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These have recently come to the attention of the mainstream secular newsmedia in Egypt (see, for example, [http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5787 this Egyptian newspaper article in English published on 23 February 2007]). More recently a book entitled [http://www.light-n-life.com/shopping/order_product.asp?ProductNum=OZAC100 ''Orthodoxy: A Creed for Today'' (1972)] by the Very Rev. Fr. [[Anthony M. Coniaris]] (1972) has been banned by the Holy Synod of the Coptic Church presided by Pope Shenouda III on 26 May 2007, as it discusses the Orthodox concept of [[theosis]], which was considered to be against Pope Shenouda's teachings.^{[http://www.copticpope.org/keraza351920/page1.jpg]} Wikipedia has further details about the subject.^{[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pope_Shenouda_III_of_Alexandria&oldid=132559251#Theological_disputes]} Some learned observers have attributed Pope Shenouda's decades-long theological disputes with different Coptic theologians (like the late Father [[Matta El-Meskeen]]) to personal and ecclesiastico-political motives, rather than to any genuine doctrinal flaws or deviations from Orthodoxy in the writings of these theologians.