By Vladimir Lossky
Hrough a mix of cautious scholarship and the heat of the deep own devotion of the writer, this booklet presents the authoritative English learn of jap orthodox theology. Lossky's account makes transparent the profound theological adjustments among East and West, in addition to supplying an immense contribution to ecumenism and to the lifetime of Christian devotion. The culture of the jap Church is gifted as a paranormal theology with doctrine and event collectively helping each one other.
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5 Synod of Constantinople, 1872. v. Mansi, Coll. , vol. 45, 417–546. See also the article by M. Zyzykine: ‘L’Eglise orthodoxe et la nation,’ Irénikon, 1936, pp. 265–77. 6 Thus the Patriarchate of Moscow includes the dioceses of N. America and that of Tokyo beyond the frontiers of Russia. , does not form part of the Russian Church. The territories of the Patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem are politically dependent on many different powers. 7 The name Oecumenical Council given in the East to the first seven general synods corresponds to a reality of a purely historical character.
Outside the truth kept by the whole Church personal experience would be deprived of all certainty, of all objectivity. It would be a mingling of truth and of falsehood, of reality and of illusion: ‘mysticism’ in the bad sense of the word. On the other hand, the teaching of the Church would have no hold on souls if it did not in some degree express an inner experience of truth, granted in different measure to each one of the faithful. There is, therefore, no Christian mysticism without theology; but, above all, there is no theology without mysticism.
O. uk This translation first published 1957 Printed 1968 and 1973 First Paperback edition 1991 Reprinted 2005 The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church was first published in Paris in 1944 as Essai sur la Theologie Mystique de l’Eglise d’Orient It has been translated by a small group of members of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, which exists to promote understanding between Eastern and Western Christians. , 1957 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Lossky, Vladimir 1903–1958 The mystical theology of the Eastern Church 1.