Posted on 12/26/2006 12:41:46 PM PST by sionnsar
I'd like to think that it's not so much of a distinction but a difference in emphasis; in conflicts with heresies, the West has occasionally put too fine a point on certain matters for everyday usefulness; And to the West, therefore, the East represents an undistracted, simple but deeply mysterious truth.
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