In recent months, Greece has rekindled the controversy about the celebration with heretics . The problem is not easy to solve, because the modern Western Christianity differs significantly between celebration of the sacraments (indeed, in the strict sense of the Eucharist ) and common prayer . Place the "dogma" (which is debatable) that we all the same God believes is permitted - even recommended - the prayer with anyone who has any faith in any entity higher: in itself, even with the atheists (some of which, for example, ultimately believe in the glorious future and progress of humanity).
In modern Western Christianity, then, the concept of heresy is rather hazy, since the last quarter of the last century has set tyranny with the idea that there skeptics Truth , but there are many , different truth. In practice, the Western mind is now missing the logical principle that if A is objectively true, B is false , and has become the principle subjective that if A is true for Peter and Paul B is true, it means that both are true to the B itself .
Gli ortodossi, invece, sembrano più fedeli al principio aristotelico (!) del tertium non datur , e sono portati a considerare eresia tutto ciò che non appartiene (o si ritiene non appartenga) alla tradizione della Chiesa ortodossa: non solo il dogma in senso stretto ma anche semplici usanze o prassi canoniche [è un po’ buffo, ma alcuni considerano eretico – “non ortodosso” - persino l’uso delle candele steariche]; attenendosi then (even unknowingly) etymology, consider Liturgy any action of the Church, and (also correctly) do not distinguish between private prayer and official prayer .
The problem is complicated because the fees quoted by orthodox theologians - both against that in favor of Common Prayer in - do not take into account (nor could they take into account all ' period in which they were drafted), a certain "de facto" of our times. For example: assuming (but, as they say, not granted) that Nestorius was a heretic, heretics who are now called "Nestorians"? The Copts and the Ethiopians today are "heretics" or rather have traditions (liturgical music, iconography, etc.). simply different from those of the Churches of the Roman tradition?
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