Vladimir Lossky and the witness of universal orthodoxy

This article by Michel Stavrou, professor at the Saint-Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, focuses on the figure and work of the Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky. The study traces Lossky's intellectual and ecclesial journey in the context of his exile in France, examining in particular his involvement in the Saint-Photius brotherhood. The author analyzes the internal coherence of a theological thought entirely oriented by the conviction that the Orthodox faith possesses an irreducible universal dimension. The central idea is that the neo-patristic synthesis developed by Lossky rests on a conception of catholicity understood as the mysterious unity of the one and the many, inseparable from a requirement of ecclesial mission. The article thus contributes to shedding light on the reception of Orthodox theology in the West in the twentieth century and the universal scope that Lossky intended to confer upon it.