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To: Forest Keeper; kawaii

"I was thinking that I've been told that theologically speaking, "Orthodoxy is Orthodoxy". So, I just wondered if given the heavy emphasis on Russian studies that you posted in that curriculum, whether a graduate of a Greek seminary would come away with the same theology, "close enough"."

The theology is identical. There are differences in praxis among the churches, most of which are culturally based. In the Greek Orthodox seminary at Brookline, all the seminarians have to become proficient in Greek and have a working knowledge of Greek history because, as Kawaii said, as priests they will be serving a community and in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, most of the communicants are to one degree or another Greek, the demographics of my parish to the contrary notwithstanding.


77 posted on 01/12/2007 6:22:16 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
The theology is identical. There are differences in praxis among the churches, most of which are culturally based.

OK, thanks. That makes sense.

83 posted on 01/19/2007 4:42:48 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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