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Properly speaking, the Orthodox theological tradition has no specific “Theology of Migration,” though migration has always been a reality in the life of the faithful in all Orthodox churches, both Eastern and Oriental,1 particularly since the latter part of the nineteenth century until present times. A word needs to be said about this apparent incongruity.
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See K. M. George, “Oriental Orthodox—Orthodox Dialogue,” in Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, eds. N. Lossky, et al., 757–759 (Geneva: WCC, 1991).
Gregory of Nazianzus, On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (New York: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 2002). See particularly Orations 27 and 28, in which Gregory outlines the method of theology typical of the Cappadocian Fathers.
See also Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way, rev. ed. (New York: SVS Press, revised edition 1995), esp. 11–25.
Ware, The Orthodox Way, 121–122. See also K. M. George, The Silent Roots: Orthodox Perspectives on Spirituality (Geneva: WCC Publications 1994), 8–13.
See Ivana Noble and Timothy Noble, “Orthodox Theology in Western Europe in the Twentieth Century,” in European History Online (2013), accessed March 10, 2014, http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/religious-and-confessional-spaces/ivana-noble-tim-noble-orthodox-theology-in-Westen-europe-in-the-twentieth-century.
Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians, in The Faith of the Early Fathers Vol. 1, sel. and trans. W. A. Jurgens (Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, 1992), 6–13.
John Meyendorff, “Does Christian Tradition have a Future?” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 26 (1982); quoted in P. Kalaitzidis, Orthodoxy and Political Theology (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2012), 89.
Nicolas Berdyaev, “Salvation and Creativity: Two Understandings of Christianity,” in Western Spirituality: Historical Roots and Ecumenical Routes, ed. M. Fox (Santa Fe Bear & Company, 1981), 133.
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George, K.M. (2014). Theology of Migration in the Orthodox Tradition. In: Padilla, E., Phan, P.C. (eds) Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions. Palgrave Macmillan’s Christianities of the World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001047_5
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