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Post by 尼古拉前执事 »

Kollyvas,

When you cut and paste articles, could you please take a little time to reformat them so that they are not double-spaced and lines do not break prematurely please?

Also if a link is long please format it like so:

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I have been doing this for you to a number of your posts, but it takes a lot of my time, so I am hoping you can do this yourself before posting. Thank you in advance.

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done.

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Evlogeite Pater.
I will do as asked in the future to the best of my ability...
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Future MP Participation In wcc In Doubt

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https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa ... dox&P=3858

Moscow Patriarchate representative in Europe predicts a gradual severance of relations among Christians

Moscow, March 16, Interfax - The Orthodox are appalled at the attempts of the Protestants to force discussion of homosexualism on the World Council of Churches (WCC), representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to the European Institutions bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria said.

‘Attempts of certain Protestant churches to force discussion of sexual
minorities on the WCC have provoked a particular indignation of the
Orthodox’, the hierarch said in his interview to the web-site of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

According to him, traditional views on homosexualism as sin have been
‘subjected to revision’ in certain Protestant churches recently. He remarked that the Episcopal church in the USA has recently ordained an open homosexual as bishop, while the Church of Sweden introduced an office of blessing the unisexual marriages.

The Moscow Patriarchate has already suspended the dialogue with the
Episcopal Church of the USA and the Church of Sweden. That shows the
interchristian community ‘going to pieces’, bishop Hilarion added.

‘It is hardly doubtful that other protestant churches of the North would
follow the path of the American Episcopals and the Swedish Lutherans, and that the relations would be broken off on regular basis in the nearest
future’, the bishop believes.

He said that in this case the WCC, which is the union of the Protestants and the Orthodox, once ‘created with such a difficulty’, would not bear the burden of stockpiling differences and the ‘ecumenical ship’ would sink.

Here is the ROCOR link to the Interview--it is in Russian. In general, the English account is correct in a sense, but it neglects to take into account that the MP representative issues an apologia for continued MP participation in the wcc and that he puts forward a new model of "traditional vs. liberal "Churches"--yes, it's capitalized in Russian on a ROCOR site. No, ecumenism is approached as legitimate and not as heresy. I am no fan of +hilarion:

http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/syn ... rocor.html

...Почему РПЦ МП продолжает пребывать в ВСЦ?

Московский Патриархат продолжает пребывать в ВСЦ по целому ряду причин. Некоторые из них я упомянул в предыдущем изложении. В вопросе о том, оставаться ли в ВСЦ или выходить из него, Московский Патриархат руководствуется следующими положениями «Основных принципов отношения к инославию»: « В вопросе о членстве в различных христианских организациях следует придерживаться следующих критериев: Русская Православная Церковь не может участвовать в международных (региональных/национальных) христианских организациях, в которых а) устав, правила или процедура требуют отказа от вероучения или традиций Православной Церкви, б) Православная Церковь не имеет возможности свидетельствовать о себе как о Единой Святой Соборной и Апостольской Церкви, в) способ принятия решений не учитывает экклезиологического самосознания Православной Церкви, г) правила и процедура предполагают обязательность "мнения большинства". Уровень и формы участия Русской Православной Церкви в международных христианских организациях должны учитывать их внутреннюю динамику, повестку дня, приоритеты и характер этих организаций в целом. Объем и мера участия Русской Православной Церкви в международных христианских организациях определяется Священноначалием исходя из соображений церковной пользы».

В настоящий момент ВСЦ не подпадает ни под одну из четырех категорий, перечисленных в списке критериев, делающих участие нашей Церкви в работе той или иной межхристианской организации невозможным. И мы признаем тот факт, что в период между Ассамблеями в Хараре и Порту-Алегри ВСЦ сделал все возможное для того, чтобы максимально ответственно подойти к пожеланиям и требованиям Православных Церквей. В этой ситуации выход из ВСЦ представлялся бы необоснованным.

Сказанное не означает, что Русская Православная Церковь будет всегда оставаться членом ВСЦ. Эта организация эволюционирует: сегодня она нас удовлетворяет больше, завтра может оказаться, что она будет удовлетворять нас меньше. Тогда вопрос о членстве вновь станет со всей остротой, как он уже вставал в середине 1990-х годов.

Хотел бы поделиться одним наблюдением, которое я вынес за десять лет участия в работе ВСЦ и в других межхристианских диалогах. Сейчас христианский мир все более отчетливо делится на две группы. С одной стороны, это группа Церквей, которые настаивают на необходимости следования церковному Преданию: в эту группу входят, прежде всего, Православные Церкви, дохалкидонские Церкви и Римско-Католическая Церковь. На другом конце спектра – те протестантские общины, в которых следование Преданию никогда не воспринималось как норма и в которых происходит стремительная либерализация вероучения, нравственных принципов и церковной практики. К числу последних относится, в частности, большинство протестантских общин Севера. Пропасть между «церквами Предания» и церквами «либерального толка» сейчас настолько значительна, и растет она настолько быстро, что мне трудно представить, каким образом удастся сохранить «межхристианское содружество» в самом ближайшем будущем...

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Dogmatic assertions which affirm the sanctity of life but ignore the context in which conception takes place fail to bring that assertion to bear on the real circumstances of life.

Is this basically saying that, yes God teaches us that life, which He creates, is His gift, but, He doesn't understand that there are circumstances, like rape or stupidity which produced this life and therefore, the WCC must make a stance to overrule God's law? Re-write it, if you will.

We hope, that this conference will stimulate more just, effective and humane approaches which ensure the quality of life of women, men and children everywhere.

But, unborn children are not included.

This cause is worthy of our best efforts.

Their best efforts for what?? Supporting abortion?? :ohvey:

Am I reading this correctly? This is a group that claims to be Christian?

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ecumenism is evil.

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Yes, you are reading it right. They are redefining the boundaries of good and evil in homage to modern secular humanist societies. This is precisely why I maintain that ecumenism is an evil which diseases souls as a great sin, leading them to hell.
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This is precisely why I maintain that ecumenism is an evil which diseases souls as a great sin, leading them to hell.

Because the foundation of the mentality of ecumenism is against everything that God teaches us. And anyone that allows himself to believe in that foundation is not with God. That sounds pretty clear to me.

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Concerns we should have about ecumenism

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I read a great post on a blog called Sojourner by Ashley Langford.

I think this post points out what could end up being the end result of ecumenism that could take place with the Eastern Orthodox Churches participation.

In this case, the post is making a case against the "Emergent" Church. You could very well put the WCC in it's place. It discusses what if the Emergent Church could rewrite the bible. In this case, Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal. You'll get my point after reading it.

I post this, in order to unify us as Eastern Orthodox Christians. That instead of being concerned over Ecumenism, or being involved in it, we should focus on unifying ourselves first. That in our spiritual condition, are we really ready to reach out to the "community of faith - WCC", when we can't even reach out to each other, who proclaim the same faith.

Please read and contemplate.

http://www.ashleylangford.com/archives/ ... nt_el.html

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Rd. Chrysostomos

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