The Wheel #28/29. Out of it

Winter/Spring 2022

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Table of contents

To Our Readers by Editorial

State of Affairs

Nones and Dones: America’s Changing Face(s) and Why People Don’t Go to Church by Michael Plekon
The Gloaming of Christendom by Katherine Kelaidis

Personal Stories

"I’m Rejecting Nothing I Found in Orthodox Faith" by David O’Neal

Living Tradition

Is Liturgy Working? Secularization, Pluralism, and Christian Formation by Geoffrey Ready, James K. A. Smith

Personal Stories

I Left the Orthodox Church Involuntarily by Maria Gwyn McDowell

Living Tradition

Olivier Clément, Theologian of Modernity by Dr. Pantelis Kalaïtzidis
Sacred Atheism, or Atheism in the Service of Beauty by Michael Berrigan Clark

Personal Stories

Everything Is a Bit More Complicated by Dmitry Sverdlov

State of Affairs

“Preserve the Fullness of Thy Church”: Fighting Fundamentalism, Defending Dialogue, and Reclaiming Catholicity by John A. Jillions
The Church in Times of Crisis: A Refuge or a Driver for Change? by Efstathios Kessareas

Personal Stories

Love Is the Most Important Thing in the Universe by Kathleen George

State of Affairs

Outside the Bishops’ Omniscience, There Is No Freedom! The Romanian Orthodox Church in the Age of Autocracy by Ionut Biliuta

Poetry Desk

The Vise by Elizabeth Scott Tervo

Personal Stories

I Feel Less Inclined to Jump Ship by Michael Berrigan Clark

Reading Room

Abuse and Reform: Review of DeVille, Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed by Michael Plekon
The AOC Reaches Out to the Nones: Review of Becoming Truly Human by Liesl Coffin Behr
Secularization Revisited: Review of Plekon, Community As Church, Church As Community by Cyril Hovorun
Editorial

To Our Readers

Michael Plekon

An emeritus professor of sociology and religious studies at the City University of New York–Baruch College.

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Nones and Dones: America’s Changing Face(s) and Why People Don’t Go to Church

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Katherine Kelaidis

A research associate at the Institute of Orthodox Christian studies, Cambridge, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Wheel.

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The Gloaming of Christendom

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, historians started to consider that they had gotten the Middle Ages all wrong. The glimmering light of antiquity had not been extinguished in a moment, like a snuffedout candle.

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David O’Neal

Book editor who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Graduate of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. Essays and poetry are archived on his blog, Nonidiomatic (http://davensati54.blogspot.com/).

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"I’m Rejecting Nothing I Found in Orthodox Faith"

This reflection is excerpted from an essay published on the author’s blog Nonidiomatic in 2017, as he pondered his eventual departure from the Orthodox Church (www.davensati54.blogspot.com/2017/04/heretics-testament.html).

Geoffrey Ready

Directs the Orthodox School of Theology at the University of Toronto, where he teaches liturgy, Biblical studies, and pastoral theology.

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James K. A. Smith

A professor of philosophy at Calvin University, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview.

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Is Liturgy Working? Secularization, Pluralism, and Christian Formation

Secularization does not necessarily mean a decrease in religiosity. The philosopher Charles Taylor argues that secularization is a migration of religious devotion from institutional allegiances to other channels. This is a powerful explanatory dynamic.

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Maria Gwyn McDowell

A priest in the Episcopal Church

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I Left the Orthodox Church Involuntarily

I was maybe five, sitting with the older kids on the altar steps watching [a priest] describe his vestments. The cuff cords were so long! Each item meant something. I remember wanting to understand.

Dr. Pantelis Kalaïtzidis

The director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies.

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Olivier Clément, Theologian of Modernity

Please allow me to begin with a digression of a personal nature. When I shared the title of my contribution, it was suggested that I identify the works of Olivier Clément upon which my efforts directly depended. I replied that I would refer to several of his works.

Michael Berrigan Clark

A veteran educator and teacher of foreign languages. He holds a BA in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in French from Middlebury College.

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Sacred Atheism, or Atheism in the Service of Beauty

Dmitry Sverdlov

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Everything Is a Bit More Complicated

John A. Jillions

The former chancellor of the OCA and the founding principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, UK.

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“Preserve the Fullness of Thy Church”: Fighting Fundamentalism, Defending Dialogue, and Reclaiming Catholicity

Efstathios Kessareas

Postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt. Holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Crete and an MA in religious and development studies from the University of Leeds.

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The Church in Times of Crisis: A Refuge or a Driver for Change?

Kathleen George

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Love Is the Most Important Thing in the Universe

Ionut Biliuta

An Orthodox theologian and historian of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

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Outside the Bishops’ Omniscience, There Is No Freedom! The Romanian Orthodox Church in the Age of Autocracy

Elizabeth Scott Tervo

Poet and novelist.

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The Vise

Michael Berrigan Clark

A veteran educator and teacher of foreign languages. He holds a BA in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in French from Middlebury College.

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I Feel Less Inclined to Jump Ship

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Michael Plekon

An emeritus professor of sociology and religious studies at the City University of New York–Baruch College.

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Abuse and Reform: Review of DeVille, Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed

Liesl Coffin Behr

Managing editor of The Wheel

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The AOC Reaches Out to the Nones: Review of Becoming Truly Human

Cyril Hovorun

Expert and Contributor at Encyclopedia Britannica, Associate Dean of St. Ignatios Theological Academy (Sweden), Director of Research at the Institute of Theological Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine).

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Secularization Revisited: Review of Plekon, Community As Church, Church As Community