There are too many problems with this characterisation to go into here, but the one major problem I want to point out is this: Romanides desperately wants to make it clear that God did not create death as a punishment, that instead death is the dominion of the devil who is at war with God. The East, instead, sources evil and death in Satan, rather than in God (as he understands the West to do), and God is primarily free in his essence while attributes such as love are uncreated energies. in his nature all lead to notions of original sin. Romanides argues that the West's understanding of created grace, evil as privation of the good, the analogia entis in Thomas, and God being love, good, etc. Romanides main point seems to be to show how the West is woefully wrong concerning sin and death (sinfully wrong, perhaps) and how the East contains only the right vision. This book is a primarily unhelpful polemic from start to finish.
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