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To: marshmallow; Kolokotronis
Go through your post #28 again and bold or highlight anything on which you consider a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian, for instance, could not sign off

You are confusing theology with ecclesiology. The Presbyterians and Episcopalians could never sing off on theology. That's what matters.

The EOC is run the way it was run from the beginning. It was the Latin Church which "evolved" into this pay-pray-and-obey organization. I believe it was +Cyprian who argued for the Eastern ecclesial model and lost. The West simply became too Frankish.

But that's not the Orthodox concern as long as any reunion does not imply Latin ecclesiology. The reunion hinges on the profession of the same faith and the undertsanidng that both Latin and Orthodox traditions express identical cocnepts in different words. So far, no one has been able to show that different woprds mean the same concepts, which is why there is no reunion.

34 posted on 10/23/2009 1:13:42 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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To: kosta50; marshmallow; Kolokotronis
Sorry, but this "people's church" ecclesiology makes no sense. Nicaea-Constantinople confesses a "catholic and apostolic Church" (Καθολικὴν καὶ Ἀποστολικὴν Ἐκκλησίαν). Do we have to have an argument about what the meaning of "is" is?
37 posted on 10/23/2009 1:35:45 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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