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It seems “Saint” Seraphim Rose wrote in the 1970’s—80’s against the Ecumenical Movement, the Charismatic Revival Movement or at least that’s where the article goes.
The article is against any Great Spiritual Reawakening(cites Glen Beck) presumably if it doesn’t occur within or emanating from the Orthodox Religion.
The article or Seraphim see’s all these above things as being harbingers of “the man of iniquity” or the Anti-Christ, the end times.
Now I’ve read plenty in the way of philosophical/theological writings that discuss the ‘thinking of the age’,’classical liberalism’,’modernism’, etc, which are stronger and are more predictive of whats coming ahead of us than anything this article deals with.
So I have to ask, really?
Ecumenism and Charismatic Revival are signs of the End Times? Really?,thats only scruffing the surface of the not so bad things. The really bad things are the philosophies of Secularism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Sexual liberties, Equality and Egalitarianism taken to extremes. All these destructive philosophies and thinking patterns have been hurtling downhill like a snowball at us for the last 50 years.
I would have to say that this article or what it represents of Seraphim Rose is not especially prophetic, insightful or deep compared to what Catholic theologians/philosophers with insight have written in this area. I’m sure there are Orthodox theologians/philosophers who can be comparable to Catholic ones. Of this I have no doubt, in many ways we are much the same, but either Seraphim Rose is not it, or the article does him a disservice.
I would submit the latter.
I found the article this morning as listen to Dylan's "Political World; thenI began thinking about the military industrial complex (per Eisenhower). I have long believed that Ike was prophetic in his warning; I just cannot figure out if what we have today is the result of coincidence or conspiracy. I have to leave it as the "mystery of iniquity." A search of that term brought up the article.
I know the concept of "Christian monarchy" is not palpable for many, if not most. But, something "broke loose" in the 20th century. Why? What happened?