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national particularity and in its affirmation of sobornost participated in the
traditions of both East and West but transcended them both.
"Upon the precise area of "Central Europe," opinions differ": this
statement of T. G. Masaryk is by now probably beyond dispute; and of the
territories enumerated by Masaryk, neither "Bohemia [Cechy]" nor
"Galicia [Halic] " can be said to have brought precision to it. But perhaps
the definition I have just formulated on the basis of Szeptyckyj, and even
more on the basis of Solovjov, will serve as a starting point: a tertium quid
that in its preservation of national particularity and in its affirmation of
sobornost participates in the traditions of both East and West but transcends
them both.
NOTES
1. Thomas Garrique Masaryk, The Making of a State: Memories and Observations
1914-1918, tr. Henry Wickam Steed (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937),
p. 370; in the English translation, the footnote has been incorporated into the text.
2. Amos 9:7.
3. Acts 10:34-35.
4. Polnyj pravoslavnyj bogoslavskij enciklopediceskij slovar (reprint ed.; London:
Variorum, 1971), 1:4445.
5. Martin Jugie, "Schisme Byzantin," Dictionnaire de theologie catholique, 15
vols. (Paris: 1903-50), 14:1407-20.
6. Perikles-Petros Joannou, "Autokephal," Lexikon fur Theologie und Kirche,
2d ed. (Freiburg, 1957-67), 1:1130.
7. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, 5 vols. (Chicago, 1971 ff.), 2:150-53
8. The Latin text of the Gallican Articles is conveniently edited, together with
the condemnatory paragraph of the constitution Inter multiplices, in Heinrich Denzinger,
ed. Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum
(Freiburg: Herder, 1963), no. 2281-86.
9. Augustine City of God 1.35.
10. Jan Hus, De Ecclesia 7B-C, ed. S. Harrison Thomson, Magistri Johannis Hus
Tractatus de Ecclesia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956), p. 45.
11. Hus, De Ecclesia 3, Thomson ed., p. 15.
12. Jaroslav Pelikan, Obedient Rebels (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 106 -46.