[wideawake]

I'm not trashing the thread, but it should be pointed out that the Eastern Orthodox Church formally condemned each Reformed thesis in this Confession point by point at the Synod of Jerusalem.

The fathers of that Synod went so far as to state that the Confession must have been a forgery (pretty much every historian would dispute that and would consider it an authentic work of Lucaris).

Lucaris cannot legitimately be represented as in the mainstream of Orthodox theology, as much as Reformed believers would like for him to be. His position is similar to that of Bessarion, whom Catholics would like to think of as being in the mainstream of Orthodox theology, but who was not either.

[the_conscience]

They just can’t help themselves. Please remove post.

[Augustinian monk]

“Lucaris cannot legitimately be represented as in the mainstream of Orthodox theology, as much as Reformed believers would like for him to be.”

The source website is Wesley-Arminian.

[Salvation]

Some of the precepts listed are also precepts of the Catholic Church — all 22 rites. This needs to be an open thread.

[Campion]

Two Orthodox responses to Lucaris:

• Orthodox Confession of Faith of Peter Mohyla (Metropolitan of Kiev), ca. 1640
• Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)