I must confess that I seldom read ecumenical addresses and agreements because they are so encumbered with diplomatic jargon and a spirit of deference that one hardly knows what if anything was said, much less accomplished. They read like the closing statements of the G8 meeting, where whatever may have been said behind closed doors comes out sounding like “everyone has won and all must have prizes.”
Not so with His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, in his address at the Nicean Society banquet held at Lambeth Palace on 9 September, in the presence of Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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"Hilarion acknowledges the existence of “indifferent matters” (adiaphora), quoting St. Paul (1 Cor 11:19), but, he adds, these acceptable differences were “certainly not those which concerned the essence of faith, church order or Christian morals. For in these matters, there is only one truth and any deviation from it is none other than heresy.”
BP HILARION SPEAKS WISELY HERE. TOO BAY THE BISHOPS "DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH?" IN ANGLICANISM ARE AS WISE. BUT MAYBE THEY ARE "WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING."
Joe:
Am posting Rev. Augustus Toplady at:
http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2010/11/augustus-toplady-c-of-e-calvinism.html
Give it a look. This would send "grrrs" up and down the spine of the Orthodox, e.g. Met Jonah at the ACNA Metropolitan Debut in Bedford, TX, as well as nearly every ACNA Bishop in the land.
History and those very stubborn facts...rude facts...brute facts.
Joe:
Or here, re: Boultbee. ACNA prefers to hide.
See:
http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2010/11/boultbee-i-xix-protestand-reformed.html
Lest we forget.
Phil
Joe, or see here:
http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2010/11/boultbee-i-pg12-thirty-nine-articles.html
Regards.
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