Over the last two years I have noticed a new trend of surging growth among Eastern Orthodox gen Z converts, especially on twitter and discord, which we may call latinizing.As it can be deduced from the name, this trend consists of appropiating a latin mindset to Eastern Orthodoxy theology, or perhaps rediscovering it. In this sense the latinizers are a reaction to the 20th century neo-patristic school of theology, consisting of authors such as Lossky and Romanides, which was popularized in the recent years by online apologists such as Jay Dyer.What the latinizers aim to prove is that the scholastic and legalistic aspects of EO theology from the post-patristic middle ages up to and including the ottoman occupation period, aren't a result of a so called "latin captivity" but a coherent continuation of the patristic age. So, they argue, theological concepts such as original sin, the sacramental distinction between form and efficacy, God as prime mover and so forth, are and always have been part of Orthodox theology, rather than a papalist innovation.One Orthodox writer admired by many of them is Patriarch Gennadius Scholarius, an EO church figure which was at the same time both an admirer of Thomas Aquinas and an opponent of the union of Florence, harshly condemning papal supremacy and the filioque. Ultimately, this is the nuance which defines them, they are on the one hand defenders of the pre-schism latin west and admirers, though with reservations where dogma has been changed, of the post-schism latin west, while at the same time staunch anti-ecumenist traditionalists.
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