... a lack of adequate expertise and overall incompetence. International organizations have inadequate insights into Orthodoxy. What’s more, they do not realize their incompetence because their documents include Orthodoxy in the larger category of “Christianity.” They do not presume to encounter in Orthodoxy a qualitative (rather than geographical or chronological) alternative to what they know about Western denominations. Hence the judgments by way of analogy: about the Patriarch of Constantinople ...
... Catholics and Anglicans.
Ukraine as the Point of Collapse
The conflict between Moscow and Constantinople has reached a new level. Its further development will determine the future of the world Orthodoxy and affect, at the very least, the position of Christianity in Europe, where some 257 million Catholics and about 200.5 million Orthodox Christians live
The problem of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian church would have never grown to its current scale had it been solely a matter of the independence ...
... designed to overcome medieval theocentricism.
It is difficult to imagine a European in the 16th century who does not believe in God. But it was in the 16th century that active trade and entrepreneurial activity gained a foothold in Europe. The dogmatic Christianity of the Middle Ages had led the European people into a dead end: the Church condemned the accumulation of wealth and riches and, as is well known, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to ...
2016 will inevitably be a very special year in the modern history of Christianity: on February 12, a truly landmark meeting was held between the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Pope in Cuba; and in June, the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church will take place.
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia ...
... February 12, 2016. A meeting of this kind has been unprecedented in the history of relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Growing differences in doctrinal theology and policies led to the split in once united Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054 and to establishing its Eastern and Western branches. The Russian Orthodox Church became autocephalous and acquired her own patriarch in 1589. However, the primacy of the pope in the Catholic world has remained ...
