mcommini wrote: ↑03 Jan 2024, 13:05
Look, Wos, at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the Orthodox understand or don't understand about Doctrinal Development. You can assemble all your most gifted Byzantinists and craft a document that explains Doctrinal Development in terms that would make St John Chrysostom weep at the truth and beauty of the contents inside. But the debate will never truly be about whether doctrine can develop, but about the developments themselves. And that is the problem.
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Seems to me like yer sayin' that the problem is not so much with Doctrinal Development but, rather, with the fact that yer not the Pope. IOW, had doctrine developed according to yer druthers, then 'twould all be cromulent.
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mcommini wrote: ↑03 Jan 2024, 13:05
Look, Wos, at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the Orthodox understand or don't understand about Doctrinal Development. You can assemble all your most gifted Byzantinists and craft a document that explains Doctrinal Development in terms that would make St John Chrysostom weep at the truth and beauty of the contents inside. But the debate will never truly be about whether doctrine can develop, but about the developments themselves. And that is the problem.
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Seems to me like yer sayin' that the problem is not so much with Doctrinal Development but, rather, with the fact that yer not the Pope. IOW, had doctrine developed according to yer druthers, then 'twould all be cromulent.
My own personal druthers have little to do with it. The druthers of the Orthodox saints have much.
But yes, if your doctrines had developed in accordance with the Orthodox faith, it would not only be cromulent, we'd be carrying the Pope through the streets with much fanfare shouting "this man speaks with the voice of Peter!" Such a thing would have embiggened us all.
