BRAVO, Mr. Suaiden!
Thank you Mr. Suaiden; your response “Hit the proverbial ‘nail’ on the head.”
The following is the “title” of an article that was sent to me, and is an explicit example of what is referred to when one sees the term “world orthodoxy.”
“Jesuit Named Chairman Of Patristic Institute At Holy Cross, Orthodox
Professors Passed Over”
If “that” doesn’t describe what “world orthodoxy” will become, then what does?
"The term "world orthodoxy" is probably one of the most sinister terms ever contrived in the modern "buzz-word" terminology of the "New Age lexicon."
Isn't the Orthodox Church ALREADY UNIVERSAL? Or, doesn't the Nicene Creed say what it used to say; to wit:
"I BELIEVE IN ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH….”
From what has been taught, the word Catholic already means UNIVERSAL, does it not?
Exactly what is the critical necessity to add the superfluous word "world" to what is already the absolute Truth in the entire Universe, and for that matter, the galaxies?
What, indeed, is this necessity, if not the preliminary posturing, mind setting, establishment of some "legal orthodox church". That "one" to which if one is not a 'member' then one is not considered part of "world orthodoxy". "That", my dear friends is plain old legalism, and is NOT Orthodox.
Orthodoxy is NOT legalism!
The fact is:
Orthodoxy was, is, and ever shall be - The True Faith, and The Orthodox Church was, is and ever shall be The Church of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ when He alone stated to the Apostle Peter:
"...And upon this rock will I build my Church.”
And
"...The gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church."
John