TY - JOUR N2 - ”The 500th anniversary of the Reformation for the Orthodox Church is not a special reason for joy, because that was another division in the Church” – Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) said. Although it concerned the relationship between Luther and the Western Church, its reference became the Orthodox Church, in which Luther sought primary teaching and ecclesiology. The proof of this was the Leipzig dispute, during which the primacy, liturgy, structure of the Church, the teaching of justification and purgatory, Luther confronted with the teaching of the Orthodox Church. If Luther saw in the Orthodox Church a framework for his reform, why did he not decide to convert to the Eastern Church? Karmires, emphasizing Luther’s great knowledge of the Orthodox Church, claims, however, that it had only a superficial character, lacking empirical knowledge. He also concludes that Luther neither wanted nor accepted Orthodoxy because of his affection to the mentality of the Western Church and to scholastic theology as well. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/104102/PDF/6.%20Pankowski.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/104102 PY - 2018 EP - 91 DO - 10.24425/119661 KW - Martin Luther KW - the Orthodox Church KW - the Western Church KW - the Leipzig dispute KW - primacy KW - justification KW - purgatory KW - ecclesiology A1 - Pańkowski, Jerzy PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych VL - Tom 13 DA - 2019.02.25 T1 - The Orthodox Church towards Luther’s reformation SP - 83 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/104102 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -