Calendar Question: Conciliar Discussions in History and modernity
This article examines the role of church councils in reaching a common date for Easter in the first millennium (the Quartodeciman debates, the First Ecumenical Council and after), as well as attempts towards a pan-Orthodox solution of the calendar issue in the 20th century (with a special focus on Russia). The author shows that the calendar and paschal issues were repeatedly placed on the church agenda with different emphases: the desire for a common date for Easter in the first millennium; confessional differences after the Gregorian reform in the 16th century; and the search for a pan-Orthodox response to the changed socio-political conditions of the 20th -21st centuries. None of these efforts offered a fast, implementable, and commonly acceptable "formula" for solving the issue. The conciliar process has always played an important role in achieving unity and was an important counterweight to attempts at imposing a particular model "from above". The starting point for the considered discussions was liturgical variety, whose legitimate existence (not just in relation to the calendar and Easter tables) does not divide the Church, but, on the contrary, reveals its inner unity in the variety of liturgical forms. In this regard, the study of the calendar and paschal issues in the broader context of achieving and maintaining Church unity can contribute to the successful solution of other issues on the agenda of the forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council. Keywords: calendar, calendar reform, Pan-Orthodox Council, council, conciliarity, Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church. page 182SPEAKING about the prospects of the Pan-Orthodox Council, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, emphasized its importance for expressing the fullness of pan-Orthodox unity: "If today the Local Churches manage to overcome their internal differences and" with one mouth and one heart " bear witness to their inherent unity, this will b ... Read more
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