"Offered as a libation"
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This article is a homily delivered by Nikos Nissiotis, director of the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, at a memorial service held in Chambésy in July 1972, shortly after the death of Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I. Drawing on the passage from the Second Epistle to Timothy (4:6-8), Nissiotis offers an exegetical and eulogistic meditation in which the words of Saint Paul — libation, departure, good fight, finished race, kept faith — serve as an interpretive framework for re-reading the patriarchate of Athenagoras. The article highlights the three axes of the patriarch's ministry: the spiritual renewal of Orthodoxy, inter-Orthodox solidarity, and ecumenical engagement. Its theological contribution lies in the articulation between Pauline apostolate and contemporary patriarchal diakonia, proposing a theology of love as a fundamental category of Orthodox ecclesiology.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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