updated 2024Dec15
A quote of Dr. Kalomiros:
"In the last days all will claim to be Orthodox Christians, and that Orthodoxy is as they understand it to be. But in spite of all this, those who have a pure heart and a mind enlightened by divine grace will recognize the Orthodox Church despite the apparent divisions and utter lack of external splendor. They will gather around the true priests, and they will become the pillars of the Church." --Alexander Kalomiros
Discussion:
The words of the quote are true. However:
Dr. Kalomiros, first of all, is not a prophet. In this quote he is merely making an intelligent observation and speculation based on sound Orthodox teachings and prophecies. Few will argue with this quote. At the same time, few will agree about who is a true priest.
Dr. Kalomiros is listed as an unsafe author because, even though he might say something good, (such as his book Against False Union), we can't trust his words. Nobody is right all the time. Nobody is wrong all the time. Dr. Kalomiros, despite his intelligence, is not to be trusted as a teacher because he does not recognize a very deep and basic teaching from the foundation of our Holy Faith. To be specific: Dr. Kalomiros is an Orthodox evolutionist, and he died outside the Church. You don't want to "follow" that.
Remedy:
To read more about this, and to see the letter that Fr. Seraphim Rose wrote to Dr. Kalomiros about evolution:
biography
His disobedient ideas about the soul after death and evolution were outside the Church, and he ended up also outside the Church, dying with his ideas.
This biography is found on a world Orthodox website:
http://sermonwriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/dr-alexandre-kalomiros-biography/
https://web.archive.org/web/20241215231017/https://sermonwriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/dr-alexandre-kalomiros-biography/
Also see this about his heretical idea: River of Fire:
____________________________________________
https://antimodern.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/kalomiros
Kalomiros, Alexander
Αλέξανδρος Καλόμοιρος (1931 - 1990) - Greek modern theologian, representative of " moral monism, " supporter of evolutionary teachings.
He studied medicine in Geneva. All my life I was a medical practitioner.
He belonged to the Church of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but later transferred to one of the old-style jurisdictions (Archbishop Auxentius) due to the ecumenical activity of Patriarch Athenagoras. In 1964 he published the book “Against False Unity”.
Published in various Greek publications, in particular, in the Orthodox weekly Orthodoxos Typos. A.K. led meetings in his house, which studied Ladder, Kindness, and especially the creations of St. Simeon the New Theologian.
A.K. He gave public lectures in Thessaloniki from 1974-1975. His appearances against the icon of the New Testament Trinity led to a break with the archbishop. Auxentius. He founded his acnephalic community (without a priest and bishop), where he acted as a “teacher”. This community was soon accepted into the ROCOR. The parish published its Epignos newspaper, popular in Greece. A.K.published under his editorship the almanac "Roots" (Oi Rizes).
In the USA in 1980, A.K. gave lectures, subsequently published under the title "River of Fire", where he outlined his doctrine of salvation close to that of Metropolitan. Anthony (Khrapovitsky). At the insistence of the archbishop. Vitaly (Ustinova) (ROCOR) the book was translated into Russian and French and published. In 1981, he gave lectures on evolution, which provoked protests from Fr. Seraphim (Rose), as they favored evolutionary theory.
In 1986, the ROCA indicated to the community of A.K. that it should join the archdiocese of old-style jurisdiction. Chrysostom. The community, led by AK, refused to do this, preferring to do without a bishop at all.
His books:
On the theology of Alexander Kalomiros
The main works:
Against False Union (1964)
The Touchstone (Syngrima) 1976,
The River of Fire (1980), in 2003 published in Russian by Sardonyx
The Six Dawns (1993)
Ecclesiology. Again about ecclesiology, in 2014, the Narrow Path published by the Commonwealth in Russian
TRAITORS IN CASSOCKS — An angel drags a heretic. Khludov Psalter, 9th century.
Posts
