THE BREAD, THE WINE, AND THE MODE OF BEING
by Chrysostom Koutloumousianos, Hieromonk The recent reappearance of the ancient terror of a pandemic has prompted fertile conversation among theologians and literary people across the world. Various opinions have been articulated, such as that disease can be...
NATURE, PERSON AND A NEW ECCLESIOLOGY
Chrysostom Koutloumousianos on his new book THE ONE AND THE THREE: NATURE, PERSON AND TRIADIC MONARCHY IN THE BYZANTINE AND IRISH PATRISTIC TRADITION (James Clarke Co., Cambridge 2015). What was the cause or occasion that prompted you to write The One and the Three? I...
ΒARTHOLOMAIOS KOUTLOUMOUSIANOS
by Fr. Demetrios Stratis Bartholomew Koutloumousianos was born on 22 nd December, in 1722, on the island of Imbros in the northern Aegean , near to the coast of Asia Minor . He received his first schooling on both Imbros and the neighbouring island of Enos . At the...
THE DECEPTION OF THE NEW AGE
We have been born in an age of confrontations. Our age reminds us of the earlier ages, yet it has its own unique identity, since history does not repeat itself. A characteristic of our times is the incredible and rapid diffusion of evil, which manifests itself in...
THE WITNESS OF ORTHODOXY TODAY
George I. Mantzaridis Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Sociology Sir Steven Runciman, the noted Byzantinologist, in his last interview said: ” Sometimes I am disappointed by the other churches. Nevertheless, it pleases me to think that before one hundred years pass,...