about the Russian fragments
Why are there so many fragments?
According to Fr. Seraphim Rose this phenomenon is a result of the super-correct disease. In Fr. Seraphim's day it was mainly in the Greek Church, but he saw it starting in the Russian Church even back then. He saw it as the same disease as renovationism, only the flip side of renovationism.
Super-correctness is a disease that is peculiar to Orthodoxy, and we see it now in other Churches, too [Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian]. We can see that as world Orthodoxy advances in renovationism [ecumenism], the super-correct disease also advances.
What keeps the fragments from uniting with each other?
The issue of "canonicity." Each of them thinks they are the only one that is canonical.
What keeps the fragments from uniting with the Sister Churches?
This is a double-edged sword. The issues of canonicity and ecclesiology.
The Sister Churches will not unite with the Russian fragments because the Russian fragments are not canonical. And the Russian fragments will not unite with the Sister Churches because of the Sister Church's ecclesiology.
Understanding the SIster Church ecclesiology, "royalpathism" [especially the so-called "cyprianism" aspect of the Royal Path] is what this blog is about.
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