04-26-2024, 04:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2024, 04:10 AM by RiverNotch.)
Canonicity in the East
can be confusing to the West
but, put simply, anything that profits
profits. Tradition produces Scripture,
not the other way around,
so there's never been the need
for any sort of reformation,
there's never been concern
about Esdras, Tobit, Judith,
about Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch,
about Susanna or the Maccabees,
even about such rarities
as Enoch or the Jubilees.
There's no reason for a schism
in a Patriarch's acceptance
of one volume or another:
there is always something deeper
well behind why churches shatter.
can be confusing to the West
but, put simply, anything that profits
profits. Tradition produces Scripture,
not the other way around,
so there's never been the need
for any sort of reformation,
there's never been concern
about Esdras, Tobit, Judith,
about Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch,
about Susanna or the Maccabees,
even about such rarities
as Enoch or the Jubilees.
There's no reason for a schism
in a Patriarch's acceptance
of one volume or another:
there is always something deeper
well behind why churches shatter.