Rating: 8.9|Votes: 47

A closer look at the Ecumenical Patriarch’s ecclesiology and its statements about itself

Anna Stickles

The main problem is the claim of the Ecumenical Patriarchate that it is a source of order, life, orthodoxy…. whatever, for the rest of the Church. The claim seems to be that the Ecumenical Patriarch is somehow the essence and beginning of the Church in the way Adam is the beginning of the human race or the Father the source of the Trinity.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 52

Primacy and Identity

A Response to ‘First Without Equals’ and the Tragedy of Deficient Ecclesiology

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)

We are witnessing, at the present moment, a fuller realisation of the disastrous theological and ecclesiological positions outlined in the text below, which were already nascent three years ago (and indeed further back).

Rating: 9.4|Votes: 36

Orthodox Biblical Interpretation and Protestant Biblical Scholarship

Fr. John Whiteford

The question of what Orthodox Christians should make of Protestant biblical scholarship is a complicated question. First off, what do I mean by "Protestant biblical scholarship"?

Rating: 8.4|Votes: 21

Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid: Church needs new council to deal with problem of schismatics (+ VIDEOS)

Speaking at a recent Church celebration, His Eminence Jovan, Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje expressed the need for a new pan-Orthodox Council to deal with the problem of schismatics in the Church.

Rating: 9|Votes: 26

Coming Back to Oneself

An Orthodox Method for the Reconciliation of the Lapsed in the Light of the Recent Ukrainian Issue

Fr. Nemanja S. Mrdjenovic

The principal reason for this trend of inefficiency is the fact that the Church is not evoking the experience of the Fathers to receive back those that came to themselves but is rather using a modern, secular, and predominantly ecumenist method of political compromise.