(Orthodox Times) - Archimandrite Nikodemos Angnostopoulos, Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain and Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame in England, contributed with a book chapter entitled “Eastern Orthodox Perspectives on Nostra Aetate and Muslim–Christian Relations” to the volume Nostra Aetate, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith Relations published by Villanova University.
In the light of the ongoing development of the relations and the cooperation between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches through the initiatives of the primates of the two Churches Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archimandrite Nikodemos Angnostopoulos analyzes the Ecumenical significance of the Second Vatican Council under an Orthodox perspective.
It should be noted that the convocation of Vatican II was not only a significant religious internal event for the Catholic Church. The Council and especially the “Decree on Ecumenism” and the “Declaration on Religious Freedom” placed the foundation for the beginning of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the other Christian denominations and religious communities.
The analysis of the contribution is based on these two important documents for two reasons.
First, the “Decree on Ecumenism” makes a special consideration to the relations and the dialogue between the Catholic and the Eastern Churches, acknowledging that from the beginning, the Churches of the East have had a treasury from which the Western Church has drawn, and the fact that the Ecumenical Councils, which held in the East, defined the basic Doctrines of the Christian faith. Nostra Aetate is an interesting document. It continues a dual covenant theology that Orthodox does not find acceptable. It strives to end anti-semitism by greater understanding and - some say - by placing Judaism on an equal footing at the expense of the essential saving grace of our Savior.
Secondly, the “Declaration on Religious Freedom” is directly related to the challenging circumstances that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is still facing in terms of Church administration and religious freedom based on the legislation of the Turkish Republic.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The significance of the Nostra Aetate from an Orthodox view
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The EP needs to unite with Francis...now! Stop the delays! Make it happen!
ReplyDeleteThe EP needs to unite with Francis now... because your own precarious narrative is starting to fall apart? The Ecumenical Patriarch has a duty to reach out to the lost sheep of Christianity. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholics have not shown a sincere willingness to become Orthodox. They still see themselves as the big fish with all the advantage. At any rate, the Moscow Patriarchate's worst nightmare would be if a reunion would happen. The MP has desperately courted Rome for their own political advantage. See for example Patriarch Kyrill's joint declaration with Pope Francis.
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DeleteI do not have a "precarious narrative" (whatever that is). Here is what I know, Jerry. The EP will unite with Rome. A few Phanar sycophants and his schismatics in Ukraine will follow him. The remainder of Orthodoxy will breathe a great sigh of relief because the gray area will have become black and white
ReplyDeleteMikhail, if you "need" the EP to unite with Rome, then it sounds like a precarious narrative to me. Perhaps the "gray area" is the ground you're standing on?
Delete"I do not have a "precarious narrative""
DeleteHum, well it's certainly not precocious, and neither is it precious. It is pertinacious, and precipitous as well...
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ReplyDeleteNah...Jerry. By "need", I mean that he needs to do what he has been meaning to do for a long time. It's time for him to act and be done with it. You will see. He will do it. But it should be sooner than later.
ReplyDeleteHow come Metropolitan Neofytos of Morphou, whom you consider to be a confessor of the faith, is not warning us about the impending false union but you are?
ReplyDeleteAnd how come these bishops are not pursuing the false union? https://youtu.be/JUFYnwAZg5w
In Constantinople's eyes, it will not be a false union, it will be a re-union. Sometimes you have to read bewteen the lines, Mr. Unknown.
ReplyDelete“At present, in the depths of our Holy Church, there is a great danger of perverting the dogmatic teaching about Her, and hence the danger of perverting Her being, because dogmatic consciousness is organically linked with the whole course of inner spiritual life. The loss of dogmatic truth, by its irreparable consequence, will have the loss of the possibility of true knowledge of God, the fullness of which is given to the Church. If we now distort the teaching about the Church, and, consequently, the image of Her being, then how can She serve Her sons on the path to Truth? You may ask, but where is this distortion seen now? We answer: in Constantinople neo-papism, which is quickly trying to move from a theoretical phase to a practical one.”
St. Sofroniy (Sakharov) (1896-1993)
Brother, you avoided my questions.
ReplyDeleteNow about Saint Sophrony, he came from a world where exaggerated claims of "Constantinople = Papism" were common. That's what he learned and that's what he believed early on in his life. But about 15 years after he penned those words that you cited, he and his monastery moved under the omophorion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Clearly, the saint would not have done this if it would entail exposing his spiritual children to neo-papism and a false union.
Some of those whom you regularly attack were this saint's spiritual children. I'm willing to bet that none of the people citing that quote were his spiritual children.
The monks and nuns of St. John the Baptist Monastery in Essex, England have a sincere and uncritical love for Patriarch Bartholomew. This is what they were taught by St. Sophrony.
ReplyDeleteWatch it and weep guys. You will see. Then you can join the EP with Rome if you wish! Once he makes the move, you will see many hierarchs separate from him...and some will follow him into the apostasy.
Delete"In sum, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in theory embracing almost the whole universe and in fact extending its authority only over several dioceses, and in other places having only a higher superficial supervision and receiving certain revenues for this, persecuted by the government at home and not supported by any governmental authority abroad: having lost its significance as a pillar of truth and having itself become a source of division, and at the same time being possessed by an exorbitant love of power—represents a pitiful spectacle which recalls the worst periods in the history of the See of Constantinople."
St. John Maximovitch
You will see guys, you will see. Vaccines really do turn you into zombies, Trump won, a man never walked on the moon, and the Evil One and secularism ain't nuttin compared to this old man in Istanbul.
DeleteCan you point to prayers that Roman Catholics pray to which you object as an Orthodox, over and above the filoque?
ReplyDeleteI can do better than that. I object to the Filioque...the "doctrine" of purgatory...the "doctrine" of Immaculate Conception...the Latins understanding of ancestral sin...papal supremacy...papal infallibility...and created grace...just to name a few problems.
ReplyDeleteMikail, you forgot the Pope's fete of the Pachamama idol.
DeleteI second your objections
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