{"product_id":"against-romanides","title":"AGAINST ROMANIDES","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe  may  distinguish  between  three  types  of  heretical  ideas.  The  first  is  heresy in  the  classical  sense,  an  attack  on  a  specific  teaching  of  the  faith,  such  as  the Divinity  of  Christ,  the  Procession  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  uncreatedness  of  Grace, or  the  Unity  of  the  Church.  A  second  type  is  constituted  by  the  modern  heresy  of ecumenism,  which  does  not  so  much  attack  any  specific  teaching  of  the  faith,  but rather  adopts  a  new  attitude  to  heresy  in  general,  arguing  that  there  is  no  such thing  as  One  True  Faith  preserved  by  the  One  True  Church,  that  the  difference between  truth  and  heresy  is  unimportant  or  even  non-existent,  that  all denominations  or  religions  are  equally  true  (or  untrue),  or  that,  as  one  reviewer put  it,  Òthe  greatest  heresy  is  to  believe  that  there  is  such  a  thing  as  heresyÓ.  A third  type  consists  in  taking  a  true  formula,  declaring  it  to  be  the  central  truth  of the  faith,  and  then  ÒrestructuringÓ  all  the  other  dogmas  around  it  Ð  without specifically  denying  them,  but  nevertheless  distorting  them  through  the  creation of  this  new  dogmatic  centre  of  gravity.  This  is  the  path  adopted  by  the  most influential  thinker  in  modern  Greek  Orthodoxy,  Fr.  John  Romanidis,  and  the large  number  of  his  disciples,  including  Metropolitan  Hierotheos  (Vlachos), Protopresbyter George Metallinos, Christos  Yannaras  and  others.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThere  are  links  between  these  different  types  of  heresy.  Thus  it  is  likely  that the  Protestant  loss  of  faith  in  the  dogma  of  the  Church  led  to  the  disintegration  of the  Western  Christian  world,  which  in  turn  led  to  the  need  to  ÒrecreateÓ  the Church  in  the  form  of  a  kind  of  coalition  of  denominations,  which  in  turn  led  to the  need  to  create  a  kind  of  doctrinal  Òlowest  common  denominatorÓ,  which  in turn  led  to  the  despising  of  the  concept  of  the  One  Faith  that  is  characteristic  of the  heresy  of  ecumenism.  And  then  there  are  links  between  ecumenism  and ÒRomanideanismÓÉ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44226090172577,"sku":"sixto78","price":33.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/2gj75n-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713689152","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/against-romanides","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}