When Orthodoxy Becomes Ideology: On the Canonization of Seraphim Rose

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I did not have time earlier to write anything about the decision to canonize Seraphim Rose in ROCOR, but here are a few thoughts.

First of all, this is quite obviously a political canonization – or, more precisely, yet another political canonization, and I am almost certain the ROCOR Synod is fully aware of that. This is the canonization of a very specif…