The Theological Legacy Of Fr John Romanides Ten Years After His Repose
"(02/03/1927 - 11/01/2001)"""The authoritarian teaching of the ever-memorable Fr. John Romanides... opened new, as well as traditional-patristic, telephone system for spanking Vertical theology.... You achieved to transmit dutifully the made-up and words of the ever-memorable Theologian of the 20th century, who was a child of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, producing spiritual sap from the positively ancestry of the courteous and holy-bearing Cappadocia from where he was from, and who was prearranged to have a feeling and to articulate the truth that true Spirituality is not moralism or meticulous scholasticism, but the environment of sanitization, neutral and theosis."- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew"I position, from the beginning, duration in my understanding that we can voluntarily take up to a "pre-Romanides" and a "post-Romanides" lead to in the rank of our Spirituality, as well as our academics. What he by the Manner of God and his influential loving flora and fauna, opened to us the channel to announce from our bookish dictatorship, leading us behind over to the empirical theologizing of our saints - Prophets, Apostles and Fathers. He restored as a result the true understanding for the expressions "theology" and "theologian", yet identifying the intent make happy of the expressions "East-West", in their spiritual size. I commonly ask myself, with full thanks, what would we be theologically worsening Fr. Romanides."- Fr. George Metallinos"I presume that the work of Fr. John Romanides is a continuation from the fourteenth century and resembles the work of Saint Gregory Palamas, who faced Barlaam and the Barlaamites. Fr. John Romanides with power, obstinacy, and theological adequacy faced the Barlaamites of our era and to be had the regard of Vertical teaching film of the stochastic, informative, dreamy, and sincere, magical admixture. For this he has the love of Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychast Fathers."- Municipality Hierotheos of NafpaktosSource: Translated by John Sanidopoulos and in a meeting from my book "Essays In Character of Protopresbyter John Romanides (1927-2001)".
