Thursday, August 30, 2007
The Reformers and the Orthodox
I had been familiar with the correspondence between Patriarch Jeremias of Constantinople and the early Reformers of Tübingen, but still found this paper on the subject fascinating. Check it out. I hadn't known, for instance, that the Reformers actually sent a kind of "embassy" to Constantinople, or that they drew up a Greek version of the Augsburg Confession that was not just a translation, but an earnest attempt to communicate Reformation concepts to the Greek and Orthodox mind.
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That article does make two points that haven't been made before in other essays I've read.
1) How the Lutherans were unusually polite during the entire exchange (quite different then how they treated Catholic hierarchs).
2) That it didn't appear to the author that they were trying to "convert" the East, but only get an endorsement. My prior readings always came acrossed that they sort of were trying to do both, while they were mainly out for an endorsement, they thought there theology was so great that they also were trying bring the patriarch over to their enlightened view of things.
Pavel/Addai
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