Tradition alive : on the church and the Christian life in our time : readings from the Eastern Church /

Tradition alive : on the church and the Christian life in our time : readings from the Eastern Church / edited by Michael Plekon. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003. - xvii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"A Sheed & Ward book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Una sancta -- Church's canons: changeable or unchangeable? -- Eucharist: the principal link between the Catholics and the Orthodox / Nicolas Afanasiev -- By Jacob's well -- Dogma and dogmatic theology / Sergius Bulgakov -- Bourgeois mind -- Worth of Christianity and the unworthiness of Christians / Nicolas Berdiaev -- Two models of the pastorate: Levitical and prophetic / Cyprian Kern -- Church and ministry: for an Orthodox-Lutheran dialogue -- Does Christian tradition have a future? / John Meyendorff -- Fifth talk on the creed -- Sixth talk on the creed: on the Nicene, the Constantinopolitan symbol / Alexander Men -- Christ and the church / Paul Evdokimov -- Energizing force of tradition / Elisabeth Behr-Sigel -- Birth and death / Maria Skobtsova -- Paths toward the reunion of the churches -- Intercommunion and dogmatic agreement / Anton Kartashev -- On the essence of ecumenical participation / Lev Zander -- Palm Sunday -- Concerning the personal nature of faith -- Be like children / Alexander Schmemann -- Freedom and faithfulness: an afterword / Peter C. Bouteneff.

0742531627 (alk. paper) 0742531635 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742531628 (alk. paper) 9780742531635 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines--History--20th century.


Church--History of doctrines--20th century.
Spiritual life--Orthodox Eastern Church.

BX382 / .T73 2003

281.9 / P713t