摘要：In this book of His Eminence Anastasios Yannoulatos, Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, Professor Emeritus of the University of Athen and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, we can find answers "based on Orthodox spiritual experience and tradition" (p. 12) to the most brisant questions of our time: globalization, human rights, meaning of culture, interreligious dialogue, responsibility and contribution of Orthodoxy in the contemporary society. This book which is indeed "an Orthodox answer to modern problems of global concerns" (p. 13) contents seven essays on theological and interreligious studies. Arch-bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos' understan-ding of ecumenism serves as basis for an orthodox view of interreligious dialogue. The Orthodox Church has not only to be ecumenical, but its vision of ecumenism is "the best response" to the "new global conditions" of our contemporary society (idem). Orthodoxy has always an universal dimension and leads from "Global Community" to a "Communion of Love" (p. 21). The main aim of the world and of each society is to become a koinonia of love "with our fellow human beings, with the entire var currentpos,timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()",10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0,++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initializeInternational Journal of Orthodox Theology 1:1 (2010)207universe, and with the Supreme Reality" (idem.). For Archbishop Anastasios the technological culture encourages to a crisis of identity and of meaning which can be overcome only by a spiritual culture of love (p. 22f). The fundament of this spiritual culture is the koinonia of love, the perfect koinonia of the Trinitarian God, who is at the same time the beginning and the aim of all creation. The human being as image of God aspires to this life in community (p. 24). The rupture in the relationship with God caused by sin involves a "fragmentation of the human self", an "alienation from the essence of human nature" (p. 26). Humanity can "return to koinonia with the Holy Trinity through Christ" who, as "incarnation of the Word of God", is the "new force for koinonia" (p. 26f)
