I recently read Father John
Garvey’s book Seeds of the Word: Orthodox
Thinking about Other Religions,1 which is, among other things,
an admirable effort toward encouraging Orthodox Christians to gain insight into
the religious traditions that inevitably surround us these days and toward
discovering the proper way to regard them.
Father John recognizes our understanding of these other faiths to be
limited by our inability to enter into them completely, yet, with an