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Protestant-Orthodox Dialogue
I suppose that being Protestant for some three decades plus, I do not quite see the problematic envisioned by my co-blogodoxers in engaging Protestants in dialogue. Indeed, far more of my present friendships are among Protestants, than among Orthodox, and I do not know of one person with whom I interact on a regular and significant basis who is a strong Roman Catholic (although I know a lot of strong “dissenting” Catholics, which seems to my biased view to be a contradiction in terms . . . but I digress).
Although it is certainly true that Roman Catholics and Orthodox share so many fundamental assumptions that discussion can really get underway with far fewer clarifications, I believe the chief problem in dialoguing with Protestants is not differing ecclesiologies, vocabularies and soteriologies, so much as the inattention paid to Protestant assumptions. Roman Catholics and Orthodox, since they share so many of these fundamental assumptions can get right to the nitty-gritty of papal supremacy (over against Orthodox papal primacy) and infallibility, the differences between created and uncreated grace, and so forth. With Protestants, the entire process must begin with the pervasive rejection of the Tradition.
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Praise from Sbdcn Theophan
This past weekend, when someone in cyberspace was lamenting that our site was “dry and tiresome to read,” Subdeacon Theophan rushed in to defend our good name. When it was implied that all we do is sit around and talk theology and debate such things as the filioque and papal infallibility, he countered:
I want to assure you that outside of Blogodoxy these lads have a great deal of fun and often have long catterwauling sessions devoted to many light-hearted topics.
I just looked up catterwauling in the dictionary. Thanks Theophan!
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