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**ITYfl01c** · 05-06-2010, 05:38 AM

What about icons and books from HTM? I've done some research and hear they have their own pattern of errant behavior and theology.

Certainly there is a lot of controversy around HTM. Their departure from ROCOR was sudden and surrounded by all kinds of tales (which, in all fairness, have never been investigated - not because they lacked merit, but because HTM fled from their bishops before the investigation could be initiated). However, despite all that, I don't think they have ever done or said anything that could even suggest that they were not Orthodox. Since they have immersed themselves in the morass of Greek Old Calendrists after leaving the Russian Church and have obtained their own home grown bishops - they have been fading pretty much into the background (well maybe that's just because they have slid off my radar screen - who knows). But there is still nothing to suggest that the icons they produce or the books they have published are not Orthodox.

Fr David

05-06-2010, 05:38 AM	#22
ITYfl01c Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 309 Senior Member	What about icons and books from HTM? I've done some research and hear they have their own pattern of errant behavior and theology. Certainly there is a lot of controversy around HTM. Their departure from ROCOR was sudden and surrounded by all kinds of tales (which, in all fairness, have never been investigated - not because they lacked merit, but because HTM fled from their bishops before the investigation could be initiated). However, despite all that, I don't think they have ever done or said anything that could even suggest that they were not Orthodox. Since they have immersed themselves in the morass of Greek Old Calendrists after leaving the Russian Church and have obtained their own home grown bishops - they have been fading pretty much into the background (well maybe that's just because they have slid off my radar screen - who knows). But there is still nothing to suggest that the icons they produce or the books they have published are not Orthodox. Fr David
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