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How would the Patriarchs of Constantinople under Ottoman rule not qualify as "proto-Sergianist"?


These patriarchs of Constantinople may have been pre-Sergianist, but they were not Sergianist, and they especially cannot be used to justify Sergianism. I agree that Ottomanism decimated the loyalty ...

Around that time, there were Anglicans who said they believed in the Orthodox Ecumenical Councils and wanted to unite with Orthodoxy. In response, some Orthodox at that time were overly trusting, overly optimistic, and used too much oikonomia. Some Matthewites go to an extreme in attacking these ...

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic, Archimandrite Justin Popovic, Saint Philaret’s ROCOR, and Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina sometimes exercised too much oikonomia. Matthewites and some catacomb groups were too quick to anathematize so many people so quickly. We need to be careful in judging too ...

Florenskii's magnum opus, Pillar and Ground of Truth, is translated into English. In there or other works, Florenskii seemed to take an extreme, intellectual, academic name-worshipping position that the name-glorifying monastics Antonii Bulatovich and David Mukhranov criticized as error. That is why ...

The surname of the Matthewite Metropolitan Amphilochios of Larisa is Tampouras. He was consecrated a bishop by Metropolitan Kerykos (Menas Kontogiannes), but broke after Kerykos went under Pachomios. Amphilochios Tampouras (Ἀμφιλόχιος Ταμπουρᾶς) wrote some booklets under that name as a hieromonk ...

Thomas is a heretic.... And Thomas does not merely mention Puhalo and Romanides--he uses these flaming heretics as authorities in matters of theology.


Another unfair misrepresentation of what I have written. Please see attached PDF of a 2014 article I wrote arguing that Romanides is not an ...