Phyletism

Quick meaning: Phyletism is a noun meaning (Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.

Meaning

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.

Example Sentences

[Soloviev] lamented that phyletism, the division of the church along ethnic, national, or linguistic lines, had become Orthodoxy’s governing ecclesiology despite its official condemnation in 1872.

Its progress in the past years shows that the heresy of phyletism is bound to rescind and that all those who really desire Orthodox unity—without losing anything which is precious and positive in their ethnic traditions—will join us in our common Orthodox witness to the world of today.

Synonyms for phyletism

Depending on context, synonyms include ethnophyletism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include territorialism, clericalism, integralism, ecclesiology, ecumenism, ecumenicalism.

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