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<blockquote data-quote="Hermetic Seal" data-source="post: 1549405" data-attributes="member: 10915">That&#039;s right. These schismatic groups, like Old Calendarists, as far as I can tell have the same theology as the rest of the Church, but separate over what could be called political issues - disputes with bishops, the calendar, beliefs the rest of the church has compromised through ecumenical meetings, that sort of thing. They don&#039;t have a different view of the Trinity or salvation or anything like that.But what I&#039;ve noticed in my experience is that there seems to be a lot of pride amongst these groups, what Father Seraphim Rose called the &quot;super-correct faction.&quot; A lot of internal arguments and disputing that&#039;s not very Christlike. I just haven&#039;t seen much good fruit from these groups, or sufficient evidence to take their claims seriously. The exception might be publications - Holy Transfiguration Monastery has produced excellent liturgical texts that I don&#039;t hesitate to recommend and many people like the Scriptures and Synaxarion from Holy Apostles Convent.Another good thing to keep in mind is that some of these schismatic groups are extremely &quot;online.&quot; These aren&#039;t things you&#039;d ever really run into in real life, normal Orthodox practice. The internet can give outsize visibility to some schismatic ROCOR spinoff in Australia that really only has a handful of members. It&#039;s really straining credulity to think this little group or that is the &quot;real&quot; Orthodox Church. It&#039;s not that different from when Independent Fundamentalist Baptists insist that Pastor Jim with his Baptist congregation in the Swiss Alps was keeping the real church alive for 1500 years, or that Most Holy Family Basketball Court is preserving the Real Catholic Church.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hermetic Seal, post: 1549405, member: 10915"] That's right. These schismatic groups, like Old Calendarists, as far as I can tell have the same theology as the rest of the Church, but separate over what could be called political issues - disputes with bishops, the calendar, beliefs the rest of the church has compromised through ecumenical meetings, that sort of thing. They don't have a different view of the Trinity or salvation or anything like that. But what I've noticed in my experience is that there seems to be a lot of pride amongst these groups, what Father Seraphim Rose called the "super-correct faction." A lot of internal arguments and disputing that's not very Christlike. I just haven't seen much good fruit from these groups, or sufficient evidence to take their claims seriously. The exception might be publications - Holy Transfiguration Monastery has produced excellent liturgical texts that I don't hesitate to recommend and many people like the Scriptures and Synaxarion from Holy Apostles Convent. Another good thing to keep in mind is that some of these schismatic groups are extremely "online." These aren't things you'd ever really run into in real life, normal Orthodox practice. The internet can give outsize visibility to some schismatic ROCOR spinoff in Australia that really only has a handful of members. It's really straining credulity to think this little group or that is the "real" Orthodox Church. It's not that different from when Independent Fundamentalist Baptists insist that Pastor Jim with his Baptist congregation in the Swiss Alps was keeping the real church alive for 1500 years, or that Most Holy Family Basketball Court is preserving the Real Catholic Church. [/QUOTE]

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