Be pedantic if you must. The context is clear. And one could argue that a hell of a lot more ink was spilled theologically in the West over the centuries simply because the Christian West expanded so widely while Christian East struggled to survive under Islam.
Is it really necessary for Easterners not to let anything go past without getting in a dig at the West and at Augustine? It’s tiresome.
What a crock! Islam didn't arrive until the 15th century, and all the while the works of Islam, let alone asleep theologically, and neither was Greece or Serbia, or any other eastern Orthodox nation. It is historically untrue, if not deceptive, to suggest the Church in the East was hibernating.
Since the 15th century, the Orthodox Church had several very important all-Orthodox Councils that were of important theological nature, and the Ecumenical Patriarch found it even necessary to defend the Pope against Lutheran "divines" who persistently tried to get the East to join their ranks against Rome.
The ink you spout about was spilled for naught, most of it to promote the myth of papal supremacy through False Decretals, another Frankish stupidity that was embraced in the West, or the heretical Anselmian deformation of Christ's sacrifice, or on damage control brought about by the Reformation.
Is it really necessary for Easterners not to let anything go past without getting in a dig at the West and at Augustine? It’s tiresome
Sure, when silly sweeping generalizations, such as the one about the Blessed Augustine being the most quoted Father, or something to that effect (as if the other side of the Church did not exist, or doesn't count unless it kisses Pope's red Riding Hood shoes).
What's tiresome are such perpetual falsehoods which should not go unnoticed, and never will.