The future of the Orthodox "diaspora"
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This article by Ivana Noble, drawn from a research conference, examines the future of Orthodox presence in the West through a critical rereading of the past. Adopting a hermeneutical approach that articulates retrospection and prospection, the author analyzes three structural problems: the difficult transition from diaspora status to that of a local Church, the persistence of parallel jurisdictions motivated by political and ethnic factors, and the tendency toward a theological uniformity inherited from neo-patristic monopoly. The main contribution of the article lies in highlighting the memories of marginalization accumulated from the Byzantine era to the post-revolutionary emigrations, and in proposing an "apophatic attitude," in Lossky's sense, as a path of communal healing. The article also advocates for a reassessment of marginalized Orthodox renewal currents — Slavophilism, Sophiology, practiced Hesychasm — in order to restore a fruitful theological plurality within Western Orthodoxy.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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