Meta-Ecclesiology
Also by Cyril Hovorun: Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century From Antioch to Xi An: An Evolution of Nestorianism Reading the Gospels with the Early Church: A Guide (contributing editor) Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism: Resources for Theological Education (editor)
Meta-Ecclesiology Chronicles on Church Awareness Cyril Hovorun
meta-ecclesiology Copyright Cyril Hovorun, 2015. All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-56659-4 DOI 10.1057/9781137543936 ISBN 978-1-137-54393-6 (ebook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Amnet. First edition: August 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To the blessed memory of Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Volodymyr Sabodan (1935 2014)
Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations ix xi xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Apostolic Times: Discipleship and Fellowship 29 3 Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Symphony and Hierarchy 37 4 The Reformations: Emancipation 69 5 Enlightenment: Rediscovering the Ecclesial Self 79 6 The Century of Ecclesiology: Exploring the Gap between Evidence and Established Concepts 95 7 Transtraditional Ecclesiologies 125 8 Postmodernity: Appreciating Plurality 139 9 Conclusion: Discerning Changeable and Unchangeable in the Ecclesial Self 149 10 After the Conclusion: Toward a Synthesis of New Ecclesiological Languages 155 Appendix 165 Notes 169 Bibliography 207 Index 227
List of Figures 3.1 Usage of the Word Church in the Greek Texts 38 3.2 Usage of the Word Church in the Latin Texts 42 3.3 Comparison of Usage of the Word Church in the East and West 44 5.1 References to the Church in the Modern Period 80
Acknowledgments This book was written during my fellowship at Yale University. Therefore, first and foremost I want to express my profound gratitude to the Yale community, which offered me warm hospitality, a creative environment, and inexhaustible resources. I am thankful to the former and present deans of the Yale Divinity School, Harold Attridge and Gregory Sterling, the Divinity librarian Paul Stuehrenberg, my colleagues from the school, Miroslav Volf, Christopher Beeley, Chloë Starr, and many other Yalies. I am also grateful to Eric Borgman from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, Danilo Ceccarelli Morolli from the Pontificio Istituto Orientale, and Volodymyr Bureha from the Theological Academy of Kyiv for their advice and comments. I owe special thanks to my friends who supported me during my studies at Yale: the metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Roman Abramovsky, Vitaly Demianiuk, Vasily Gorbal, and Volordmyr Romanenko. Last but not least, I would like to express my profound appreciation to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, from the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg; Peter Eaton, Bishop Coadjutor of Southeast Florida; and Joseph Clarke, from the Illinois Institute of Technology, for proofreading the text and for their valuable comments on it.
List of Abbreviations ACO Mansi PG PL TLG WCC Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum. Series Prima (ACO1): Ed. Eduard Schwartz. Berlin and Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1914 1940. Series Secunda (ACO2): Ed. Rudolf Riedinger et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1984 2013. Giovanni Domenico Mansi. Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1961. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca. Ed. J.-P. Migne. Paris: Imprimerie Catholique, 1857 1866. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina. Ed. J.-P. Migne. Paris: Imprimerie Catholique, 1844 1865. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. A digital library of Greek literature (available online: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/). World Council of Churches