{"id":2862,"date":"2008-06-10T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/bishop-hilarion-opposes-radical-liberalization-in-protestant-communities\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T00:47:12","slug":"bishop-hilarion-opposes-radical-liberalization-in-protestant-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/bishop-hilarion-opposes-radical-liberalization-in-protestant-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Hilarion Opposes Radical Liberalization in Protestant Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/archives\/2008\/Bishop_Hilarion_Opposes_Radical_Liberalization_Protestant_2008-06-09.php\" target=\"_blank\">OrthodoxNet.com<\/a> | Jun. 9, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Not all participants of the inter-Christian dialogue are ready to pursue partnership and solidarity, Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The divergence is so deep, that it can be compared to bottomless abysses,&#8221; Hilarion said in his interview to the Soyuznoye Veche, the newspaper of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, commenting his dialogue with a Lutheran bishop.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to Hilarion, the bishop refused to recognize abortion as a sin in a joint document, whereby he expressed &#8220;a more liberal approach to this challenge&#8221; as compared to the position of the Moscow Patriarchate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we fail to reach consensus even on such matters which are seemingly obvious to all Christians, what can we do about other challenges?&#8221; Bishop Hilarion said. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/archives\/2008\/Bishop_Hilarion_Opposes_Radical_Liberalization_Protestant_2008-06-09.php\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OrthodoxNet.com | Jun. 9, 2008 Not all participants of the inter-Christian dialogue are ready to pursue partnership and solidarity, Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions, said. &#8220;The divergence is so deep, that it can be compared to bottomless abysses,&#8221; Hilarion said in his interview to &#8230; <a title=\"Bishop Hilarion Opposes Radical Liberalization in Protestant Communities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/bishop-hilarion-opposes-radical-liberalization-in-protestant-communities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bishop Hilarion Opposes Radical Liberalization in Protestant Communities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}