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>Okay, which is it Orthobros?
The Saints harmonize. This has always been our teaching, despite a smattering of modernists trying to shy away from it. St. Augustine has always been a most holy saint in our church and his teaching has always been honored. As I said before, even St. Gregory Palamas sourced the blessed St. Augustine heavily for his own writings.
>>For the last several decades, not just his theology but Augustine himself has been regarded as heretical by some theologians in the Orthodox Church.
Alright anon, let's look at what you quoted a little more closely.
>for the past several decades
Do you measure your church history in decades, anon? Would you take me seriously if I said "in the past several decades, some theologians in the Catholic Church have adopted pro-abortionist positions, citing the Seamless Garment of Life?" Would you not laugh in my face if I presented this as traditional Catholic teaching?
>by some theologians in the Orthodox Church
"Some" should really say "one." This anti-Augustine rhetoric is the brainchild of a single man of dubious repute named Fr. Romanides, who has made multiple errors regarding theology and church history, not just limited to the subject of St. Augustine. Fr. Romanides enjoys some level of popularity with Greek boomers who think everything West of them is bad but is otherwise an unremarkable theologian, he does not represent church teaching.
>excluding him from the list of saints.
This has literally never happened, I challenge you to find a single parish that does not celebrate St. Augustine's feast day.
The rest of your blockquote is directly from a website dedicated to Fr. Romanides and his Oriental boomerposting, and are not worth discussing in detail, but I'll hit the highlights.
--the idea of "Ancestral Sin" as being something uniquely Orthodox and opposed to "Original Sin" is a Romanides invention. The Fathers used the terms interchangeably and calling them different is stupid.
--the idea that St. Augustine's manuscripts were unknown in Constantinople until Gennadios Scholarios is likewise stupid and ahistorical. St. Gregory Palamas had access to St. Augustine's writings despite living a century earlier, this is an absurd claim with no basis in reality. Scholarios was a translator of
Aquinas, not St. Augustine, whoever wrote this is deliberately lying.
The 1341 Synod had nothing to do with condemning "Augustinianism" and Barlaam did not in any way, shape, or form represent "Augustinianism." Barlaam was a heretic who was condemned because he tried to argue contemplative prayer was a stupid, time-wasting endeavor and that you should instead try to know God through bookcel intellectualism. St. Augustine far from preaching such a view would have condemned it no slower than St. Gregory Palamas did.
Anon, I apologize on behalf of my church that you stumbled upon the writings of a pop-theology Greek boomer and were wrongly convinced that aforementioned Greek boomer was a faithful preserver of church teaching. However, I must also chastize you for not being a little more skeptical of someone who bad-mouths the Fathers so shamelessly, and not taking any effort to find an alternate perspective. I am praying that you did this out of genuine ignorance and did not because you were cherry-picking sources.
In any event, I encourage you to read the following blogpost regarding St. Augustine's pneumatology. I understand if you do not have the time or inclination to read the entire 10-part series, but the preface alone has good content.
https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2020/03/04/augustine-the-filioquist-a-preface/