Rating: 9|Votes: 48

Getting to the Essence. A Look at the Schism Through the Eyes of Professor Osipov

Professor Alexei Osipov

The following is a translated transcript of a Spas (Savior) Orthodox TV channel special edition of their program, “Straight to the essence”. In these extremely disturbing times, people want to hear a familiar, trusted voice of experience and sound theology. Professor Osipov is that voice.

Rating: 9.3|Votes: 154

A Canonical Crisis in the Orthodox Church

Primacy, Conciliarity and the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)

The actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (EP) in its process of granting a Tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic groups in Ukraine have created a canonical crisis.

Rating: 7.7|Votes: 52

Synodality and Primacy in the Orthodox Church

From the Keynote Address by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware of Diokleia) at the IOTA Inaugural Conference, 9-12 January 2019 in Iasi, Romania

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

What is the aim of every council? It is, through the exercise of collective discernment, to attain a common mind. Yet this common mind is not simply the sum total of the convictions of the various participants.

Rating: 9.4|Votes: 12

Could Christ Have Not Been Born?

Priest Valery Dukhanin

Genuine love cannot not be incarnated, but is incarnate.

Rating: 9.7|Votes: 29

Ecclesiology of the Schism: Historical Reflections

Priest Mikhail Ulanov

This position fully explains the canonical nihilism of Constantinople. Since the canons do not provide opportunities for primacy, they are rejected.