The Archregimancy wrote:Here's a potential Orthodox version, with only two questions held over (though both edited):
1.) Who was the founder of monasticism?
2.) What was the Confession of Cyril Lucaris about?
3.) Who were the Cappadocian Fathers?
4.) Who was St. Gregory Palamas?
5.) Name 5 autocephalous churches other than the original members of the Pentarchy.
6.) What is "Hesychasm"?
7.) What heresy was denounced by the Seventh Ecumenical Council?
8.) What is a
yurodivy?
9.) What is the purpose of a Prayer Rope (κομποσκοίνι or чётки)?
10.) When was the term "Catholic" first used and by whom?
1.) St. Anthony the Great.
2.) I know this from you, Arch, because you brought it up in a previous CDT. Cyril Lucaris was a Patriarch of Alexandria, in the 17th century I believe, who developed close contacts with the Protestants in Western Europe (especially Calvinist Geneva) and attempted a rapprochement between them and the Orthodox Church. His "confession" is a document printed in Geneva, attributed to Cyril Lucaris (although it may well have been edited to a greater or lesser extent by the printers themselves, or even forged entirely by them), in which the Patriarch is adopting shockingly Calvinist positions on a multitude of topics. This document was later officially rejected by the Orthodox Church and declared a heretical forgery (at the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672, I believe), although it's likely that Cyril Lucaris actually agreed with it at least to some extent.
3.) St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, and St. Gregory of Nyssa. They were immensely important Christian theologians of the 4th century, from the region of Cappadocia in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), who defended the Holy Trinity in a time when Arianism was dominant, and shaped the theology of the Orthodox Church in particular and to a lesser extent Christianity in general. They were at least as important as their contemporary St. Augustine in the history of Christianity, if not more so.
4.) An Orthodox monk and bishop from the 14th century, from northern Greece (I think he was from Thessaloniki, but I'm not sure), who played an enormously important role in defining modern Orthodox theology, particularly the concept of
theosis and the practice of hesychasm. One of the Sundays during Great Lent is dedicated to him.
5.) That's easy. The Moscow Patriarchate, the Patriarchate of Georgia, the Patriarchate of Serbia, the Patriarchate of Bulgaria, the Patriarchate of Romania... and that's five right there.
6.) Hesychasm is also known as the "prayer of the heart" and it is a type of practice particularly widespread among Orthodox monastics. It is somewhat similar to meditation, I think, but I don't really know anything about it beyond what I just said.
7.) Iconoclasm.
8.) I don't know that term.
9.) To help with deep prayer. The rope has a number of knots, and the idea is to hold it in your hand and touch one knot after the other, saying a prayer on each knot. Typically, the
same prayer is said on each knot, and most often that is the Jesus Prayer. The point of using a prayer rope is to keep track of how many times you have said the prayer without needing to count in your head or to look down on any piece of paper. When you reach the end of the rope, you stop.
10.) I don't know. Well, I
didn't know, until you mentioned it in this thread.
You said it was first used by St. Ignatius of Antioch in the early 2nd century.
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Edit: ...and after I posted, I saw you already gave the answers, above, while I was writing. Thanks!
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:08 pm