Radu Constantin grew up in the small hamlet of Cioatele, in northeastern Romania, a village he describes as “religious people, very involved in the church life.”
ONE of the books I bought this year was The Orthodox Study Bible, prepared by the Academic Community of St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology and published by Thomas Nelson. Among its notes, there is a reference to the separation of the Orthodox and the Catholic communities blamed, quite expectedly, on the Bishop of Rome s claims to supremacy over the patriarchs who presided over sees or jurisdictions that claimed to be as original as Rome and could trace their authority to one or the other apostle.
As a new academic year is officially underway, Bossey faculty and staff, together with 31 students from around the world gathered for an opening prayer service in the Bossey chapel on 13 September, embarking on what will be an intense period of ecumenical community building, academic learning, and discovering profound connectivity between them.