“Does the Eucharist Make the Church? An Ecclesiological Comparison of Stăniloae and Zizioulas, ” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 51:1 (2007): 23-70. (original) (raw)

The goal of this article is to attempt to answer a question: what is unique about Fr Dumitru Sta¬ niloae's ecclesiology that can be helpful for us today? Sta¬ niloae wrote extensively in the area of ecclesiology. 2 Unfortunately, the bulk of his work in this area (and that of 23 Ecclesiology," based primarily on Henri de Lubac and Nicolas Afanasiev, did not place a great emphasis on the Holy Spirit. 5 An explicit attempt to correct the lack of Pneumatology in the eucharistic ecclesiology of Afanasiev has been made by Metropolitan John Zizioulas, 6 who is perhaps the leading Orthodox ecclesiologist alive today. In so doing, he has made many valuable contributions to Orthodox ecclesiology. 7 Therefore, in order to identify what are the unique and valuable contributions of Sta¬ niloae for us today, one cannot avoid at least referencing the work of Zizioulas.