Logos A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій Volume 53, Nos. 1–2 (2012) This periodical is indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals, the Index to Book Reviews in Religion, Religion Indexes: RIO/RIT/IBRR 1975– on CD- ROM, and in the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library Association, 300 Wacker Drive, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60606, E-mail: [email protected], WWW: http://www.atla.com Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій A continuation of Logos: Periodicum Theologiae Trimestre (1950–1983) ISSN 0024–5895 Published by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and the Yorkton Province of the Ukrainian Redemptorists © 2012 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Editor-in-Chief: Andriy Chirovsky (Sheptytsky Institute) Managing Editor: Stephen Wojcichowsky (Sheptytsky Institute) Editor: Adam DeVille Distribution: Lorraine Manley Layout & Design: Key-Co. 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Jones ................................................................................... 13 On the “Anti-Semitism” of Pavel Florensky, a New Martyr Robert F. Slesinski ........................................................................... 43 Notes, Essays, Lectures Canonical Reflections on the Recent Pastoral Letter from the Melkite Greco-Catholic Eparchy of Newton Alexander M. Laschuk ...................................................................... 63 Review Essay: Tore Tvarnø Lind, The Past is Always Present: The Revival of the Byzantine Musical Tradition at Mount Athos, ed. Philip V. Bohlman and Martin Stokes (Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2012), 224pp. Richard Barrett ................................................................................ 77 Logos: Vol. 53 (2012) Nos. 1–2 Table of Contents The Pœnitentiale Theodori in Theological Perspective: Soteriological Aspects of Confession according to Theodore of Tarsus James Siemens .................................................................................. 83 Book Reviews Antoine Arjakovsky, En attendant le Concile de l’Église Orthodoxe (Michael Plekon) ........................................................................ 93 Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Michael Lower) ......................................................................... 97 Allen Brent, Cyprian and Roman Carthage (Bradley J. Daugherty) ............................................................. 100 E.D. Karampetsos, Dante and Byzantium (Anthony Esolen) ..................................................................... 104 Alexander I. Negrov, Biblical Interpretation in the Russian Orthodox Church (Danylo Kuc) ............................................................................ 108 Stefano Parenti. A Oriente e Occidente di Costantinopoli. Temi e problemi liturgici di ieri e di oggi. Monumenta Studia Instrumenta Liturgica 54 (Daniel Galadza) ...................................................................... 111 Paul Evdokimov, Orthodoxy, trans. Jeremy Hummerstone (Michael Plekon) ...................................................................... 115 Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz, eds., Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective (Myroslaw Tataryn) .................................................................. 118 John McGuckin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 vols. (Adam A.J. DeVille) ................................................................ 121 iv Logos: Vol. 53 (2012) Nos. 1–2 Table of Contents Thomas Pott, Byzantine Liturgical Reform: A Study of Liturgical Change in the Byzantine Tradition, trans. Paul Meyendorff (Peter Galadza) ........................................................................ 124 Susan Tavassoli, Christian Encounters with Iran: Engaging Muslim Thinkers After the Revolution (James Bockmier) .................................................................... 132 Radu Bordeianu, Dumitru Staniloae: an Ecumenical Ecclesiology (Adam A.J. DeVille) ................................................................ 137 Stéphane Verhelst, Liturgia Ibero-Graeca Sancti Iacobi. Editio – translatio – retroversion – commentarii (Daniel Galadza) ...................................................................... 142 Briefly Noted ............................................................................ 147 Contributors ............................................................................. 161 The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Academic Programs, Resources, Books v Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Vol. 53 (2012) Nos. 1–2, pp. 1–11 Another Miracle from Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky When the Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Eastern Christian Theology and Spirituality was being inaugurated in 1994, the distinguished Ukrainian Catholic priest-canonist Victor Pospi- shil wrote in a letter of greeting that he thought the coming into being of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies was enough of a miracle as to estab- lish the sanctity of its namesake. Of course, most members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church consider the generation-long survival in the underground of this Church and its resurrection in 1989–90 with five million members to be the chief miracle attributable to the venerable giant of St. George’s Hill. But Rome’s Congregation for the Saints usually looks for miracles of a more medical nature – e.g., well-documented healings that defy scientific explanation, with x-rays or something of the like. Metropolitan Andrey was undoubtedly interested in physi- cal healing. He was the founder of a clinic in L’viv that was dedicated to the care of people of all backgrounds. And there is now a canonically verified miracle of physical healing attri- buted to the intercession of Metropolitan Andrey (more on that later). Nevertheless, it seems that he rather enjoys being in- volved in other rather miraculous phenomena, like bringing people together in mysterious ways to defy all the odds. It is in this context that I wish to report an extraordinary set of events that took place in Ottawa towards the end of April 2012. With the assistance of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter, an organization under the leadership of Canadian businessman and philanthropist Mr. James Temerty among others, the All- Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO) decided to pay a visit to Canada and the United States. I will limit myself to the events in Canada, although the 2 Andriy Chirovsky council also had a successful visit to Washington, DC (April 25–27) and New York (April 27–29).1 The council is a won- derful example of diverse groups working harmoniously together. It includes various Christian confessions: the Ukrai- nian Orthodox Church (Kyivan Patriarchate), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), the Ukrainian Auto- cephalous Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, various evan- gelical, Pentecostal and Adventist denominations, and Jews and Muslims. This in itself is extremely important. Neither Canada nor the United States have an analogous body that would bring together the national representatives of Christia- nity, Judaism, and Islam to work together on various issues affecting society. For a fledgling democracy like Ukraine’s to demonstrate such interfaith cooperation is quite simply wonderful. The council represents 95% of believers in Ukraine; and believers constitute about three-quarters of the population. Thus, the council is (at least potentially) the most broad-based non- governmental organization in Ukraine’s civil society and could, if it proceeds carefully