The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the
eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of
eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of
eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning
towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic
question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»