The Non–Chalcedonian Heretics: A Contribution to the Dialogue Concerning the “Orthodoxy” of the Non–Chalcedonians

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 1998
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 43
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.3 cm

   
Second Edition

Holy Monastery of Saint Gregory (Monastery of Gregoriou)
Translated by Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna and Hieromonk Patapios

Number XVII of Monographic Supplement Series

“The Copts, Jacobites, and other Non–Chalcedonian heretics, the ‘Oriental Orthodox,’ have been separated from the Orthodox Church since the earliest Christian centuries. Of late, under the rubrics of ecumenical politics, the serious theological differences which separate these heretical confessions from the Orthodox Church have been dismissed as a matter of ‘semantics’; their condemnation by the Fathers and Synods of the Church has been called into question; and their piety (something which we do not dispute, since our concern is the correct confession of the Faith, not personal integrity) has been cited as a justification for receiving Non–Chalcedonian believers into Orthodox communion. [...]Though the Abbots of the major monasteries on the Holy Mountain have largely capitulated to the threats of Constantinople against any protests directed at the Patriarchate’s betrayal of the Faith through ecumenism, the Monastery of Saint Gregory (Gregoriou) did issue a very significant paper on the theological dialogues between the Orthodox and Non–Chalcedonian Churches.”
—“Publisher’s Foreword”

CONTENTS

Publisher’s Foreword
Prologue
Introduction
I. Ecclesiological Presuppositions
II. The Historical Witness
III. Dogmatic Differences
Thoughts on the Joint Declarations of 1989 and 1990
Conclusions