The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

A few days ago at lunch, my former (Papist) godmother started "speaking in tongues" - spouting off a whole pile of gibberish. She told me that sometimes when this happens, she speaks in Aramaic. I managed to record some of what she said, and when playing it back, I heard the world "Yeshu", which ...

But to answer your flipping question...

If I didn't know you better, I'd think you were mad at me. :P

The real problem with the One-Nature One-Will theology is that Christ no longer has a purely human will, which means He could not have sinned. This gets into a whole mess of things that St ...

Dear OOD,

XA! (I don't know if Greeks usually abbreviate it the way Slavs sometimes do...)

The whole issue of being or not being a Monophysite can be firmly obscured in abstract concepts so that most people could hardly even guess what you are talking about, which has the ecumenical benefit of ...

BB!

Exactly! This is why I cannot those being against the 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th Councils. It confirmed the Faith as always taught. And since it did, to condemn these councils — as some do — is not in line with the Orthodox Faith then. Like you said, since your church accepts the first three councils ...

Okay, let me reword it that the Fathers of the OEcumenical Councils #4-7 would not consider Orthodox anyone who reject those councils and the canons thereof. Would you deny that my friend?

Dear Dn. Nikolai,

XB!

I would tend to agree with you, but this is again subjective. It is the Fathers of ...

Simply put, those who do not accept the seven OEcumenical Councils, and especially those who reject some of these OEcumenical COuncils, cannot be considered Orthodox.

Sure they can, just not by you. After all, we are talking about "Orthodoxy" as you are defining it (7 = Orthodox). If we go ...