Epistemic, Historical And Theological Backtrackings Of Orthodox Church Tradition As Authority In Relation To The Ukrainian-Russian Heritage And Modernity -- By: Oleksandr Lykhosherstov

Journal: Conspectus
Volume: CONSPECTUS 27:1 (Mar 2019)
Article: Epistemic, Historical And Theological Backtrackings Of Orthodox Church Tradition As Authority In Relation To The Ukrainian-Russian Heritage And Modernity
Author: Oleksandr Lykhosherstov


Epistemic, Historical And Theological Backtrackings Of Orthodox Church Tradition As Authority In Relation To The Ukrainian-Russian Heritage And Modernity1

Oleksandr Lykhosherstov

and

Bill Domeris

Keywords

Eastern Orthodoxy, Authority of Tradition, Epistemology, Continuity and Discontinuity, Search for Consensus

About The Authors2

Oleksandr Lykhosherstov

PhD student at the South African Theological Seminary (graduating May 2019) .

Bill Domeris

PhD , University of Durham, Bill is a Biblical scholar and a Senior Academic at the South African Theological Seminary. He is also a research associate at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State.

Abstract

The life and ministry of every Christian are profoundly shaped by a particular ecclesial tradition. Different interpretations of the extra-canonical teaching of the church tradition have remained a debated topic since Reformation, raising a question of the relative spiritual authority for believers. Adopting the fundamental affirmation of the authority of the universal Christian tradition as that which had been believed ‘everywhere, always, by all’ [ubique, semper, ab omnibus], the research investigates a threefold paradigm of ‘universality-antiquity-consensus’ (Pelikan 1971:333) of the Orthodox Church tradition as authority in relation to the Ukrainian-Russian heritage and modernity. Embracing the perspective of Evangelical theology, the study goes beyond a mere phenomenological analysis, identifying theoretical premises, praxeological incongruences and authoritative formulations of the Eastern Orthodox tradition on the epistemological, historical and theological levels.

This article: https://www.sats.edu.za/lykhosherstov-domeris-backtrackings-orthodox-church-tradition-as-authority

1. Introduction

The demise of the USSR and sweeping radical changes in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) greatly affected the Orthodox spiritual landscape through the spontaneous development of theological, sacramental, and ecclesiastical forms of authority. Orthodox Church Tradition was rediscovered as one of the principal authority agents and re-employed in the process of spiritual restoration of collective and individual religious identities. This authoritative notion of ecclesial tradition has always been the central normative and symbolic core of the Orthodox faith, presenting for ...

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