06-15-2011, 09:10 AM
(06-15-2011, 09:06 AM)Melkite Wrote:I see no reason to believe he reconciled with the church. Unless there is something which states otherwise.(06-15-2011, 02:11 AM)Resurrexi Wrote: I see no reason to think that Photius lived a particularly holy life after he ended his rebellion against ecclesiastical authority.
I never said he lived a particularly holy life, I said he died in communion with Rome, reconciled to the Church. As such, it is right to recognize him as a saint, since we know from Scripture that God rewards equally those who arrive at the 11th hour as he does those who arrive at the 1st, or, in Augustine's case, the 3rd or 4th.
And, What about Gregory Palamas who was never in the Church to begin with, was an open schismatic and produced very questionable theology regarding the essence of God?