Originally posted by Apotheoun:
It would be nice to see the actual text of the 'working document' under consideration, but I do not think that it is available online. Nevertheless, the Moscow Patriarchate's criticism of the document (i.e., if the document is trying to give Constantinople a type of 'universal jurisdiction') is theologically sound. The concept of 'universal jurisdiction' is foreign to the eucharistic ecclesiology of the ancient Fathers and the Orthodox Churches.
It's paragraph 45 of the "working document" entitled: "The ecclesiological and canonical consequences of the sacramental nature of the Church - authority and conciliarity in the Church," as confirmed today by the other ROC-MP delegate to the Belgrade 9th Session, Rev. Igor Vyzhanov.
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2093 I cited this document previously:
https://www.byzcath.org/bboard/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002802;p=2#000027
However, the full text has not been made available to the public as the International Commission will take it up again at its next meeting in October 2007.
In the meantime, I think the Commission formed a committee to review the draft.
Amado
