Alexei Yudin,
RELIGION AND CHURCH IN RUSSIA AND WORLDWIDE
The Agenda of Vatican II Council and of Pan-Orthodox Council it the Preparatory Period: Parallels and Differences
Yudin,
Alexey (2016) “The Agenda of Vatican II Council and of Pan-Orthodox
Council in the Preparatory Period: Parallels and Differences”, Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom 34(1): 165-181.
The article compares the agenda of the II Vatican Council of the
Catholic Church (1962 – 1965) and the themes of the Pan-Orthodox Council
during many years of its preparation. The author points to the thematic
parallelism of the two conciliar processes, which reflected the desire
of the Catholic and Orthodox churches to respond to the challenges of
contemporary world. At the same time, in contrast to the Catholic
Council, in the Orthodox pre-consiliar many of the themes of the
original agenda, concerning the relationship of the Church to the modern
world, have been omitted after long discussions; some themes were not
supported and dropped at the Pre-Council meetings. As a result, the
agenda scheduled for June 2016 Pan-Orthodox Council became largely
limited to internal church issues, except for one document — about the
Mission of the Church.