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To: jude24

"Without meaning offense, it is my impression that the Orthodox are much less "theological" than the West."

Oh, I don't know. We "do" theology in a different way from the West.


158 posted on 01/03/2006 4:29:11 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
Oh, I don't know. We "do" theology in a different way from the West.

Perhaps a better way might be to say that the East is less "scholastic" than the West? The distinction that I have seen is difficult to define, but it is clearly there. Perhaps you can better articulate it? It just seems that a lot of the theological debates amongst Catholics and Protestants just don't occur in the East because the East does not interest itself in such academic matters. Unless you count the filloque contraversy, I guess.

160 posted on 01/03/2006 4:37:22 AM PST by jude24 ("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
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