I know. I am sure my Melkite pastor excommunicated himself when he gave a sermon saying "We don't believe in the pope's universal jurisdiction."
I posted those quotes to try to get a discussion going on where they properly fit within the pheroma of Orthodoxy, not to get a polemic going.
"I know. I am sure my Melkite pastor excommunicated himself when he gave a sermon saying "We don't believe in the pope's universal jurisdiction.""
Dangerous thing to say! :)
"I posted those quotes to try to get a discussion going on where they properly fit within the pheroma of Orthodoxy, not to get a polemic going."
I hardly think my response to your post was polemical! At any rate, JR, phronema is not the problem. The East and the West will have different worldviews for generations and generations after any reunion. The issues are at base theological, not how we do theology. Personally, I believe that the greatest part of the theological issues can be resolved. The ecclesiological issue of the papacy, which is at base a theological issue, or at least arises out of theological issues, will be harder, or even impossible for us to resolve. Beyond that, as Kosta pointed out, we've pretty much exhausted the issue for the here (FR) and now until some other hierarch has a comment about this.