By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
The noise "fundamentalism", which in the Greek symbols is rendered ", and is stuck-up standard as conservatism or zealotism, was formed in the West and is chief official to Islamic aerobics that try to read the Koran in the context it was in print, while rejecting all hermeneutic traditions that brag overloaded and distorted it. Protestant fundamentalism was formed with the extraordinarily slope, seeking to read Sacred Scripture diffident the hermeneutic tradition of the Minster.Evaluation these vocabulary for alleged fundamentalism, I was wretched when I read the counterfeit of a Lecturer of Religious studies who, through others, characterizes as a fundamentalist sign relatives who hand the publication and study of the works of St. Gregory Palamas. I was wretched, while in arrears so various studies, both doctoral and non, I was eager for a surpass accept of this hesychastic tradition, which is the standard of Follower teaching and life. But I would make happy to fortify three points, that I would depend on this retired Lecturer of Religious studies to know.
Topmost, that St. Gregory Palamas, according to the principles of the Minster, synodal documents, the be crazy about of the Minster, and the Synodikon of Traditionalism, is a saint and scholarly who is regarded as the embodiment of Follower Knowledge. At the extraordinarily time, it is in print in the Synodal Book of 1347 that if put on emerges someone who thinks, speaks or writes in opposition to St. Gregory Palamas "and the monks with him, or without favoritism in opposition to the holy theologians and this Minster, we say the same in opposition to him and put him under the extraordinarily molest [excommunication or exile], whether he be a enthusiast of the clergy or a layman." Of course, such a disowning is not fundamentalist, but a formalization to effect a appraisal.
Glisten, the conspicuous prestige and edge between East and West was emphasized chief by the slavophile theologians in arrears the reforms of Peter the Extreme and sophisticated mostly by the Russian emigre. In Greece the principal time this was ever discussed was in 1936 in the principal game of Follower Theological Schools in Athens with the specter of the inherent Russian theologian Fr. George Florovsky. I expected this fact to be emphasized by the retired Lecturer of Religious studies.
THIRD, fundamentalism was spoken in the Protestant world with the view that the Bible must be interpreted alone of patristic literature, and some "Follower theologians" authenticate that this Protestant hermeneutical biblical tradition transferred to the Follower East. This being the mask, it is useful to not see the fundamentalist consciousness in the Follower Knowledge as spoken by St. Gregory Palamas and his interpreters, but without favoritism in the conduct of the Protestant hermeneutical view which alters not without help the Bible but the same patristic literature, the be crazy about of the Minster, and the decisions of the Ecumenical Synods.
We must come to understand that the ensign of Follower theology and the ecclesiastical mindset are the saints, who preserved the Follower teaching and the true way of life that leads man to the opening expend of his institution. Outside of this, all the isms - moralism, academicism, and rationalism - miss their object.
