Lest there be any misunderstanding, Lukaris was condemned by the Pan Orthodox Council at Jerusalem in 1672 as was Calvinism generally.
"We believe a man to be not simply justified through faith alone, but through faith which works through love, that is to say, through faith and works. ...
But we regard works not as witnesses certifying our calling, but as being fruits in themselves, through which faith becomes efficacious, and as in themselves meriting, through the Divine promises, that each of the faithful may receive what is done through his own body, whether it is good or bad."
I am aware of that, certainly.
Though technically I believe (and here I offer correction humbly, and admit that I may be mistaken) that the Patriarch Cyril Lukaris, a much-beloved Anti-Turkish Patriot of the Greek Church, was never himself condemned; but rather, certain portions of his Confessions were rejected.
However, unless the 1672 Council is elevated to the status of the Seven General Councils, it seems to me that what we have here is a case of Dueling Patriarchs -- the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has offered his Confessions; and the Patriarch of Jerusalem has, in council with largely Middle-Eastern Bishops (The decisions of the Council were only later transmitted to Great Russia, or am I mistaken?), rejected them -- long after the Ecumenical Patriarch was murdered by Turks, and thus unable to defend his Confessions.
This would seem, at least to me, to raise two questions:
Which, incidentally, leads me to a third question (call it Question 2B): If GOD HIMSELF Inspired and Authorized the Infallible Scriptures of Daniel and Esther amongst the Jews in Exile in the Old Testament; and if (as it is surely true) that The Presbyters of Iona, the ancient Scottish forebears of modern Calvinism ("Geneva shakes hands with Iona across the gulf of a thousand years"; Wylie, History of the Scottish Nation) were founded by Greek Orthodox -- not Roman-Latin -- missionaries from Asia Minor according to Greek customs and Greek baptismal rites.... then how can the Eastern Orthodox presume that their Western step-children, upon throwing off the chains of Papist Domination, did not preserve and extend Augustinian Truths in the West? Granted, the Scottish Orthodox were cut off from their Founders in Greece and Asia Minor -- but that does not mean that we, while yet in Papist Exile, were cut off from the Enlightenment of the All-Holy Spirit. Perhaps we have something to add to Eastern Orthodoxy, as God added the Books of Daniel and Esther to the Canon of Israelite Scripture.
Just a thought... just a thought...
I don't have a great many problems with this quotation. We Protestants will also agree, with the Orthodox and the Bible, that "Faith without Works, is Dead."
Indeed, provided that our mutual conception of the relation between Works (which are indeed "fruits in themselves", I wholly agree) and Efficacious Faith are understood in the light of the Old Orthodox "Canon to Jesus":
...Then, in that case, I should have no objection whatsoever to Eastern Orthodox Theology on Faith and Works.
Indeed, I don't think that any Calvinist would object.
Best, OP