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THE GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL REVIEW -— Volume 45, No. 1-4 2000 Contents Editor’s Note FR. GEORGE DION DRAGAS I. The Ecumenical Patriarchate The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ecumenical Patriarchs from 1923 to the Present HIS EMINENCE PROF. DR. CHRYSOSTOMOS KONSTANTINIDES Geron Metropolitan of Ephesus The Johannine Apostolicity of the Throne of Constantinople PROFESSOR VLASSIOS PHIDAS A Concise History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate PROFESSOR VASIL TH. STAVRIDES The Ecumenical Patriarchate and The World Council of Churches DR. EVANGELIA A. VARELA The Patriarchal Libraries of Constantinople REV. DR. GEORGE PAPADEMETRIOU II: The Archdiocese of America A Brief History of Greek Orthodoxy in America 1880-2000 REV. DR. MILTIADES B. EFTHIMIOU The Diamond Jubilee Of The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, 1922-1997 RT. REV. DR. GEORGE PAPAIOANNOU Late Bishop of New Jersey The Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center VERY REV. DR. JOACHIM (JOHN) COTSONIS A Case Study In Greek-American Orthodoxy: The Ascension Cathedral of Oakland California (Ed.) Mrs. Mary Koumarelas Mousaiimas And The Ascension Historical Committee Acknowledgements Preface DR. JAMES SKEDROS Introduction MARY KUMARELAS MOUSALIMAS Cultural Context Of Preserving Community Archives SPEROS VRYONIS JR. Archival Research Of Community History PAUL G. MANOLIS Documentation And Meaning JAMES STEVE COUNELIS History of The Hellenic Cultural Association And The Hellenic Cultural Museum Of Utah CONSTANTINE J. SKEDROS Fundamentals of Conducting An Oral History GABRIELLE MORRIS Reflections BETTY PSALTIS DUNCAN Travels In The Land Of Greekness HELEN PAPANIKOLAS lil: Scholarly Articles Canon Law The “ABATON” (Proscription) Of Mount Athos PROFESSOR DR. PANTELEIMON RODOPOULOS, METROPOLITAN OF TYROLOE AND SERENTION Inter-Church Marriages: An Orthodox Perspective DR. LEWIS PATSAVOS & REV. DR. CHARLES JOANIDES Vill Church and State The Dual Doctrine of the Relations of Church and State in Ninth Century Byzantium DR. DESPINA STRATOUDAKI-WHITE The Term ” E8vos (Nation) And Its Relevance For The Autocephalous Churches PROFESSOR DR. THEODORE NIKOLAOU Orthodoxy yesterday and today Orthodoxy In Lithuania Before Union with Poland DR. ANDRIUS VALEVICIUS The Orthodox Church in Bulgaria Today PROFESSOR IVAN ZHELEV-DIMITROV The Orthodox Church In Germany: Past, Present and Future ARCHDEACON DR. WASSILIOS KLEIN Systematic Theology On The Priesthood And The Sacred Mysteries (Sacraments), According to St. Symeon of Thessalonica and other Fathers FR. GEORGE DION. DRAGAS Scholastic Influences On Greek Orthodox Manuals of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology During the 20" Century (General Principles of Orthodox Theology) PROFESSOR NIKOS A. MATSOUKAS Divine Wisdom and the Trinity: A 20" Century Controversy in Orthodox Theology DR. MIKHAIL SERGEEV Toward A Person-Centered Society: The Great Challenge of the 21“ Century DR. STAVROS S. FOTIOU Christian Social Ethics Church and Social Integration of Disabled People PROFESSOR LAVRENDIOS G. DELLASSOUDAS Article Book Review Koutooupn Anuntpioul., Suvodor Kal Ocohoyia yla TOV ‘Houxaouo, ‘H ouvodikr) diadikacia we apopun TIS NOUXAOTIKES épides, ExSoois ts lepas MntpotoAeas OnBodv kai AcBadeias, A@njvat= Koutsourés Démétrios G., Synods and Theology connected with Hésychasm: The synodical procedure followed in the hésychastic disputes (Fr. George Dion. Dragas) Book Reviews Hildo Bos and Jim Forest (editors). “For the Peace from Above; An Orthodox Resource Book on War, Peace and Nationalism (Rev. Dr. Alexander F. C. Webster) The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983. Trans. Juliana Schmemann (Rev. Fr. Stylianos Muksuris) George Balsames, Oi ITatpiapxes Tou Tévous, ato thv aAwon Ths TOAns Ews onuEpa, (The Patriarchs of the Orthodox Nation: From the Capture of the City to this Day) (Prof. Vasil Th. Stavrides) Alexander F.C. Webster, The Price of Prophecy: Orthodox Churches on Peace, Freedom and Security (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Andrew Kadel, Matrology: A Bibliography of Writings by Christian Women from the First to the Fifteenth Century (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Constantine Cavarnos, The Hellenic Heritage (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) John P. Cavarnos, St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Human Soul (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Papadeas George, Why Did She Cry? (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Constantine Cavarnos, Byzantine Churches of Thessaloniki (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Constantine Cavarnos, Cultural and Educational Continuity of Greece: From Antiquity to the Present (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Constantine Hionides, The Greek Pontians of the Black Sea (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Constantine Cavarnos, Blessed Hermit Philaretos of the Holy Mountain (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Ioannes G. Zoumpos, Jo Monastéri tn Domianén Eurytanias Symantiko Mnémeio tés Orthodoxias (The Monastery of Domianon Evrytanias: Orthodox Significant Monument) (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Marcos A. Guiolias, Historia tn Archaién Eurytanén (History of the Ancient Eurytanians) (Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou) Alexander Kazhdan, A History of Byzantine Literature (650-850) (Fr. George Dion. Dragas) Tlapaoxevac Kovoptac, Obcpavixec Oscopnoeic yia To Oixoupeviko Tlatpiapxeio, 170¢—apxec 200u aicova= Paraskeuas Konortas, Ottoman Views On The Ecumenical Patriarchate: 17" — the beginnings of the 20" Century (Fr. George Dion. Dragas) The Splendour of Orthodoxy: 2000 Years, Monuments, Art, vol. | (The Glory and Grandeur of Christian Orthodoxy), vol. 2 (Patriarchates and Autocephalous Churches) (Fr. George Dion. Dragas) Periodical Reviews FR. GEORGE DION. DRAGAS Conferral of Honorary Doctoral Degrees His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos of Ainos and Presiding Hierarch of the Pittsburgh Diocese Protopresbyter Stanley Samuel Harakas, Archbishop Iakovos Chair of Theology Professor Emeritus Protopresbyter George Dion. Dragas, Professor of Church History and Dogmatics (Patristics) Obituary t Metropolitan SILAS of Saranta Ekklesies List of Contributors