#11392 Answering Orthodoxy - Michael Lofton

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 14:49 – A Greek Orthodox priest said to me that they didn’t break from us but we broke from them. What’s the response to this? 17:38 – Is there patristic evidence for adoration? 23:06 – Can you talk about created Grace? 32:05 – I’m considering converting to Orthodoxy because Mariology is excessive in the west. 36:22 – What’s the difference in the date of Easter between the east and the west? 43:02 – Could you address the difference in theology on Theosis? 46:17 – I had an Orthodox monk tell me that praying the rosary is not a good thing. How do I reply? …

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to Catholic Dance with Live. I'm Si. I kill at your host. As promised,
0:20.2	our guest this hour is Michael Lofton, who you can find at Reason and Theology. You
0:25.4	can see the YouTube's and the audio stuff that he makes over there and all just lots of wonderful
0:31.8	stuff. But as many of you probably know about Michael Lofton among the things that he
0:36.9	is most noted for is this kind of dialogue, debate, ongoing conversation that he has about
0:43.7	orthodoxy from the Catholic perspective and with orthodox and Catholic people about these
0:48.2	things. Michael Lofton has a new book called Answering orthodoxy, a Catholic response to
0:54.1	attacks from the East. Michael Lofton, welcome. Hey Si, thanks for having me back on. Congratulations
1:00.5	on the beautiful new book Answering orthodoxy. Thank you. Yeah, just got my copy today as
1:06.7	well. You know what? I liked the way you did the book because I realized the way you
1:13.6	kind of do it is in quotes, you'll give an objection to the Catholic faith from the orthodox
1:18.3	position and then you'll answer that objection. And as a Catholic, I honestly didn't know that
1:24.9	they had these many of these objections. There's way more than I realized that our objections to the
1:30.5	Catholic faith. Oh yeah, believe it or not, there's even more than the ones that I address there,
1:35.4	but in the book I have kind of like your top 30 objections, which kind of span doctrinal objections,
1:42.0	historical objections and liturgical objections. So I give you the most common ones that you're
1:47.1	going to encounter. If you'd like to get into the conversation about orthodoxy from the Catholic
1:51.6	perspective, you're welcome, whether you're orthodox, whether you're a Catholic person, whether you
1:55.5	are neither, and you just like to get in your question for Michael 8883187884. I feel like most
2:03.6	of our audience knows what a Catholic is, but I think I feel like before we get into a conversation
2:08.5	about answering orthodoxy, we need you to tell us what is orthodoxy. Yeah, Eastern orthodoxy
2:16.3	is going to be a community of 16 different auto-cephalous churches that's a fancy term that
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