By normal mainstream standards "liberal Orthodox" equals to "fundamentalist", "medieval" and other sucn beautiful adjectives.
Wrong. Liberal Orthodox mean dispensing with tradition, textual criticism, new calendar, abbreviated liturgies and the like. In other words, Protestants with censers.
I don't agree that the bolded = liberal Orthodox.
Liberal Orthodox = dispensing with Tradition and doctrine, abbreviated/speedy liturgies, feeling that we and _____ heterodox group are the same, rejection of Church Fathers & Saints as antiquated, belief that the Orthodox Church is just one denomination, one ethnic branch of Christianity, belief that Church attendance isn't necessary
Conservative Orthodox = strict adherence to tradition & Tradition, belief that lengthy Liturgies is more holy, feeling that _____ heterodox group are totally fallen from grace, prooftexting Church Fathers & Scripture, belief that even little, new traditions are God-inspired and unquestionable, belief that the Church Fathers & Saints are the answer to every question, belief that all should adhere to and read the 19th C. Philokalia and other monastic texts, belief that frequent Church attendance is compulsory and absolutely necessary for salvation.
Basically this is how I see Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxy as it really is, with the inner line representing Orthodoxy:
|-Con-|--------------------Mainstream/Moderate--------------------|-Lib-|
With conservatives & liberals (on the extreme ends that is) not representing Orthodoxy, but non-radical conservatives, moderates and non-radical liberals all being Orthodox with moderate/mainstream Orthodoxy being the norm.
This is how Conservatives see the line of Orthodoxy:
|-------------------------Conservative-------------------------|-Lib-|
That "conservative Orthodox" see themselves as true Orthodox and everyone else as liberals.
How Liberals see the line being drawn:
|--------Con--------Mod--------Lib--------|
"liberal Orthodox" see everyone being equally Orthodox, but that everyone eventually will become Liberal with the passage of time.