Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew IThe Patriarch addresses the modern world in light of the essential message of the Church, a Christianity of light and freedom. Whether he speaks about ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, or the need for a sacramental ecology, his words are both clear and prophetic. |
Contents
The Ecumenical Patriarchate | 21 |
Bartholomew I | 33 |
Understanding the Faith | 59 |
Transfiguring the World | 105 |
On Freedom | 119 |
On Love and Other Subjects That | 125 |
Church and State | 137 |
Secularization and | 153 |
On Ecumenism and Fanaticism | 173 |
On Judaism | 195 |
On Islam and On the Mediterranean | 205 |
About the New Age About India | 215 |
The Newness of the Spirit | 227 |
I | 237 |
Common terms and phrases
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