Posted by Leo
on 9/6/2009, 3:03 am, in reply to "Pope Points to St. Augustine as Source of Christian Unity"
From what I gather, the University of Thessaloniki Theology department has a "liberal" wing and a "conservative" wing. The "liberals" are very "ecumenical" and so forth, the "conservatives" are not. It seems they've had dueling conferences back and forth for a few years now. ISTM *this* may bring about the Holy Great Council finally, just to declare a "winner" there!!! (The city of Thess. is technically part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but also part of Greece's "New Lands," ecclesiastically administered "temporarily" by the Church of Greece since the 1920s. I've also read it's considered the "religious capital" of Greece... not to mention of that part of "Macedonia" lying within the Greek Republic. Hey, maybe they should put that on the agenda too!!!)
From the "conservative" side, sort of, the late Fr. John Romanides (Greece-born, NY-raised) obliquely questioned Bishop Augustine of Hippo's sanctity and o/Orthodoxy, as in the essays numbered 18 and 31 here.
--Leo
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