Originally posted by Zenovia:
Dear Eli,
I gather from the name Father Dumitru that he is Roumanian. If so, Bishop Kallistos Ware said in "Gifts of the Desert" by Kyriacos C Markides:
"Actually, I have noticed while visiting Roumania that though Romanians are proud of their nation they don't have the hostile, aggressive attitude towards the West and the fear of non-Orthodox churches that I encounter in other Orthodox countries."
Good for them!
Zenovia Dear Zenovia,
And I say "Lucky for us!!" Metropolitan Maximus is another gift in bilateral relationships as well.
I have done some digging and found a couple of interesting references on-line that lay out the Catholic doctrinal congruences that accompany a teaching of the Divine Simplicity that may well over-rule the philisophical nay-sayers. Of course, as with the rest of Catholic teaching, we might have to accept a thing or two on faith.
If these sources look as good after a longer perusal as they did at first glance, I'll share them in the other thread on Father Dumitru's Orthodox Spirituality.
Also if you have not picked up on it, I very often mean references to "Catholic" teaching to include Orthodox Catholic teaching as well.
You will find Father Dumitru's book of essays on the Church sounding a bit down on the western Church but when looking at more of a variety of his works, there is more congruence than dissonance.
Eli
