Luke wrote:Many people forget this happened.
Yes, either they pretend that the unilateral anathema lifting between the EP and the Pope did not happen, play it down, or they have forgotten the incident as embarrassing. After all, the MP was not involved, neither was Antioch, Jerusalem, or any other member of World Orthodoxy.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.
Luke wrote:Many people forget this happened.
Yes, you have a point. To me, it is on par with what would have happened in the ancient world if the vast majority of Orthodox clergy and laity had forgotten that Arius had declared that there was a time when the Son was not; or if they had forgotten that Nestorius had made a division between the Christ the Man, and the Son of God where the Mother of God gave birth to the first but not the second, and other examples I could raise. It simply would have driven grace out of every temple and altar that adopted the theology that communion with heresy doesn't drive out grace from gentlemen and civilized and educated and well-mannered and the well-intentioned. It only drives grace out of the ill-tempered, backward, uneducated, ill-mannered and ill-intentioned. The heresy itself is inconsequential.