phyletismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Greek φυλετισμός (fyletismós), from φυλέτης (fylétis, “tribesman”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”).

名詞

phyletism (uncountable)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.

   Synonym: ethnophyletism

   • 1977 May, John Meyendorff, “Blind Phyletism”, in The Vision of Unity, published 1987, →ISBN, page 77:

     Its progress in the past years shows that the heresy of phyletism is bound to rescind and that all those who really desire Orthodox unity—without losing anything which is precious and positive in their ethnic traditions—will join us in our common Orthodox witness to the world of today.

   • 2017, A. Edward Siecienski, The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate, →ISBN, page 375:

     [Soloviev] lamented that phyletism, the division of the church along ethnic, national, or linguistic lines, had become Orthodoxy’s governing ecclesiology despite its official condemnation in 1872.

関連する語

• phyle, phyletic