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by Extranjero
Mon 15 January 2018 8:40 am
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Re: Immaculate Conception dogma

Excuse me but I would like insist in the same idea: the uniqueness of the cross. Florovsky said (*) : "The mystery of the Incarnation was a mystery of the love divine, of the divine identification with lost man. And the climax of Incarnation was the cross. It is the turning point of human desti...
by Extranjero
Sun 14 January 2018 11:02 pm
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Re: Immaculate Conception dogma

Thanks d9popov for the explanations and references. Something which strike me specially is the convergence between the Catholic and Orthodox distortions mentioned. We can recognize a pattern behind this convergence: the tendence to avoid the cross, favoring a devotion to a divine female. By the way,...
by Extranjero
Sun 14 January 2018 3:40 am
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Re: Immaculate Conception dogma

Pleased to meet you Justice and Barbara. Welcome, also, Extranjero ! Where are you from ? I live in Japan, Barbara, but I am argentinian. That's why I chose my nick: "Extranjero" in spanish means "foreigner". Actually there are many Orthodox websites in my language but I didn't f...
by Extranjero
Sat 13 January 2018 7:03 am
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Re: Immaculate Conception dogma

Thank you very much Maria and Xenondrum. Thanks for the pdf and the many references. I take note of all you said. Now just a few comments about Catholicism because is something which involves my feellings: I agree with the critical comments from xenondrum. As I am old (60 years), I have seen the cha...
by Extranjero
Sat 13 January 2018 2:14 am
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Re: Immaculate Conception dogma

Thank you dear d9popov. I am going to look for those sources you mentioned. By the way, "ecumenism" is a big word which involves many senses. And among those senses there some things I do not accept. My worry was refered just to the Immaculate Conception. As I see, if we focus in the Ortho...
by Extranjero
Fri 12 January 2018 12:28 am
Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
Topic: Immaculate Conception dogma
Replies: 35
Views: 17528

Immaculate Conception dogma

Hello. This is my first post here. I am a Roman Catholic very interested in the Orthodox Tradition. Also I am attending as guest to an Orthodox Church. Meanwhile I try to study all I can find about it. Just now I am reading the Kallistos Ware's book "Orthodox Church". My interest in the Or...