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ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
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in the 18th. Meanwhile the German Protestants had made overtures to the Orthodox which came to nothing. The correspondence between the Patriarch Jeremias II and the Tübingen theologians is the most famous case. The English Non- jurors made equally futile proposals. But of late years especially the Orthodox authorities have been very friendly towards Anglicans, who alone do not try to proselytize in the East. On the other hand, the belief that they are the whole Church held by the Easterns seems to make any hope of corporate reunion between them and Anglicans impossible. Cyril Lukaris of Alexandria and Constantinople caused the greatest trouble during this period. He was a Protestantizer who wrote a purely Calvinist Confession. After the Sultan had killed him four councils, of which the most important was that at Jerusalem in 1672 under Dositheos, condemned his heresies.