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The Council of the Fellowship, meeting at High Leigh (August,1979), decided that an increase in the price of subscriptions couldno longer be avoided. Accordingly we give notice that the annualsubscription for one volume of two issues will be £4.00 as fromvolume 2 (1980). We much regret this increase.

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EDITORIAL NOTES Sergei Hackel 6

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On death Anthony, MetropolitanofSourozh 8Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the

Churches Norman Russell 19The Filioque Question Edward Every 42Mary and the Eucharist Sebastian Brock 50The Woman taken in Adultery Lev Gillet 60

POETRYFlesh Laurence Lerner 63

NEWS AND COMMENTThe Ethiopian Orthodox Church Roger Cowley 64Greece and Russia John Lawrence 66The role of Exarch Stefan Kallistos Ware/

Grigorii Ivanov 70

REVIEW ARTICLEConfirmation F.J. Laishley 77

REVIEWSThe Human Presence by Paulos Gregorios E.L. Mascall 84

Living Tradition by John Meyendorff Rowan Williams 87The New Valamo Consultation introduced by G.

Tsetsis Roger Beckwith 89 Motifs from Genesis 1-11 in the Genuine Hymns

ofEphrem the Syrian by Tryggve Kronholm. . . Michael Weitzman 90

Aspects of Monasticism and Contemplative Life byJean Leclercq Ronald Creighton-JobeKatalogos Kheirographon tes Vatopdines Sketes

Agiou Demetriou by Erich Lamberz andEuthemios K. Litsas . Norman Russell 95

The Early Church Fathers as Educators by EliasMatsagouras Norman Russell 95

Church Union: Rome and Byzantium (1204-1453) by Joseph Gill Norman Russell 96

Byzantium by M. Yanagi et al Nicholas Gendle .98

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Strannik by Catherine de Hueck Doherty Elizabeth Moberly 100Father John of Kronstadt by Bishop Alexander(Semenoff-Tian-Chansky) . .'. Elizabeth Moberly 101

The VedicExperience,Mantramanjari byRaimundo Panikkar A.M. Allchin 102

Easter on Mount Athos recorded by ARCHIV. .. . BasilMinchin 105 Byzantine, Greek and Russian Icons exhibited at

the Temple Gallery, London Nicholas Gendle 106

Fellowship Affairs mOUR CONTRIBUTORS 112A Note on the Illustrations 113

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1 The Harrowing of Hell frontispiece

2 St Mark 17

3 The Saviour in Majesty 27

4 Patriarch Aleskii of Moscow (left) with guests (Moscow 1948):Catholicos-Patriarch

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EDITORIAL NOTES Sergei Hackel b

ARTICLESPaths to reconciliation Sergei tiackel 8The Orthodox Experience of Repentance Kallistos Ware 18Anselm of Havelberg and the Union of the

Churches Norman Russell 29British Aid to Russian Churchmen in 1919-39. . . . Donald Davis 42

POETRYDaniel in the Lion's Den John Heath-Stubbs 56

OBITUARIESArchbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira Kallistos Ware 58George Florovsky EL. Mascall/

Rowan Williams, 69Justin Popovic Elizabeth Hill „

NEWS AND COMMENTWilliam Palmer of Magdalen John Lawrence 80

REVIEWSThe Lord's Prayer and Jewish Liturgy, ed. Jacob

J. Petuchowski Michael Wadsworth 83ne Holy Spirit by C.F.D. Moule Kallistos Ware 84

Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early ChristianEgypt by Colin H. Roberts Richard Price 86

Sviatii Vasilii i Khristians'ke Asketichne Zhittia by

Pavlo J. Fediuk. Athanasius Pekar 89 Intoxicated with God: The Fifty Spiritual HomiliesofMacarius by George A. Maloney Charles Dilke 90

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Ban and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones Norman Russell 92

Communautés syriaques en Iran et Irak des originesà 1552 by J.-M. Fiey Sebastian Brock 94

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The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus'1848-1948by?za\R.y[aigocu Victor Swoboda

Church and State in Yugoslavia since 1945 by StellaAlexander Ivan Truman 100

Die Russisch-Orthodoxe Landpfarrei zu Beginn des XX Jahrhunderts by P. Erwin Immekus Martin Parmentier 104

The Unknown Homeland: A Samizdat MS tr.Marite Sapiets John Lawrence

The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware Benedicta Ward 107Orthodox Theology: An Introduction by Vladimir

Lossky Nicolas Zemov 109 Mother Maria: Her Life in Letters ed. Sister Thekla Barnabas Burton 110The Witness of the Armenian Church in a Diaspora

Situation by Aram Keshishian Elizabeth Moberly 112 Armenian Art by Sirapie der Nersessian Nicholas Gendle 113 L'art du Mont-Athos by Emmanuel Amand de

Mendieta R. Cormack 115Praying with Icons by Basil Minchin Ronald Creighton-Jobe 116

Books Received 118 Musique byzantine recorded by Lycourgos Angelo-

poulos Basil Minchin Bulgarian Sacred Melodies recorded by the Ivan

Koukousel Vocal Ensemble Basil MinchinOrthodox Church Music: To the Glory of God

recorded by the male voice choir of St Michael's

Cathedral, Belgrade Basil Minchin 121

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSA new Orthodox president S.JI. 122The Secretary's Notes Gareth Evans 122Annual Accounts 125OUR CONTRIBUTORS 1 3 °A Note on the Illustrations S.H. 131

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2 Emperor John II Comnenus

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ARTICLESBaptism in Byzantine Icongraphy Christopher Walter 8St Ephrem's Dialogue of Reason and Love Robert Murray 26Tradition and Translation Nigel Gotten 41A philosopher and his faith: the work of H.A.

Hodges Anne Borrowdale/ 50 Ann Loades

NEWS AND COMMENTA visit to the Coptic Church John and Alison Millbank 57Ethiopia Roger Cowley 65The Syrian Orthodox Church in Europe Sebastian Brock 6 6

The Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of CentralEurope . . . Isa Gûlcan/

Andrew PalmerPastoral Ministry in the Church of Greece David Widdows 72The Byzantine Saint Sebastian Brock

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OBITUARIESFr Lev Gillet Helle Georgiadis 79Graham Delbridge Colin Davey 86

REVIEWSThe Name of Jesus by Irénée Hausherr Kallistos Ware 87

La Spiritualité de l'orient chrétien by Thomas

Spidlîk L. BouyerUnderstanding Eastern Christianity by George

Every . Norman Russell Households of God: The Rule of St Benedict by

David Parry Ronald Creighton-JobeThe Future of Coptic Studies by R. McL. Wilson. . J. M.Hornus 99Saint Symeon the New Theologian: The Sin of

Adam tr. from the text of Theophan theRecluse Robert Ombres 100

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Byzantium and the Papacy 1198-1400 by JosephGill Bernard Hamilton 103

Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium by Donald Nicol George Every 106

Church, World and Mission by Alexander

Schmemann . . E.L. Mascall 107The Kingdom of Love and Knowledge by A.M.Allchin Kallistos Ware 112

Multiple Echo: Explorations in Theology byCornelius Ernst E.L. Mascall 114

Christ is in our Midst by Fr John/The Heart inPilgrimage by Christopher Bryant -. . Elizabeth Moberly 116

The Russian Journal - II by H.P. Liddon. . . . . . . Kallistos Ware 118 Bulgarian Monasteries by Georgi Chavrukov Christopher Walter 119 He Naodomia kai he Sygkhrone Tekhne by Kosta

Kalokyris Alexander Fostiropoulos 119

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1 The Baptism of St Paul Frontispiece

2 Zeus and Dionysius 13

3 The Baptism of Christ 13

4 The Baptism of Eustathius 18

5 Nachor asks for Baptism and is baptised 19

6 St Pelagia before Bishop Nonnus of Antioch 20

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IN MEMORIAM NICOLAS ZERNOV Nicolas Zernov (1898-1980) Kallistos Ware HThe writings of Nicolas Zernov Kallistos Ware 34

ARTICLESThe Concélébrant at Clamart: Lev Gillet in the

years 1927-8 Elizabeth Behr-Sigel 40Evdokimov and the monk within Cho D. Phan 53The mystery of the human person Kallistos Ware 62Jacob of Serugh on the Veil of Moses Sebastian Brock 70

NEWS AND COMMENTCatholic-Orthodox Dialogue: Patmos and Rhodes Norman Russell and

Louis Bouyer 86Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue : Llandaff 93Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Communion of.

Saints (agreed statement) 94Ecumenical work in India Edouard Hambye 97

OBITUARIESPatriarch Benedict Kallistos Ware 102Mother Mary Kallistos Ware 103

REVIEWSThe Holy Land by Jeremy Murphy O'Connor.... Edward Every \ 04

Hai Odai Solomontos by Vassilios Fanourgakis. . . Sebastian Brock 106

O megas Basileios by Panayotis C. Christou Gerald Bonner 107 HellenikePatrologia by ?ana.yotis C. Christou. . . . Norman Russell 110The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451-553)

by Patrick T.R. Gray Richard Price 112On the Divine Images by St John of Damascus . . . Elizabeth Moberly 114Filioque und Verbot eines anderen Glaubens auf

dem Florentinum by Hans-JurgenMarx Martin Parmentier 115The Theology of Purgatory by Robert Ombres . . . Geoffrey Howell 117Three Anglican Divines on Prayer: Jewel, Andrewes,

and Hooker by Paul Wessinger Hugh Wybrew 118

Christus Redemptor et Consumator: A Study inthe Theology ofB.F. Westcott by FolkeOlofsson Michael Ramsey 119

L'Eglise visible selon Serge Bulgakov by StanislawSwierkosz E.L. Mascall 120

The Church and Unity by B.C. Butler Methodios Fouyas 123Procès-verbaux du deuxième congrès de théologie

orthodoxe à Athènes 19-29 août 1976 éd. SavasAgourides Nicholas Behr 124The Faith We Hold by Archbishop Paul of Finland Elizabeth Moberly 126

Die russischen orthodoxen Bischofe von 1893 bis1965 by Metropolit Manuil (Lemesevskij) . . . . Sergei Hackel 127

0 Holy Mountain! Journal of a Retreat on Mount Athos by M. Basil Pennington 128

Ta monasteria kai hoi hagioi tou Olympou tes Bithynias by Bernardin Menthon Norman Russell 128

BOOKS RECEIVED 132

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRS Gareth Evans 134

Nicolas Zernov A.M. Allchin 136The Fellowship Conference 1980 Elizabeth Moberly 138South-East Europe Seminar Stella Alexander 141A Fellowship Retreat in Greece Jean R. Demos 142


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2 Nicolas Zernov (1910) 13

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ARTICLESThe blessed dead in Anglican piety E.R. Hardy 160One Body in Christ': Death and the Communion

of Saints Kallistos Ware 179The Communion of Saints Michael Ramsey 192Authority in the Orthodox Church Chrysostomos

Konstantinidis 197Sheptycky and the quest for union Myroslaw Tataryn 210

NEWS AND COMMENTThe Ethiopian Church 1974-81: an observer's

report 221Yugoslavia and Athos Georgiana Bell 224

OBITUARIESGeoffrey Curtis John Lawrence 227Christopher Morris Norman Russell 229Anne Pennington Hugh Wybrew 230

REVIEWS It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight by Jean-Michel

Hormis Richard Price 232Ethiopie Astronomy and Computus by Otto

Neugebauer . Symeon Lash 233Kosmas ho Melodos. by Theoharis Detorakis Elizabeth Brière 236Popes, Lawyers and Infidels by James Muldoon. . . /. Gill 237

The Ecclesiastical Career of Gregory Camblak byMuriel Heppell Sergei Hackel 239

GennadiosB'Scholarios byTheodorosN.Zissis . . J.Gill 240 Blessed Paisius Velichkovsky by Schema-monk

Metrophanes Robert Murray 243 Mat'Mariia (1891-1945) by S. Gakkel' [Hackel] . . Malcolm V. Jones 243 Jacob's Ladder hy Charles C. Hefling Barry Fogden 247The Way of the Heart by Henri J.M. Nouwen . . . . Ronald Creighton-Jobe 249The Fool and Other Writings by Mother Maria . . . Elizabeth Moberly 250Perfect Fools by John Saward Norman Russell 252

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(Geervarghese) Jean-Michel Hornus 260The Art of God Incarnate by Aidan Nichols Charles Dilke 262 Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom: Music

compiled and edited by Andrea Keck Michael Fortounatto 265Ex occidente Lex by Victor Pospishil Ralph Hyde 270

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSThe Secretary's Notes Gareth M. Evans 21AFor your diary 276

ILLUSTRATIONS

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2 The shrine of St Sergius of Radonezh 175

3 The funeral of a monk at the Trinity -St Sergius Monastery (Zagorsk) 181

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ARTICLESSt Symeon of Thessalonica: a polemical hesy-

chast DavidBalfour 6Ecclesiology: some dangers and temptations Vladimir Lossky 22Paradosis: the Orthodox understanding of

Tradition Constantine Scouteris 30Bishop Grafton of Fond du Lac and the Orthodox

Church Ernest C. Miller 38Beholding the light of His countenance: Solzhenit-

syn and U-81 John Arnold 49

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Prologue for a carol service John Heath-Stubbs 55

REPORTSThe D.J. Chitty Papers Kallistos Ware/ S6

Sebastian BrockAnglican-Orthodox Discussions 1981 Colin Davey 58

OBITUARIESBishop Samuel Use Friedeberg 60Patriarch Elias IV . . : . . ; . . . . . . Andreas Tilly rides/ ' '63

Sebastian BrockPatriarch Ignatius Yacoub III Clare Birch Amos 64Bishop Ceslaus Sipovich Helle Georgiadis ,67

REVIEWSThe Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition by

Andrew Louth Louis Bouyer 70 Jeremiah Prophet of God by Mother Maria. . . . . . Charles Dilke 74The Incarnation: Ecumenical Studies in theNicene-

Constantinopolitan Creed ed. Thomas F.Torrance E.L. Mascall 76

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The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition by Sebastian Brock Edward Yarnold

The Philokalia. The Complete Text tr. and ed.G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and KallistosWare Louis Bouyer 84

La vie religieuse à Byzance by Jean Gouillard . . . . George EveryThe Latin Church and the Crusader States by

Bernard Hamilton John GillinghamSt Innocent: Apostle to America by Paul D.

Garrett SergeiHackelThe Dynamic of Tradition by A.M. Allchin Kallistos WareTowards Reunion. The Orthodox and Catholic

Churches by Edward J. Kilmartin Peter C. Phan Le buisson ardent by Paul Evdokimov Peter C. Phan Many Worlds: A Russian Life by Sophie Koulomzin. Philip Walters 100 Zakatnyegody by N.M. Zernov John Lawrence 101Christ the New Passover by Valentina Za nd er .. . . Hugh Wybrew 103

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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2 StDemetrios of Salonica (Xenophontos, Athos) 17

3 The Descent of the Holy Spirit (Suzdal) 27

4 "The Picture': at the consecration of Bishop WeUer( 1900) 43

5 The Angel and the Shepherds (Ottoman MS) 54

6 Bishop Samuel with Pope Shenouda III (1979) 61

Editorial Notes

In the symposium Spirit of God - Spirit of Christ (reviewed below) the WorldCouncil of Churches recently published a carefully prepared Memorandum whichurges that 'the original form of the third article of the Creed, without filioque,should everywhere be recognised as the normative one and restored'. It is a recommendation by an ecumenical working party with no particular authority and it doesnot in itself bring nearer the day when all those who use the Nicene-Constan-tinopolitan Creed (the sixteenth centenary of which was celebrated last year) are atone both in their formulations and their faith. But it could certainly stimulatefresh discussion of this and of related issues. In Britain, at least, the BritishCouncil of Churches (prompted by the Orthodox) has already raised the questionwith its members.

Such questions are not easy to discuss in the current ecumenical climate; andtheir resolution is not impeded merely by theological or historical factors, importantthough these are. Paradoxically, growth in mutual understanding is too oftenseriously frustrated by the apparently positive by-products of ecumenism: courtesy,familiarity and tolerance. As a result the promotion of this or any other cause inorder to serve/accommodate/please/respect Our Orthodox friends' can blur theissue, which is one of truth.

Furthermore, when the Orthodox seek to point this out, they are not infrequentlydiscounted for being rigoristic, intransigent , unyielding, uncooperative. Sinning asthey do against those ecumenical virtues of courtesy and tolerance (= indifferentism?),their insistence on regrettably divisive truths is taken in ill part. Yet it could beargued that the ecumenical movement is as much hampered by friendliness andfacile fellowship as by divisive truths.

For there is a danger that a body like the World Council of Churches, as itcompletes a further term between Assemblies, might yet find (the recentMemorandum notwithstanding) that 'speaks the tru th with love' (Eph. 4:15) is lesslikely to appear on its end of term report than 'neither hot nor cold' (Rev. 3:15).And such a condemnation can too easily be earned by any body, however large orsmall. Only by care, sobriety and painful effort can it be avoided.

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RTICLEShe Prayer of the Heart in Syriac Tradition Sebastian Brock 131he spirituality of St Augustine and its influence

on Western mysticism Gerald Bonner 143he Holy Name of Jesus in East and West: the

Hesychasts and Richard Rolle +Kallistos of Diokleia 163he influence of Denys the Areopagite on Eastern

and Western spirituality in the fourteenthcentury Andrew Louth 185

he Spiritual Testament of St Teodosi of Turnovo. Muriel Heppell 201[emories of Fr Lev Gillet David Balfour 203

BITUARIESrchbishop Alexis van der Mensbrugghe W. Jardine Grisbrooke 212

EPORTS 217lie Coptic Orthodox Church 218he Ethiopian Orthodox Churchhe Anglican Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Colin Davey/ 219

Discussions +Kallistos ofDiokleiarchdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain Sergei Hackel 222

EVIEWSeoplatonism and Early Christian Thought ed.

H.J. Blumenthal and R.A. Markus A Meredith 225 yzantium and the Classical Tradition ed. M.Mullett and R. Scott Nicholas Gendle 227

he Byzantine Saint ed. S. Hackel John Meyendorff 228regory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses tr. A.J.

Malherbe and E. Ferguson Nicholas Gendle 230'ayer of the Heart by G. Maloney Helle Georgiadis 232a Chiesa Latina in Oriente by G. Fedalto /. Gill 232toes Chalcedon Divide or Unite? ed. Paulos

Gregorios et al Richard Price 233

Pearl of Great Price. The Life of Mother MariaSkobtsova 1891-1945 by S. Hackel Norman Russell 236

L'Etre ecclésial by J. Zizioulas E.L. Mascall 237The Representatives: The Real Nature and Func

tion of Papal Legates by M. Oliveri Norman Russell 238 A Touch of God. Eight Monastic Journeys ed. M.

Boulding Ronald Creighton-Jobe 239

The Holy Passion sung by the Patriarchal choirs, patriarchate of Constantinople Basil Minchin 240

Icons at the Temple Gallery Nicholas Gendle 241

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2 St Augustine at work on one of his books (Durham MS. BII. 22) 147

3 A hesychast at prayer * '"

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EDITORIAL SergeiHackel 5

ARTICLESWhat is a martyr? +Kallistos ofDiokleia 7Extended notions of martyrdom in the Byzantine

ascetical tradition David Balfour 20 Neomartyrs of the Greek Calendar Norman Russell 36

REPORTSLebanon Alan Amos 63Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue 1982 Louis Bouyer 65Dr Runcie in Bulgaria and Romania Michael Moore 66The Nicolas Zernov Memorial Lecture +Kallistos ofDiokleia 68

OBITUARIES

Jean-Michel Hormis Susan Ashbrook Harvey 70Joice Loch +Kallistos ofDiokleia 71

REVIEWS Byzance ou l'autre Rome by Jean Decarreaux . . .The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church by

John Meyendorff. George Every 73Egeria's Travels in the Holy Land ed. and tr. J.

Wilkinson Richard Price 74St Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons tr.

Catherine P. Roth Nicholas Gendle 75 Byzantium and the Rise of Russia by John

Meyendorff SergeiHackel 76

To Elleniko Kollegio tis Romis kai i Mathites tou(1576-1700) by Z.N. Tsirpanlis J.Gill 78 Die Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Kirche in

Griechenland by Philippos Spyropoulos Gerald Bray 79 Das Eucharistieversammlung als Kirche by Peter

Blank Gerald Bray 80Christianity in the Holy Land ed. D.-M. A. Jaeger . Edward Every 82

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1 Mother Maria Skobtsova (portrait by N. Verevkina) 1 3

2 'Dying, and behold we live': icon of St Paraskeve, martyr 19

3 St John Chrysostom: mosaic icon (formerly at Vatopedi, Athos) 33

4 St Philothei, neomartyr (popular printed icon) 4 5

5 St George of Yannina, neomartyr (painting by Nicholas Vranos) 47

6 Patriarch Gregory V (bust by John Kossosj 5 7

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At the end of April 1703 , a Christian priest in Cairo was sentenc ed to death forrefusing to abjure his faith. That 'the Greek Church fasted for three days before theexecution in support of the martyr' might seem only proper. Yet the condemnedman was a Catholic; and his martyrdom was thus experienced as something whichsuperseded and possibly even counteracted the divisions of the Christian world. Norwere the Greeks alone in making this response. As Fr Norman Russell points out inhis article below, 'the Copts and Armenians also expressed their solidarity withmessages to the Catholic community'.

Such solidarity in suffering can be an important ingredient, even a catalyst, inecumenism. It can inspire and undergird, it can at times correct, the academicecumeni sm of the 'professionals' . As Fr Lev Gillet wrote almost twen ty years ago

in Sobornost,There are many varieties of ecumenism. We are all well acquainted with theecumenism of Stockholm, Lausanne, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Lund,Evanston, the ecumenism of theological exchange. This variety is certainlyuseful and perhaps necessary. [But] there are other forms of ecumenism,among which I shall mention one above all — the ecumenism of the concentration camps.

For it was in such places as Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz (not to mentionthe camps of the Stalinist world) that 'Christians belonging to different Churchesdiscovered t hroug h thei r co mmon sufferings and their_ burning charity a deep unityat the foot of the cross'. Furthermore, 'this ecumenism had its witnesses, itsmartyrs'. And Fr Lev mentions three to represent them all: the Protestant pastorDietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45), the Catholic priest Josef Metzger (1887-1944), and

the Orthodox nun Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945).All three were killed for Christ, all three were witnesses for the ecumenicalfellowship of blood which is expressed in this sentence from the [1943]testament of Metzger: Ί feel myself as closely united to my believing andconscientious Protestant brothers in Christ Jesus through Baptism and ourcommon experience in the same Lord, as to the brethren with whom I sharethe fellowship of the Holy Sacrament'.

The symbolic lighting of candles in the chapel of the twentieth-century martyrs in

Canterbury Cathedral at the outset of Pope John Paul's visit to Great Britain was,

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The Historical and Ecumenical Significance of Jeremias IPs Correspondence with the Lutherans by Constantine N. Tsirpanlis Gerald Bray 94

Synodica V: Congrès pour l'examen de la questiond'une célébration commune de Pâques (a sym posium) Benedicta Ward 94

IEleftheria tou Ithous by Christos Yannaras Norman Russell 96

Person und Eros by Christos Yannaras Gerald Bray 98Orthodoxy: Faith and Life. Christ and the Life of

the Church by Gerasimos Papadopoulos Gerald Bray 99 Der theologische Dialog zwischen der Rbmisch-

Katolischen Kirche by Gerassime-ChrysostomZaphiris Gerald Bray 100

Communio Sanctorum (a symposium) Gerald Bray 101

Russia's Catacomb Saints by Ivan Andreyev Norman Russell 102

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FELLOWSHIP NOTES 105OUR CONTRIBUTORS 108

ILLUSTRATIONS1 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (Lesnovo fresco, 1349) 132 The monastery at Solovki (nineteenth century photo) 273 St Ephrem of Syria with two other saints (Novgorod tablet-icon,

early 16th century) 364 Zacharias struck dumb at the temple (the doors of Santa Sabina,

Rome, c.422-40) 435 Reception at the Moscow Patriarchate, October 1943 496 Simonos Petras monastery, Athos 59

Editorial

The few who first met together on 11 January 1927 for an ecumenical conferenceat St Albans (there were 42 participants in all) and who continued their discussionsa year later (by which time their number had risen to 65) could hardly haveexpected that the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius which grew out of theirfriendships — it was founded in January 1928 — would last, let alone flourish,throughout the succeeding half century or more. Still less could they have antici

pated the importance of the unobtrusive yet catalytic role it was to play in thedeveloping ecumenical world of the 1930s and 40s. Yet it provided a rare if notunique forum for Anglicans and Orthodox not only to meet but worship together,and this long before the development of such local, regional and internationalcouncils of churches as we expect to find in most parts of the Christian worldtoday.

It would be rash to suggest that such consultations as the Anglican-OrthodoxJoint Doctrinal Discussions (the most recent session of which has just successfullytaken place at Odessa) could not have been held without the preparatoryencounters between Christian East and West which the Fellowship did so muchto encourage. Yet the tone of these discussions, and of those like them, couldhardly have been the same without the Fellowship's quiet contribution over the previous years.

But what of the present and the immediate future? With the current proliferationof ecumenical bodies, conferences and publications, has the Fellowship still a roleto play? If so (and which of its members would seek to doubt it?) should it still be played in the established and long-since accepted fashion?

Such questions require to be pondered by its members and its council. But mostobviously of all (in the wake of Fr Gareth Evans' resignation, which is announced

below) they need to be pondered — and no doubt are already being pondered — byits newly elected secretary-general, the present vicar of Pinner, Canon Hugh

Wybrew. It need hardly be said that his experience in the field of Anglican-Orthodox (and not only Anglican-Orthodox) relations provide him with thenecessary perspectives. Yet this is not to say that ready answers are at hand. In anycase, ready answers are likely to be suspect, flimsy and counterproductive. In thissphere, as in others, fruit has to be brought forth with patience. The precedingfifty-five years have already given Fellowship members an awareness of this. Itremains for current and future members to distinguish patience from passivity,while yet avoiding all temptation to confuse forced growth with organic, if subtlyfostered, maturation.

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ARTICLES'Never as gods': icons and their veneration Constantine Scouteris 6Martyrdom A.M. Allchin / 19

The Oxford Movement, the Fathers and the Bible . Andrew Louth 30Raphael Popov, Bulgarian Uniate bishop: problemsof Uniatism and Autocephaly Christopher Walter 46

REPORTSThe Anglican/Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions

1983 Symeon Lash 61Lebanon Alan Amos 64

IN MEMORIAM DEMETRIOS KOUTROUBÎSAthens to Walsingham +Kallistos ofDiokleia 67A monk-of-the-world Elias Mastroiannopoulos 71 -,.The Master Builder Christos Yannaras 72A vision of unity in diversity A;M. Allchin 73

OBITUARIESEric Abbott Etta Gullick 78Ivan Young Michael Silver 79Harry Byrom ό Basil and Margaret

Minchin 81Irina Findlow Alberic Stacpoole

Carl Witton-Davies 82Alexander Schmemann

83REVIEW ARTICLETranslating the Liturgy David Balfour 84

REVIEWS New and Old in God's Revelation by Benedict

Englezakis R. Morgan 97/ Thessalonians. A Commentary by Paul Nadim

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Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell Benedicta Ward Art and Eloquence in Byzantium by Henry Maguire. Nicholas GendleTo Syngraphikon Ergon tou Oikoumenikou Patri-

archou Kallistou /by Demetrios Gones DavidBalfourOrthodox Liturgical Dress by Archimandrite

Chrysostomos KyrilJennerThe Christians of St Thomas [...] and their

Syriac Manuscripts by J.P.M. van der Ploeg. . . . Sebastian BrockSunset Years: A Russian Pilgrim in the West by

Nicolas Zernov +Robert Cantuar Mia de Beausobre: A Russian Christian in the

West by Constance Babington Smith +Kallistos ofDioklekThe Orthodox Church in Russia ed. Archbishop

Pitirim of Volokolamsk Sergei Hackel

The Festivals of Greek Easter by Carole Papoutsis. Norman Russell

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSThe Fellowship Conference 1983 Muriel HeppellGareth Evans AM. AllchinThe Secretary's Notes Hugh WybrewThe Associate Secretary's Notes Elizabeth BriereFor your diaryOUR CONTRIBUTORS

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1 St John Damascene (fresco by Frankos Katelanos, 1548)

2 Edward Bouverie Pusey (drawing by Edward Kilvert, 1843)

3 Title page of Pusey's 'condemned' sermon (1843)

4 The baptism of the Bulgarians (Bulgarian miniature, 1344/5)

5 Demetrios Koutroubis (photograph by Louise Taylor)

6 St Basil the Great (Greek icon, sixteenth century)

Editorial

The ecumemnical scene is not limited to, it is certainly not rooted in such elaborateassemblies as took place in Vancouver last year. There can be no doubt that there isan important role for broadly-based structures and institutions which seek tofurther accord between divided Christians. But the larger the body, the less personalits activities are likely to be. Whereas union with God — and by extension, unity inhis Church — remains (in Lossky's words) 'a mystery [. ..] worked out in human persons'.

The value of the personal contribution to this end is demonstrated in theremarkable life of Demetrios Koutroubis, some notes on which are published below. Remarkable, yet unremarked — the more remarkable, it could be said, sinceunremarked. Eirenically and unobtrusively, this man sowed seeds in ground thatmight well have remained fallow, if not untended altogether, had he not perceivedits promise.

In respect of ecumenism, his was not the way of reductionism or of compromise.It none the less involved an unblinkered, positive and perceptive approach to theworld beyond the confines of his Church. The Fellowship of St Alban and St

Sergius (whose 'ideals and spirit [. .. ] were close to his heart') has much to gainfrom the model of a Koutroubis.The funds which it now so urgently requires to sustain its modest activities1 will

not be used to emulate the structures, programmes or pretensions of bodies like theWCC. Rather will they ensure the continued provision and cultivation of a fertileoasis à la Koutroubis; of a milieu where people may encounter each other as

persons, and so deepen their understanding of what it means to be fellow-Christians.Hence the designation of this body. It is not simply a council, committee or association. It is a fellowship.

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ARTICLESThe fool in Christ as prophet and apostle +Kallistos of Diokleia 6Prophecy and the establishment: the challenge of

biblical criticism David Balfour 29

POEMSinai Ioanna Tsatsos/ 41

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LEV GILLET MEMORIAL LECTUREThe heart strangely warmed: Eastern Orthodoxy

and the Free Church tradition in the West .. John Newton 43

REPORTSThe House of St Gregory and St Macrina: the first

quarter century +Kallistos of 55 Diokleia/RalphTownsend

OBITUARIESAlexander Schmemann Peter Scorer 64Last sermon Alexander Schmemann 68Vsevolod Shpiller John Lawrence 69

REVIEWSThe Message of the Bible by George Cronk ... John Platt 72The First Day of the New Creation by Veselin

Kesich Edward Yarnold 73 Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church byChristopher Walter Nicholas Gendle 75

Theologika Meletima 4: Ymnographika byPanayiotis K. Christou Elizabeth Briere 77

Ending the Byzantine Schism by James Likoudis Norman Russell 78Gregory Palamas: The Triads ed. J. Meyendorff,tr. N. Gendle David Balfour 82Catholics and Sultans by Charles A. Frazee ... Joseph Gill 83Valamo and its Message by Archbishop Paul et al. Pegeen O 'Flaherty 84


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Patrick Sookhdeo John Alachouzos 89The Chimes and Hymns of the Russian Orthodox

Church (records) Basil Minchin 91

COMMENT

'Translating the Liturgy' Elizabeth Fenton 92

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There used to be advertisements in the papers, perhaps still are, which assured prospective clients that they need only suscribe to a course in Pelmanism to be

successful in life. Was this possibly the secular equivalent of similar offers made by some sectarians? In either case it was the antithesis of that for which any self-denigrating Fool for Christ would wish to strive — or prophet either. Rather wouldthey expect — many would actively seek — to be despised and rejected of men.And in this at least they would be in accord with that prophet who was 'much morethan a prophet' (Luke 7:20) and who (as Bishop Kallistos suggests below) mightalso even be seen as the supreme Fool, Christ himself.

This issue of Sobornost/ECR dwells much on the peculiar folly of the Fools.It dwells inter alia on its prophetic nature. It dwells also on the importance of

prophecy as such. Indeed, in each of the two papers taken over from last summer'sFellowship Conference there is a comparable insistence on the need to recognise ,'two types of hierarchy' in the life of the Church (Bishop Kallistos), 'the importanceof establishment and prophets alike' (David Balfour).

Much of this discussion concerns Orthodox Christianity. But the concept of theholy Fool is not the prerogative of the Christian East. Among Western Christians,the Free Churches (the subject of John Newton's paper) also 'have had their "Foolsin Christ" '. And although John Wesley was careful to insist that 'religion and reasongo hand in hand' and that 'all irrational religion is false religion', he would no doubthave appreciated the intention of one of his followers [Billy Bray] not to acceptany limitations on his prophetic preaching. Despised and rejected of men thoughhe might be and thus forcibly confined to a barrel, Ί would [insisted Bray] shout"Glory!" through the bung-hole'.

Fools and prophets, uncomfortable and inconvenient as they are, reach out beyond — at times they modify — the confines of the day's religious establishment. Theymove in uncharted realms. And it is thus among them that it is possible to encounter

those few who can say (in the words of Ioanna Tsatsos' poem Sinai), Ί hear thingsnot heard before'.SERGEI HACKEL

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Liturgy and eschatology Alexander Schmemann 6'Rejoice, sceptre of Orthodoxy' Elizabeth Briere 15Anglican or Orthodox? The Scottish dimension of

the 'Palmer affair' Christopher Knight 25

REPORTSThe Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo Ivan Truman 44The Byzantine Rite at Niederaltaich Christian Leisy 50The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch

and all the East Sebastian Brock 53

REVIEWSThe Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective

by Pinchas Lapide Helle Georgiadis 56Easter Enigma by John Wenham Helle Georgiadis 57Cyrillonas. L'Agneau véritable: hymnes, cantiques,

homélies tr. Dominique Cerbelaud; Jeand'Apamée. Dialogues et Traités tr. RenéLavenant Sebastian Brock 59

Symeon the New Theologian: The Practical andTheological Chapters [...] tr. Paul McGuckin Nicholas Gendle 60

The Philokalia: The Complete Text, volume iii, tr.and ed. G.E.H. Palmer et al Nicholas Gendle 61

Muhammad and the Christian by Kenneth Cragg Alan Amos 63The Joy of All Creation by A.M. Allchin Nicholas Lossky 64

Bishops: But What Kind? ed. Peter Moore .... Symeon Lash 66 Luther et la reforme allemande dans une perspective oecuménique by W. Schneemelcheret al Gerald Bray 69

Baptism and Eucharist: Ecumenical Convergencein Celebration ed. M. Thur ian and G.Wainwright Gerald Bray 71

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FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSSecretaries' Notes Hugh Wybrew/

Elizabeth Briere 79The Fellowship Conference 1984 Kenneth Storer

The Athens chapter Retreat Hugh WybrewPhiloxenia Elizabeth Briere

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1 Christ offering the chalice to his apostles (St Michael's, Kiev,1108-13) n

2 Head of the Virgin (Kariye Djami, Constantinople: early fourteenth century) 19

3. The Mother of God and Child, (Byzantine Museum, Athens: fourteenth century) 23

4 William Palmer (engraving by Joseph Brown) 27

5 Bishop Skinner's letter to the President of Magdalen, 1846(Library of Magdalen College, Oxford) 37

6 Gracanica: fresco of St Constantine and St Helena (fourteenthcentury) 49

Editorial

'All the peoples of Europe share a Christian past', noted Cardinal Basil Hume onthe festival of St Methodius (27 February 1985); and 'many share a Christian faithand commitment'. It is a fair generalisation, though the Jews remain to be accounted

for. And it quietly draws attention to the dissonance between its two parts, to the potential implied in the first and the strictly limited realisation of it in the second.So limited indeed, that there is talk of a 'post-Christian' era: 'an era has finished',argues Fr Alexander Schmemann below, 'an era characterised by the existence ofa Christian Church [...], a Christian world'. So much so, insisted Cardinal Humeon St Methodius' day, that the evangelisation of Europe must start all over again'as if it had never happened'. Certainly, there was no room for complacency onthe 1100th anniversary of St Methodius' death.

No longer, as in the days of Sts Cyril and Methodius, is any kind of mission likelyto raise thorny questions of alternative languages or rites. Nor should it involvemerely the question of modifying the Church's traditional mode of discourse inwhat Fr Alexander terms 'a desperate search for a common language with the world',whether political or scientific in its terminology or (more ominous) presuppositions.

It is not such language which is likely to heal or redeem a 'post-Christian ' world:least of all if the language is not rooted in the simplicity and integrity of the gospel,that source of energy which (in Schmemann's words) 'the Church possessed whenit was conquering the world'. Then was the Church sustained, then was it imbued by 'the truth, the righteousness, the joy of the Kingdom of God'.

It can still be so imbued. Even in a Christian context which no longer allows fora Methodius to be simultaneously an emissary of the pope of Rome and the patriarchof Constantinople, even in a world which can be designated 'post-Christian', thereis room, there is the more room, for light to shine in the darkness. And it couldyet be, as it should be, that those many peoples 'who once shared a Christian past'will again and more profoundly share an authentically Christian present.

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ARTICLESAnglicans and Eastern Christendom Colin Davey 6The Liturgy as Tradition and Tradition as Liturgy John Chryssavgis 18The thrice-holy hymn in the Liturgy Sebastian Brock 24Idols and Images: early definitions and controversies g. Irven M. Resnick 35

REVIEW ARTICLEThe Dublin Agreed Statement 1984: a Uniate view Serge Keleher 52

REVIEWSThe Oxford Book of Prayer ed. G. Appleton and

Seasons of the Spirit ed. G. Every et al Benedicta Ward 57

Athos, the Holy Mountain by Philip Sherrard . Norman Russell 59Prince-Bishop Njegosh 's Religious Philosophy byZ.R. Prvulovich Norman Russell 61

Our People, Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America by'P.R. Magocsi Serge R. Keleher 62

Orthodoxy in Finland, Past and Present ed. V.Purmonen Norman Russell 64

Pavel Florenksy: A Metaphysics of Love by R.Slesinski Frederick J. Copleston 65

The Communion of Love by Matthew the Poor Ronald Creighton-Jobe 68The Jesus Prayer Today by A.A. Vogel Nicholas Gendle 69

La théologie dans l'église et dans le monde ed. D.Theraios et al Gerald Bray 71

The Orthodox Vigil by John Tavener John V. Heyes 73

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2 The Pantokrator with seraphim and four winged creatures (Suzdal)

3 Satan is cast down (Suzdal)

4 The evangelist Luke as iconographer

Editorial

'Dogma cannot be understood apart from experience', wrote Vladimir Lossky: 'thefulness of experience cannot be had apart from true doctrine.' Such an attitudeinforms, undergirds and justifies much of the Fellowship's life. More than that,the stance of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius on this matter over the

last half century or more has come to be reflected in undertakings further afield,such as the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions, an assessment of whosesecond Agreed Statement (1984) is given below. 'Faith and worship are inseparable'notes this Report. 'Dogmas are not abstract ideas existing for themselves [. . .].'

To many readers of our journal this may seem self-evident. Yet it was not solong ago that respectable ecumenists were attempting to negotiate some academic,inorganic 'recognition of orders' or 'terms of intercommunion', as Colin Daveyindicates in his article on 'Anglicans and Eastern Christendom'. Ecumenism waswedded to diplomacy, at times confused with it, and the whole business could thus

be conducted in an inappropriate manner and, worse, on entirely the wrong level. Not that emotionalism is to be preferred. As Lossky was careful to point out,

'experience' is insufficient in itself, profound though it may be. Nor is it necessarily stabilised by concern for outlandish imagery or rites. The contemplation, even

the investigation of such imagery or rites may prove to be a distraction, may proveto be idolatrous. Certainly, in Lossky's terms, neither is likely to come to fruition('fulness') unless 'true doctrine' shapes the experience and validates it. At the sametime, the ultimate validation of doctrine and experience alike is beyond individualsas it is beyond commissions. For it pertains to the Church.

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Revelation of the Spirit, language beyond words Boris Bobrinskoy 6The Mystery of the Church in the Dublin Agreed

Statement Hugh Wybrew 15Unity and disunity today Militza Zernov 23Isaac of Nineveh: some newly-discovered works Sebastian Brock 28The Saints of Durham Gerald Bonner 34

REPORTAn active community of Coptic Orthodox nuns John Wraw 47

OBITUARIESArchbishop Basil (Krivoshein) Kallistos of Diokleia 51Paul Anderson Donald E. Davis 55

REVIEWSThe Early Fathers on War and Military Service

by L.J. Swift Gerald Bray 59 Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings tr.

G.C. Berthold Norman Russell 60The Deification of Man: St Gregory Palamas and

the Orthodox Tradition by G.I. Matzaridis .. Nicholas Gendle 61St Symeon of Thessalonike: A Treatise on Prayer

tr. H.L.N. Simmons Nicholas Gendle 63 New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke tr. L.J.

Papadopulos et al Norman Russell 64

Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and, Reformed Churches ed. T.F. Torrance Gerald Bray 65Growth in Agreement ed. H. Meyer and L. Vischer Gerald Bray 67

Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual by BodenClarke Norman Russell 68

Byzantine Churches of Greece and Cyprus by E.Mastrogiannopoulos Nicholas Gendle 69

I Pankosmios Ekchysis tou Agiou Pneumatos (andtwo other works) by Eusebius Stephanou . . . . Kyril Jenner 71

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS 8 8

FOR YOUR DIARY 8 9

ILLUSTRATIONS1 The Baptism of Christ: icon of the sixteenth century 11

2 Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov 2 7

3 The Crucifixion: carving of the fifteenth/sixteenth century 31

4 Symeon of Durham: two initials from the oldest manuscripts ofhis History (twelfth century) 4 1

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Editorial

Was Christ 'imprisoned in human words'? As Fr Boris Bobrinskoy suggests below,this was an important, if neglected, aspect of his incarnation and of his humiliation.

Certainly, if the Word himself accepts the limitation of mere words, then he must

revitalise the language of the human race, just as he brings new life to those whouse it. Even so, 'we know in part, and we prophesy in part'. Only in part, forlanguage remains the product and the tool of an imperfect world. And only 'whenthat which is perfect shall come' shall that 'which is in part' be done away.

Language is to be superseded, and even in the present, necessarily limited stateof man's perception it is possible for him to speak, and to speak in all sobriety,of 'language beyond words', to aspire to its use, at times and at best to engage init. That such aspirations and such practice find their distorting mirror in aspectsof the pentecostal movement (see Fr Kyril Jenner's remarks below) is insufficentreason to ignore them.

At present, even with the best will in the world (and the Fellowship is in businessto promote no less), Christians of different traditions cannot but encounter 'thedifficulty of finding a language, let alone a common language, in which to speak

coherently of the Church'. The comment is made on the basis of the Fellowship'sown conference (see the conference report). But it might also have been made bythe participants of the Dublin discussions, on which Fr Hugh Wybrew reported tothe same conference (and on the pages of this issue). It might have been made byany ecumenical body, and it could have concerned many a question in addition tothat of the Church.

The answer is not to retire into some easy-going non-committal comprehensiveness,thé dangers of which are noted by Dr Militza Zernov in her comment on 'Unityand disunity today'. Of course the permissive use of 'Church' or any other conceptwould liberate all and sundry from the burden of controversy. But it would bring people together only on/the level of phraseology, not commitment or belief.

Hence the need to treat words with due concern. Hence the need also to look beyond

words, to that language which in part is 'the language of praise' (to use Bobrinskoy'sformulation). It must be accepted that 'the mystery of the Church cannot be fullydefined or described', as the Dublin Agreed Statement points out. Otherwise whatsort of mystery would that be? But it can be experienced, and if experienced, shared.

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ARTICLESThe human person as an icon of the Trinity .. . Kallistos of Diokleia 6St Athanasios: the dynamics of salvation George Bebawi 24Pobedonostsev and Riley: a conversation

of 1889 J.F. Coakley 42 Nadezhda Gorodetskaia: the study and the

practice of kenosis Elizabeth Hill 51

POEMThe tree of the cross C.A. Trypanis 62

OBITUARYPanayiotis Nellas Niphon Alexiou 64

REPORTSSynaxi Sotiris Gounelas 66Gilbert Shaw Rod Hacking 68

COMMENT'The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo':

further responses S.H. 71

REVIEWSThe Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire

by J.M. Hussey David Balfour 73Gregory Nazianzen: Selected Poems

tr. J. McGuckin Nicholas Gendle 75The Life of St Nicholas of Sion

tr. I. and N.P. Sevcenko Mary Cunningham 77 Man and the Cosmos by Lars Thunberg Norman Russell 78

The Prologue from Ochrid by Nikolai Velimirovic Benedicta Ward 80The Mosaics of S. Marco in Venice by Otto Demus Nicholas Gendle 81

The Period of Annunciation-Nativity in the EastSyrian Calendar by John Moolan Sebastian Brock 84

Apostolic Faith Today by Hans-Georg Link ... Gerald Bray 85Go Forth in Peace ed. I. Bria George Theokritoff 86Towards a Fuller Vision by E.C. Miller Gerald Bray 87

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ILLUSTRATIONS1 The Old Testament Trinity by Andrei Rublev

2 The Old Testament Trinity: detail

3 Nativity

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It does not take many words to profess faith in the Trinity. Over the last twenty-five years, all member-Churches of the World Council of Churches have been formally required to make this ancient and orthodox profession; and it is willingly made.

But the words are one thing, their implications another. In many a Church, eventhe most tradition-bound, there may yet be found Christians, as Bishop Kallistossuggests below, for whom trinitarian teaching is 'an embarrassing complication,unhelpful and irrelevant'. Thus many of them, 'for all their orthodox professionof faith in the Trinity, are almost just "monotheist" in their actual religiousexperience'. So suggests Karl Rahner; so also Bishop Kallistos, who quotes him.

This may lead them in various directions. An increased emphasis on the humanityof Christ may lead to a near-Arian understanding of his person; or a commitment

to Pentecostalism may involve a disproportionate emphasis on the role of the HolySpirit. In either case, that dynamic unity in diversity of which so eloquent a symbolis provided in Rublev's early-fifteenth-century icon (page 17) is challenged or ignored.

But it should not be ignored, since central to the faith. By the same token, neithershould challenges to it be treated merely as an academic matter. The explorationof such questions necessarily concerns the specialist. But the mystery he or sheexplores relates to the spiritual stability and salvation of all. For those whose baptism and prayers are performed in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,the question 'am I just a monotheist after all?' deserves a rigorous response.

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ARTICLESOrdination and Vocation H.J.M. Turner 6Tears and Fire: recovering a neglected tradition Maggie Ross 14

The American YMCA and the Russianemigration Donald E. Davies 24The Church of Macedonia: 'limited auto-cephaly' or schism? Stevan K. Pavlowitch 42POEMMeteora — manasteries of the air Heather Buck 60

REPORTSThe Panorthodox Preconciliar Conference of 1986 Philippe Sabant 62Ά Week of Profound Unity': The generalassembly of Syndesmos Elizabeth Briere 67 -The St Theosevia Centre A.M. AllchinLay Academy in Finland Elizabeth Briere 71

REVIEWSThe Study of Spirituality edited by CheslynJones, Geoffrey Wainwright and EdwardYarnold Norman Russell 72The World of the Desert Fathers: Stories andSayings from the Anonymous Series of the

Apopthegmata patrum by Columbia StewartOSB. L'évangile au désert: origines et developp-ment de la spiritualité monastique by PlacideDeseille Norman Russell 75

Death and Resurrection by J.E. McW. Dewart.The Eucharist by D.T. Sheerin Gerald Bray 11

Being as Communion. Studies in Personhoodand the Church by John D. Zizioulas Paul McPartlan 78Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A ConciseExposition Mark Stokoe 81/ aghii ton Vretanikon Nison by BishopChristophoros Kommodatos Norman Russell 82

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Sviashch. Anatolii Zhurakovskii: Materialy k zhitiiu R.M. Price 84

BOOKS RECEIVED 87

COMMENT'Towards a fuller vision' A.M. Allchin 90

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSThe Secretary's Report Elizabeth Briere 92

Fellowship Conference 1986 Elizabeth Briere 95

For your Diary 100


ILLUSTRATIONS

1 Dr John Mott, Mother Maria Skobtsova, Metropolitan Evlogii 31

2 The cover of the journal Put ' 373 St Clement of Ohrid 49

4 Patriarch German and Archbishop Angelarij 53

5 Meteora 61

6 Christos Yannaras at the Fellowship conference 97

Editorial

It is not as if Sobornost/ECR deliberately avoids contentious issues. But it so happensthat this issue (some may breathe a sigh of relief) devotes no more than one foot

note to the ordination of women in the Church of England. The footnote — it belongs to the artic le on O rdinat ion and vocation ' — is importan t enough to openup a new dimension in the unhappy inter-Anglican debate, where sociological or psychological answers have too often been proffered in preference to, or in ignoranceof, such as are properly speaking theological.

The principle of Anglican comprehensiveness has been brought into play in orderto validate yet another step in the direction of a female priesthood. And within theAnglican Communion it is a principle which clearly has its part to play. But com prehensiveness inevitably also has its side effects. The more a ship takes on board,the greater the displacement of the waters which surround it. Among those whoare displaced are the Orthodox.

In the Pendeli statement of 1978, the Orthodox members of the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Commission issued a firm warning that this would in

deed be so. They spoke of the likelihood of women's ordination as 'a disastrousreverse for all our hopes of unity between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy' and, inan appeal to the Lambeth Conference of that year, entreated Anglicans 'not to proceed further' with it. It was, after all, no minor modification of discipline that was involved. Were not Christians today, no less than previously, 'bound to remain faithfulto the example of our Lord, to the testimony of Scripture, and to the constant,unvarying practice of the Church for two thousand years'?

Even if reason, rather than tradition should be the determining factor in suchmatters (as at least one Anglican bishop has urged), can such weighty considerations be simply swept aside? Our lonely footnote gives notice of a debate withinthe Fellowship which has hardly begun.

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ARTICLESThe Church of the Councils: the 'onslaught of the

intellect' and the potential of doubt ■ + Anthony ofSourozh 6The priesthood of the baptised: some Syriac

perspectives Sebastian Brock 14Towards reconciliation: a report on the Anglican

Church by a Russian priest (1865) Iosif Vasil'ev 23

POEM Icon Heather Buck 41

OBITUARYBasil Minchin 1910-87 + Oliver Tomkins 42

REPORTSAn Orthodox-Catholic Statement onApostolicity Thomas Fitzgerald 46

The Agreed Statement 48

REVIEWS Icon and Logos tr. D.J. Sahas Nicholas Gendle 53Pioneer for Unity: Metrophanes Kritopoulos

(1589-1639) by Colin Davey Norman Russell 55Église d'églises: l'écclésiologie de communion

by J.M.R. Tillard Gerald Bray 57Church, Kingdom, Word ed. G. Limouris .... Gerald Bray 58

Dostoevsky's Critique of the West by Bruce K.

Ward Martin Corner 59The Russian Orthodox Church, A Contemporary

History by Jane Ellis Michael Fortounatto 61

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The Secretary's Notes Elizabeth Briere 68

FOR YOUR DIARY 71

OUR CONTRIBUTORS 72

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The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) 11The Creation of Adam 17

Basil Minchin 44

It is not easy to translate the term 'comprehensiveness' into another language. Indeed, not every dictionary offers even a translation into non-Anglican English. Themeaning often has to be deduced from the related adjective 'comprehensive'. 'Of

broad scope or content' suggests Collins: 'Including all or much'.But if 'all or much' is to be included from all the various yet Anglican positions,

what is to be excluded? The problem is rendered all the more- acute when traditional English qualities like tolerance are invoked, inciting generous (in this context 'charitable') acceptance of the other's point of view.

Thus the General Synod of the Church of England avoids a firm decision on questions of sexual morali ty (November 1987). Yet when an eminent bishop writes tothe Church Times from his retirement to express his regret at the Synod's mismanagement of 'a matter of such grave concern' he chooses to speak of its 'somewhat am

bivalent att itude' to it. The 'somewhat' is itself ambivalent, and part of the pro blem to which the writer draws atten tion.

Things were not altogether different in 1864. Poor Iosif Vasil'ev, a Russian prieston his first visit to England, was thoroughly bemused by what he called 'the confusion and lack of clarity of Anglican belief. 'The opinions and thought of Anglicantheologians above all suffer from a lack of firm foundations', he reported to his

superiors, 'and this deficiency leads to weakness and arbitrariness in their conclusions'. Yet he visited Pusey, Liddon and Bright.

Vasil'ev's account (which is printed below) deserves to be pondered, and not onlyas a comment on the past. Comprehensiveness, as members of the Fellowship knowwell, can claim to have its positive, even its glorious aspect. However, another aspectof its adjectival cousin comes to mind. In the context of insurance 'comprehensive'means 'protection against most risks'. Yet 'protection against most risks' is hardlywhat a Church should seek, either for its own well-being or the sake of fellowshipwith others.

Happily, another of our texts {Reports) speaks of 'fearless confession of theapostolic faith 'in season and out of season'. And here there is no question of theconfession suffering from ambivalence, still less the faith.

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EDITORIAL Sergei Hackel 5

ARTICLESProtection, autonomy and reform: the Russian

Orthodox Church 1905-29 Martin Corner 6The icon and the image of Christ: the second

Council of Nicaea and Byzantine tradition . . . Christopher Walter 23Icons in music? Two works by Tavener Ivan Moody 34Word as icon in Greek patristic theology Verna E.F. Harrison 38

OBITUARYKliment Naumov (1905-88) Methodie Kusseff 50

REVIEWS Lancelot Andrewes, le prédicateur

by Nicholas Lossky Stephen Medcalf 52The Life of St Irene

edited by J.O. Rosenquist Mary Cunningham 57The Rape of Man and Nature

by Phil ip Sherrard Andrew Sherwood 59

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSThe Conference of 1987 Valerie Karras 63Secretary's Notes Elizabeth Briere 66

ILLUSTRATIONSPatriarch Tikhon (1865-1925) after his release from prison 17

'Wondrous Nikephorus', patriarch of Constantinople, indicates a

clipeate image of Christ (Khludov Psalter) 25

David prophesies the coming of Christ (Khludov Psalter) 27

St Spyridon at prayer before an icon of Christ (Barberini Psalter) 29The Holy Face (Kato Leukara, Cyprus) 31

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Editorial

This number of our journal straddles two anniversaries. It reflects last year's com-memmoration of of the seventh ecumenical council (787), and the Fellowship conference devoted to it. But it also forestalls the Fellowship conference of 1988, whichis devoted to the millennium of Christianity in Russia and related lands. So we have

three articles concerning the first, as yet only one concerning the other. Neither commemmoration is merely academic. The council of 787 confirmed theuse of icons as orthodox. Their use remains orthodox to this day, and not onlyin the estimation of the Orthodox Church. Any new consideration of the roleassigned to icons in the history of Christian liturgy and thought thus involves areappraisal of present practices and attitudes as well. It was appropriate for BasilMinchin to use the present participle in the title of his last publication, Prayingwith ikons — more active and more personal it is than 'prayer'.

The Russian millennium has also had its practical application, and to a degreethat noone could have expected when preparations for it first began. Then it wasfeared that it would result in idle pomp and circumstance, and not simply in theinterests of the Church. In the event, pomp and circumstance were peripheralised

by the vigour and integrity of that which undergirded the proceedings. In particular,

the recent council of the Russian Orthodox Church revealed a keen appreciationof the tasks ahead, and approved appropriate new structures for them to be facedresponsibly at every level of church life. Many of these tasks are administrative,some political. But all could be and should be and let it be said in faith shall besubsumed under the general heading 'iconic'. For in the words of St Paul, 'we all,with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed intothe same image from glory to glory'.

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ARTICLESMillennium greetings + Robert Runcie 6

Same homeland, different future Kirill Golovin 12'People so beset with saints': Anglican attitudes to

Orthodoxy 1555-1725 Christopher Knight 25Ecumenism and the need for vision +John Zizioulas 37Michael Ramsey and the beatific vision Owen Chadwick 44Michael Ramsey and the Orthodox world A.M. Allchin 49The Mother of God in early Byzantine homilies Mary Cunningham 53POEMKnots Maggie Ross 68

REPORT

Pilgrimage to Russia: an Anglican's impressions Francis House 69

REVIEWS 73

BOOKS RECEIVED 79

FELLOWSHIP AFFAIRSThe Secretary's Notes Elizabeth Briere 81The Fellowship Conference of 1988 Michael Gunton

Elizabeth Wayne 85

FOR YOUR DIARY 87

OUR CONTRIBUTORS 88

ILLUSTRATIONS

1 Millennium procession in a Russian village 10-11

2 Blessing of the waters: a millennium celebration 20-1

3 The meeting of two worlds: Moscow in the seventeenth century 29

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5 The Mother of God: Sinai icon of thesixth century

6 The vision of Andréas the Fool: Suzdal cathedralgates, thirteenth century

The Russian millennial celebrations were planned in the early 1980s, and in circumstances which differed radically from those which came to prevail in 1988. Eventhen they were intended to be something spectacular, a demonstration to the out

side world that 'freedom of religion' was part and parcel of the soviet way of life.In pondering the question of whether to accept invitations, potential guests (or rather,those potential guests with a sense of responsibility for the life of Russian Christians — not all potential guests, by any means) might have looked on those invertedcommas in one of two ways.

Some may have thought that they were too prominent for them to accept invitations in case they might thus seem to approve and confirm the facades and limitations of the day. Yet others might have been moved to accept the invitations incase this might, to however modest a degree, help to erode the facades and reducethe limitations. But no one could have expected the inverted commas themselvesto be challenged in so forceful'a fashion as proved to be the case.

And so, by the summer of 1988, the burdensome and untoward expenses of theday began to seem less inappropriate at least to the extent that something tangible

and lasting was emerging from it all. Tangible, since here were new church buildings,institutions and activities. Lasting, since here already were excellent new statutesof the Church which seemed to undergird them, as well as promise of revised statelegislation which in turn would undergird the undergirding.

It would be tempting to explain all this in social and political terms, and to alignit all with perestroïka. Indeed, many a Russian church leader has already done so,and in all sincerity. But this kind of reasoning also brings in its train the question,'will it last?'; as if the Church lives entirely at the behest of the Constantines orGorbachevs of the moment.

It hardly needs to be emphasised that the current perestroïka, with all its promise, is hardly three years old. By contrast, an earlier perestroïka, initiated in thedays of St Vladimir, has a richer pedigree and more profound potential.

Of course, no pedigree or potential is to the point unless responsibly exploited.Even so, 'will it last?' is hardly the appropriate question when, at the end of thismillennium, the Church has demonstrably and wondrously weathered the most concerted efforts ever mounted to diminish and destroy her.

The millennial celebrations will undoubtedly fade into the background soon, asKirill Golovin notes in his article below. But the Church which was their subjecthas no end. And this regardless of how 'freedom of religion' is described.

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ARTICLESReflections on the millennium of the baptism of

Kievan Rus' + Robert Runcie 7'Had the Czar not died': Peter the Great andthe nonjurors Christopher Knight 18

Creation, incarnation and transfiguration:material creation and our understanding of it Elizabeth Briere 31

The Eastern tradition and the cosmos Myroslaw Tataryn 41Danish spirituality and the role of three great

feasts A.M. Allchin 53Ά marriage for all eternity ': the consecration

of a Syrian bride of Christ Ephrem of Syria 65St Sava on Athos : his monastic rule . . : Daniel M. Rogich 69

REPORTS

The St Ephrem Ecumenical Centre Sebastian Brock 82Peace with justice (Basel 1989) John Arnold 85Ecumenical Institute Graduate School, 1988-9.. Elizabeth Briere 88

OBITUARYMiloje Nikolich (1910-89) Zaga Gavrilovic 94

REVIEWS Monk Moses, Oi engamoi aghio tis Ekklesias . . John Chryssavgis 96 Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East

and West Ephrem (Lash) 102Claude Sélis, Les Syriens orthodoxes et

catholiques Sebastian Brock 105

Catachèse orthodoxe: Vocabulaire théologiqueand Le Credo Barnabas (Burton) 106

H.-G. Link, One God, One Lord, One Spirit . . Gerald Bray 107Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Le ministère de la femme

dans l'église Mary Cunningham 109Un moine de l'Eglise d'Orient, L'an de grâce

du Seigneur Barnabas (Burton) 111

A. Borrely and M. Eutizi, L'Oecuménismespirituel Gerald Bray 112

T.F. Best, éd., Instruments of Unity Gerald Bray 113

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Robert Morgan, The Religion of theIncarnation Gerald Bray 114

Jan Milk Lochman, Christ and Prometheus? .. Gerald Bray 115Freda Collins, Words of Wisdom from Fr

Gilbert Shaw Martin Reith 117Eugène Troubetzkoi, Trois études sur l'icône .. Jill Storer 117

John Baggley, Doors of perception — iconsand their spiritual significance Jill Storer 120

BOOKS RECEIVED 125

SECRETARY'S NOTES 128

OUR CONTRIBUTORS 1 3 4

ILLUSTRATIONS1 The actual poverty of the Church: the

congregation at the church *4

2 The congregation at Sverdlovsk 17

3 Thomas Brett (1667-1743): engraving of a portrait by Ch de Lasfontaine 2 7

4 The Transfiguration: Byzantine miniaturemosaic, twelfth-thirteenth century, Louvre 32

5 Adam names the animals: engraved gates ofSuzdal' Cathedral, c.1227-37 4 5

6 John of Damascus and Ephrem of Syria: fourteenth-century icon, Sinai 64

7 The Karejski Tipik: concluding lines,including signature and seal 71

It is an idyllic scene, that of our illustration, 'Adam names the animals'. Like anyidyll, it brings sharp reminders of departures from it. We see it as paradise iost.But paradise lost is nowadays not always what it was. Too often is it overshadowed

by such concepts as 'ecological disaster '. And it is this which helps to define that

'catastrophic crisis' to which John Arnold refers in his account of this summer'secumenical assembly at Basel.

All the more timely may be our two papers on the subject of 'material creationand our understanding of it' . For least of all should our understanding involve near- pagan veneration of creation, 'mother-earth ' itself. Admittedly, so seemingly inspired an elder as Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov was once not far removedfrom such an attitude as this, nor are various kinds of greens. But (as MyroslawTataryn urges) the views of Damascene are to be preferred. It was not matter thathe worshipped: rather 'the creator of matter, who became matter for my sake'.On, therefore, from that all-too-familiar phrase 'integrity of creation', a phrasewhich 'seems to have appeared out of nowhere in the World Council of Churchesvocabulary and with very little thought of its theological implications' (as ElizabethBriere points out): on to a comprehensive and a trinitarian understanding of it.

In its absence, the recent BCC/WWF conference on Christian faith and ecologyat Canterbury could allow a four-day-long discussion of the world and all that thereinis to pass without a single obvious reference to the Holy Spirit. Yet green (Rublevwould tell us) was once the colour which referred to Him.

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ARTICLESThe doctrine of the Holy Trinity in Gregory Nazianzen and John Calvin Thomas F. Torrance 7Radical honesty about the self: the practice of thedesert fathers Columba Stewart 25

Ά care-free and painless existence'? Observationsof St Symeon the New Theologian on the monasticlife H.J.M. Turner 40

A neglected manual of the spiritual life: theSynagoge of Paul Evergetinos Gregory Collins 47

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