patristic heritage of the time when the Roman Patriarchate located in prayerful communion with the Eastern churches, and represented with a single church. After breaking away from Orthodoxy, Catholicism, has created a different mental and spiritual field, where the same term has acquired a different semantics and sound. Therefore, verbal coincidences can not speak about Catholic influence, and even more about Catholic “Captivity”.
The prosecution of the Orthodox Church in the okatolichenii has similar charges sectarian Protestant persuasion who are trying to prove that the Church has preserved the purity of faith only to the 3-4-th century and then began to make extensive borrowing from paganism, with the result that the Orthodox should look like the Gentiles, and to send them missionaries to bring them back to the apostolic faith. In fact, Orthodox theologians used the legacy of pagan philosophy, as prevailing philosophical language, with the rethinking of ancient terminology, to adapt it to the needs of the Church, to refine and differentiate it. As for the symbolic ritual, the symbol represents a stable, connecting the sign, so the characters of all peoples and religions have another similarity.
Let me quote one example: When the Europeans entered the Siamese kingdom, then were surprised to see that in Buddhist temples are lit candles and lamps, there is consecrated water, burned incense, so that between the rituals and symbols of distant from each other religions there is a certain analogy, of course, when the difference of content. The ancient heritage used by Fathers of the Church, represented ore, thrown into a blast furnace, which implies processed and refined metal. Particularly aggressive attack by the