Abstract
After surveying the development of Orthodox ecclesiology in the modern period, this article offers a critique of two especially noteworthy presentations of ‘eucharistic ecclesiology’, by Nicholas Afanasiev and John Zizioulas. Among other things, it calls attention to ways in which the notion of ‘place’ and therefore the meaning of ‘local’ have changed since the second and third centuries – the period that exponenents of eucharistic ecclesiology have so often taken as perennially normative. In conclusion the article argues for rediscovery of baptism as a corrective to eucharistic ecclesiology, contending that deeper appreciation of the ecclesiological significance of baptism could have important pastoral and ecumenical implications for the Orthodox Church.
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