FLOROVSKY’S ECUMENISM ORTHODOX ECUMENISM AS MISSIONARY ACTIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF THE CHURCH

By Dr Brandon Gallaher, Sourozh, 111 (Nov. 2016), 86-97.

Florovsky’s essential ecumenical position was forged in the mid-1930s in reaction to Bulgakov’s ecumenical work. Bulgakov believed both that the churches might be led to unity by limited episcopally blessed intercommunion and that although the Orthodox Church most fully embodied the Church Universal or Una Sancta, the Church Universal was not bound by its limits and included to a lesser degree other ecclesial bodies as true churches.1