THE CHURCH IN A PERIOD OF PANDEMIC

Παρουσίαση

The COVID-19 pandemic is a period of spiritual renewal and of hope for a meaningful storm for a liturgical and overall renewal of the Church; it is a powerful experience of the authentic nature of the Church and manifests a longing for a return to the traditional status of the priesthood of all believers and to a wider permanent ministry of the Diaconate for men and women. (From the Letter to the Churches)

Περιεχόμενα

PREFACE
Emer. Prof. Petros Vassiliadis
PART I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 1 THE PANDEMIC AS A CHALLENGE TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, THE PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE CHURCH
Prof. Evangelos Venizelos
PART II. THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
2. THE NEED FOR A MORE THOROUGH CATECHISM OF THE FLOCK OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH. THE LITURGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE HELLENIC BIBLE SOCIETY
Emer. Prof. Miltiadis Konstantinou
3. THE BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON THE DIVINE EUCHARIST. THE PROFOUND MEANING OF "MYSTERION" AND OF THE EUCHARIST
Emer. Prof. Petros Vassiliadis
4. SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF ST. PAUL'S TEACHING ON EUCHARIST
Prof. Dimitrios C. Passakos
PART III. THE LITURGICAL PERSPECTIVE
5. REVISITING THE LITURGY IN A PERIOD OF PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Right Rev. Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
6. THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE LAITY. IN A PERIOD OF PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Emer. Prof. Paul Meyendorff
7. DO THE SACRAMENTS PREVENT ILLNESS? A SURVEY OF LITURGICAL SOURCES
Rev. Dr. Dn. Nicholas Denysenko
8. A NOTE ON THE COMMON COMMUNION SPOON
Rev. Emer. Prof. Alkiviadis C. Calivas
9. BACK TO THE FUTURE OR FORWARD TO THE PAST? COVID-19's POSITIVE EFFECTS ON LITURGICAL AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
V. Rev. Dr. Stelyios Muksuris
10. PRAYERS AND HYMNS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Panagiotis Andriopoulos
PART IV. THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
11. THE JUSTINIAN PLAGUE AND ITS RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES
George Dokos
12. EPIDEMIC DISEASES IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PONTUS
Dr. Theodosios Kyriakidis
13. RELIGION AND SECULARIZATION IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE PROBLEM OF ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY
Prof. Dimitrios Stamatopoulos
PART V. THE THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
14. A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST OR A FEAST IN A TIME OF PLAGUE?
V. Rev. Georgy Kochetkov
15. "...Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace": THE EXPERIENCE OF COMMUNITY AND BROTHERHOOD LIFE DURING COVID-19
Drnd. Zoya Dashevskaya
16. CORONATIONS. NOTES FROM THE QUARANTINE
V. Rev. Prof. John Panteleimon Manoussakis
17. COVID-19, EUCHARIST, CHRISTIAN (?) DUALISM AND THE DEADLY ORTHODOX FUNDAMENTALISM
V. Rev. Prof. Cyril Hovorun
18. THE ORTHODOX VIEW ON DEATH
Rev. Dr. Pavlos Koumarianos
PART VI. THE ECUMENICAL PERSPECTIVE
19. COVID-19 AND SOCIAL TEACHING. A NEW TEXT ON THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
20. INTERFAITH AND ECUMENICAL RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Clapsis
21. ETHICAL RESPONSES TO FAKE NEWS AND CONSPIRACIES DURING AND POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Prof. Dr. Christoph Stueckelberger
22. CANADIAN ECUMENICAL AND INTERFAITH INITIATIVES STIMULATED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Prof. Paul Ladouceur
23. FAITH vs CORONAVIRUS. INTER-FAITH REFLECTIONS OF A MULTI-RELIGIOUS CLASS
Prof. Nikolaos Dimitriadis
24. THE DIVINE EUCHARIST AND THE WAY OF DISTRIBUTING THIS HOLY MYSTERY THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES. A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE
Right Rev. Emer. Prof. Archbishop Ioannis Spiteris
25. WHEN THE TEMPLES CLOSE: THE TRANSFORATION OF THE CHURCH INTO AN ONLINE "SYNAXIS". A REFLECTION ON THE ECCLESIOLOGICAL, PASTORAL AND MINISTERIAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. THE EXAMPLE OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF GREECE
Rev. Dr. Sotiris Boukis
PART VII. THE MISSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
26. THE ISSUE OF SUFFERING IN A WORLD GOVERNED BY A MERCIFUL GOD PASTORAL COUNSELLING DURING COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE ROMANIAN CONTEXT
Prof. Cristian Sonea
27. CORONA AS JUDGEMENT: ORTHODOXY AFTER COVID-19
Rev. Dr. Anastasios Brandon Gallaher and Rev. Richard Rene
28. THE PRIMACY OF THE COVENANT IN A PERIOD OF PANDEMIC. THEOLOGIES OF EUCHARIST, LOVE AND MISSION REVISITED
Dr. Athanasios N. Papathanasiou
29. WITNESS AND ENCOUNTER IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES
Dr. Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina
30. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMUNION IN TIMES OF QUARANTINE
Vassilios Xidias
31. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE BY ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW AND POPE FRANCIS IN GLOOMY TIMES
Maria G. Sereti, M. Th.
APPENDIX
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CHURCHES AND THE WORLD COVID-19 [...]