Well stated, thank you.
Do you ever get the impression reading threads like this that some people try to cover up their ignorance of sacred Scripture by appealing to and relying on their religion’s leadership authority in its place? It’s almost like they are afraid to trust the Holy Spirit to lead them in understanding the God’s word, preferring to let “them” explain it all. And they call “us” lazy?!
But where would you get that idea on the thread? The article militates against scholasticism while an RC exalts it, and both display ignorance of Scripture.
Both Rome and the EOs use amorphous oral tradition to justify many traditions of men, most of which they hold in common, with Rome being more intellectual and less mystical in so doing, while the EOs are less precisely theological. But some of the latter do see some of craft Rome employs to justify some of her distinctives:
Roman Catholicism, unable to show a continuity of faith and in order to justify new doctrine, erected in the last century, a theory of "doctrinal development." Following the philosophical spirit of the time (and the lead of Cardinal Henry Newman), Roman Catholic theologians began to define and teach the idea that Christ only gave us an "original deposit" of faith, a "seed," which grew and matured through the centuries. The Holy Spirit, they said, amplified the Christian Faith as the Church moved into new circumstances and acquired other needs.
Consequently, Roman Catholicism, pictures its theology as growing in stages, to higher and more clearly defined levels of knowledge. The teachings of the Fathers, as important as they are, belong to a stage or level below the theology of the Latin Middle Ages (Scholasticism), and that theology lower than the new ideas which have come after it, such as Vatican II.
All the stages are useful, all are resources; and the theologian may appeal to the Fathers, for example, but they may also be contradicted by something else, something higher or newer. On this basis, theories such as the dogmas of "papal infallibility" and "the immaculate conception" of the Virgin Mary (about which we will say more) are justifiably presented to the Faithful as necessary to their salvation. - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html