“In writing this, we are not writing either the history of Europe, of its virtues and faults, or the history of the European pseudo-Churches. We are simply setting forth the entirety of their ontology, penetrating to the heart of European conceit, its demonic underground, where its dark sources lie and with whose waters it threatens to poison the world. This is no passing of judgment on Europe, but a wholehearted and prayerful call to the only way to salvation: through repentance.”
St. Justin Popović (+1979), the great twentieth century theologian of Serbia, masterfully expounds upon the nature of protestantism, both its papal and reformed varieties, refining and preserving the dogmatic conscience of his disciples and students. Some of what St. Justin says may be shocking, but as disciples of Christ we must run to the saints, those saints the Church has glorified and recognized as authentic teachers of the Faith. St. Justin is a theologian par excellence.
The meaning of Theanthropic: divine (in Greek theos = God) and human (in Greek anthropos = man); the Theanthropos = the God-Man, i.e. Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.
0:00 - Introduction
1:23 - Part I: Excerpt from “Humanistic and Theanthropic Society,” also under the title “Papism as the Oldest Protestantism”
3:07 - Make no mistake: Papism is the most radical Protestantism
5:37 - All this leads to the fact that there is no Church in the West
08:16 - Christ the Theanthropos is the highest value and the highest criterion
11:58 - The fruits of Theanthropic society
12:46 - The Church has never dogmatized pseudo-Christian toxins as all who have fallen away from Orthodoxy have
15:36 - “Various pseudo-Christian humanisms fill the world with books, but Orthodoxy fills it with saints.”
18:02 - The purpose of this writing is to set forth the ontology of European humanisms and call all to repentance
18:40 - Part II: Excerpt from the chapter “Man or the God-Man.”
19:28 - Papal infallibility dogmatized at Vatican I and upheld at Vatican II
22:01 - “The dogma of the infallibility of the Pope is a Nietzschaen affirmation of the entire creation of European humanistic man.”
24:29 - The Pope has “proclaimed himself a Church with the papist Church and has become all powerful in it.”
25:06 - Three principles falls in human history: Adam, Judas, and the Pope
26:55 - By the Church, His Body, Christ brings man into the ascesis of theanthropization through the holy mysteries and holy virtues
30:08 - The theanthropic Good News separates sin from the sinner. Humanistic man commits suicide in equating sin with the sinner and embraces the monstrous jesuito-humanistic dogma that ‘the ends justify the means.’
35:29 - What is the core of the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope, a man?
37:44 - The dogma of the infallibility of the Pope is the “heresy above all heresies”
39:25 - Repentance is the only way out of these innumerable deadly diseases
42:03 - Part III: Excerpt from the chapter “Humanistic Ecumenism.” - “Ecumenism is a collective name for pseudo-Christianities.”
43:54 - “Protestantism, the dearest and most loyal child of Papism”
44:38 - Not ecumenical dialogue, not intercommunion, but only repentance and union with the theanthropic Body of Christ, the Orthodox Church, can man solve his most eternal problems
“The supreme rule of the Orthodox philosophy of society is: We must not adapt Christ the Theanthropos to the spirit of the times, but adapt the spirit of the times to Christ's eternity, Christ's theanthropy.”
“Various pseudo-Christian humanisms fill the world with books, but Orthodoxy fills it with saints.”
“However, the tragedy of western Christendom consists precisely in its having attempted, whether by revising the image of the Theanthropos or denying Him, to reintroduce the demonised humanism that is characteristic of sinful human nature into the heart of the very theanthropic organism, the Church, the purpose of which is to liberate from it; and through the Church into all spheres of life, by pronouncing it to be a dogma, a universal dogma. Man's demonised pride, under the auspices of the Church, in that way becomes a dogma of faith without which there is no salvation. It is terrible even to contemplate, let alone say, that in this way the only 'workshop of salvation' and theanthropisation in this world is gradually being transformed into a demonised 'workshop' of violence against the conscience and of dehumanisation, a workshop of the disfigurement of God and man through the disfigurement of the Theanthropos.”
The text is from “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism,” pages 119-126, 142-154.
The first half of this text: orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/pap...
The second half is found in “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”: lazarica.co.uk/bookshop/
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