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 1  The Struggle for Patristic Theology in the Church of Russia Andrew J. Sopko Published in Italian, Italia Ortodossa, Anno XXXI-XXXII (2007-8) A strong romanticism can often be discerned in contemporary Orthodoxy that looks to the past in traditionally Orthodox areas as a “golden age” when everything was so much better. The truth of the matter remains quite different. Neither “golden Byzantium” nor “holy Russia” ever really succeeded in freeing themselves from an on-going struggle between the experience of the Gospel and the allure of a more speculative theology. These speculations always claimed to be capable of “rationalizing” theology through intellectual, philosophical and even moralistic means. This limitation of the exposition of the Christian faith to only these realms could never be fully faithful to the patristic spirit, however, since they lacked any foundation in a real experience of the Truth. The long history of the Church of Russia is filled with this s truggle between a theology faithful to the experience of the Church Fathers and the speculations of a far less traditional theology. Indeed, the fact that over many centuries the Church of Russia has not produced a single Church Father in the most classic sense has  been used by some as a “proof” of the tr iumph of this ty pe of theological speculation. While this might be an overstatement in light of the many spiritual mothers and fathers that have enlightened the Russian land for over a millennium, there can be no denying that patristic theology struggled for proclamation in the Church of Russia. But before any investigation of this struggle can occur, it must  be made clear just what patristic theol ogy entails. Aspects of  Patristic Theology Patristic theology should not be equated merely with patristics or patrology as h as often been the case in modern scholarship for this imprisons the most definitive expression of Christian witness after that of the Apostles to limited chronological and geographical perimeters. In its most authentic form, patristic theology witnesses to Christ in all times and places, just as the original preaching of the Apostles did in the ancient world. The authenticity of such a kerygma is not found

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