Phyletism as a Heresy

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Daniel
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Phyletism as a Heresy

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Does any one have any information on this? I have only read about it for the first time in the essay ECCLESIOLOGY OF A RETREATING ARMY by Basil Lourie, and I'm not quite following what he says. I'm kinda slow some times :)

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Justin Kissel

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I think it has to do with nationalism and tying in nationalism with one's religion. A lot of Churches have broken away from Constantinople and become "autocephalous" over the past few centuries; some of these Churches went a bit too far in identifying and blending their national/cultural traditions with the Church. Or so I've been told.

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