Deacon Vasily (Karl Christian) Felmy, Doctor of Theology, Professor in Ordinary, Department of the History and Theology of the Christian East, University of Erlangen (Erlangen)
pp. 11–18
DOI: 10.25803/SFI.2019.29.25794
The article deals with the issue of recognising in the Orthodox churches the validity of the sacraments administered in the non-Orthodox churches and communities. Various local Orthodox traditions, including theological and other reasons of recognising some of non-Orthodox sacraments, are briefly reviewed. In the author’s opinion, the existing vast diversity of practices of recognising non-Orthodox sacraments requires greater harmonisation of theological, canonical, pastoral and other arguments, including situational ones, for elaborating a more unified and coherent position of Orthodoxy on this issue.
Keywords: theology, ecclesiology, church sacraments, the validity of sacraments