ABSTRACT
Christos Yannaras has written extensively on the theological separation between East and West, and the subsequent impact of Western theological views and attitudes, as well as ecclesiastical structures, on modern Greece. The difference between East and West may be observed in the formulation and understanding of doctrines and teachings, but its impact on the ecclesiastical structure of the Church of Greece can be seen from the foundation of the modern Greek state, which set up the administration of the Church and the university study of theology in Greece, after German models, separating it from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In addition, church life at large in the twentieth century Greece, was dominated by extra-ecclesial brotherhoods, which promoted a Western judicial and moralist spirit.
Bishop Kyrillos attempts here a critical outline of the views of Christos Yannaras on the influence of the West on the modern Greek Church.
