"fluency in Koinonia Greek"
That would be "koine" Greek. Koinonia means community. Other than that you did good. You know, as Mathews-Greene found out, it does seem to work. Her comments about "issues" in Orthodoxy are on the money. There just isn't any way to really "change" things in Orthodoxy, except by a Gr4eat Council. One has been in the "planning stages" for the past 100 years or so and there's no date or agenda in sight yet. My suspicion is that if we see such a council in our lifetime it will be a Great Council with the Latin Church about reunion and I can assure you none of us will live long enough to see if any union which may come out of such a council will prove to be a true or false union.
For us, "positive social change" is what it has always been, advancement in theosis toward a unity with the uncreated energies of God, in other words, a fulfillment of our created purpose. To the extent that anyone, anyone, can attain this, creation around that person is itself transformed into its original state. All creation has been distorted by sin, but in the presence of one who has become luminous in theosis, the lion really does lie down with the lamb.
LOL -- I knew the latter, but figured I had the term wrong somehow. Thanks!
This is something new! And yet... it isn't, somehow...? (I am way too overtired.)
Well said.