13-summa | summo-writt
Paragraph
501 5 | our own history. We must summon Clio to speak her truth,
502 10| everything in her power to support, morally and materially,
503 4 | imagination. The Renaissance was supposed to be a "rebirth" of classical
504 12| God of love, whose peace "surpasses all understanding" (Phil.
505 4 | New Rome that had not only survived, but flourished another
506 7 | ethnic histories while Lethe swallowed up ecumenical Orthodoxy.
507 10| Pan-Orthodox Council of Synaxis of the heads of the world'
508 5 | preferences. The interest taken in the Eastern Roman Empire
509 3 | This is what we wish to talk to you about today. Not
510 12| and spiritual institution teaching, edifying sharing philanthropic
511 4 | East - thus was born the term "Byzantine Empire".~
512 10| spoken out in no uncertain terms against the proselytism
513 2 | Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania,
514 2 | children - Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore,
515 1 | Thank you, sir Steven, for your
516 | themselves
517 6 | of our Lord Christ, the Theotokos, the myriad angels and thousands
518 12| in our oikoumene, great things will happen. Fragmentation
519 3 | the average person, for thinking that the history of Christianity
520 6 | Theotokos, the myriad angels and thousands of saints.~We must also
521 10| that is why the Ecumenical Throne, in co-operation with the
522 6 | also multiethnic and often tolerant. It was Mehmet II, the Conqueror
523 5 | century, and its any-clerical tone influenced all of them.~
524 10| Ecumenical Council, which took place at Nicea in 787.~
525 12| emerging from decades of totalitarianism, desperately need the help
526 12| to the ecclesiology and traditions of the Orthodox Church.
527 12| Vatican, nor are we trying to transform it into such. On the contrary,
528 8 | must mention the similar treatment accorded our Muslim neighbors.
529 5 | later Roman Empire as the "triumph of barbarism and religion".
530 8 | in the image of the one, true God.~Entire libraries have
531 12| another Vatican, nor are we trying to transform it into such.
532 4 | the East, in what is now Turkey?~What really happened in
533 10| among Orthodox Christians in Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, and
534 10| we have spoken out in no uncertain terms against the proselytism
535 12| whose peace "surpasses all understanding" (Phil. 4:7). We "pursue
536 4 | seven Ecumenical Councils of undivided Christianity were held not
537 8 | hope to put behind what is unpleasant while putting forward the
538 10| That is why we convened an unprecedented Pan-Orthodox Council of
539 | until
540 2 | Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and their leader, Calliope.
541 6 | with the church willing to use the local language to convey
542 8 | putting forward the best values of humankind. We have a
543 12| Patriarchate as another Vatican, nor are we trying to transform
544 4 | remember that it is the victor who writes history - and
545 7 | heritage and proclaim its virtues.~
546 5 | eastern" or "spiritual".~Voltaire called Byzantine history "
547 11| Apostolic Church". Within our walls, Mnemosyne jealously guards
548 12| Apostle Paul, "Brethren, be watchful, stand firm in your faith,
549 3 | Christianity has been lost in the waters of oblivion.~
550 7 | ecumenical orthodoxy - the wayward child we gave up early last
551 | when
552 6 | empire, with the church willing to use the local language
553 12| wish to become a state. It wishes to remain only a church -
554 2 | of the eternal logos, the Word of God, revealed in the
555 | would
556 11| artists, business persons, writers, and intellectuals of all
557 4 | that it is the victor who writes history - and Western historians
558 5 | factor at work here. Besides writing history, the West has also
559 8 | Entire libraries have been written about nationalism. But a
|