The Synod of Jerusalem – AD1672 – The Confession Of Dositheus: An Orthodox Response To Calvinist Ideas

(Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672) Context of This Confession A Synod of Eastern Orthodox Churches was called in Jerusalem in 1672 to refute the position of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had published a Confession in which he attempted to express Orthodox beliefs in terms of the predestination beliefs of Calvinism. From a …