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Dear Ioannes --

It is in this context Fr. John's ecclesiology is rooted -- that the criteria of the true Church is where there are found illumined and deified people, namely the Saints. This does not allow for any of the heterodox to claim they have the True Church.

Perhaps I am dense, but this ...

In a discussion on another board, I am being told that I hold heretical beliefs because I do not believe that Muslims pray to the True God.

He says he has quotes from the likes of St. Justin Martyr, St. Irenaeus, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Basil the Great to prove that my belief is ...

Ioannis,

I think Gregory's question took the premise that while what you said is true, did John Romanides say as long as a group was seen as being "therapeutic", it would necessitate that we see them as being the true church of Christ.

Of course "therapeutic" would have to be defined as something ...

My friend recently sent me some articles by Romanides and Florovsky concerning their views on ecclesiology.

After reading them, I concluded that they both have somewhat of a similar approach, yet they leave many questions unanswered. They state that the Church is therapeutic in nature and once a ...

Speaking of chanting and polyphonic singing...is there any impetus in either ROCOR or ROAC to return to traditional chanting? I remember reading an speach by Metropolitan Lauras given to the graduates of Holy Trinity Jordanville on Traditional Liturgics. This speech was published in Orthodox Life ...

Wow. I never knew how Russian chanting can be synchronized with byzantine.?

Yes, and very beautifully. I have a 5 disc CD set of an Agripnia at Hilander Monastery on Agios Oros. The Vigil is chanted antiphonally, alternating between Greek and Slavonic - all with Byzantine Chant.

I recently heard ...

Wait... Weren't the Serbs chanting byzantine? (If anyone has seen the site of Kosovo.com, of the monastery of Dechani, there is a page of their chanting of the Supplicatory Canon to Saint Stephen of Dechani, and it is very byzantine. To all Hellenic, Serb, and Arab churches (the arab churches that ...