I happened to be in attendance at the presentation recently reported on by ROCOR United and here present a few impressions. One thought which Dr. Sedakova expressed which I had never heard before was the idea that the language of the Slavic Church has never been simply understandable to every Peter, Paul, and Mary that [...]
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Language of the Church
Posted in Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), Chuch Slavonic, Patriarch Alexey II, Russian Orthodox Church, language, tagged Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), Church Slavonic, Patriarch Alexey II on 8, April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tweaking the texts
Posted in Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), theology, tagged Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), liturgics, theology on 26, October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…if a textbook of dogmatic theology contains views different from those found in liturgical texts, it is the textbook, not the liturgical texts, that need correction.
Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Well put
Posted in Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), Ecumenical Patriarchate on 8, June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…in universal Orthodoxy there is no hierarch whose role would be similar to that of the Pope of Rome in the Western Church. There must be no illusion that there is such a hierarch. We respect the Patriarch of Constantinople as the first in honour among the primates of local Orthodox Churches, but we are [...]
