Nouslife: Conciliar fundamentalism

19 May 2007

Conciliar fundamentalism

I find it abrasive and occasionally amusing on the internet to run into Orthodox, well, fundies. Doug Chaplin has drawn attention to it on Metacatholic, and given it the name I've entitled this post. The back-story is the take over of SPCK bookshops in the UK by an Orthodox trust who are now encouraging staff to work on Sundays citing a conciliar decision in Laodicea, and apparently doing so badly:

This kind of sloppy a-historicism, and naive non-interpretative quotation, is exactly a hallmark of fundamentalism, it’s just that in this case it’s a kind of conciliar fundamentalism. But then again what can you expect form a group who claim on their website: “Until the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D., England was Orthodox.”