The Holy Fathers reckoned that the pagan world was not excluded by the design of God from the circle of divine care. Although not having supernatural Revelation, the pagan world was not deprived of *natural revelation*. With the correct use of the natural abilities of his spirit, man can have definite knowledge of God, of the world, and of himself. In addition, having an innate idea of God in his mind and an inborn knowledge of the Divine Will in his conscience, man was capable of realizing the limits of his knowledge and, by a spiritual renunciation, was capable of looking for aid from above. However, paganism did not utilize all the possibilities of *natural religious development*. Pagan religion could have been considerably higher and purer than it was in fact.

Therefore, the Apostle Paul regards as answerable before the countenance of divine truth not only the Hebrews, who had the law given through supernatural revelation, but also the pagans, who, while not having the same revelation, were not left without *natural means of knowing God*.

Revelation was accomplished gradually. The Lord did not reveal Himself and His will at once. In the beginning, through miraculous and wonderful phenomena of nature and its laws, He gave the so-called *natural revelation*. Then He gave the supernatural revelation by means of spiritual prophets and through miraculous events in man's history, and, finally, He gave the full Revelation of good tidings in the Son, the God-Man, Christ.

— Ivan M. Andreyev, Orthodox Apologetic Theology

old ROCOR and Catacomb Church writer admits natural theology/revelation

☦️ - The Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia issues an official statement on controversial anti-Jewish monk Brother Nathanael, disavowing his remarks.

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Imagine putting an image of a nun on a "hot-holy matrix."

"In the 1990s and later, it was criticized by some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church for ecclesiastical modernism and ecumenism, which was initially largely due to the perception of Metropolitan Kirill as one of the disciples and successors of the work of Metropolitan Nicodemus (Rotov). , as well as the liturgical features he practiced, which the conservative part of the Church associated with Renovationism: the liturgical reading of the Holy Scriptures in Russian translation, the reading of "secret prayers" loudly, the selective "Russification" of ordinals, and so on.

Since the second half of the 1990s, Metropolitan Kirill has tried to present himself as an enlightened patriot and champion of traditional values. As a result, the socio-political assessment of him in the secular media in the 2000s is completely different: he is called "the leader of Russian neoconservative thought", the restorer of the Moscow-Third Rome idea. He began to be regarded by society as a politician and one of the likely candidates for the Patriarchal Throne"

- Russian Wiki on Kirill