U.S. Lutheran seminary returns rare manuscript to Greek Orthodox Church
It was an “act of ecumenism” and a true gift—since the giver could not receive anything of equal value in return.
That’s how Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and James Nieman, president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, described the school’s decision to send a ninth-century New Testament manuscript back to the Greek monastery where it resided for centuries.