James Loukidis books

[Paul_theApostle]

Has anybody here read or purchased James Louk… books “Ending Byzan. Schism”

and “Divine Primacy of Bishop…”

are they worth buying and are they any good?

James Louk… told me himself that reading them will help increase my faith in the Catholic church
(as i struggle between EO and RC)

 

[Tradycja]

I have both and they are definitely worth it. Likoudis is a really good writer. He’s not such a good speaker. I’ve seen some of his spots on EWTN and they were, in my opinion, lame.

The books are really good though. “Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism” is basically a translation of the writings of Dymetrious Kydones, a secretary of the Byzantine Emperor who converted to Catholicism. The “Divine Primacy…” has some interesting considerations on the filioque controversy.

 

[the_phoenix]

Haven’t read the books, but James Likoudis was a close friend of my father’s while my father was alive. I can even remember Mr. Likoudis coming to visit our family when I was really young. (I grew up in Western New York.) So I’ll be happy to vouch for his character.

~~ the phoenix

 

[Tradycja]

Some people on here will attack Likoudis. That’s just because there is some liberalism in some Eastern Catholic Churches with priests basically preaching that there is NO difference between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox or that the Unions were “just political”. It’s not surprising that I know of three Latins who went to such Eastern Catholic Churches and now they are Old Calendrist Orthodox.

Bishop Roman Danylak, of Blessed Memory, wrote a lot of good articles on “uniatism” and such.

His website can be accessed through a web archiver:

web.archive.org/web/20040421061241/http://www.heartofjesus.ca/sitemap.htm

 

[Schism_hater]

I read “Ending the Byzantine Schism” when I was trying to choose between being RC and Orthodox. It made some good points, but overall I found it simplistic and polemical. In particular, I felt it gave the Orthodox point of view very short shrift. If anything, it probably pushed me toward becoming Orthodox.

 

[Cavaradossi]

What I have read of his was not all that impressive. Perhaps his books are more well researched, but some of his stuff on the internet comes of as being rather unconvincing and not well thought out.

 

[ComeHome2Rome]

Has anybody here read or purchased James Louk… books “Ending Byzan. Schism”

and “Divine Primacy of Bishop…”

are they worth buying and are they any good?

James Louk… told me himself that reading them will help increase my faith in the Catholic church
(as i struggle between EO and RC)

I have both of those books. I am now Orthodox.

In Likoudis’ The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the Church, the Preface to the Second Edition starts off with

*“Some of the material contained in this 2nd edition originally appeared as a reply to the book “Two Paths: Papal Monarchy-Collegial Tradition” (Regina Orthodox Press, 1998) by Michael Whelton (a former British Catholic now living in Canada) to justify his abandoning the Catholic Church and joining the Eastern Orthodox communion.” *

and in this book under Letter 40 on page 135 & 136 Likoudis wrote:

"He even devoted an entire Chapter of his book to prove that Papal infallibility could not have been the invariable belief of the Catholic Church since a number of the 19th c. Catechisms (which he dutifully quotes) specifically claimed the notion of Papal infallibility was evidence of Protestant deceit or ignorance. Thus, he concluded that it was not “an article of faith that the universal church has always confessed.”…The Catechisms quoted by M. Whelton stated the truth. Papal infallibility was not then an “article of faith”. To allege, as some Protestant divines did, that it was, was to state a falsehood."

The back of the book, says copies are $27.95 (includes S&H) and may be ordered directly from the author:

James Likoudis
PO Box 852
Montour Falls, N.Y. 14865

 

[theistgal]

Just out of curiosity, how is your user name connected to your being Orthodox?

 

[Peter_J]

Some people on here will attack Likoudis. That’s just because there is some liberalism in some Eastern Catholic Churches with priests basically preaching that there is NO difference between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox
…

For what it’s worth, I think the people who say such things annoy the Orthodox just as much as they annoy you or me (if not more).

 

[theistgal]

Some people on here will attack Likoudis. That’s just because there is some liberalism in some Eastern Catholic Churches with priests basically preaching that there is NO difference between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox or that the Unions were “just political”. It’s not surprising that I know of three Latins who went to such Eastern Catholic Churches and now they are Old Calendrist Orthodox.

Bishop Roman Danylak, of Blessed Memory, wrote a lot of good articles on “uniatism” and such.

His website can be accessed through a web archiver:

web.archive.org/web/20040421061241/http://www.heartofjesus.ca/sitemap.htm

That website seems to be promoting some unapproved apparitions.