EP calls different Paschal dates a "scandal"
( Orthodox Times ) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew extended in his homily his heartfelt wishes to all the non-Orthodox Christians who celebrated the Holy Easter on Sunday, March 31, after presiding over the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint Theodore of the Community of Vlanga. “On this day, the timeless message of the Resurrection resonates more profoundly than ever, as our non-Orthodox Christian brethren and sisters commemorate the resurrection of our Lord from the dead, celebrating Holy Easter. We have already sent our representatives to all the Christian Communities of the confessions here, to extend our heartfelt wishes of the Holy Great Church of Christ and our Patriarchal congratulations. But also from this position we extend a heartfelt greeting of love to all Christians around the world who celebrate Holy Easter today. We beseech the Lord of Glory that the forthcoming Easter celebration next year will not merely be a fortuitous occurrence, but rather the beginning...
I'm about 20 minutes in. Seems the purpose is to cry about the fact that people can see through Public Orthodoxy and the like?
ReplyDeleteFr. Jillions, like so many Orthodox formed in the 1960/1970's, are liberal "theologians" through and through and barely distinguishable from their protestant/catholic counterparts from the same period. Even with a generous and irenic disposition towards their formation, time and place, and real concerns, a person still can't help but see the failure and irrelevancy of their analysis/prescriptions to the Church *as it actually is in NA* in 2022.
ReplyDeleteIt's worse than a "straw man", they are fighting against yesterdays fundamentalist straw man, yesterdays dialogue, yesterdays sexual revolution, yesterdays secularism. They don't just belong in a museum, they belong in the dusty warehouse of yesterdays museum where all the artifacts that are not even all that useful to teach history are kept.
Spot on Jake.
DeleteOne thing worth watching/listening to in this video (about 4 minutes starting at 1:05) is Edith Humprhy's rebuke (collegiately given, but a rebuke nonetheless) of Fr. Jillion's use of the term "fundamentalism", citation of her, and whole thesis.
ReplyDeleteFr. Jillion's response is as unimpressive as his whole disposition toward this subject.
Couldn't agree more Jake.
DeleteIsn't this the guy who betrayed Metropolitan Johan ?
ReplyDeleteType-o. "Metropolitan Jonah"
DeleteThis is the guy that Metropolitan Jonah personally chose as his chancellor for the OCA.
DeleteType-o. "Metropolitan Jonah"
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ReplyDeleteI skipped around so I missed the part where Fr. John calls out Rod Dreher and Fr. Chad Hadfield. Rod responds today, and he's right this is really about the sexual revolution, which itself is an anthropological revolution grounded in the long history of the western church. Anyone check out the editor of "The Wheel", Inga Leonova? She is an open homosexualist, has an "art and design" background, and lectures on architecture and "ecology", even though she has no training in the latter. What kind of "dialogue" is to be had with this sort of liberation theology? Fr. John and all the old liberals like him are just lamenting that it's no longer the 1960's and most in the church have moved on (if ever so gingerly) from what he considers the apogee of culture within and without the Church...
ReplyDeleteI mentioned the most ancient straightforward unequivocal Orthodox prohibition of abortion and infanticide to Inga, the Didache. It was angrily rejected. If a person can't handle 1st century Apostolic era writing accepted by the whole Church the faith of the succeeding 20 centuries are unlikely to convince them of anything. "fundamentalists" who take Didache seriously are keeping pretty good company.
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