Sir Stephen Runciman — Fr. John Peck

The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow

Sir Steven Runciman: “Within the Next 100 Years Orthodoxy will be the Only Historical Church”

May 27, 2017 By Fr. John Peck

This is the final interview conducted by the magazine PEMPTOUSIA with the great Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on 14/7/2000, where he was hosted during his three-day stay on Mount Athos for the arrival of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who was to inaugurate the new sacristy of the monastery and the […]

Sir Steven Runciman: “Within the Next 100 Years Orthodoxy will be the Only Historical Church”

How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of Peace.

We must be super-conservative in preserving the Orthodox faith, and super-modern in propagating it.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.