Christianity: the East/West Divide
Christianity: the East/West Divide

Author: Cyril Bowman

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-05

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781520642291

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Summary - Christianity has been largely driven out of the Middle-East and is in crises in the West. Church attendances are at an all-time low. Christianity was governed for the first millennium by five Senior Patriarchs. The Great Schism separated Rome from the other Patriarchs. The seeds that led to that Schism were the same that caused the later splintering of Christianity from the 16th century. Today, few Christians know anything of the 41 Eastern Churches, all founded by one of the apostles, even though 22 are in union with Rome and 15 in union with Constantinople.Very few Christians are aware of the Eastern Churches or of the details that gave rise to the Great Schism. This book is intended to bridge that knowledge gap. I believe the reuniting of Orthodox and Catholic could be the catalyst needed for the return of all to the single Christian Community of the first millennium.

The Schism Of 1054
The Schism Of 1054

Author: Leighann Novara

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-16

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13:

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East-West Schism, also called Schism of 1054, event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the Western church (led by Pope Leo IX). This book including: -Brief History of Christianity Unity, growth, diversity and division -Catholic and Orthodox Churches Beliefs, sacraments and liturgy -The Irish Celtic Church East and West -Expansion of Catholic and Orthodox Churches and their different modes of interaction in Society Papal States, Catholic, Liberation Theology and Orthodox -Church architecture, Art and Music Catholic, Orthodox, Chant and Religious Icons -Orthodox, Catholic and Oriental Church Families

Beyond the East-West Divide
Beyond the East-West Divide

Author: Anna Marie Aagaard

Publisher: World Council of Churches

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Orthodox participation in the World Council of Churches has always been a paradox -- enthusiastically committed and yet plagued by complaints. This situation has lately reached crisis proportions: two Orthodox churches have withdrawn their membership; more threaten to follow. Is this an 'Orthodox problem'? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with the ecumenical machinery? In this book, two theologians -- one an Orthodox and one a Lutheran -- engage in an extended dialogue to illumine some of the issues and possible ways forward. The issues they discuss fall squarely within the agenda of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC, which was created in Harare in 1998.

East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church
East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church

Author: Henry Chadwick

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780199280162

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The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox, which is still apparent today. Henry Chadwick provides a compelling and balanced account of the emergence of divisions between Rome and Constantinople. Starting with the roots of the divergence in Apostolic times, he takes the story right up to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century.

The Issues That Divide Christians
The Issues That Divide Christians

Author: Christopher Phillips

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-02-28

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1469105659

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?The Issues That Divide Christians?, is about specific issues in America that Christopher feels has divided Christians and has kept Christians apart and not walking in unity. Christopher wrote the book after having what he feels being spoken to in a dream by God and then, went to writing the book. In ?The Issues That Divide Christians?, Christopher talks about issues such as abortion, homosexuality, politics, racism, and other issues that not only America is divided over, but, also, Christians, who are supposed to be The Body of Christ. Christopher?s hope and prayer is by discussing what the Bible says about these specific issues, then Christians can walk in unity and together change America with the truth of God?s word.

Aristotle East and West
Aristotle East and West

Author: David Bradshaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-12-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781139455800

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This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.

The Rise of Western Christendom
The Rise of Western Christendom

Author: Peter Brown

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1118338847

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This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

Religion and Political Power
Religion and Political Power

Author: Gustavo Benavides

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1989-07-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780791400272

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This book explores the interaction between two of the most charged topics in the modern world, religion and politics. It shows the inextricable connection between religious attitudes and representations, and political activities. After an introductory chapter explores theoretically the religious articulations of political power, the authors examine the role played by religion in the current political situation in several countries. Approaching these cases as anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists, the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political power—on the one hand, the political significance of religious choices, and on the other, the almost unavoidable need to articulate in religious terms a group’s attempt to acquire, maintain, or expand political power.