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Here endeth the lesson - eventually!
My last post was the final installment of my reading of Metropolitan Zizioulas’ Being as Communion. My reading of this book, and the need to find a way to process it, was really the impetus that… more →
A vow of conversation
Here endeth the lesson - eventually!
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Macrina wrote 7 months ago: My last post was the final installment of my reading of Metropolitan Zizioulas’ Being as Commu … more →
Zizioulas on locality, universality and division
Macrina wrote 7 months ago: Zizioulas continues this last chapter of Being as Communion by briefly considering three areas that … more →
Zizioulas on the Local Church: the problem of the parish
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Macrina wrote 7 months ago: In the seventh and last chapter of Being as Communion, Zizioulas turns his attention to the identity … more →
Zizioulas on the "Validity" of the Ministry
Macrina wrote 8 months ago: In the fifth and last subsection of this sixth chapter of Being as Communion, Zizioulas turns his at … more →
Zizioulas on Ministry and Unity
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: Just as unus christianus nulla christianus, to remember the old Latin saying, in the same way a euch … more →
Zizioulas on the "sacramental" character of the ministry (II)
Macrina wrote 8 months ago: Zizioulas continues his discussion of the sacramental character of ministry by considering the soter … more →
Zizioulas on the "sacramental" character of the ministry (I)
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: In the third subsection of the sixth chapter of Being as Communion, Zizioulas turns his attention to … more →
Zizioulas on the relational character of ministry (continued)
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: … being a continuation of the second subsection of the sixth chapter of Being as Communion. In … more →
Zizioulas on the relational character of ministry
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: In the second subsection of the sixth chapter of Being as Communion, Zizioulas notes that discussion … more →
Zizioulas on Ministry and Communion: The Theological Perspective
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Macrina wrote 9 months ago: Zizioulas begins chapter six of Being as Communion by noting how scholastic theology has distorted o … more →
Zizioulas on conclusions for ecumenical discussion
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: How can this structure which emerges from the eschata be translated into concrete historical terms? … more →
Zizioulas on continuity through apostolic ministry (continued)
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: c) It is in the light of the idea of a community of structure that we should view the bishop’s … more →
Zizioulas on continuity through apostolic ministry
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: Zizioulas continues the third subsection of the fifth chapter of Being as Communion by noting that … more →
Zizioulas on continuity through the apostolic kerygma
Macrina wrote 9 months ago: In the third subsection of chapter five of Being as Communion, Zizioulas turns to some concrete impl … more →
Zizioulas on a synthesis between the "Historical" and "Eschatological" approaches to Apostolic Continuity
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Macrina wrote 10 months ago: In the second subsection of the fifth chapter of Being as Communion on apostolic continuity, Zizioul … more →
Quote of the day
Macrina wrote 10 months ago: Christ without His body is not Christ but an individual of the worst type. John D. Zizioulas. Being … more →
Zizioulas on the "Historical" and the "Eschatological" approaches to Apostolic Continuity
Macrina wrote 10 months ago: In this first subsection of the fifth chapter of Being as Communion, Zizioulas distinguishes two app … more →
Zizioulas on Apostolic Continuity and Succession
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Macrina wrote 10 months ago: In introducing the fifth chapter of Being as Communion, Metropolitan Zizioulas points out that Ortho … more →
Some conclusions on Catholicity: II
Macrina wrote 11 months ago: Being a continuation of points made in the fourth and last subsection of the fourth chapter of Being … more →
