The Great Pan-Orthodox Council:
some remarks from the "rest of the Christian world"
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Ivana Noble, a Hussite theologian, offers in this article a critical analysis of the texts produced by the 2016 Pan-Orthodox Council. Her study examines the doctrinal and ecclesiological scope of the conciliar documents through a rigorous theological reading. The central argument of the article is that these texts reveal a confusion between the eschatological dimension of the Church and its concrete historical reality. According to the author, this unresolved tension generates an ambiguity in the way the Council addresses contemporary issues, whether ethical, social, or ecumenical. The contribution of this article lies in the external perspective that a theologian from a Protestant tradition brings to conciliar Orthodoxy, thereby offering a comparative viewpoint likely to enrich the theological debate surrounding the reception and normative scope of the Pan-Orthodox Council.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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