I’m sure people have already recommended “Rock and Sand” by Fr. Josiah Trenham … a must read on the topic of EO and Reformed.
It includes the various attempts of Reformers and Eastern Orthodox to dialog, often unproductively but incredibly fruitful articulations of faith on both sides (also the tragedies of their failures to reconcile, all due to sin).
You’ll be particularly interested in the Confession of Cyril (EO patriarch advocating for Calvinism), and the Confession of Dositheus which is more or less a rebuttal, but fully articulates the EO positions (that were often misunderstood by the reformers).
rschristopher / R.S. Christopher
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