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CEC Thematic Group Ecclesiology & Mission webinar on "The mutual recognition of baptism in Europe... more CEC Thematic Group Ecclesiology & Mission webinar on "The mutual recognition of baptism in Europe" 3 December 2020: https://youtu.be/rD10kmqwgRU

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Books by David Heith-Stade

Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium, 2019

Dionysius Exiguus (sixth century) contributed to making Greek patristic literature available in L... more Dionysius Exiguus (sixth century) contributed to making Greek patristic literature available in Latin. He was also the creator of the Dionysian Era (Common Era), which we still use today. His Collectio Dionysiana became a basic collection of canonical ius in the Western church during the first millennium. The Collectio Dionysiana was composed of two books: the Liber canonum, and the Liber decretalium. The Liber canonum is a collection of disciplinary decrees from church councils: mostly Eastern, but with some Western (Latin) councils. The Liber decretalium is a collection of decretal letters by the bishops of Rome (plus one imperial statute). The Collectio Dionysiana originated at a time of internal conflicts in the Church of Rome, when various factions used forgeries to claim legitimacy. The Collectio Dionysiana may have been a reaction against the use of forgeries. Dionysius attempted to make the “authentic” sources of church discipline available. The Collectio Dionysiana was later augmented in the form of the Collectio Dionysiana-Hadriana under Pope Hadrian I (eighth century) and sent to Charlemagne. This became the standard collection of canons and decretals for the Frankish Empire.

Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not b... more Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not been a study of the ecclesiology of the canons regulating marriage. Marriage is an object of right regulated both by civil law and the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Marriage as an object of right is at the intersection of two legal orders - the ecclesial and the civil. The canonical regulation of marriage as an object of right confronts us with a twofold ecclesiological problem: (a) how does the Church perceive the civil legal order in relation to its own legal order; and, (b) how is the self-understanding of the Church, i.e. its ecclesiology, reflected in its canon law? Thus, the ecclesiological problem examined in this study is the question of how the ecclesial polity (politeuma), as the Eucharistic ekklēsia of the people (laos) of the new covenant, actualizes itself as taxis within a concrete society. The hypothesis is that the aim of the ecclesial polity is covenant holiness, and, furthermore, that the aim of the canonical taxis is to establish and maintain covenant holiness within the concrete socio-historical setting of the ecclesial polity. By actualization, this means the diachronic institutional process whereby the ecclesial polity subsists in a society as an institution determined by its finality and institutional potentiality.

Papers by David Heith-Stade

Listening to the East. Synodality in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church Traditions

ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 67.1–2, 2023

Theologicon, Dec 1, 2015

The „title or ordination” refers to the requirement of an ordinand to be assigned to a specific p... more The „title or ordination” refers to the requirement of an ordinand to be assigned to a specific place of worship. This requirement is derived from canon 6 of the Council of Chalcedon (451). In Latin canon law the title of ordination came to be perceived as a way of guaranteeing clerical income (e.g., titulus beneficii). This essay studies how the title of ordination is interpreted in the doctrine of Eastern Orthodox canon law.

ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 66.3–4 , 2022

Theologische Quartalschrift 201:4, 2021

This essay attempts to provide an Eastern Orthodox perspective on the statement Together at the L... more This essay attempts to provide an Eastern Orthodox perspective on the statement Together at the Lord’s Table by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians in Germany. The statement and its conclusions are compared with the principles of Eastern Orthodox ecumenism, which were formulated in official documents of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Additionally, it is examined from the perspective of the agreed statements that were produced by the various international bilateral ecumenical dialogues of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Kanon: Yearbook for the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches 26, 2022

Oikonomia, dispensatio and aequitas canonica, 2016

This essay will analyze the status of non-Orthodox persons in Eastern Orthodox canon law and eccl... more This essay will analyze the status of non-Orthodox persons in Eastern Orthodox canon law and ecclesiastical law. The first part will analyze confessional status in the ordre public with focus on the historical development of the concept of state. The second part will analyze confessional status in relation to the Eastern Orthodox Church per se with focus on the concepts of communion and communicatio in sacris. The parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism as well as the antithesis between heresy and orthodoxy in the development of Christian doctrine made the theological idea of universal church (καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία) explicit. The communicatio in sacris was viewed as the manifestation of this idea. This communicatio in sacris presupposed certain bonds of unity (e.g., the rule of faith, the episcopal ministry, and the creed). The development of the regulation of confessional status in canon law aimed at ensuring the visibility of the universal church through the communicatio in sacris. After Constantine, the Roman state bestowed various privileges on the Christian church; however, this forced the state to legislate on Christian doctrine in order to determine which theological party was the legitimate beneficiary of these privileges. According to the worldview of antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine state also came to view Christian orthodoxy as a part of the salus publica. This also led to the discrimination and criminalization of other religious affiliations.

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2010

This study presents the historical development of marriage as a legal object in Eastern Orthodox ... more This study presents the historical development of marriage as a legal object in Eastern Orthodox canon law. The argument of the article is that the need of the ecclesial polity to adapt to a new situation following the Islamic conquests of the seventh century led to the development an ecclesiastical common law independent of Byzantine-Roman civil law in order to survive under Muslim rule. The sources of the canon law of marriage were Scripture, patristic customary law, and Byzantine-Roman civil law. It is further argued that the ...

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2011

This article analyses the doctrine of free will (autexousion) in the confessions of St. Peter Mog... more This article analyses the doctrine of free will (autexousion) in the confessions of St. Peter Mogila and Dositheos II Notaras of Jerusalem. Free will is a central concept in Eastern Christian anthropology and these two monuments of theology represent how the understanding of the concept of free will developed in Eastern Orthodox theology in the context of the confrontation with Western theologies in the seventeenth century.

Труды и переводы № 1 (4), 2021

David Heith-Stade s article is an application perspectives from theological anthropology on the B... more David Heith-Stade s article is an application perspectives from theological anthropology on the Byzantine canonical tradition. e classical Byzantine canonists presume that mortality, passions and desire are results of original sin that de nes postlapsarian human nature. In the prelapsarian state, human nature was potentially immortal and free to choose between virtue and vice, but with the help of grace of God the human person can cultivate virtue in the postlapsarian state.

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Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium, 2019

Listening to the East. Synodality in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church Traditions

ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 67.1–2, 2023

Theologicon, Dec 1, 2015

ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 66.3–4 , 2022

Theologische Quartalschrift 201:4, 2021

Kanon: Yearbook for the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches 26, 2022

Oikonomia, dispensatio and aequitas canonica, 2016

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2010

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 2011

Труды и переводы № 1 (4), 2021

We must beware of the pitfall of antiquarianism, and must remember that for otrr purposes our onl... more We must beware of the pitfall of antiquarianism, and must remember that for otrr purposes our only interest in the past is for the light it throws *iil"rliriìiití 10 pð g'ggo. 11 Cf. .ur,ot 7 of Constantinople I and canon 95 of in Trullo.

Efter 70 ar av statligt pabjuden ateism och aterkommande forfoljelser, har den Ryska Kyrkan under... more Efter 70 ar av statligt pabjuden ateism och aterkommande forfoljelser, har den Ryska Kyrkan under de senaste tva decennierna genomgatt en narmast mirakulos panyttfodelse och fornyelse. Svarigheterna ar manga; den nya friheten innebar manga utmaningar. En utmaning utgors av att manga i de nya generationerna har diffusa forestallningar om vad kristen tro ar. En av de mest framstaende i den nya generationen av teologer, larare och kyrkoledare ar metropoliten Hilarion (Alfejev) av Volokolamsk. Hans bok »Trons mysterium«, tankt som en lattillganglig introduktion till ortodox troslara for hans unga landsman, utgavs forsta gangen pa ryska ar 1996 och har hittills utkommit i fem upplagor. Boken har oversatts till en rad sprak, inte enbart engelska, franska, tyska och italienska utan aven exempelvis polska, finska och serbiska. I Trons mysterium, en introduktion till den ortodoxa kyrkans troslara och andlighet moter vi en undervisning som for manga kan bli en ogonoppnare om djupen och klarhe...

Studia Canonica, 2010

This article analyzes the development of the practice for receiving non-Orthodox in Greek Orthodo... more This article analyzes the development of the practice for receiving non-Orthodox in Greek Orthodox canon law. The main argument is that the development of this canonical institution was influenced by a pneumatological realist ecclesiology. This historical study of the development of a canonical institution will shed light on how Greek Orthodox canon law has functioned in practice.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter… Then it seemed good t... more The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter… Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church… For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and us… having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord." (Acts 15:8, 22, 28, 40). 1 "For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so, we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them…" (Romans 12:4-6). "For just as the body is one and has many members, all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). "For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God…" (Ephesians 2:18-19). "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." (1 Peter 2:9).

Public church law developed as a distinct discipline in the 19th century to deal with juridical p... more Public church law developed as a distinct discipline in the 19th century to deal with juridical problems concerning the constitution of the church and church-state relations following the radical political changes that took place during the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Restauration following the defeat of Napoleon. These problems have remained relevant until our own time.

Qui mos est causarum civilium, idem in negotiis ecclesiasticis obtinendus est." (Cod. Theod. 16.2... more Qui mos est causarum civilium, idem in negotiis ecclesiasticis obtinendus est." (Cod. Theod. 16.2.23) The canonical procedure in Orthodox canon law has historically been quite formless beyond the essential characteristics of litigation: (a) a charge or claim; (b) hearing the parties; (c) exchange of evidence; (d) reaching a verdict; (e) publishing and executing the verdict; and (f) a potential appeal to a higher court.

In my presentation I will attempt to apply perspectives from theological anthropology on the Byza... more In my presentation I will attempt to apply perspectives from theological anthropology on the Byzantine canonical tradition.

The term "sexuality" was coined in the nineteenth century. The term denoted a completely new conc... more The term "sexuality" was coined in the nineteenth century. The term denoted a completely new concept of psycho-biological sexual identities based on people's sexual desires which radically changed our sexual culture. The discovery of sexuality in the nineteenth century meant a sexual turn in philosophical and theological anthropology comparable to the Copernican turn in philosophical and theological cosmology.

A brief overview of ecclesiologies in post-Byzantine Eastern Orthodox dogmatic theology up to the... more A brief overview of ecclesiologies in post-Byzantine Eastern Orthodox dogmatic theology up to the 19th century.

Det Teologiske Fakultet Afdelning for Kirkehistorie Grunddragen av den ortodoxa teologins utbildn... more Det Teologiske Fakultet Afdelning for Kirkehistorie Grunddragen av den ortodoxa teologins utbildningskultur -Från Bysans fall (1453) till den första ortodoxa teologikongressen i Athen (1936) David Heith-Stade Jag ska i mitt anförande skissera dragen av den ortodoxa teologins utbildningskultur under efterbysantinsk tid fram till den panortodoxa teologkongressen i Athen 1936.

The cause of this evil is absolutism, which was transplanted from the political sphere to the chu... more The cause of this evil is absolutism, which was transplanted from the political sphere to the church, and which with an iron fist prevents the vitality of the parts of the church organism and deprives it of all effectiveness." 2-Andrei Şaguna