The witness of Orthodoxy in the West

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Notes

¹ St John of Damascus., On icons, II, 12.

² ‘Tradition and traditions’, in Lossky, In the Image and Likeness of God, 152.

³ Stăniloae, ‘The Orthodox Conception of Tradition and the Development of Doctrine’, 634.

⁴ See Bulgakov, ‘By Jacob’s Well’, 101.

⁵ Brock, The Harp of the Spirit, 20, 30.

⁶ Evagrius of Pontus, Praktikos 92.

⁷ Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 113.

⁸ The Gospel according to Thomas, Logion 77.

⁹ Underhill, ‘Education and the Spirit of Worship’, 196.

¹⁰ The Russian Primary Chronicle, 111.

¹¹ Germanos of Constantinople, On the Divine Liturgy (Historia Ecclesiastica), 1. He is speaking of the church building, not of the Church as an institution.

¹² Homily in praise of those who have appeared in church (PG 56: 97).

¹³ On this initial experience of Orthodoxy, see further, ‘Strange Yet Familiar: My Journey to the Orthodox Church’, in Ware, The Inner Kingdom, The Collected Works, vol. 1, 1–24.

¹⁴ Quoted in Semenoff-Tian-Chansky, Father John of Kronstadt, 191.

¹⁵ Zizioulas Being as Communion,17.

¹⁶ Quoted in Clément, L’Eglise orthodoxe, Que sais-je? No. 949, 63.

¹⁷ Lossky, Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, 66.

¹⁸ Stăniloae, ‘Orthodoxy, Life in the Resurrection’, 371.

¹⁹ Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 24–5.