Editing Old Calendarists (section)

== Categories ==
There exists two trends within Old Calendarism. The first one is "resistance Old Calendarism", the second is "[[Fundamentalism|integrist]] Old Calendarism".<ref name=":122" />

The first position "expresses resistance to what it sees as unlawful innovation and walls itself off from churches using the [[Revised Julian calendar|new calendar]] and compromised by what is seen as the [[Heresy in Christianity|heresy]] of [[ecumenism]]. It refuses, however, to condemn the [[Rite (Christianity)|rites]] and [[sacraments]] of New Calendarists as devoid of [[Grace in Christianity|grace]], and seeks by witness and courteous dialogue to draw the [Eastern] Orthodox majority to its traditionalist outlook." This trend is to be found for example in among the [[True Orthodox]] of Cyprianite stance.<ref name=":122" />

The second position "rejects all [[New Calendarist]] churches, all those in [[Koinonia|communion]] with New Calendarists and all who refuse to reject the sacraments of the New Calendarists as outside the [Eastern] Orthodox Church and therefore as having sacraments devoid of grace." Churches which hold this position "see themselves as the surviving [Eastern] Orthodox church, maintaining the integrity of [Eastern] Orthodox tradition in the face of massive apostasy." This trend is to be found for example in the Old Calendarist churches of the Matthewite succession.<ref name=":122" />

In 1999, it was noted that "a more recent cause of division, especially among Matthewites, is the [[icon]] of the [[Holy Trinity]] portraying God the Father as "the Ancient of Days": some Old Calendarists reject the icon, others reject the rejecters as [[Iconoclasm|iconoclasts]]."<ref name=":2" />