The Documents of the Holy and Great Council on Marriage and Fasting: A Critical Response

This article offers a critical response to the documents on marriage and on fasting of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which took place in Crete in 2016. It suggests greater attention be given to the concept of oikonomia in contemporary Orthodoxy, both in the context of the issues...

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Main Author: Meyendorff, Paul 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: The ecumenical review
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 470-475
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KCC Councils
KDF Orthodox Church
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Orthodox Church
B Holy and Great Council
B Fasting
B Oikonomia
B Marriage
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Summary:This article offers a critical response to the documents on marriage and on fasting of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which took place in Crete in 2016. It suggests greater attention be given to the concept of oikonomia in contemporary Orthodoxy, both in the context of the issues raised in these two documents and with respect to other contentious issues. In contemporary Orthodoxy, the exercise of oikonomia is understood in different ways. One approach is the legalistic understanding of the term that is employed in the council documents; the second and more traditional approach is to understand oikonomia as discernment of what is true and authentic, even outside the canonical limits of Orthodoxy. The article asks whether such a perspective could characterize the church’s approach to other complex pastoral issues, such as those related to marriage and fasting.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contains:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12524