The Orthodox East never embraced the Lutheran notion that “identifies any participation of man in his salvation, any movement of human will and soul toward God, as a pagan distortion of Agape, as ‘Eros.’ And this attitude, this theological perspective will be the determining point for the rejection of monasticism and other forms of asceticism and spirituality so familiar to the Christian Church from its inception.”
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It's Complicated
The Orthodox East never embraced the Lutheran notion that “identifies any participation of man in his salvation, any movement of human will and soul toward God, as a pagan distortion of Agape, as ‘Eros.’ And this attitude, this theological perspective will be the determining point for the rejection of monasticism and other forms of asceticism and spirituality so familiar to the Christian Church from its inception.”