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A New Look at A KEY POINT IN THE HISTORY OF THE Christian Faith A study of the work of John S. Romanides. This detailed study of the ideas of priest and Professor John Romanides describes how he believes the Eastern and Western churches have diverged over the centuries, and gives a quite surprising view of the original - but generally forgotten - aims of the Christian church. |
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by Vera Turton John S. Romanides was an American-born Greek Orthodox priest and professor who, for a long time, filled the difficult role of representing the Greek church to the World Council of Churches. Among other things, he has contributed valuable insights into the cultural and religious differences between Eastern and Western Christianity, and how these divergence's have impacted the ways in which Christianity has developed and been lived out in the Christian cultures of East and West. Romanides was a former Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Cross Theological School of Brookline, Massachusetts, a Professor Emeritus of the School of Theology at the University of Thessalonica. He is currently a Professor of Theology at Balmand Theological School, in the Lebanon. According to Romanides, when, in 410 A.D., Rome fell to the barbarian invasions, the Roman Empire and its Greco-Roman civilization and culture continued and flourished in New Rome (Constantinople) and its lands until the empire finally collapsed, in 1453 A.D., with the Ottoman -Turkish onslaught. Its culture was always Hellenic, and its people considered themselves Romans, calling their country Romanie. To this day, the Muslims refer to the Orthodox Christians in the Western part of the former Ottoman Empire as Rum (Romans) and not Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, etc. Romanides claims that "Byzantine" history, civilization, theology, etc., is an outright fabrication of Western historians and politicians. This lie began with Charlemagne (768-814), but came into its modern form in the 19th century with the creation of the modern state of Greece, which was supposedly "liberated" from the remnants of "Byzantine" control in Constantinople by British, French and Russian political manoeuvres (the London Protocol of August 31, 1836). |
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