough. But they could also prompt the reader to search out the
remainder of Florovsky's text.

4. Florovsky in the post Amsterdam years


(photograph)
5. Jane Ellis (photograph)

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A journey of hope: ecumenism for the new
millennium

+Aram of Cilicia

Kenosis and Christ-like humility according


to Saint Silouan

+Kallistos of Diokleia

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Between gluttony and rigorous fasting: the


role of moderation in early Egyptian
monasticism

Charles A. Metteer

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Polemic and exegesis: anti-Judaic invective


in Byzantine homiletics

Mary B. Cunningham

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Syndesmos assembly 1999

Marcus Plested

69

Mary B. Cunningham and Pauline Allen, d.,


Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early
Christian and Byzantine Homiletics

Richard Price

71

Jean-Claude Larchet, Maxime le Confesseur,


mdiateur entre 1 Orient et l Occident,
Cogitatio Fidei 208

Andrew Louth

72

Margaret Mullett, Theophylact of Ochrid.


Reading the Letters of a Byzantine
Archbishop

Andrew Louth

75

Benedicta Ward, High King of Heaven.


Aspects of Early English Spirituality

Gerald Bonner

77

Ysabel de Andia, Mystiques d'Orient et


d'Occident

Andrew Louth

79

Boris Jakim tr., Pavel Florensky, The Pillar


and Ground of the Truth

Andrew Louth

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The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi:


Tradition-History-Art

Dimitri Conomos

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REVIEWS

CONTENTS

Michael W. McClellan, Monasticism in


Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert
Fathers
Ragheb Moftah, The Coptic Orthodox
Liturgy of St Basil

Editorial
Richard J. Mammana

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Richard J. Mammana

90

Gerald Bray

93

Andrew Walker and Costa Carras, d.,


Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World

Hugh Wybrew

96

Philip Sherrard, Christianity: Lineaments of a


Sacred Tradition

Columba Graham Flegg

97

Michael Hurley, Christian


ecumenical second spring?

Gerald Bray

Stratford Caldecott, d., Beyond the Prosaic:


Renewing the Liturgical Movement
Jean-Claude Larchet, Dieu ne veut pas la
souffrance des hommes

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Aram. I ofCilicia, (Geneva 1999)
2.

Manuscript fragment from St Silouan's


notebook (Paris 1950)

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3.

St Menas, sixth-century icon (Louvre)....

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4.

St John Chrysostom, tenth-century


mosaic (Haghia Sophia)
St John Chrysostom, early ninth-century
Palestinian illustration (Paris gr 923)..

5.

There should be a tremor in the print to register that this is positively the last
Sobornost/ECR editorial for the millennium that very nearly isn't any more.
Dionysius Exiguus long ago persuaded us that the date of Christ's birth (wrongly
calculated though it was) should count as the beginning of a new era (=AD). With
nave self-confidence, the formerly ascendant nations of the West, hardly
Christian though they are, have none the less assumed that their way of counting
out the centuries cannot but be universal. And all mankind should therefore
celebrate the arrival of the new millennium come what may. Jews (who call the
current year 5760) or Muslims (for whom it is 1420) look like being spoil sports.
Even so, it is fair enough that Christians should ascribe some special value to
Christmas and related feasts this year. Better still if they can celebrate Christ's
incarnation with increased awareness of their shared beliefs in this particular
respect. Hence the gathering of the Holy Land's Christian leaders at Bethlehem
this year, an ecumenical event of great promise (12 December). This in turn
could provide the context for the Christmas Liturgy which the heads of the
world's Orthodox Churches will concelebrate on 7 January not many yards away.
For the divisions of the first millennia should have prepared the various Christian
bodies of the world to consider and to further reconciliation in the third. It is
exactly with such thoughts that Catholicos Aram I brings his persuasive
presentation to an end (below). Not that reconciliation can be taken for granted.
Rather does it require the constant endeavours of all who are involved. Of
course, these could involve some risk. At the same time, 'where there is no risk,
there is no growth'.
Aram speaks of the WCC. But his remarks apply to every kind of ecumenical
endeavour, the Fellowship's included. No profit, therefore, in anything that is
diminished by acceptance of the desacralised (since unduly universalised)
millennium to come.
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Sergei Hackel

Nicholas Armitage

Between gluttony and rigorous fasting.

Charles A. Metteer

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From Basel to Thessaloniki

John Arnold

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POETRY
Thepath

HeatherBuck

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OBITUARY
Peter Hammond.

A.M. Allchin

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Religion, science and environment

John Chryssavgis

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Cambridge Institute of Orthodox Studies

John Newbury

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ARTICLES
Knowing and
spirituality

unknowing

in

Orthodox

REPORTS

Communiqu
of
an
international
consultation on Orthodox theological
education (Athens 2000)

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REVIEWS
Bishop Maximos Aghiorgoussis, In the image
of God.
Archimandrite Ioannikos, An Athonite
Gerontikon
Hieromonk Makarios, The Synaxarion [vol. i]

Gerald Bray

67

Elizabeth Theokritoff
Robert Jordan

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69

John Chryssavgis, Beyond the shattered


image

Gerald Bray

70

Bishop Seraphim Sigrist, Theology of Wonder

John Chryssavgis

71

Charles Birch and Lukas Vischer, Living with


the Animals

Elizabeth Theokritoff

72

CONTENTS

Larry L. Rasmussen, Earth Community,


Earth Ethics
Toms Spidlflc, L 'arte de purificare il cuore..
Lewis S. Mudge, The church as moral
community
Keith Clements, Faith on the Frontier: A life
ofJ.H. Oldham
Rowan Williams, Sergii Bulgakov. Towards
a Russian political theology

Elizabeth Theokritoff

74

Gerald Bray

76

Martin Conway

78

Gerald Bray

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. St John Damascene
2. The tree in the middle of garden
3. The rigour of the dessert
4. r/fe/jageo/Chartacumenica
5. Peter Hammond's bookplate for
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It is not so often that it happens. Here (Athens in the year 2000) was a fullblooded Orthodox consultation on the setting of agendas. Admittedly, its overt
aim was to consider problems in the field of Orthodox theological education.
For good measure, there was also consideration of 'ecumenical themes'. But
the assembled theologians were not content to leave it at that. In their report
(below) they would not accept the shelter of safe limits.
More than that, they urge that keeping to safe limits could endanger spiritual
health. For they fear 'frozen traditionalism', an 'excessively narrow reading of
church history', a 'legalistic approach to the canons'. In their estimation, here
are the makings of an Orthodox fundamentalism. Post-communist countries
know it only too well.
Any one of these factors is likely to inhibit 'an honest, forthright, and
charitable discussion' of ecumenical commitments and concerns. By contrast,
the participants of the consultation urge that the generally accepted limits of the
Church need 'much theological reflection' in other words, creative
reassessment.
Only then will the Orthodox come to accept the assertion of the Russian bishop
who was asked about those limits in the 1930s. 'We know very well where the
Church is', he replied, 'what we do not know is where the Church is not'.

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ARTICLES
Sermon on the Saviour's passion by Ephrein
the Syrian

Ephrem Lash

Cyril Loukaris and his Orthodox 'Confession


of Faith'

Colin Davey

19

'Called to be free': Mother Maria and


Berdiaev

Sergei Hackel

30

REPORT
TurAbdin: a time of change

Stephen Griffith

44

REVIEWS
Father Alexander Men, Son of Man

George D. Woodman

55

P. Allen, W. Mayer, and L. Cross d.,


Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church
vol. 2
Carolinne White, tr., Early Christian Lives..

Augustine Casiday
John Chryssavgis

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Sergei Kan, Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture


and Russian Orthodox Christianity through
Two Centuries

Richard Mammana

59

Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Lev Gillet. A Monk of


the Eastern Church

Gerald Bray

61

JohnBaggley

62

John Chryssavgis
Gerald Bray

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Gerald Bray

66

Anton C. Vrame, The Educating Icon


Teaching Wisdom and Holiness in the
Orthodox Way
P. Kitromilides and Th. Veremis, d., The
Church in a Changing World.
John Habgood, Varieties of Unbelief.
Andrew Chandler d., The Terrible
Alternative. Christian Martyrdom in the
Twentieth Century
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Archimandrite Roman Braga, Ogni monaco


ha un suo segreto con Dio
Toms Spidlik, et al, due polmone '. Dalla
memoria spirituale d'Europa

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The photographer says 'cheese', and his subjects do their best to smile. It is
not clear what the smile is all about, nor is there any expectation that it should
reflect authentic feelings. True hilarity is nowhere to be found, not to mention
anything more permanent, let alone profound.

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Crucifixion, Romanesque, twelfth/
thirteenth century
2. Cyril Loukaris
3. N.A. Berdiaev and E.Iu. Skobtsova,
photograph, late 1920s
4. Mother Maria Skobtsova, portrait, early
1940s
5. Good Friday at Mor Gabriel;
photograph

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Yet even when photographers are absent we still persist in trying out the smile.
Indeed, it is felt to be a disadvantage if we fail to smile enough, or smile at all,
when inter-Church relations are the order of the day. For smiles supposedly
give evidence of estrangement overlooked or even overcome, of fellowship
achieved.
And they offer comfort and assurance, even though they
demonstrate no more than willingness to further unity among divided
Christians, rather than unity as such.
Not that 'there's daggers in men's smiles', as in Shakespeare's phrase. In fact
it all too rare to have divisive factors treated with sufficient vigour. Rather
might one worry that issues tend to be evaded. Whereas in this respect, as in
any other, a Christian should feel obliged to opt for 'yea' or 'nay'.
All the more can we sympathise with the predicament of a seventeenth-century
patriarch like Cyril Loukaris, whose political alignments required him to
replace his 'yea' with 'nay' abruptly and in quick succession. As Colin Davey
demonstrates below, his 'yea' was Orthodox to an astonishing degree. Yet his
subsequent Confession, so Calvinist in its assertions, provided a corresponding
'nay'. Neither saved him from assassination by orders of the Porte (1638).

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In fact, Loukaris was concerned with inter-Church relations insofar as these
reflected the power-politics of the day. So hardly ecumenical, to use our
modern term. Nor likely to encourage or elicit smiles.
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'It is time for the Lord to act': the
Divine Liturgy as heaven on earth
Mary andwomen
Jacob of Serugh: a poem on the
soul.
'Suffering wonders' and 'wonderful
sufferings': Maximus the Confessor
and hisfifthAmbiguum
POEM
The devils ' advocate

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Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

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Sebastian Brock

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Adam G. Cooper

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Heather Buck

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REPORTS
An Orthodox diaconate for women?
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel et al 60
Pope John xxiii
Henry Docherty
63
Dominus Iesus
Jonathan Gorsky
66
'Together in mission ': CMS in Moscow... Julia Kokoshari
72
Stephen Platt
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Augustine Holmes, A Life Pleasing to
God
Augustine Casiday
77
Hilarion Alfeyev, St Symeon the New
Theologian and Orthodox Tradition
John Turner
78
Daniel Liderbach, Christ in the Early
Christian Hymns
Elizabeth Theokritoff
80
Ken Parry et al. d., The Blackweli
Dictionary ofEastern Christianity
Elizabeth Theokritoff
82

CONTENTS

John Breck, The Sacred Gift of Life...


Elisabeth Behr-Sigel and Mgr Kallistos
Ware, L'ordination de femmes dans
l'Eglise orthodoxe
John Baggley, Festival Icons for the
Christian Year
Marc Reuver, Faith and law
Thomas F. Best and Dagmar Heller d.,
Becoming a Christian
A.M. Allchin, Resurrection's Children...
Donald Allchin et al., Sensuous glory....

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GeraldBray

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Patricia Owen
Gerald Bray

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Gerald Bray
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Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: The Lost


Ancient City
Meridel Sophia Holland 108
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Eucharist, mosaic, eleventh
century, St Sophia, Kiev
2. Mary, Catalan carving, early twelfth
century
3. Dormition of the Mother of God,
icon, fourteenth century.
4. St Maximus the Confessor, modern
icon
5. CMS Conference in Moscow,
photograph
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The flurry caused by the publication ofDominus Iesus last year has
not yet died down (see Reports below). Had it been written before
the days of Vatican it would not have attracted much attention.
But when, in our very different context, it deals as sternly as it does
with Churches and religions beyond the boundaries of the Catholic
world this cannot but give rise to apprehensions.
What sort of beavers are at work to weaken all those bridges which
were so carefully erected over many decades by Catholics in
cooperation with their fellow-Christians? Or with the followers of
other faiths? Possibly, it has been suggested, the texts were not as
well translated from their Latin as they might have been. Yet even
if the English version is less eloquent than Cardinal Ratzinger's
original pronouncement, it hardly deviates in spirit from it. In any
case the subtlest of translation cannot provide the validation for a
suspect cause.
I was reminded of this simple truth when I read the official English
version of a Russian text which deals with similar concerns ('the
attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church toward the other Christian
confessions'). The text was adopted by the bishops of the Moscow
patriarchate last summer when they met in council. And its
translation is exceptionally good. If only that were sufficient to
commend it.
In fact the document, which seeks to defend a degree of ecumenism
from the assault of Russian diehards, is itself lamentably lacking in
ecumenical perspectives.
Based though it is on Orthodox
foundations, here also is a Dominus Iesus mentality at work. At
best, and in spite of 'the rupture of unity' with the Orthodox
Church, there remains for the non-Orthodox only 'a certain
incomplete fellowship which serves as the pledge of a return to
unity in the Church, to catholic fullness and oneness'. Even so,
'[their] way to unity lies through repentance, conversion and
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Managerial patterns in a patriarchal
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Sergei Hackel
St Augustine on deification: his homily
on Psalm 81
Augustine Casiday
The doctrine of theosis and its
ecumenical potential
Veli-Matti Krkkinen

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For Anna

Elizabeth Theokritoff

78

REPORTS
Orthodoxy and the future ofEurope '....
The Greek College'

Esther Hookway
Peter Doll

79

Augustine Casiday

83

Augustine Casiday

84

Wendy Mayer
John A. McGuckin
Gerald Bray

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92

Paul Stephenson

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REVIEWS
Georgia Frank, The Memory of the
Eyes
Simon Peter Iredale, The Interior
Mountain: Encountering God with the
Desert Saints
Martin Illert, Johannes Chrysostomus
und
das antiochenisch-syrische
Milnchtum
Norman Russell, Cyril ofAlexandria
Trefor Jones, The English saints
A-E. N. Tachiaos, Cyril and Methodius
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Aurel Jivi, Orthodox, Catholics and


Protestants

Augustine Casiday

95

Aram I, Catholics of Cilicia, In search


of the ecumenical vision

Gerald Bray

97

Edward P. Echlin, Earth Spirituality:


Jesus at the Centre

Elizabeth Theokritoff

99

Charles Miller, The Gift of the World.....

Andrew Louth

102

Hans
Hollerweger,
Tur
Abdin:
Lebendiges Kulturerbe/ Living Cultural
Heritage/ Canli Kiiltiir Mirasi

Stephen Griffith

104

Fr Stanley S. Harakas, Wholeness of


Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian
Ethics

George P. Bithos

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Editorial
I was always bemused by the designation of the Templeton award
as one 'for progress in religion'. How is one expected to progress, I
wondered. How is that progress measured, and by whom? Not that
I devoted hours and hours to pondering the question. The whole
idea of progress, I suspected, was at best a nineteenth-century
construction, and pretty secular at that.
Which is not to say that we are fated to retain and cherish the
perspectives of our predecessors, as fundamentalists might urge.
Scholarship and insight may modify perspectives. It is not a
question of inventing new foundations, rather one of focussing
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Russian Orthodox Church
2. Metropolitan Nikodim addresses the
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4. Tuomo Mannermaa
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Thus, an earlier generation would have been convinced that


'Reformation and Orthodox soteriologies were diametrically
opposed to each other'. As Veli-Matti Krkkinen is able to
demonstrate below, 'this is not necessarily the case'. Hence one of
his challenging conclusions, that deification or theosis is 'an
ecumenically fruitful image of salvation'. In this awareness,
Finnish Lutheran and Russian Orthodox theologians have already
learned to relate differently to each other's traditions, even to their
own.
Well, it may not be progress in religion. Nor is 'break-through' all
that gracious as a term. But it is as inspiring as the view of that new
Pacific ocean which Cortez saw in Keats' sonnet 'and all his men
look'd at each other with a wild surmise'.

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The incarnation and the human
person
Nonna Verna Harrison
Bulgakov's ecumenical thought
Anastassy Galaher
The Sinful Woman: a memra by Jacob
ofSerugh
Scott F. Johnson
REVIEWS
Anestis G Keselopoulos, Man and the
Environment: A Study of St Symeon
the New Theologian
Hannah Hunt
J. Behr, The Formation of Christian
Theology, 1 : The Way to Nicaea
Augustine Casiday
Melito of Sardis, On Pascha
Richard Price
Thomas Pott, La rforme liturgique
byzantine. tude du phenomena de
l'volution non-spontane de la
liturgie, byzantine
Gregory Woolfenden
Christopher Hookway (tr.),
The
Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of
the Orthodox Church, Volume II, by
Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos
Tetra
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopediia, torn I, AAleksij Studit
Richard Price
Bishop Kallistos Ware, The Inner
Kingdom
John Chryssavgis
Emmanuel Clapsis, Orthodoxy in
Conversation
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Roman
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Modern Cults
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Eastertide in the Orthodox Church
Gorazd Kocij ancic Tvoja imena

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1. The healing of the man born blind:
Palestinian illumination of the
ninth century
2. Bulgakov and Florenskii c. 1917:
painting by M. V. Nesterov,
Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
3. Fr Sergii Bulgakov towards the end
of his life
4. 'They were engrossed in the
delicacies that Simon brought in.
Jesus was delighted in the
repentance which loves ': the sinful
woman at the feet of Jesus
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Nostalgia does not get us far. Rather can it fix us in a misremembered past. Hence we arrive at concepts of some golden age.
'Those were the days', we say, and abandon any thought of
emulation. Probably we lack the will, the dignity, the strength.
The early days of the ecumenical movement are far enough
removed in time for us to mourn their passing. Where now the
bishops of our yesteryear, we ask, people like Sderblom or Bell or
Germanos of Thyateira? Our Fellowship itself provides the fodder
for romantic ruminations on the past. Frere and Bulgakov are
among the names on which we sometimes dwell.
All the more important that historians should promote clear-minded
reassessment of our founding fathers. The first part of an article on
Bulgakov appears below. It helps to introduce the person in the
context of his day before proceeding (see next autumn's issue) to
ponder
his
proposal
for
Anglican-Orthodox
'partial
intercommunion' in the summer of 1933. It was a revolutionary
concept, and it was to provoke anguished and intense debate not
only in the conference of the Fellowship that year, but in the years
that followed.
It looked as if the Orthodox could then produce prophetic figures at
the very cutting edge of ecumenical endeavour. Those days are no
more, and similar proposals could hardly be propounded in the
circumspect encounters of the present day - least of all by Russian
spokesmen of the Orthodox communion. All the more reason not to
draw nostalgic veils over our immediate past.

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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

Bulgakov and intercommunion

Anastassy Gallaher

Bulgakov's move from a Marxist to a


sophic science

John Hughes

29

Pluralism versus community:


challenges in Russia today.

Philip Walters

48

Augustine Cassiday

68

Robert C. Hill, tr., Theodore of Cyrus:


Commentary on the Song of Songs

Augustine Cassiday

70

John McGuckin, St Gregory


of
Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography..

Frederick W. Norris

72

Susan R. Holman, The Hungry are


Dying: Beggars and bishops in Roman
Cappadocia

Augustine Cassiday

75

Richard P. H. Greenfield, ed. and tr.,


The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Gelesion:
an Eleventh-Century Pillar Saint.

Andrew Louth

' '

Glenn
Peers,
Subtle
Bodies:
Representing angels in Byzantium

Andrew Louth

79

Tia M. Kolbaba, The Byzantine


Errors of the Latins

Andrew Louth

82

Andrew Louth

86

ARTICLES

religious

REVIEWS
Graham Speake, d., Encyclopedia
Greece and the Hellenic tradition

of

Lists.

Myroslaw I. Tataryn, Augustine and


Russian Orthodoxy. Russian Orthodox
Theologians and Augustine of Hippo:
a twentieth-century dialogue

CONTENTS

Ashraf
and
Bernadette
Sadek,
L'Incarnation de la Lumire: Le
renouveau iconographique copte
travers l Oeuvre d 'Isaac Fanous
Sister Magdalen, Conversations with
Children. Communicating our Faith...
Jessica Rose, Sharing Spaces? Prayer
and the Counselling Relationship
John D. Zizioulas, Eucharist, Bishop,
Church
Michel Henry, Incarnation. Une
philosophie de la chair
Wendy Meyer and Pauline Allen, John
Chrysostom
Nadieszda Kizenko, Father John oj
Kronstadt and the Russian people
John Binns, An Introduction to the
Christian Orthodox Churches

CONTENTS

Augustine Cassiday

88

Mary B. Cunningham

90

Juliette Day

Gregory Woolfenden

96

Mihail Neamtu

98

Richard Price

101

Richard Price

103

Elizabeth Theokritoff

105

Bulgakov, Fedotov, Florovsky,


Mascall and Reeves
3. Bulgakov at the church council oj
1917-18
4. A church procession in the Belgorod
area
5. Belgorod pilgrims take their
rest

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ILLUSTRATIONS
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1935. Walter Frere, Bulgakov and
Florovsky.
2. At the Fellowship conference oj
1935.
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Sergei Hackel

Andrew Walker

ARTICLES
Intercommunion?
Approach

An

Orthodox

The Orthodox services of Holy Week:


the Jews and the New Sion

Elizabeth Theokritoff

25

The Coptic poems ofBKUI 32

Leslie MacCoull

51

REPORTS

Hugh Wybrew

79

REVIEWS
Jaroslav Pelikan, Divine Rhetoric. The
Sermon on the Mount as Message and
as Model in Augustine, Chrysostom
and Luther
MaryB. Cunningham
J. Ferreira, The Hymn of the Pearl.
Augustine Casiday

84

84
86

Pachomius
Penkett
and
John
Chryssavgis, In the Footsteps of the
Lord, The Teaching of Abba Isaias of
Scetis

John Binns

Hilarion Alfeyev, The Spiritual World


of Isaac the Syrian

Nonna Harrison

90

Gabriel Bunge, Earthen Vessels, The


Practice
of
Personal
Prayer
according to the Patristic Tradition
Andrew Louth

92

Andrew Louth, St John Damascene:


Tradition and Originality in Byzantine
Theology

Richard Price

95

John Nankivell, St Wilfrid.

Gerald Bonner

97

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Mzia Ebanoidze and John Wilkinson,


d. and tr., A Pilgrimage to Mount
Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem
1755-1759

Richard J. Mammana

100

Rowan Williams, Ponder these things:


Praying with Icons of the Virgin

Augustine Casiday

102

Paul M. Collins, Trinitarian Theology


West and East: Karl Barth, the
Cappadocian Fathers and John
Zizioulas
Nonna Harrison

104

Anna Marie Aagaard and Peter


Bouteneff, Beyond the East-West
divide.
The World Council of
Churches and'the Orthodox problem'

Gerald Bray

106

Peter Bouteneff and Dagmar Heller, d.,


Interpreting together.
Essays in
hermeneutics

Gerald Bray

107

John Chryssavgis, Soul Mending.


Alexander Schmemann, Our Father

Columba Graham Flegg 108


Gerald Bray
112

2. Judas kisses Christ, Romanesque


frieze
3. Icon of a Coptic bishop (Berlin),
sixth-seventh century
4. The Queen of Sheba, ninth-century
illustration (Paris)

114

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Treasurer's report.

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123

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

124

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CONTENTS

Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Deification in St Symeon the New
Theologian
+ Kallistos of Diokleia
St Possidius of Calama
Augustine the monk

and St
Augustine Casiday

Liturgical translation for the 'common


good': a single phrase and its
demands
Ephrem Lash

John Chryssavgis and Pachomios


(Robert) Penkett, Abba Isaiah of
Scetis: Ascetic Discourse
Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
John Chryssavgis, with a foreword by
Benedicta Ward, In the Heart of the
Desert: The Spirituality of the Desert
Fathers and Mothers
Hannah Hunt
Massimo Capuani, Christian Egypt:
Coptic Art and Monuments Through
Two Millenia
Tim Vivian
Mary Cunningham,
Byzantine World

Faith

in the
John A. McGuckin

Cyril Mango, d., The Oxford History


of Byzantium
Mary Cunningham Corran
Victoria Clark, Why Angels Fall

Columba Graham Flegg

The Orthodox Services of Holy Week:


Jews and the New Sion (Notes)
Elizabeth Theokritoff

Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil,


Maximus the Confessor and His
Companions: Documents from Exile... Adam G. Cooper

REPORT

Joseph J. Allen, Vested in Grace:


Priesthood and Marriage in the
Christian East
Richard Price

Marcus Plested

OBITUARY
Anthony, Metropolitan
(1914-2003)

of

Sourozh
Sergei Hackel

Funeral Address

+ Gregorios of Thyateira and


Great Britain

Funeral Address

+ Rowan Williams of
Canterbury

REVIEWS
Carol Harrison, Augustine: Christian
Truth and Fractured Humanity
Augustine Casiday
Peter Brown, Poverty and Leadership
in the Later Roman Empire
Augustine Casiday

Graham
Speake, Mount
Renewal in Paradise

Athos:
Andrew Louth

Sophia Senyk, Ignazio e Teodosio di


Manjava, Sottomessi all'evangelo: lov
e lo skyt di Manjava
Augustine Casiday
S.T. Kimbrough,
Orthodox
Wesley an Spirituality

and
Elizabeth Theokritoff

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., The


Foundations of Christian Bioethics
Mihail Neamu
Lucian Turcescu,
d.,
Dumitru
Staniloae: Tradition and Modernity in
Theology
Radu Bordeianu
3

CONTENTS

Dumitru
Staniloae,
Orthodox
Spirituality. A practical guide for the
faithful and manual for the scholar
Andrew Louth

CONTENTS

2. St Augustine: mosaic from the


Capella Palatina, Palermo, c. 1143

Michael Plekon, Living Icons: Persons


of Faith in the Eastern Church
Christopher Mark

3. St Augustine and the brethren at


table: miniatures from a fifteenthcentury Historia Augustini (Berlin)

Michael Plekon and Sarah Hinlicky,


Discerning the Signs of the Times: The
Vision of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
Christopher Mark

4. 'In all and for all': page from John


King's translation of liturgical texts
(1772)

Theodore G. Stylianopoulos, The Way


of Christ: Gospel, Spiritual Life and
Renewal in Orthodoxy
George P. Bithos
Paul Valliere, Modern
Russian
Theology.
Bukharev,
Soloviev,
Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a
New Key
Marcus Plested
Michael
Plekon
and
Alexis
Vinogradov, In the World, Of the
Church: A Paul Evdoldmov Reader
Marcus Plested
William McLoughin and Jill Pinnock,
Mary for Earth and Heaven. Essays on
Mary and Ecumenism
Maiy Cunningham Corran
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EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
The Mother of God as mediatrix in
Orthodox and
Roman Catholic
thought
M.C. Steenberg
The

Filioque:

Church-dividing

issue

Christology and the Jewish People


FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS
General Secretary's report

North American OrthodoxCatholic Theological


Consultation

27

John T. Pawlikowski

61

Stephen Platt

REVIEWS
Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of
Early Christian Thought: Seeking the
Face of God.
Tim Vivian
Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient
Philosophy?; and Jonathan Barnes,
Porphyry: Introduction
Augustine Casiday

80
85

85

87

John Chryssavgis (tr.), Letters from the


Desert: Barsanuphius and John
Hannah Hunt

89

Theresa Urbainczyk, Theodoret of


Cyrrhus: The Bishop and the Holy
Man
Tim Vivian

91

Jan Harm Barkhuizen, Proclus, Bishop


of Constantinople. Homilies on the
life of Christ; and Nicholas Constas,
Proclus of Constantinople and the Cult
of the Virgin in Late Antiquity.
Homilies 1-5, Texts and Translations.. Mary B. Cunningham

93

Friedhelm
Winkelmann,
Der
Andrew Louth
monenergetisch-monothlitischeStreit

97

Stephen J. Shoemaker,
Ancient
Traditions of the Virgin Mary's
Dormition and Assumption
Mary B. Cunningham

99

Torsten Krannich, Christoph Schubert,


and Claudia
Sode, eds., Die
ilionoklastische Synode von Hiereia
Andrew Louth
754

103

Andrew Louth, tr., Three Treatises on


the Divine Images: St John of
Damascus; and Rowan Williams, The
Dwelling of the Light: Praying with
Augustine Casiday
Icons of Christ

105

Christian Hegel, Symeon Metaphrastes


- Rewriting and Canonization
Augustine Casiday

106

Thophile Kislas, ed. and tr., Nil


Augustine Casiday
Cabasilas: Sur le Saint-Esprit

107

A. Thacker and R. Sharpe, eds., Local


Saints and Local Churches in the
Francesca Tinti
Early Medieval West

108

Judith Pinnington, Anglicans and


Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 15591725
Magnus Wheeler

110

Sergius Bulgakov, The Friend of the


Bridegroom.
On the
Orthodox
Veneration of the Forerunner, tr. Boris
Jakim
Andrew Louth

113

Jill Kamil, Christianity in the Land of


the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox
Church; and S. S. Hasan, Christians
versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The
Century-Long Struggle for Coptic
Equality
Tim Vivian

116

Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W.


Winkler, The Church of the East: A
Concise History
Augustine Casiday

123

Editorial

John Breck, God with us: critical


issues in Christian Life and Faith

Hannah Hunt

126

BOOKS RECEIVED

128

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

133

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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The elevated role of Mary: English
manuscript, eleventh century
2. Toledo: Spanish manuscript, tenth
century
3. Charlemagne crowned by Pope Leo
III: French manuscript, mid-fifteenth
century

38

4. Episcopal throne, Lyons cathedral..

44

5. The council of Ferrara-Florence:


bronze, fifteenth century

47

6. Moses receives the Tablets of the


Law: icon, Sinai, twelfth century

63

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Soon after Derwas Chitty became the rector of Upton in 1931 he


performed an unusual, if not illegal act. At a time when the recently
revised Prayer Book had just been rejected by parliament (1928), he
produced his own reading of the Nicene creed for worship in his
parish. Each year he would alert his bishop of the local practice, which
now involved omission of the Filioque. He would ask the bishop to
respond with criticism, should he feel impelled to do so. But answer
came there none. Fr Derwas took pleasure in telling of this outcome. It
was an example of retraditioning (Florovsky's phrase). It offered
promise for the future.
Soon enough, even in Chitty's lifetime (he was still at Upton
when he died in 1971), the Filioque came to be regarded in a much
expanded context as an optional addition to the creed. Whole
provinces of the Anglican communion would publish versions of the
creed with 'and the Son' enclosed in firm red brackets.
Meanwhile, Rome itself would countenance red brackets. With
the blessing of Pope Pius XI (1922-39), Cristoferrata monastery would
publish eastern-rite liturgical texts with the Filioque just as firmly
readied for omissionat the discretion of the local bishop, a note
would hasten to advise. The present pope has gone further in
favouring the very same omission on appropriate occasions, as the
important Catholic-Orthodox report below reveals.
So, after all these centuries, is the Filioque really such a
'Church-dividing issue' as people used to think? The time is ripe for
questions of this kind to gain their reasoned and eirenic answer.
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Eric Plumer, Augustine's Commentary


On Galatians. Introduction, Text,
Translation, and Notes
Josef Lssl

83

Michael Maas with Edward G.


Mathews Jr, Exegesis and Empire in
the Early Byzantine Mediterranean:
Junillus Africanus and the Instituta
Augustine Casiday
Regularia Divinae Legis

85

24

Benedicta Ward, tr., The Desert


Fathers: Sayings of the Early
Christian
Monks;
and
Rowan
Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes:
Tim Vivian
The Wisdom of the Desert

87

William
Harmless
SJ,
Desert
Christians: An Introduction to the
Tim Vivian
Literature of Early Monasticism

90

Paul M. Blowers and Robert Louis


Wilken, trs., On the Cosmic Mystery of
Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St
Adam G. Cooper
Maximus the Confessor

94

Contents
EDITORIAL

Sergei Hackel

ARTICLES
Orthodox theology
millennium:
What
important question?

in the
is the

new
most
+Kallistos Ware

'East is East and West is West'? The


theology of grace in the Macarian
writings and in St Augustine
Marcus Plested

Barth and Florovsky on the meaning


of'Church'

Daniel P. Payne

39

OBITUARY: George Every

Bernard Hamilton

64

REPORT:

Appeal

for

Orthodox

cooperation in the west

Sergei Hackel

69

Baby Varghese, West Syrian Liturgical


Theology

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Stephen Platt

72

B. Neil, G. D. Dunn, and L. Cross, Serafim Seppala


eds., Prayer and Spirituality in the
Early Church: Volume 3, Liturgy and
Life
Michael J.B. Allen, John Warden, trs., Eric W. Northway
James Hankins and William Bowen,
eds., Marsilio
Ficino:
Platonic
Theology, vols. 1-3

REVIEWS
Henry Chadwick, East and West: The
Making of a Rift in the Church From
Apostolic Times Until the Council of
Florence
M. J. Edwards, Origen against Plato ..
Alberto
Camplani, Atanasio
di
Alessandria,
Lettere
Festali
&
Anonimo, Indice dette Lettere Festali..
Sarah Coakley, d., Re-Thinking
Gregory of Nyssa

76

Augustine Casiday
Torstein Tollefsen

76
78

John Wortley

80

Morwenna Ludlow

81

Maria Crciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Augustine Casiday


Graeme Murdock, eds., Confessional
Identity in East- Central Europe
Alison Forrestal

96

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100
102

O. Clment, K. Karaisaridis, A. Rigo


et al., Nicodemo l'Aghiorita e la
Filocalia
Augustine Casiday
Roy R. Robson, Solovki. The Story of
Russia Told Through Its Most
Remarkable Islands
Andrew Louth
Richard Marsh, Prayers from the East
- Traditions of Eastern Christianity.... M.C. Steenberg
Aram I, L'glise face aux grands dfis;
and Justice, paix et rconciliation
Gerald Bray
John Behr, Andrew Louth and Dimitri
Conomos, eds., Abba: The Tradition of
Orthodoxy in the West. Festschrift for
Bishop Kallistos (Ware) ofDiokleia.... Marcus Plested
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Editorial
Ecclesiology is the constant concern of the Orthodox Church since it
reveals and defines its nature. As Bishop Kallistos suggests below, it
could be described as the 'dominant theme' in Orthodox theology of
the preceding century. Moreover, it could 'continue to absorb our
attention' in the future, with appropriate adjustments in focus and
commitment.
Such commitment should involve the theological register of church
life, and (as taught by Afanas'ev and Zizioulas) the eucharistie also;
indeed, the eucharistie most of all. In its grace-endowed coherence,
the Church should manifest itself as 'a living miracle of free
unanimity'; and this by virtue of its 'collgial catholicity', its spirit of
sobornost. In Bishop Kallistos' rsum of Slavophiles like
Khomiakov, it is not 'power of jurisdiction' which holds the Church
together, it is mutual love.

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Would that it were altogether so. Too many a church leader in the
Orthodox milieu yearns as much as anything for just that power of
jurisdiction, and thus perpetuates divisive and disruptive 'norms'.
These may result from the claims of Churches in diaspora, which, by
definition, find themselves far removed from the frontiers of the given
'mother Church'.

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Georges
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at
Fellowship conference of 1933
5. The Church Dogmatics:
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Barth

6. George Every

Life might be simpler if the primacy of Constantinople were more


widely recognised in such distant parts. But while Constantinople has
its various dependencies throughout the world, the diasporas of
various other Churches are also widely represented, as are the cultures
and the nations which are theirs. Problems are exacerbated by further
subdivision into rival jurisdictions within diaspora bodies, which
themselves are subdivisions, or at least extensions, of a validating
Church. The Russian Orthodox Church is a lamentable case in point.
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and HUGH WYBREW
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Contents

ARTICLES

J. Leemans, W. Mayer, P. Allen and B.


Dehandschutter, 'Let us die that we
may live'.
Greek Homilies on
Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor,
Palestine and Syria (c. A.D. 350-A.D.
450)
Mary B. Cunningham

88

The martyrdom of Queen Ketevan in


seventeenth-century Iran: an episode
in relations between the Georgian
Church and Rome
John Flannery

R.A. Kitchen and M.F.G. Parmentier,


The Book of Steps. The Syriac Liber
Graduum
Serafim Seppala

91

Jeremy Driscoll, Evagrius Ponticus:


Ad Monachos;
and Robert E.
Sinkewicz, Evagrius of Pontus: The
Greek Ascetic Corpus
Augustine Casiday

92

John A. McGuckin, St. Cyril of


Alexandria:
The
Christological
Controversy - Its History, Theology,
andTexts
M.C. Steenberg

95

Bronwen Neil and Pauline Allen, The


Life of Maximus the Confessor:
Recension 3
Adam G. Cooper

98

Demetrios Bathrellos, The Byzantine


Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the
Christology of St Maximus the
Confessor
Adam G. Cooper

100

John Behr, Formation of Christian


Theology, Volume 2:
The Nicene
Faith
Frances Young

103

John Marenbon, Boethius

106

EDITORIAL

M.C. Steenberg

Life and death of a patriarch: Mar


Rouphael 1 Bidwid, Patriarch of
Babylon, and the Chaldean Catholic
Church in Iraq
Anthony O'Mahony

26

'The
conversation
between
St
Seraphim and Motovilov ': the author,
the texts and the publishers
Ann Shukman

47

Georges Florovsky on reading the life


of St Seraphim

Anastassy Brandon Gallaher

63

OBITUARY: Sergei Hackel

Peter Scorer

71

OBITUARY: Pope John Paul II

Bishop John Flack

76

OBITUARY: Mary Chitty

A.M. Allchin

78

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Stephen Platt

82
87

Tim Vivian and Apostolos N.


Athanassakis,
Athanasius
of
Alexandria: The Life of Antony. The
Coptic Life and The Greek Life
Augustine Casiday

Augustine Casiday

87

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Creed:


What Christians Believe and Why it
Matters
Adam G. Cooper
Jean-Claude Larchet, La Vie aprs la
mort selon la tradition orthodoxe
Andrew Louth

107

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ILLUSTRATIONS
110

Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jensen,


Mary, Mother of God
Mary B. Cunningham

113

Oleg Tarasov, Icon and Devotion:


Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
Glenn Peers

116

N. Stebbing, Bearers of the Spirit:


Spiritual Fatherhood in Romanian
Orthodoxy
John A. McGuckin

119

Alexandru Popescu, Petre


Between Sacrifice and Suicide

121

1. Fr Sergei Hackel

71

2. Fr Derwas and Mrs Mary Chitty

79

Tutea:
Andrew Louth

John Chryssavgis, Cosmic Grace,


Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision
of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew I Elizabeth Theokritoff

124

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh,


God and man
Gerald Bray

127

Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Kari


Vogt, Between Desert and City: The
Coptic Orthodox Church Today;
Matthew the Poor, Orthodox Prayer
Life: The Interior Way; and Ashraf and
Bernadette Sadek, Le Monde Copte
33: Le trsor du monastre SaintAntoine & articles divers
Tim Vivian

128

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

133
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ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents

EDITORIAL

F. Young, L. Ayres and A. Louth, eds.,


The Cambridge History of Early
Christian Literature
Bronwen Neil

76

Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, Steps to


Spiritual Perfection; Studies on
Spiritual
Progress
in
Evagrius
Augustine Casiday
Ponticus

78

Luke Dysinger OSB, Psalmody and


Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius
Ponticus
Andrew Louth

80

36

Rudolph Brandie, John Chrysostom:


Bishop-Reformer-Martyr
Josiah Trenham

83

Thomas Merton, ed. Patrick F.


O'Connell, Cassian and the Fathers:
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition. Tim Vivian

85

Susan Wessel, Cyril of Alexandria and


the Nestorian
Controversy: The
Making of a Saint and of a Heretic
John McGuckin

88

William Adler and Paul Tuffin, The


Chronography of George Synkellos, A
Byzantine Chronicle of Universal
Andrew Louth
History from the Creation

91

Rosalind Love, Goscelin of SaintBertin. The Hagiography of the


Female Saints of Ely
Augustine Casiday

94

Ioannis Vassis,
Choirosphaktes

95

ARTICLES
Pope Benedict XVI and
Orthodox relations

CatholicRichard Price

The mystery of the Church according


to Fr Lev
+Kallistos of Diokleia
The Eucharist in the theology of Fr
Sergii Bulgakov
Andrew Louth

8
27

OBITUARIES
Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek

Sebastian Brock

57

Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

Marcus Plested

62

REPORTS
Fellowship Conference 2005

Sally Milner

65

Fellowship Affairs

Stephen Platt

70

REVIEWS
Linda Woodhead, An introduction to
Christianity
Gerald Bray

74

74

Leon

Magistros
Andrew Louth

David Aers, Sanctifying signs. Making


Christian tradition in late medieval
England
Gerald Bray
John Moses, One equal light. An
anthology of the writings of John
Donne
Gerald Bray

114

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
96
ILLUSTRATION
98

Vera Shevzov, Russian Orthodoxy on


the Eve of the Revolution
Andrew Louth

99

Emmanuel Clapsis, The Orthodox


churches in a pluralistic world. An
ecumenical conversation
Gerald Bray

102

John Watson, Christians observed.


Narratives for today's church
Gerald Bray

103

Marko Ivan Rupnik, Alla mensa di


Betania. Lafede, la tomba e I'amicizia Gerald Bray

105

S. Wesley Ariarajah, Axis of peace.


Christian faith in times of violence and
war
Gerald Bray

105

Fernando Enns, Scott Holland and


Ann K. Riggs, Seeking cultures of
peace. A peace church conversation ... Gerald Bray

106

Thomas F. Best and Dagmar Heller,


Worship
today.
Understanding,
practice and ecumenical implications. Gerald Bray

107

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

111

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

113

Tir y Blaenau, by David Jones, 19245. Pencil, ink and watercolour. In the
National
Library
of
Wales,
Aberystwyth

54

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ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents

Jennifer
L.
Hevelone-Harper,
Disciples of the Desert. Monks, Laity,
and Spiritual Authority in SixthCentury Gaza
John Chryssavgis

63

Tim Vivian (tr.), Four Desert Fathers:


Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt
& Macarius of Alexandria, and St
Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic
Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the
Great, and Words to Live By: Journeys
in Ancient and Modern Egyptian
Monasticism
Augustine Casiday

67

Helen C. Evans, Saint Catherine's


Monastery,
Sinai,
Egypt:
A
Hannah Hunt
photographic Essay

70

Maria Vassilaki (d.), Images of the


Mother of God. Perceptions of the
Andrew Louth
Theotokos in Byzantium

72

55

Sergey A. Ivanov, Holy Fools In


Byzantium and Beyond.
Philip Gorski

75

REVIEWS

58

Vladimir Tsurikov (d.), Philaret,


Metropolitan of Moscow, 1782-1867.. Andrew Louth

78

Gillian Crow, 'This Holy Man'.


Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony. Rowan Williams

58

Sergius Bulgakov, The Comforter, tr.


Boris Jakim
Andrew Louth

79

Philip Marsden, The Chains


Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance

82

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
Reconciliation: The major conflict in
postmodernity
Athanasios N. Papathanasiou

The experience and understanding of


death in Saint Maria of Paris
Paul Ladouceur

21

St Maximus
initiation

41

the

Confessor:

An
Monk Melchisedec

52

OBITUARIES
Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Andrew Louth

55

REPORT
Orthodox-Evangelical Seminar

52

Andrew Louth

Robert Doran (d.), Stewards of the


Poor: The Man of God, Rabbula, and
Hiba in Fifth-Century Edessa
Robert A. Kitchen

60

of
Tim Vivian

J.D. Trotter, Wholeness and Holiness:


A Study in Human Ethology and the
Holy Trinity
Augustine Casiday
3

85

Editorial
OUR CONTRIBUTORS

88

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

91

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

92

The origins of the Fellowship lay in encounter, and the value of


encounter lay at the heart of what this journal, Sobornost, has always
sought to pursue and promote. Encounter, initially between Christians
of East and West, in particular between Orthodox and Anglicans.
Encounter, however, is seamless: we encounter the 'other' in various
guises, and in all these forms we shall find that we can learn from the
'other', both about the 'other' and about ourselves. The articles in this
issue illustrate some of the different ways in which such encounter
may be pursued. First, we can encounter the other within Orthodoxy
itself. Sobornost, as a primarily English journal, will increasingly be a
voice for Orthodoxy in the West. To understand what that means we
need encounter with other Orthodox, and especially with Orthodox in
traditionally Orthodox countries, whose cultural trajectory has been so
different from what we customarily think of as the 'West'. As one
way of promoting that the Greek Orthodox theological journal Synaxi
and Sobornost are proposing to exchange articles from time to time.
A beginning has already been made with the publication of some of
Afanasy Brandon Gallaher's articles on Fr Sergii Bulgakov in Synaxi,
and in this issue there is an article by Athanasios Papathanasiou, the
editor-in-chief of Synaxi. We hope that this will be the beginning of a
long and fruitful collaboration. Within 'Orthodoxy of the West', there
is potential for fruitful encounterbetween those whose native
language is English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian...
The Russian emigration to Paris was perhaps the most populous
and fruitful: all the great names of the Russian migrs are associated
in one way or another with Paris; the first centre of Orthodox theology
in the West was established in Paris in the Institut St-Serge; it is
common to hear reference made to the 'Paris School'. Another of our
articles, by the French Canadian Paul Ladouceur, originally appeared
in the French Orthodox Review of Spirituality and Theology',
published in Paris, called (significantly) Contacts. It contributes to the
growing reflection on the life and inspiration of St Maria of Paris
Mother Maria Skobtsova.

SOBORNOST
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CHURCHES
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volume 28:2
2006
EDITORIAL BOARD
ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents
EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
Severos of Antioch:
View

an Orthodox

The Syrian Orthodox Diaspora


Western Europe

Andrew Louth
Metropolitan Julius

19

The Syrian Catholic Church: a study


in history and ecclesiology
Anthony O'Mahony

28
51

Fr Matthew the Poor

George Bebawi

51

Professor Jaroslav Pelikan

Andrew Louth

56
60

REPORTS
Fellowship Conference: the Cross

Sally Milner

Conferences celebrating the 17th


Sebastian Brock
centenary of the birth of St Ephrem

74

Richard Price and Michael Gaddis


(tr.), The Acts of the Council of
Chalcedon
David Wagschal

77

Frederica
Mathewes-Green,
First
Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey
Through the Canon of St Andrew
Augustine Casiday

82

Michael Lapidge (d.), The Cult of St


Swithun
Augustine Casiday

84

Kyriacos C. Markides, Gifts of the


Desert: the forgotten path of Christian
Spirituality
Sally Milner

86

Andreas Andreopoulos, The Sign of


the Cross: the Gesture, the Mystery,
the History
Andrew Louth

87

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

91

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

92

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

93

in

OBITUARIES

Marcus Plested,
The
Macarian
Legacy: The Place of MacariusSymeon in the Eastern Christian
Tradition
Tim Vivian

60

67

REVIEWS

72

David Bradshaw, Aristotle East and


West: Metaphysics and the Division of
Christendom
Augustine Casiday

72

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CHURCHES
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volume 29:1
2007
EDITORIAL BOARD
ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents
EDITORIAL

Andrew Louth

ARTICLES
Louis Massignon as priest: Eastern
Christianity and Islam
Anthony O'Mahony

Evangelicals and the Cross

42

Tim Grass

The Cross: Fear of death or love to


life?
Serhiy Hovorun
The sacrifice of the Eucharist in early
Byzantine theology
Gregory Woolfenden

67

A Russian translation of Julian of


Norwich: a foreword
+Kallistos of Diokleia

83

OBITUARY

87

John Heath-Stubbs

Noel White

REPORTS
General Secretary's Report

108

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

112

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

113

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

115

60

87
95

Stephen Platt

REVIEWS
Mary and the Creation

I. Dorfmann-Lazarev, Armniens et
Byzantins l'poque de Photius: Deux
dbats thologiques aprs le triomphe
de l'orthodoxie
Andrew Louth

95
100

George Woodman

J-P. Mah and B.L. Zekiyan (eds.),


Saint Grgoire de Narek, Thologien
et Mystique
Andrew Louth

100

106

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MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbuiy Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents

A reflection from the USA on a recent Hieromonk Gregory


development in Orthodoxy
(Woolfenden)
REVIEWS

EDITORIAL

Andrew Louth

Corrigenda

4
5

ARTICLES

A.M.C.

The attractiveness of marriage

Adrian Thatcher

Marriage and asceticism

JohnBehr

24

Andrew Louth

51

A revised
marriage?

SJ. White, A History of Women in


Christian Worship
AnnLoades

Orthodox

ceremony

of

The identity of Dionysius Areopagita:


a philosophical approach
Gorazd Kocijancic

75

OBITUARY
Joan Mary Rutt

Gerald Bonner

85

REPORTS

Casiday,

Tradition

and

Theology in St John Cassian

Tim Vivian

E. TeSelle, Augustine

Elena Martin

C. Badilita & A. Jakab (eds.), Jean


Cassien entre l'Orient et I 'Occident.... Augustine Casiday
G. Gabra & M. Eaton-Krauss, The
Treasures of Coptic Art in the Coptic
Museum and Churches of Old Cairo.... Tim Vivian
Thomas Merton (ed. P.F. O'Connell),
Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation
into the Monastic Tradition
Tim Vivian

Sally Milner

89

An update from the General Secretary


on
the
forthcoming
American
Conference
Stephen Platt

H. Destivelle, Le concile de Moscou


(1917-1918):
La
cration
des
institutions conciliaires de l'Eglise
orthodoxe russe
Michael Plekon

95

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Fellowship
Conference
Scripture in the Church

2007:

'Antioch': a new initiative for the


study of the Orthodox Patriarchate of
Antioch
Sebastian Brock

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS
95
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EDITORIAL BOARD
ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
AUGUSTINE CASIDAY reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM,
ANTHONY O'MAHONY, RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU

Contents

EDITORIAL

Andrew Louth

REVIEW ESSAY

ARTICLES
Beauty will save the world

Metropolitan Kallistos of
Diokleia

The space of hospitality: On the icon


of the Trinity ascribed to Andrei
Rublev
Charles Lock
St Symeon of Thessalonica and the
question of the primacy of the pope
Demetrios Bathrellos

21
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OBITUARY
Metropolitan Vitaly (Ustinov)

Nadieszda Kizenko

72

John D. Zizioulas, Being


as
Communion: Studies in Personhood
and Church, and Communion and
Otherness:
Further
Studies
in
Andrew Louth
Personhood and Church

94

REVIEWS
J.A. McGuckin (d.), The Westminster
Adam Cooper
Handbook to Origen

101

C. Kannengiesser,
Patristic Exegesis

102

Handbook

of
Augustine Casiday

G.E. Demacopoulos, St Gregory the


Great: The Book of the Pastoral Rule. Thomas O'Loughlin

104

D. Krueger, A People's History of


Marcus Plested
Christianity, vol. 3

105

S. Rassam, Christianity in Iraq: Its


Origins and Development to the
Present Day; B.E. Colless, The
Wisdom of the Pearlers: An Anthology
ofSyriac Mysticism; and M. Hansbury,
Augustine Casiday
The Letters of John ofDalyatha

107

I. Edwards, W.M. Beckett and C.


Greenia, Bernard of Clairvaux:
Sermons for Advent and the Christmas
Thomas O ' Loughlin
Season

110

REPORTS
'Staretz Sophrony, the Theologian of
the Uncreated Light': Conference in
Athens, 19-21 October 2007
Zo Papagiannouli

85

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Igor Kotlyarov & Sergei
European Union
Mudrov

87

Orthodox-Evangelical
dialogue:
Exploratory meeting, Oxford, 17 April
2008
Tim Grass

92

Toms Spidlik, Die russische Idee:


eine andere Sicht des Menschen
Andrew Louth

Editorial
111

S. Dramm, tr. T. Rice, Dietrich


Bonhoeffer: An Introduction to His
Thought
Rachel Muers

112

S. Bulgakov, tr. M. Campatelli, La


luce senza tramonto
Andrew Louth

115

V-M. Karkkainen, One with God:


Salvation
as
Deification
and
Justification
JohnMcGuckin

116

A. Eastmond and L. James (eds.), Icon


and Word: The Power of Images in
Byzantium. Studies Presented to Robin
Cormack
Andrew Louth

120

Olga Lossky, Vers le jour sans dclin:


une vie d'Elisabeth Behr-Sigel.
Michael Plekon

121

M.J. Walsh, A New Dictionary of


Saints: East and West
Thomas O'Loughlin

124

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

126

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

128

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

129

The current issue of Sobornost, which it is hoped will appear closer to


its scheduled time than has been the case with recent issues, has a
couple of articles on beauty. It is a subject that lies close to the heart
of perceptions of Orthodoxy, both by Orthodox ourselves and by those
who perceive Orthodoxy from outside. If non-Orthodox know
nothing else about Orthodoxy, they know about iconsand icons are
art, and art is... beautiful? What lies behind this association of beauty
and Orthodoxy is easy to indicate: to give a couple of examples,
beauty is central to the cosmic vision of Dionysios the Areopagite,
which has had such a profound influence throughout Orthodox
Christianity, and there is the legend that what convinced the
emissaries of Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, of the truth of Byzantine
Christianity was the unforgettable beauty of the Divine Liturgy. But if
we look a little more closely, it all becomes more complicated.
'Beauty will save the world' is, as Metropolitan Kallistos reminds us,
not presented in Dostoevsky's The Idiot as the novelist's own view; it
is not even found on the lips of Prince Myshkinan ambiguous
enough figure anywaybut is reported by others as one of the
ridiculous things the Prince says. Moreover, as Charles Lock reminds
us in his article, it is not the art of the icon that finds a place in
Dostoevsky's imagination in The Idiot, but Holbein's 'The Dead
Christ'. Furthermore, we know that the icon of the Mother of God
before which St Seraphim of Sarov prayed in his cell was a Western
type icona detail that has been 'corrected' in most, of not all, of the
icons of St Seraphim, not to mention his biographies. The value of all
this deconstruction of treasured traditions is that it reminds us of the
complexity of the history of the Church and its traditions, a
complexity that is too easily smoothed away, leaving us with a sense
of tradition that is blandand ultimately untruthful. Tertullian, at one
point, reminds us that Christ said am the Truth', not am custom'
(veritas, not consuetude). One of the duties of theological scholarship
is to remind the Church of the complex reality of tradition, in contrast
to the half-remembered simplicities that sometimes pass for the
'tradition of the Church'. Fr Demetrios Bathrellos' article on St
Symeon of Thessaloniki's understanding of papal primacy fulfils this
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EDITORIAL BOARD
ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
EVAGGELIA GRIGOROPOULOU reviews editor,
JOHN BINNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, AUGUSTINE CASIDAY,
MARY B. CUNNINGHAM, ANTHONY O'MAHONY,
RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU

Contents

EDITORIAL

Andrew Louth

D. van Slyke, Quodvultdeus of


Carthage: The Apocalyptic Theology
Augustine Casiday
of a Roman African in Exile

94

A. Louth, The Origins of the Christian


Mystical Tradition: From Plato to
Patricia M. Rumsey
Denys

95

C. Humfress, Orthodoxy
Courts in Late Antiquity

David Wagschal

97

Augustine Casiday

100

ARTICLES
Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue:
The Ravenna Agreed Statement
Colin Davey

Evangelical Pilgrims to the Holy


Land: Wycliffe Hall's Encounter with
the Eastern Churches, 1927-37
Andrew Atherstone

37

What is a Troparion?

59

Dimitri Conomos

R.A. Whitacre, A Patristic


Reader

REVIEW ESSAY
Christos Yannaras, Postmodern
Metaphysics, Variations on the Song
of Songs, Orthodoxy and the West, and
Person and Eros
Andrew Louth

81

REVIEWS
W. Mayer, P. Allen and L. Cross,
Prayer and Spirituality in the Early
Church vol. 4
Patricia M. Rumsey
G.E. Demacopoulos, Five Models of
Spiritual Direction in the Early
Church
Patricia M. Rumsey

and

90

92

the

Greek

T. O'Loughlin, Adomnan and the Holy


Places: The Perceptions of an Insular
Monk on the Locations of the Biblical
John Wilkinson
Drama

102

P.M. Rumsey, Sacred Time in Early


Paul F. Bradshaw
Christian Ireland

104

A. Louth, Greek East and Latin West.


Gerald Bonner
The Church A.D. 681-1071

106

L.J. Patsavos, A Noble Task: Entry


into the Clergy in the First Five
George Demacopoulos
Centuries

109

A. Papadiamandis,
Garden

Andrew Louth

111

R. Williams, A Margin of Silence. The


Holy Spirit in Russian Orthodox
Andrew Louth
Theology

114

The

Boundless

Editorial

S. Bulgakov, tr. B. Jakim, Churchly


Joy: Orthodox Devotions for the
Church Year
Andrew Louth

116

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

118

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

119

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

120

The articles in this issue of Sobornost illustrate veiy different aspects


of the concerns of the journal. Colin Davey's detailed piece provides
an Anglican analysis of the last of the productions of the OrthodoxRoman Catholic dialogue, the so-called Ravenna statement. Such
ecumenical engagement is one of the central concerns of the
Fellowship and it is good to have such a thorough discussion, both of
the document and the circumstances surrounding its evolution by
someone as experienced in ecumenical matters as Canon Davey.
Andrew Atherstone's article provides a lively account of an
engagement between English Anglicans and Christians in the Holy
Land. It reminds us, too, of the involvement of Evangelicals in the
affairs of the Fellowship, something not always remembered (the
recent Fellowship conference in New York perhaps surrendered too
readily to the notion that the Anglicans the Orthodox ought to be
interested in are philorthodox Anglo-Catholics). Several recent issues
of Sobornost have reminded us of the place of Evangelicals in the
ecumenical movement, and the affinity that is easily discovered
between Evangelicals and the Orthodox. Dimitri Conomos' article on
the troparion, the building brick, as it were, of Orthodox Church
music, might seem to be of mostly Orthodox interest. However, as we
explore the roots of Christian music, we soon find ourselves reaching
back behind the schism, and exploring our common roots. Some
recent CDsby Cappella Romana and Fretworkhave brought
together medieval music from East and West and revealed a much
greater commonality than one might have expected.
Besides the articles, there are several features of Sobornost that
give it its peculiar genius. One is the obituaries that appear from time
to time: the Sobornost obituaries provide a unique account of the
Orthodox presence in the West and Western engagement with
Orthodoxy through the biographies of those involved. They are
already referred to regularly in scholarly work on twentieth-century
Orthodox theology. Perhaps we should gather them together in a
collected volume. Another distinctive feature of Sobornost is the
reviews section. Recently we have added to this with review essays,
and this feature will continue (they do not have to be written by the

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EDITORIAL BOARD
ANDREW LOUTH editor,
MATTHEW STEENBERG assistant editor,
EVAGGELIA GRIGOROPOULOU reviews editor,
JOHN BTNNS, SEBASTIAN BROCK, AUGUSTINE CASIDAY,
MARY B. CUNNINGHAM, ANTHONY O'MAHONY,
RICHARD PRICE, KALLISTOS WARE
and HUGH WYBREW
with the Fellowship's Secretary
1 Canterbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6LU

Contents

Andrew Louth

EDITORIAL

M.C. Steenberg, Irenaeus on Creation:


The Cosmic Christ and the Saga of
Redemption
Denis Minns
4

S. Bulgakov (tr. B. Jakim), The Lamb


of God
Anthony D. Baker

ARTICLES
The Orthodox Understanding
Primacy and Catholicity

of

The Primacy
Canterbury

of

of

the

See

Inspiration of the Scriptures

Nemesius (tr. R.W. Sharpies and PJ.


van der Eijk), On the Nature of Man.... Jonathan L. Zecher

Hilarion Alfeyev

J. Robert Wright

18

Andrew Louth

29

Transformation of Religious Imagery


in the Post-Soviet Russian Cinema:
From Solaris to Ostrov

C. Hall, 'Pancosm ic ' Church

Andrew Louth

J. Stamoolis (d.), Three Views on


Eastern
Orthodoxy
and
Evangelicalism
Tim Grass
OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Tamar Goguadze

45

OBITUARY

FELLOWSHIP PUBLICATIONS

Olivier Clment (1921-2009)

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
Nicholas Lossky

61

Andrew Louth

64

REVIEW ESSAY
Anglicans and Orthodoxy
REVIEWS
P.C. Bouteneff, Beginnings: Ancient
Christian Readings of the Biblical
Jonathan L. Zecher
Creation Narratives

72

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