Vortrag gehalten am 07.10.2022 in Wien (Veranstaltung organisiert von der Stiftung PRO ORIENTE in Kooperation mit der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Katholischer Verbände AKV).
in: Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy, ed. by Thomas Bremer, Alfons Brüning, Nadieszda Kizenko, Peter Lang 2022.
The study intends to offer a critical comment of the common study of the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group "Serving Communion. Rethinking the Relationship between Primacy and Synodality". The author emphasizes that the...
moreThe study intends to offer a critical comment of the common study of the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group "Serving Communion. Rethinking the Relationship between Primacy and Synodality". The author emphasizes that the hermeneutic issue and the emphasis on the historicity of theology are among the most original elements of the study; both are representing a welcome stimulation for the future dialogue. He also appreciates the study for its theological complexity and underlines the uniqueness of the common reading of the historical-theological context of the First Vatican Council. At the same time, among other things, it is critically suggested, that the magic formula after Ravenna 2006 (Catholics need more synodality, Orthodox more primacy) will not bring the hoped breakthrough in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue, because Roman Catholic theology sees papal primacy as a theological issue, while the Orthodox as a structural- canonical question. The challenge of the future will be not to achieve "harmony" between primacy and synodality, but to reflect together whether the Petrine ministry belongs to the essence of Church unity or not.
in: Mitropolia Ardealului 1 (36) 2/2021, p. 103-119.
Wo erfahren orthodoxe Gläubige am stärksten Wirkung und Bedeutung des Heiligen Geistes? Während des ganzen Kirchenjahres und in den meisten Sakramenten und Tagzeitengottesdiensten! Die Anrufung des Geistes ist eine Konstante im...
moreWo erfahren orthodoxe Gläubige am stärksten Wirkung
und Bedeutung des Heiligen Geistes? Während des ganzen
Kirchenjahres und in den meisten Sakramenten und Tagzeitengottesdiensten!
Die Anrufung des Geistes ist eine Konstante
im liturgischen Frömmigkeitsleben. (Redaktion)
a critical contribution about the document "FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD
Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church" (Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2020)
The article deals with the ecclesiological challenges that rose after the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Crete (June 2016) following the encounter between East and West, as far as the orthodox-catholic dialogue is...
moreThe article deals with the ecclesiological challenges that rose after the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Crete (June 2016) following the encounter between East and West, as far as the orthodox-catholic dialogue is concerned. The conciliar restrictive formulations (included in the document " Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World ") concerning the denomination of other Churches caused negative reactions from the roman-catholic side, which questioned the future of the dialogue with the Orthodox Church. From that perspective, this study analyses the above-mentioned document and some other documents of the Council in Crete and sketches future perspectives on the orthodox-catholic dialogue. The main thesis of the present study is that, considering the ecclesiological debates that were held in Crete and afterwards, it becomes obvious that the theological orthodox-catholic dialogue needs a restart, arising from the spirit of the beginnings (the so called " plan for dialogue " adopted in Patmos/Rhodes, 1980). Some of the premises for this restart should be: the liberation of church-political strategies, the emphasis of the spiritual relevance and responsibility of the inter-Christian dialogue and a deeper consideration and implementation of the theological results of the different regional or unofficial dialogue groups. The study finalizes with concrete proposals of alternative themes of reflection for overcoming the aporias that the official theological dialogue is dealing with.
in: Adrian Niculcea, Tudor Cosmin Ciocan, Sebastian Voicu (Hg.), Al patrulea colocviu national de teologie dogmatica ortodoxa: Constitutia sacramentala a Bisericii. 30 de ani de la lansarea documentului „Botez, euharistie, minister“ la...
morein: Adrian Niculcea, Tudor Cosmin Ciocan, Sebastian Voicu (Hg.), Al patrulea colocviu national de teologie dogmatica ortodoxa: Constitutia sacramentala a Bisericii. 30 de ani de la lansarea documentului „Botez, euharistie, minister“ la Lima 1982-2012, (Constanta 4-6 sept. 2012), [Das vierte nationale Symposium in orthodoxer Dogmatik, Constanta 2012], Vasiliana `98 : Iasi 2014, S. 254-299.
[german and romanian]
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in: Tabor. Revista lunara de cultura si spiritualitate românească 4 (10/2011) 29-41
[romanian]
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in: Michaela Christine Hastetter, Sergii Bortnyk (ed.), Mosaik der Ökumene, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 2018
in: Deisis. Revista de cultura si de spiritualitate nr. 25 / 2017.
in: Deisis. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Spiritualität nr. 25 / 2017.
hg. von der Rumän. Orthod. Metropolie für Deutschland, Zentral und Nordeuropa
in: Kathpress Information Orthodoxie, nr. 6 (3.04.2018) 20-24
in: Orthodoxes Forum. Zeitschrift des Instituts für Orthodoxe Theologie der Univ. München 31 (1-2/2017) 119-125.
in: Revue catholique internationale Communio XXXIX 6, no 236, nov.-dec. 2014
in: Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift 106 (1-2 / Januar-Juni 2016).