01-03-2005, 02:15 PM
Shlama Metal,
The more intelligent people in both camps have always realized that the formulas of the Incarnation were essentially identical. Unfortunately, it was not always they who were in charge.
What really set the two camps apart wasn't the issue over the Incarnation, but the West's insistance that the East condemn Nestorius, Theodore of Mopseustia and Diodore of Tarsus.
By the time the CoE was approached by an ambassador from the Western Church about this issue 75 years after the tragedy of Ephesus, these three people were long dead. And when the CoE was told what they had confessed, they recognized it as Orthodox and refused to condemn them on those charges......and on the ground that these people were dead and couldn't come to their own defense.
It was instantly labeled "Nestorian" (even though Nestorius was a Greek, the Patriarch of Constantinople - and they never even met him!)
The more intelligent people in both camps have always realized that the formulas of the Incarnation were essentially identical. Unfortunately, it was not always they who were in charge.
What really set the two camps apart wasn't the issue over the Incarnation, but the West's insistance that the East condemn Nestorius, Theodore of Mopseustia and Diodore of Tarsus.
By the time the CoE was approached by an ambassador from the Western Church about this issue 75 years after the tragedy of Ephesus, these three people were long dead. And when the CoE was told what they had confessed, they recognized it as Orthodox and refused to condemn them on those charges......and on the ground that these people were dead and couldn't come to their own defense.
It was instantly labeled "Nestorian" (even though Nestorius was a Greek, the Patriarch of Constantinople - and they never even met him!)
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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