Moderate vs Extreme

[Daniel]

Given the sometimes negative connotations that accompany the word 'extreme', maybe the word 'strict' would be more appropriate?

[尼古拉前执事]

I do not use it as an insult at all, it is, as you said, a way to differentiate which GOC. Unfortunately Chrysostomos is not enough to make it clear, neither would it fit in the small space.

The strict Ecclesiology idea I like, thank you!

[away]

"The two extremes always weary Mother Church, as well as those who hold to them, because the two extremes as a rule stab one another... In other words, it is as if the one extreme is held by a possesed man who is spiritualy insolent (and feels contempt for everything), and the other extreme is held by a madman who is childishly zealous with narrow - mindedness. God forbid - these two ends could strike at each other continually and "an end to it all" no one will find.

Those who will be able to bend these two extremes and make them unite, will be crowned by Christ with two imperishable crowns.

Unfortunately, in our day, there are many who weary Mother Church. Among these, those who are educated have grasped the dogma with thier mind and not with the spirit of the holy Fathers. Others, who are unlearned, have grasped the dogma with thier teeth, which explains why they grate thier teeth when discussing ecclesiastical themes. Hence it is that they cause more serious harm to the Church than the enemies of our Orthodoxy"

Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain.

[mwoerl]

see, it goes like this-the "moderates" are, uh, moderate, and the "extreme" are, uh, extreme. despite whatever it originally meant . . .

mwoerl