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To: rzman21

“What does the Council of Trent have to do with the Eastern Orthodox?”

I didn’t realize this thread was restricted to Eastern Orthodox.

However, if one is going to use the term “Deuterocanonical”, as the article did, then it ought to be remembered that it is a Roman Catholic term to describe what was done in the Council of Trent. It is not interchangeable with ‘Apocrypha’, since the Apocrypha shrank at Trent, and Deuterocanonical describes the shrunk result.


20 posted on 11/07/2011 5:42:50 AM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: Mr Rogers

The Eastern Churches, including those in union with the Pope of Rome never use the term “deuterocanonical,” but simply canonical.

The Septuagint canon was never taken into question in the Christian East or debated the way it was in the West, particularly because the Greeks didn’t read Latin.

I’m sure the author of this piece used “deuterocanonical” because it is a common term that most people know.

Anytime a Catholic or Eastern Orthodox looks at the fathers, they look at the bigger picture of what the broader tradition was.


25 posted on 11/07/2011 6:37:47 AM PST by rzman21
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