Pan-Orthodox Council of 2016 – A New Era for the Orthodox Church?

Vasilios N. Makrides is a Professor of Religious Studies (specialising in Orthodox Christianity) at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.Sebastian Rimestad is a Senior Researcher with a focus on Christianity at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany.

• Introduction (Makrides/Rimestad)THE COUNCIL AND ITS PARTICIPANTSThe Idea of a Council (Valliere)Local Orthodoxies and Universal Orthodoxy (Synek)Ecclesiastical Geopolitics (Kalkandjieva)Before and After the Council (Kyrlezhev/Shishkov)«Alternative Orthodoxy» (Rimestad)THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE MODERN WORLDOrthodox Vision of the Modern World (Agadjanian)Orthodox Secularism (Papanikolaou)The Challenges of Nationalism (Leustean)Orthodox Diaspora(s) (Pnevmatikakis)THE COUNCIL AND WORLD CHRISTIANITYVatican II and Crete I (De May)The Council and Ecumenism (Noble)Orthodoxy and Inter-Christian Dialogue (Kalaitzidis)