Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
disagreements, and again, not in order to convert each other, but with the fact that
to inform each other and understand each other.
And then the ecumenical movement became (at least for me) much more
more difficult problem, because they stopped posing the main questions and began to
to expand membership and to do so, to reduce criteria and allow ambiguous
Language. At first, those who believed could participate in the ecumenical movement
into the Divinity of Jesus Christ and perceives Him as its Savior. Then we decided
to introduce a new base, which would be theologically "richer" and which
turned out to be like a quagmire. It was proposed: cannot participate,
A church that does not believe in the One God in the Three cannot be a member of the movement
Faces. And then trouble happened, because some churches are one of the
The Netherlands and one from Switzerland have written a statement that they are ready for this
wording, provided that it is not specified in any way that we want
to say when we speak of Persons: these can be real Persons, it can be
allegory, it can be a concept, but there should be nothing about it
Said. And, unfortunately, at the congress in Delhi167
It was accepted. It was said: well, agree with the wording, and we
We will not demand any explanations from you on the content. And at that moment
became much more difficult, because when it was very
elementary, the requirement of faith in the Divinity of Christ and in the fact that He is the Saviour, we
knew where we were; when this Trinitarian formula was introduced, but vague,