RT Article
T1 The Documents of the Holy and Great Council on Marriage and Fasting: A Critical Response
JF The ecumenical review
VO 72
IS 3
SP 470
OP 475
A1 Meyendorff, Paul 1950-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1726853047
AB 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.
K1 Holy and Great Council
K1 Orthodox Church
K1 Fasting
K1 Marriage
K1 Oikonomia
DO 10.1111/erev.12524