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The Heresy of Ecumenism

                                                    
From its first appearance at the beginning of the twentieth century, ecumenism developed in three concentric circles, in order to promote the unity of divided Christians in both practice and theory.

   The first circle encompassed rapprochement between Orthodox and the heterodox ecumenists by means of a very broad spectrum of syncretistic coöperation at all levels.
   The second circle encompassed the development of a special theology, so-called “ecumenical theology,” on the part of Orthodox ecumenists.
   The third circle encompassed theological dialogues per se, bilateral and multilateral, between Orthodox and heterodox ecumenists.

• The common center of these three circles, and the precondition for their development, was and continues to be the following ecclesiological heresy: heterodox communities (Roman Catholics, Protestants, Monophysites, and Nestorians) are in a state of schism vis-à-vis the Orthodox, but certainly find themselves within the “boundaries” of the One Church; that is, between heretics and Orthodox there exists a putative “invisible” or “mystical” unity, which must be made “visible” by way of ecumenical activities.

Texts

1. Inter-Christian

• The Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054 (Greek pdf, 151 KB)
   by [†] Archimandrite Spyridon Bilalis

• Joint Prayer with the Heterodox: The Twofold Sin (Greek pdf, 63 KB)
   by Protopresbyter Dionysios Tatsis

• Ecumenism and “Baptismal Theology”: The Protestant “Branch Theory” of the Church in a New Form (English pdf, 78 KB; Greek pdf, 160 KB; Russian pdf, 220 KB)
   The destruction of Orthodox Patristic Ecclesiology by Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon

• “Orthodox and Non-Chalcedonians/Monophysites: ‘We Have the Same Beliefs about Christ’” (Greek pdf, 147 KB)
   An ecumenist “response” to the Athonite Fathers and New Calendarist anti-ecumenists

• “A Sensational Ecumenist Publication: ‘A Manual of Syncretistic Ecumenism’” (Greek pdf, 113 KB)


2. Interfaith

• “The Interfaith Outlook of Patriarch Bartholomew” (English pdf, 67 KB; Greek pdf, 151 KB)
   Patriarch Bartholomew denies the necessity of Orthodoxy for salvation, as well as its uniqueness (primacy)

• “The Promotion of Interfaith Syncretism through Ecological Activities” (English pdf, 131 KB; Greek pdf, 190 KB)
   An offering of “sacred gifts” to “Mother Earth”

• The Advancing Course of the Syncretistic Axis of the Vatican, Athens, and the Phanar and the inconsistent movement of New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenism (English pdf, 341 KB; Greek pdf, 180 KB)

• The Theological Dimension of the Two Official Visits and the Emergence of a “Newly-Hatched Church” (English pdf, 420 KB; Greek pdf, 153 KB)

• Orthodox Catholicity or Papocentric Globalism? (English pdf, 396 KB; Greek pdf, 221 KB; Russian pdf, 246 KB)