{"id":5119,"date":"2018-07-08T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2018-07-08T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:40:43","slug":"metropolitan-tikhon-shevkunov-on-ecumenism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov on Ecumenism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6ae92\" data-offset-key=\"16dto-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"16dto-0-0\">\u201cExtreme church liberals, like their secular peers, are on fire it would seem with the laudable desire to change for the better everything their enlightened minds deem improper in the Church. You know, St. Joseph of Optina once said, \u201cZeal that desires to uproot all evil is in fact the very worse evil.\u201d Having begun with the demands for radical ritual innovations, they inevitably move on to the revision of dogmas. Their most charismatic leaders insist that nowadays it is ridiculous and senseless to believe in the immortality of the human soul, that Moslems are, as it turns out, the same as Christians, that the Holy Scripture was written without any particular action of divine grace, and they call the belief of Orthodox Christians that the Gospels and our other sacred books were written at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (\u201call Scripture is God-inspired.\u201d\u2014Apostle Paul) \u201cgrandmother tales\u201d. They allow themselves to make other statements no less unacceptable to the Orthodox consciousness. There is no need to doubt or deceive ourselves\u2014these are the realest Church Bolsheviks, the spiritual brothers of the merciless revolutionaries in leather jackets. They have no pity for anything we have.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6ae92\" data-offset-key=\"3tgm8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3tgm8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3tgm8-0-0\"> &#8211; Quote in pravoslavie.ru<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"3tgm8-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5120\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/12966834-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/12966834-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/12966834-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/12966834.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExtreme church liberals, like their secular peers, are on fire it would seem with the laudable desire to change for the better everything their enlightened minds deem improper in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5121,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}