Only in line with dogma
The principle of oikonomia [“flexibility”]
is conditioned by theology and can never touch the substance of faith, go
against dogma, or compromise with the truth. In other words, in matters of
faith and doctrine, akribia [“exactness”] <<alone is
valid>>. If not, okonomia would supercede the dogmas of the Church
rather than preserve them, and become apostasia (apostasy). In
Orthodoxy, this condition is so important that some consider it the only
<<necessary presupposition>> concerning the exercise of oikonomia.
(Kevin Schembri, Oikonomia, Divorce and Remarriage in the Eastern Orthodox
Tradition [Kanonika 23; Valore, Italy: Pontificio Instituto Orientale,
2017], 113, comments in square brackets added for clarification [cf. p. 75])
