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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity
Irina Paert (Edited by), Andrey Shishkov (Edited by), Alison R. Kolosova (Edited by)
9781394195848, Wiley
Hardback, published 16 October 2025
672 pages
26.1 x 18.5 x 4.3 cm, 1.389 kg
Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the transformation of conciliarity in modern Orthodox Christianity Conciliarity has long been a defining feature of Orthodox Christian identity, shaping governance, theology, and communal life. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity offers a comprehensive examination of how this foundational principle has evolved from the nineteenth century onward. Bridging theological inquiry with historical and sociopolitical analysis, this volume brings together leading scholars to explore the paradigm shift in Orthodox ecclesiology, moving from a hierarchical model centered on the bishop to a more dynamic, participatory understanding of conciliarity as embracing both leadership and laity. Filling a critical gap in English-language scholarship on modern Orthodox ecclesiology and conciliar thought, the Companion provides crucial insights into key historical moments, including the 1917-18 Moscow Council and the 2016 Council of Crete, while also addressing ongoing challenges such as inter-Orthodox conflicts, the role of the laity, and ecumenical relations. The contributing authors use historical analysis and contemporary case studies to highlight diverse expressions of conciliar and synodal practice across global Orthodox communities, from traditional heartlands in the Middle East, Russia, Greece and Romania to diaspora and missionary contexts in Africa, the Americas and Western Europe. An essential reference for understanding the past, present, and future of conciliarity in the Orthodox Church, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity is an essential resource for graduate students and scholars in theology, ecclesiology, church history, and ecumenism. It is also a valuable reference for clergy, church leaders, and members of ecumenical organizations such as the World Council of Churches seeking insights into the evolving role of conciliarity in modern Orthodox Christianity
Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 I. The Orthodox Conciliar Tradition 11 1 The Conciliar Tradition in the Early Church and Byzantine Empire 13 2 Conciliarity in Monasticism as Mutual Obedience 28 3 Conciliarity and Orthodox Choral Traditions 40 Precursors of the Conciliar Renaissance 51 4 "For It is a Sobor." The 1721 Reform of Peter the Great 53 5 Orthodox Churches and Conciliarity in the Habsburg Empire 68 6 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Churches in the Ottoman Empire and Balkan National States in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries 82 7 The Break- up of Empires: Orthodox Nationalism, Autocephaly, and Conciliarity 95 8 Orthodoxy and Conciliarity in the Russian Empire, 1825–1916 111 The 20th Century Conciliar Renaissance 125 9 The 1902 and 1904 Encyclicals of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Pan-Orthodox Conciliar Process: Overcoming National and Political Divisions, and Promoting Orthodox Unity 127 10 The Council of the Orthodox Church in Russia, 1917–1918 141 11 Gendering Conciliarity: Uncomfortable Historical Experience and Modern Gender Battles 155 12 Reviving Orthodox Conciliarity through the Holy and Great Council of Crete 2016 172 13 The Orthodox Diaspora, the Holy and Great Council of Crete, and the Search for Church Unity 190 II. The Theological Vision 203 14 Aleksei Khomyakov, the Slavophiles, and the Origins of Sobornost 205 15 Sobornost in the Discourse of the Russian Church in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 219 16 Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov's Re- dimensioning of Conciliarity/Sobornost 230 17 Nicholas Afanasiev: Conciliarity and the Eucharistic Assembly 245 18 The Question of Conciliarity in the Ecclesiology of John Zizioulas 257 19 Sabornost in Twentieth- Century Serbian Theology 270 20 Open Sobornicity in Dumitru Stãniloae 282 21 Sobornost: Orthodox Perspectives in the British Isles 294 22 Catholicity in Modern Orthodox Ecclesiology 306 23 Egalitarian and Totalitarian Lines Within the Structure of Sobornost: From Khomyakov's Anti- Hierarchicalism to Karsavin's Hierarchical Soborny Personalities 318 24 Sobornost: Political and Eschatological Dimensions 330 Contextual Approaches 343 25 Three Orthodox Women theologians and their Approaches to Conciliarity 345 26 Sobornost and Ecology 358 27 Synodality and Mission in Late Modernity 371 28 Conciliarity and Paradigm Change in Orthodox Ecclesiology 384 III. Local Conciliarities 397 29 Conciliarity and Russian Orthodox Mission in the Late Imperial and Revolutionary Periods 399 30 Eastern Orthodox Conciliarity in North America: Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin and the First North American Council of 1907 413 31 Conciliarity and Western European Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century 425 32 Sobornicity, Synodality, and Conciliarity in the Romanian Orthodox Church 436 33 Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy 449 34 Orthodoxy and Synodality in Africa: The Chalcedonian Orthodox 462 35 Synodality and Conciliarity in the Life of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church) 479 36 The Inter- Council Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church: An Advisory Board Under Patriarch Kirill 490 Conciliarity from Below 499 37 Conciliarity from Below in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥǝdo Church in the Nineteenth–Twenty-First Centuries 501 38 The Russian Student Christian Movement as an Expression of Sobornost in the 1920s–1930s 513 39 The Russian Student Christian Movement and its Conciliar Practices After World War Two 523 40 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Youth Movement in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch 531 41 Digital Opportunities and Challenges to Conciliarity in the Orthodox Church 545 Ecumenical Engagement 557 42 The Moscow Council of 1917–1918, the Second Vatican Council, and Ongoing Reflection on Synodality in the Roman Catholic Church 559 43 Conciliarity in the Anglican Tradition 574 44 Conciliarity in Eastern Orthodox– Catholic and Oriental Orthodox–Catholic Dialogue 586 45 The Dialogue Between the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches 603 Index 615
Foreword xix
Acknowledgments xxii
Michel Stavrou
Anna Briskina- Müller
Ivan Moody
Olga Tsapina
David Heith- Stade and Thomas Mark Németh
Paul Brusanowski
Ionut Biliuta
Alexey Beglov
Natallia Vasilevich
Aleksandr Kravetskii and Scott M. Kenworthy
Nadezhda Beliakova
Maxim Vasiljevc
Dimitrios Keramidas
Basil Lourié
Paul Valliere
Manuel Sumares
Anastacia Wooden
Demetrios Bathrellos
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Viorel Coman
Andrew Louth
Paul Ladouceur
Dmitry Biriukov
Davor Dzalto
Irina Paert
Elizabeth Theokritoff
Athanasios N. Papathanasios
Andrey Shishkov
Alison Ruth Kolosova
Aram G. Sarkisian
Sebastian Rimestad
Cristian Sonea and Rãzvan Persa
Nicholas Denysenko
Evi Voulgaraki- Pissina
Jossi Jacob Ponodath
Andrei V. Psarev
Ralph Lee
Ulyana Gutner
Cyrille Sollogoub
Elias El Halabi
Jacob Lassin
Peter De Mey
Paul Avis
Johannes Oeldemann
Christine Chaillot
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
