Is Orthodoxy an Exclusivist or Inclusivist religion?

[ArmyMatt]

The relativistic argument of development of doctrine requires a belief that some doctrine is subjective, for doctrine couldn't change if it was fixed and objective.

I agree, that's why articulation can develop (i.e. the word Trinity not appearing in the Scripture), but the doctrine cannot.

 

[TheLostCoin]

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[prodromos]

We do defense of doctrine, not development. Catholic development of doctrine is supposed to clarify what was already believed, yet in the case of the Dormition of Mary, they has moved in the opposite direction, where it is now perfectly alright for Catholics to believe that Mary did not die before being bodily assumed into heaven.

 

[FireDragon76]

And while there may be moral and dogmatic Catholic relativists, where morality and dogma don't exist and can change based on what society demands, who use the term "Development of Doctrine" to defend their disgusting view on life, the term "Development of Doctrine" as coined and used by Henry Newman and, later, Soloviev, isn't used in the way they use it.

A gross oversimplification of Christian modernism.

Soloviev used the famous Acorn analogy, where an Acorn becomes an Acorn Tree, not changing in the very essence of what that Acorn is, but becoming much more elaborate and detailed such that it looks very different.

A philosophical distinction many modern people can't take seriously anymore. Because it hangs itself upon epistemology.

 

[John0987]

Following academic terminology is a great way to get into heresy. There are many suppositions in our terminology we usually skim over. It's better to use Orthodox terminology and think of it as a Hospital.

St Maximus says about those who don't accept the Revelation of the Church: "Whoever reads the natural without knowing the spiritual content and significance of what he has read, reads death, sees death, appropriates death." And this is what we see in Natural Theology of Hinduism, Buddhism, old pagans, and any teenager who's had a bad acid trip: The death of the self. How do you think they would react in the bodily resurrection? They would willfully walk out of the gates in agony. I retain that Salvation is for anyone who does not reject the Grace of God and willfully walks out of the gates, and any Orthodox not afraid is downplaying his disease.
Does this means that if some ignorant medieval chinese farmer could accept the Grace and resist not leaving that the Church is useless or that heathenries are good in any sense? Absolutely not.

 

[TheLostCoin]

Following academic terminology is a great way to get into heresy. There are many suppositions in our terminology we usually skim over. It's better to use Orthodox terminology and think of it as a Hospital.

A hospital which only 4% of the world accesses, many of which die in the waiting room.

 

[Toolbelt]

A hospital which only 4% of the world accesses, many of which die in the waiting room.

Its really unfortunately and who said these 4% are guaranteed? At this point universalism seems good, but the reality is that there is only so much room on the earth to sustain so many people.