Jonker PhD dissertation on UP repository.pdf (original) (raw)
The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies Edited by Geoffrey Wainwright and Paul McPartlan, 2018
This chapter aims to clarify the role of the Orthodox Church in the ecumenical movement. Historically present in the movement from the beginning, and theologically challenging the understanding of unity in the movement right up to the present day, the Orthodox tradition has shown ambivalence in relation to other Christians and especially with regard to their claims to ecclesiality. An ecclesiological challenge has become the most remarkable characteristic of the Orthodox in the inter-Christian context. Nevertheless, the Orthodox tradition has demonstrated the capacity to reach agreements through dialogue in spite of difficulties associated with other Christian traditions such as the relativization of the inherited tradition. Among achievements on the way to Christian unity is rapprochement between the two Orthodox families, Eastern and Oriental. Many questions remain to be answered within the Orthodox Church in order to bring new breath into inter-Christian dialogue.
Revista Teologică, 2024
The present study aims to link two traditions that have intersected and interfered over the centuries, one representing the background on which the second has articulated its teaching in the struggle against heresies, and the second representing for many the answer and fulfillment of the first. This is ancient philosophy and Christianity. Beyond the question of terminology, we attempt in this study to identify the doctrinal elements of ancient philosophy that have found their place in one way or another in the Christian spiritual tradition, so that from here on we can understand how the ways of life that ancient philosophy proposed had something to offer to the Christian man.