Heresy - Dogma - Revelation - Theosis

The Method of Knowing God

Metropolitan Kyprianos II of Oropos and Phyle | July 13, 2025 (O.S.)

 

Usually, heresy is limited to theoretical teaching and he is considered heretical who deviates from the established dogmas of the Church.

We must, however, view heresy with regard to its internal dimension.

For just as the Dogmas are an expression of Revelation, and the application of the Dogmas leads to experience, so also heresy is a deviation from Revelation, but at the same time it destroys the path to theosis. It is as if there were a hospital that cannot heal man

The overturning of the experience of Pentecost takes place because heretics deny the teaching of the deified Fathers of the Church; that is, abandoning the Revelatory Truth, they rely mainly on their reason, their speculation.

This means that heretics rely more on philosophy, which is full of thoughts, speculations, and fantasies, and they do not rely on the revelations of God.

Because they rely on philosophical principles, in reality they also deny the teaching that leads to the vision of God.

The heretic cannot know God, because he does not know the method of knowing God [theognosis].

Every science has its theory, and this is confirmed by experimentation, and every verification of the experiment leads to the same theory.

Heresy does not refer only to dogmatic matters, but also to spiritual life.

For example, the division of the Christian life into theoretical (dogma) and practical (ascetic) is a delusion.

Some accept the dogmas and reject the prerequisites of the dogmas...

 

Greek source: https://www.imoph.org/pdfs/2025/07/26/20250726aAiresi-dogma.pdf