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A Theology of Anti-Ecumenism

The Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece staunchly cultivates the theology of anti-ecumenism on two levels simultaneously: on the one hand, it points out the ecclesiological deviations of Orthodox ecumenists at the theoretical and practical levels; and, on the other hand, it puts forth the teaching of the Orthodox Synodal and Patristic Traditions concerning the relationship between heresy and truth and between heretics and the Church.

   • Ecumenists have in general developed the following newfangled theologies:

       1. “Baptismal theology”;
       2. the theology of “Sister Churches”;
       3. the theology of the “Wider Church”;
       4. the theology of “Cultural Pluralism”;
       5. the theology of “Common Service”;
       6. “Interfaith” theology.

Texts

• The Sacred Commemoration of the Eighth Holy Œcumenical Synod, Under St. Photios the Great, November 879 – March 880 (English pdf, 711 KB)

• The Vatican’s Torpedo at the Unity of Europe: The Problem of the Unia at Front Stage (English pdf, 504 KB)

by Protopresbyter George Metallinos

   Father Metallinos’ insightful and pious article reinforces what traditionalists have always said: that the

ecumenical movement is motivated not by a desire for religious toleration and mutual understanding, but by

political expediency. And the question is not just one of Vatican aims, but of Orthodox ecumenists, who

have been so long silent and who have shown anything but tolerance to Old Calendarists.

• The Royal Path: True Orthodoxy in an Age of Apostasy (English pdf, 392 KB)

by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

• Does the Russian Orthodox Church Need to Participate in the Ecumenical Movement? (English pdf, 652 KB)

Delivered During the Proceedings of the Congress of the Orthodox Churches at the Celebration of the

Quincentennial of the Autocephaly of the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow, Russia, July 13, 1948

by Saint Seraphim of Sofia

• "Relations between Orthodox Ecumenists and the 'World Council of Churches'" (Greek pdf, 122 KB; Russian pdf, 101 KB)
   The abolition of "Patristic boundaries" and "dogmatic bulwarks" in the context of syncretistic ecumenism

• “Ecumenism as an Ecclesiological Heresy” (English pdf, 22 KB; Greek pdf, 232 KB)
   Prominent ecumenists openly preach the anti-Orthodox “Wider Church” and “Baptismal” theology

• Looking Back on Harare: “The Eighth General Assembly of the WCC [World Council of Churches] in Harare, Zimbabwe” (English pdf, 74 KB; Greek pdf, 422 KB; Russian pdf, 893 KB)
   The hope of the West was betrayed for the umpteenth time, to the judgment and condemnation of the Orthodox ecumenists

• “The Profound Crisis of the WCC: The Wind of “’De-Theologizing’” (Greek pdf, 226 KB)

• (†) Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004) (English pdf, 8 KB; Greek pdf, 60 KB)
   The Anti-Ecumenist and Anti-Papist

• “Orthodox Theologians in Opposition to Ecumenism” (English pdf, 83 KB; Greek pdf, 87 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “The Ecumenist ‘Theater’ of Rome” (English pdf, 73 KB; Greek pdf, 78 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Ecclesiological Ostriches” (English pdf, 89 KB; Greek pdf, 89 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Why Should we Congratulate the Newspaper Katholike?” (English pdf, 74 KB; Greek pdf, 76 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Which Union of Churches Are You Talking About, Mr. Emmanuel Gikas?” (English pdf, 156 KB; Greek pdf, 135 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Ecumenism, a Bitter Poison for Orthodoxy” (Greek pdf, 123 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Narcissism or Love of Orthodoxy?” (Greek pdf, 110 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “Baptismal Theology” (Greek pdf, 96 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “The Fear and Disquiet of Many Orthodox.” (Greek pdf, 81 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “What Is Going On With the World Council of Churches?” (Greek pdf, 93 KB)
   By Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

• “We Have No Place in the WCC,” or concerning “Blatant Disinformation” (Greek pdf, 79 KB)
   By Mr. John Kornarakis, Professor of Pastoral Psychology Emeritus at the University of Athens

• Orthodox Theology and Religious Syncretism (Greek pdf, 72 KB)
   By Mr. John Kornarakis, Professor of Pastoral Psychology Emeritus at the University of Athens

• Inter-Christian and Interfaith Syncretism (Greek pdf, 72 KB)
   By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Naupaktos and Haghios Vlasios

• The Conversion of the Heterodox and the Ecumenical Movement (Greek pdf, 140 KB)
   By Hieromonk Alexios Karakallenos

• “A Response to the Vatican” or the Ultimate Expression of ‘Papophilia’? (Greek pdf, 90 KB)

• “Appeal to His All-Holiness, Œcumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople” (January 1966) (Greek pdf, 84 KB)
   By Metropolitan Philaret, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1903-1985)

• “Ecumenism: Its Origin, Its Expectations, and Its Falsehoods” (Greek pdf, 224 KB)
   The findings of of the “Inter-Orthodox Theological Congress” [Thessaloniki, 20-24 September 2004]
     Abstract (Click on + to expand) (Click on - to collapse)
   Abstract
   The Orthodox Church is not simply the true Church, but the only Church, identical with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Papism, Protestantism in its many forms, Anglicanism, Old Catholicism, and the Non-Chalcedonian Monophysites are not true Churches: their common name is panheresy. Contemporary ecumenical dialogues have ended up in dogmatic minimalism, syncretistic leveling, and talk about worldly love. Hobnobbing with heretics has engendered estrangement among the Orthodox and a dulling of their convictions. Participation in the WCC and in dialogues is the greatest ecclesiological heresy in the history of the Church. The alleged reasons for participation (love and witness) are false and deceitful. The fearful sin of ecumenism deters the heterodox from entering the Orthodox Church. The panheresy of ecumenism has very profound soteriological repercussions.
   Dialogues with Roman Catholics, Protestants, Monophysites, and Old Catholics are given a negative assessment: such dialogues violate the presuppositions and methodology of Orthodoxy. Dialogue with Roman Catholics, in particular, is unprofitable and harmful. The document signed at Balamand (1993) brought about a new kind of Unia and legitimized Baptismal Theology. The situation of Orthodoxy in the WCC and in dialogues with Protestants constitutes a degradation of the One Church. Interfaith ecumenism, as a development of inter-Christian ecumenism, has led to unacceptable syncretism.
   The congress proposes withdrawal from the WCC and the cessation of dialogues. Papism is a heresy and not a “Sister Church” and relations with it should be reconsidered. It is imperative to observe the Sacred Canons, which forbid joint prayers with the heterodox under any circumstances. Inter-Orthodox dialogue should be strengthened and encouraged. The movement for liturgical renewal should be halted. If participation by Church leaders in the panheresy of ecumenism continues, we should not commune with them, that is, we should cease commemoratiing ecumenist Bishops.

• A useful and informative publication: “Ecumenism” (Greek pdf, 259 KB)

• New Calendarist Anti-Ecumenism (On the Occasion of the Fourteenth World Mission Conference of the WCC in Athens)(English pdf, 129KB; Greek pdf, 135 KB)
   - The Recent Revival of a Contradictory Movement

• “The Limits of the Church: Ecumenism and Papism” (English pdf, 61 KB; Greek pdf, 63 KB)
   A Momentous and Surprising Anti-Ecumenist Book by Protopresbyter Theodore Zissis, Professor at the University of Thessaloniki

• The Œcumenical Patriarchate and Ecumenism

A lecture by Protopresbyter George Metallinos, Dean of the School of Theology at the University of Athens, at the Inter-Orthodox Congress in Thessaloniki, “Ecumenism: Its Origin, Its Expectations, and Its Falsehoods” (20-24 September 2004)

- Part I (Greek pdf, 105 KB)

- Part II (Greek pdf, 128 KB)

- Part III (Greek pdf, 115 ΚΒ)

• Participation in the “World Council of Churches” as an Ecclesiological Heresy (English pdf, 246 KB; Greek pdf, 232 KB)

- “Invisible Unity” and “Baptismal Theology”

• "The innovationist Archbishop Christodoulos is sliding steadily downward to the hinterland of the heresy of syncretism"

Athens is by now “more ecumenical than the Ecumenical Phanar”

- Text I: The Archbishop at the Vatican (Thoughts on the impending visit to the Pope) (English pdf, 370 KB; Greek pdf, 123 KB)

- Text II: The Dialogue with the Vatican (“The statements of a sober Hierarch some twenty years ago”) (English pdf, 367 KB; Greek pdf, 112 KB)

- Text III: Is Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens the Popeʼs Nuncio in Athens? (By Ioannis Kornarakes, Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens) (English pdf, 507 KB; Greek pdf, 124 KB)

- Text IV: Journey Towards the Darkness (by Protopresbyter Dionysios Tatsis) (English pdf, 376 KB; Greek pdf, 110 KB)

- Text V: A Wave of Pro-Papism (by Protopresbyter Dionysios Tatsis) (English pdf, 322 KB; Greek pdf, 169 KB)

- Text VI: The Great Subterfuge (by John Kornarakes, Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens) (English pdf, 222 KB; Greek pdf, 126 KB)

Greek Orthodoxy is a victim of the ecumenical overtures of Archbishop Christodoulos

- Text VII: Journey Towards the Pope (English pdf, 175 KB; Greek pdf, 126 KB)

Archbishop Christodoulos confirms and promotes the “passionate and enduring love affair between the Church of Greece and the Vatican, ” which he himself inaugurated

- Text VIII: The Ecumenist Brainwashing of the Pleroma of the Church of Greece (by John Kornarakes, Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens) (English pdf, 293 KB; Greek pdf, 137 KB)

- Text IX: The Boast of the Archbishop* (by Protopresbyter Dionysios Tatsis) (English pdf, 179 KB; Greek pdf, 172 KB)

• The Reinforcement of the Syncretistic Axis of the Vatican, Athens, and the Phanar

A. Vatican and the Phanar

- Text Α1: In an Open Letter to the Sacred Community of the Holy Mountain, Monks Call for a Cessation of the Commemoration of the Œcumenical Patriarch (English pdf, 374 KB; Greek pdf, 293 KB)

- Text Α2: Far From the Way of the Holy Fathers (English pdf, 453 KB; Greek pdf, 225 KB)

by Protopresbyter Theodore Zissis, Professor at the School of Theology, University of Thessaloniki

- Text Α4: The Holy Mountain: Is Division in Sight? (English pdf, 497 KB; Greek pdf, 211 KB)

by John Kornarakes, Professor EmeritusUniversity of Athens

- Text Α5: Treatment, Not Just Diagnosis (English pdf, 360 KB; Greek pdf, 157 KB)

by Nicholas J. Soteropoulos, Theologian-Philologist

- Text Α8: We Must Cease Commemoration (English pdf, 170 KB; Greek pdf, 133 KB)

by Georgios Zerbos, Editor-in-chief of Orthodoxos Typos

- Text Α9: A Small Commentary on Major Events (English pdf, 213 KB; Greek pdf, 177 KB)

by Athonite Monk Moses

- Text Α11: Second Open Letter from Athonite Fathers to the Sacred Community of the Holy Mountain, With a Notification to the OEcumenical Patriarchate (English pdf, 360 KB; Greek pdf, 320 KB)

- Text Α14: The Judgment of the Athonite Spiritual Leadership (English pdf, 320 KB; Greek pdf, 183 KB)

by John Kornarakes, Professor EmeritusUniversity of Athens

B. Athens and the Phanar

- Text B5: We Call Upon the Archbishop to Remember the Metropolitan of Demetrias (English pdf, 443 KB; Greek pdf, 191 KB)

by George Zervos

- Text B8: Commentary on the Visit of Archbishop Christodoulos to the Vatican (English pdf, 145 KB; Greek pdf, 155 KB)

by Archimandrite Athanasios Anastasiou, Abbot of the Monastery of Great Meteora

- Text B13: “Peter” and the “Rock” Are not One and the Same (English pdf, 191 KB; Greek pdf, 193 KB)

by Nicholas J. Soteropoulos, Theologian and Philologist

• The Deadly Sin of Orthodox Ecumenists: Participating in the Interfaith Venture of the World Council of Churches (English pdf, 160 KB; Greek pdf, 137 KB)

• An Invitation to the Pope by the OEcumenical Patriarch (English pdf, 157 KB; Greek pdf, 134 KB)

by Georgios Zerbos, Editor-in-chief of Orthodoxos Typos

• The Three Kinds of Atheism (English pdf, 101 KB; Greek pdf, 99 KB)

by Archimandrite Meletios Badrachanes