St/Blessed John of Shanghai

[jechenaudrey]

outside of Orthodoxy or outside of Russian geographic boundaries?--choose one: Muskovy, Russian Empire, USSR, or the present day Russian federation.

[Kosmas]

"outside of Orthodoxy or outside of Russian geographic boundaries?--choose one: Muskovy, Russian Empire, USSR, or the present day Russian federation."

Your arguments are outside Orthodox phronema or mindset.
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/phronema/

As all Empires before it, the Russian Empire will cease to exist. The temporal will melt away as eternity replaces it. We are only sojourning through this life and are to prepare for eternal life. Care little about what governments and mortal kings do. Live for the Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom which shall never end.
Peace.

[jechenaudrey]

or read Blessed Augustine City of God. The more the temporal world adapts to the orthodox mindset the more it resembles the kingdom of heaven.

[jechenaudrey]

Actually the rudders state that Emperor can be communed in the altar and receive communion by hand like clergy except for consecration. Whether or not he is in good standing with the church depends on the clergy at in that particular situation. His office is laid out by Eusebeia of Caesarea and since this office is fallen in disuse we cant really access the situation at the present moment.

[Kosmas]

You seem to be very "book" learned however you also seem to be suffering.

"The more the temporal world adapts to the orthodox mindset the more it resembles the kingdom of heaven."

Of course it would but by reading Holy Scriptures you would have already know that the "temporal world" will not resemble the kingdom of heaven, not until the Lord Jesus Christ returns in Glory. Please read the New Testament regularly.

May I ask what your first name is jechenaudrey?

[jechenaudrey]

I did Romans 13:4 the ministers of God's wrath are monarchs and this passage favours absolute monarchs such as roman caesars to curry God's favour.
The highest ranking monarch is the Emperor of Japan, but his position is a shameful one as it represents conquest, murder, rape, and robbery of chinese
peoples and neither does he care about being the next czar that will carry on the banner.