The Resurrected Christ and the Church, Archbishop Stylianos (Harkianakis)

Abstract: The article investigates the relationship between the Church and its teaching on the Resurrection of Christ from a systematic theological perspective. It does this by examining the significance of the resurrection of Christ for Christology, for salvation and lastly for the Church. In bringing to the fore the inextricable link between Christ's resurrection with Christology, soietriology and ecclesiology, the article explains and theologically justifies the resurrectional character of the Orthodox Church especially as this is witnessed in its worship, monasticism and in the popular piety of its faithful. It concludes by highlighting that the entire life of the Church ought indeed to be a witness to the Resurrection precisely because the purpose of Pentecost was to reveal the Resurrection everywhere to all.

Bio: Archbishop Stylianos (Harkianakis) is Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Asutralia and Dean of St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College.