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Toll Houses and PurgatoryWednesday, November 7. 2007Comments
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Father, bless.
I too sensed that Fr. Hopko was straining the differences when I listened to the interview a few weeks ago, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. I suppose one has to want to accommodate the differences in language and to reconcile seemingly divergent positions, which Fr. Hopko did not seem very willing to do for Latin thought.
Father Bless,
I think the Latins haven't done anything to help the situation. The horrific "visions" that are told and the horrible pictures that can be seen feed this kind of notion that Rome thinks different than the Orthodox. Of course someone as smart as Fr Hopko should be able to look past that.
Yes, the "spirituality" of Purgatory is certainly problematic. The kinds of spiritual or cultural attitudes it leads to are more Church-dividing than the doctrines that underly it.
It helps enormously to distinguish the real problem.
The Latins would do well to look and see that very little is defined by Rome. As a convert I looked East and found out it wasn't the hell that people told me it was.
For the record that book on Purgatory that Tan publishes should be on the index of forbidden books!
My two cents:
http://cathedraunitatis.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/another-tortured-east-west-issue/ |