Fr Sergius is indeed a kind of modern Origen - brilliant, combative, insanely erudite, visionary, occasionally daft, and intoxicated by Jesus. I don't know that either of 'em are heretics in the strict sense, though they do go rogue in the more speculative flights. Those flights, though, are offered in service to the Church of Jesus Christ, and thus motivated by love and not a desire to divide the Body. So, all in all, I'd say they're both great servants of the Church. When and if they erred, they did so for the right reasons. I wish all of us had the intellectual, moral, and spiritual courage and ardor these two Fathers manifest in even their minor works.
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