Syndoxia

συνδοξία

A community devoted to dialogue between the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christian traditions —that the churches may, with one accord, glorify God together:

On Behalf of All and For All

For more than fifteen centuries, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox have lived as estranged kin, separated by the Christological controversies of the fifth century and the long shadow they cast across liturgical, canonical, and ecclesial life. Yet the dialogue of the last half-century has done extraordinary work: the joint commissions at Chambésy concluded in 1989 and 1990 that the historic divisions rest, in large part, upon a terminological misunderstanding rather than a substantive doctrinal difference, and that both families confess the same faith of the Fathers, though in different formulations.

Syndoxia exists to take that finding seriously — not as an abstract conclusion to be admired, but as a living question to be inhabited. We are persuaded that the work of reconciliation belongs not only to bishops and theological commissions but to the whole body of the faithful: scholars, clergy, and laity together, reading carefully, writing honestly, and praying for one another. Our name, συνδοξία, names this aspiration; it is the cry of the liturgy and the longing of the apostolic age, that the churches may glorify God with one accord.

What follows here, in our journal and in our occasional writings, is offered in that spirit.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.

— John 17:21