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To: AnalogReigns

Augustine had it wrong. He even mistranslated parts of the original fall. The Eastern Orthodox Church has many fundamental differences with his understanding.

Many Eastern Orthodox Theologians believe that Augustines writings play a significant role in the eventual demise of the West, including the necessity for Papal Infallibility, the Protestant fragmentation, and, played to its eventual end, agressive Atheism (since the rational mind confronted with conflicting mistruth will falsely accept one, the other, or reject them both).

See http://www.orthodoxpress.org/parish/river_of_fire.htm for a very good, yet short explaination of this problematic paradigm between EO and Western Theology.


16 posted on 02/06/2006 11:08:49 AM PST by AMHN
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To: AMHN

Why did then THE most agressive atheistic ideology, namely Communism, find its most fertile soil...and fearful results in the lands of the Eastern Church?

Just asking, not being argumentative, and have yet to read your suggested site.


18 posted on 02/06/2006 11:16:35 AM PST by AnalogReigns ("by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.")
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To: AMHN

I've read the ALEXANDRE KALOMIROS paper, and I have to say, while he quotes various teachings of the early fathers frequently, he shows little or no familiarity with the theology of the Apostle Paul especially in the book of Romans. What he (literally) calls evil pagan Western Theolgy has much of its root right there...in Holy Scripture.

In utterly condemning Western theology, and recommending Eastern..not once does he cite the most thoroughly theological book in scripture, Romans, nor does he ever attempt to describe a New Testament theology, of Paul or anyone else there. Theological speculation proported to be supported by mystical quotes by the Fathers (none of which quotes I find fault with) about light and dark really doesn't prove his points.

His points about atheism too are not correct. Buddism--about as a non-Western religion/philosophy as one can get is also (in various forms) atheistic. Scripture says "the fool has said in his heart there is no God." Fools can be found all over the world--and do not radiate simply from that awful pagan Western theology....

Kalomiros' gospel and Paul's (and Augustine's too) gospel are entirely at odds. If Roman Catholics are semi-Pelagian, and Kolomiros is representative of Eastern Orthodox theology, then EO is super-semi-Pelagian. If this is how Eastern Christians think about Western Christians from AD 400 onwards...no wonder the breech is so wide.


62 posted on 02/06/2006 6:40:28 PM PST by AnalogReigns ("by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.")
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