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To: Kolokotronis
If you believed everything we believe, FK, you’d be Orthodox!

Well I suppose I can't argue with that. :) I guess I was confused as to whether dogmas constituted many things or only a few things. If your list and its associated implications are dogmas then I would call that a lot. If dogmas really only centered on core things like the identity of Christ then I surmised that we would have more agreement.

15,795 posted on 11/16/2010 1:41:06 PM PST by Forest Keeper ((It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.))
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To: Forest Keeper

“If your list and its associated implications are dogmas then I would call that a lot.”

I suppose “a lot” is in the eye of the beholder. Compared to the Latins, we have a dearth of dogma! :)

“If dogmas really only centered on core things like the identity of Christ then I surmised that we would have more agreement.”

Its not only the identity of Christ, though dogma does deal with that, so much as that Orthodox dogma “points to Christ”...like so many of our icons of the Theotokos expressly do. Its all about Christ, FK, every bit of it, because without the Incarnation, the “enfleshment” of God the Word, nothing, no theology or praxis or ecclesiology, at all, makes any difference.

We may agree far more than you think, my brother!


15,796 posted on 11/16/2010 4:25:42 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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