Meaning of phyletism | Babel Free

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The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.

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“Its progress in the past years shows that the heresy of phyletism is bound to rescind and that all those who really desire Orthodox unity—without losing anything which is precious and positive in their ethnic traditions—will join us in our common Orthodox witness to the world of today.”

“[Soloviev] lamented that phyletism, the division of the church along ethnic, national, or linguistic lines, had become Orthodoxy’s governing ecclesiology despite its official condemnation in 1872.”

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