@Deplorable_Degenerate @bobbala @STP @Twig @c00p @inscius @BowsacNoodle @Bunsen @Thusnelda And lest the wider point disappear behind this concession; Traditional Ecclesiology holds that the True Church, the very Body of Christ, *will not* promulgate errors and heresies - such a belief is indeed a facet of the Deposit of Faith.
As such, if Rome were correct regarding Created Grace and the rejection of Hesychasm, it implies the entire shared ancient Tradition of the United Church was either in error (not possible), or that Heychasm and Uncreated Grace hadn’t *really* been part of The Deposit. So of course they had to go with that, while the entire Christian East preserved what obviously *is and has always been* the teaching of the Church on the subject.
In accordance with the aforementioned belief that the True Church will not promulgate error - it’s obvious to the Orthodox that Rome left the Church. And as such, the events that have followed over the centuries in The West are viewed through that lens.
This has positively enormous geopolitical implications, which very often don’t even warrant the slightest mention in The West. Why would it ?