Since its inception, the Old Calendarist movement has generated a substantial degree of debate. Although not all Old Calendarist groups share the same beliefs, the following three views are certainly among the most prevalent:
1) Ceasing commemoration of heretical hierarchs is obligatory (not optional)
2) Communion ought to be broken not only with erring clergymen, but also with those who, albeit Orthodox, maintain communion with them
3) Heretical clergy lose the grace of the mysteries even prior to synodal condemnations
The purpose of this paper is to critique these tenets using a range of examples from the history of the Church. Moreover, since several other matters relating to zealotry (such as the change in the Church’s Calendar) also remain highly misunderstood amongst both Old Calendarists and New Calendarists alike, they too shall be addressed..
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Met Ephrem (Kyriakos): The Ladder to God
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It's only tangentially related to politics... if you look at Cornwall or Wales in the 19th century, almost no one was Anglican on account of the spread of Methodism. Anglicanism has always been more a chaplaincy for a social class than a national church.
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