2012/2 (LIV) ****************************************************************************************** * 2012/2 (LIV) ****************************************************************************************** ARTICLES • Jürgen Moltmann 128 Sun of Righteousness, Arise! Die Freiheit eines Christenmenschen- damals und heute; für der Sünde Abstract: Famous theologian’s reflection on the meaning of Martin Luther’s Reformation, based on h delivered in Atlanta in 2011: The nature of Christian freedom is discussed as defined by synergism of being redeemed by Jesus Christ on one hand and at the same time obliged to even being exloited by them. Keywords: freedom – righteousness – Christianity – Reformation – Martin Luther • Zdenko Š. Širka 142 The Role of Theoria in Gregory of Nyssa´s Vita Moysis and in Canticum Canticorum Abstract: In this article the author focuses on the problem of spiritual sense in the hermeneutics Nyssa, as it is described in his late works Vita Moysis (The life of Moses) and In Canti (Commentary on the Song of Songs). The author explores how spiritual sense (in terms of understood in the milieu of the Early Church. He then approaches each of the mentioned b own context and analyzes them from the perspective of modern scholarship. Finally the au Gregory’s unique hermeneutics of spiritual sense, which is assembled around three terms: skopos and akolouthia. His primary goal is to advocate the ascent of the soul to God. In the author questions the summary dividing of patristic hermeneutics into Alexandrian and approaches. Keywords: Gregory of Nyssa – spiritual sense – theoria – patristic hermeneutics – Origen of Alexan • Tim Noble 164 Rights of the Indigenous People and the Orthodox Mission to Alaska Abstract: This article looks at the Russian Orthodox mission to Alaska in the nineteenth century. a brief history of the mission from its beginnings in the eighteenth century, focussing figures such as St Herman and later the first bishop of the region, St Innocent Veniamin how the missionaries first protected the indigenous people against the brutality of the Company, and then, after the sale of Alaska to the USA in 1867, against the forced accul policies of the American administration. The Russian mission is seen as one that sought the gospel in the region, respecting and working with what it found good in the native c Keywords: Russian Orthodoxy – Mission – Alaska – St Herman – St Innocent – Veniamin – Inculturatio • Kateřina Bauer 184 Emigration as Taking Roots and Giving Wings: Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev and Mothe Skobtsova Abstract: This article concentrates on three Russian emigrants, Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev Maria Skobtsova, whose lives were closely bound not just by life in Paris but also by th It shows their different reactions to the “uprootedness” of life in diaspora and how the understanding of the new historical circumstances brought new understanding of their own each of them, the understanding of roots and the state of being “uprooted” and “unrooted Bulgakov’s understanding of the roots was more groaning for them, while for Berdyaev roo feeling which was alien to him both back at home and in diaspora, and finally Mother Mar the roots into the wings of Holy Spirit. Keywords: Russian emigrants – diaspora – roots – uprootedness – Sergei Bulgakov – Nikolai Berdyaev Skobtsova • Nikolaos Asproulis 203 Is a Dialogue between Orthodox Theology and (Post)Modernity Possible? The Case of the Ru Neo-Patristic „Schools“ Abstract: Following one of the basic arguments of Pantelis Kalaitzidis’ recently published book “O Modernity – An Introduction”, in which he poses the provocative question “Did Orthodox C come to a halt before Modernity”, I would like in this paper to advance the whole proble further, reflecting on some fundamental aspects of the widely-recognized dominant trends Orthodox theology worldwide, namely the so-called Rus- sian School and the Neo-Patristic introductory and not a definite attempt will be made after a brief methodological orient theological perspective to trace certain positive or negative premises and reactions of thinkers related to these streams, concerning the possibility of an original and creativ certainly reciprocal dialogue between contemporary Orthodoxy and Modernity or Post-Moder Keywords: Orthodoxy – Post-Modernity – Russian School – Neo- Patristic School – Church Dogmatics – World Dogmatics BOOK REVIEWS • Pavol Bargár 223 Pavel Hošek, Židovská teologie křesťanství (A Jewish Theology of Christianity) • Parush Parushev 226 Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy • Fr. Christofor Panaitescu 232 Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Orthodoxy and Political Theology