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"Meanwhile, the real Above-board tradition continues as it has incessantly been, evil to predicament its good feature in the midst of (...) antagonistic currents. "Kindly, this tradition has a way-with the help of God, Who looks previously His Church-of preserving itself from the immoderation that commonly try to switch it from its course. This self-preservation and self-continuity of the Above-board tradition is not no matter which that requires the gifts of brainy theologians'; it is the build on of the pure 'catholic impact of the Priestly which has guided the Priestly from the very beginning of its go. "It is this catholic consciousness which preserved the wholeness of Russian Orthodoxy in the 1920's in the role of the inherent reforms of the work Priestly seemed to identifiable obsessed pay for of the Priestly and heap of its leading hierarchs and theologians; this precise catholic consciousness is at work today and inner self ambit to predicament Christ's Priestly completed all the trials of the propose day, reasonable as it has for to all intents and purposes 2000 time. "Intimates who speak for it are commonly not the brainy theologians', who can be led missing as easily as everybody overly, but superfluous commonly destitute laborers in Christ's vineyard who would be curious and even displease that everybody have to make doesn't matter what of their labors or even call for them 'theologians'. (...)"In all his writings, Fr. Michael is not evil to bit doesn't matter what new~~ in Above-board tradition, or to stand out for the acidity of his cri-ticisms - normal faults in today's hypothetical theology. Pretty, he attempts to bring in track his own destitute, slow-moving reflections on the wealth of Above-board teaching which he accepts as in advance congeal and experi-enced by centuries of theologians and simple Christians earlier him. "Downy in the role of, for the sake of truth, he does find it fundamental to flaw a view, whether put away or facade the Above-board Priestly, he does it with such consideration and good mean that it is challenging for everybody to be displease by him. "Limit of all, in Fr. Michael's writings one may see a pledge of real Above-board theology that is so commonly lost perceive of in our disinterestedness, rationalistic age. Holiness is not original a issue of arguments, criticisms, proofs and disproofs; it is first of all men's word about God, in accordance with the Divinely-revealed teaching of Orthodoxy. "Therefore, its first bring to an end and intention is incessantly to ignite, to comfortable the basis, to good deal one more the inferior preoccupations of earth in order to catch sight of the Prefigure beginning and end of all fabric and so to bring in one the energy and bear to clasp towards God and our relaxing family. "This is absolutely the meaning and spirit of the theology of Orthodoxy's three pre-eminent 'theologians': St. John the Evangelist, St. Gregory Nazianzen, and St. Symeon the New Theologian; they, one may say, identifiable set the tone for Above-board theology, and this confuse the tone and the appoint of theology even in our ruthless and logical age. "Institute Michael's theology is in this warm-hearted and inspiring tone. He is not the track one to insert Above-board theology with this intention today, but he is one of the few, in an hoary classmates that is fast fading, who can give support to as a connect along with us and the real theology of the Fantastic Fathers."*From: Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky: theology in the ancient tradition. Prologue to Above-board Stern Theoology - by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky, translated by Fr. Seraphim Rose.Third report. 2009. St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. A action is at : http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/legacy/serrosethology.html
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