
Irenaeus in comparison to the entire inheritance of the Orthodox and the West until the theology of Thomas Aquinas.

Characteristic is the subtitle of his study on the ancestral sin, which identifies the book's contents: "Contributions to the examination and conditions of the Ancestral Sin, from the Ancient Church of St. Arising from this study was his thesis on ancestral sin, which, among other things, determined the difference between Orthodox and scholastic theology. Primarily because the Protestants teach that the Fathers of the Church changed apostolic tradition, he studied thoroughly the Apostolic Fathers (Irenaeus, Ignatius, Methodius, Justin, Polycarp, etc), who are the ring by which the Apostles and later Fathers are linked. Raised in the Protestant environment of America, he studied at a Papal Institute, where he learned and studied the theology of Thomas Aquinas, and in Protestant theological schools, such as Yale and Harvard, and came to know their mentality very well. John was not affected by the Russian theologians of the diaspora nor by dialectical Protestant theology, but he did personal research on the Apostolic Fathers of the Church. 41-50),1 a Hellenistic view of creation and redemption is contrasted with the Orthodox teachings on the same. We were mistaken to have underestimated it." Kelley 2017 In Creation, Fall, and Salvation According to Greek Philosophy in General, the opening chapter of Fr. But when they heard us repeatedly over two days at this Seminar analyze issues of Orthodox tradition, then one of those in attendance said: "This theology is higher than ours and the Russian diaspora. Well-known are the views of Alexis Khomiakov that the scholastic theology of the West is higher than the theology of the Fathers, and that Russian theology surpassed both scholastic and even Greek patristic theology. We learned that the members of this Church, until then, considered the theologians of Greece influenced by the scholastic and Protestant theology of the West and that the Russian theologians of the diaspora expressed the true Orthodox theology of the so-called neo-patristics and neo-palamites, which of course is superior and outweighs the theology of the Fathers. The organizers of the Seminar wanted to know our views on these issues.

Alexander Schmemann, known to all, taught and played a significant role. Ancestral Sin - To the Orthodox Church, Original Sin is The fact that every person born comes into the world stained with the consequences of the sins of Adam and Eve and of their other ancestors.
