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On Michael Cerularius

Posted in Articles, Church History, East/West, Ecclesiology, Filioque, Polemicism, Primacy, Sacraments on November 9, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I am proud to feature this interesting article by Catholic friend of the blog and frequent commenter, Michaël de Verteuil –
Of the two Patriarchs of Constantinople most closely associated with the East-West schism, Michael Cerularius (Keroularios) is clearly the lesser figure in Orthodoxy. Unlike Photius, Michael was not a great scholar and was not declared [...]

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‘Not an Anthologist: John Bekkos as a Reader of the Fathers’

Posted in Articles, Church History, East/West, Ecclesiology, Fathers, Filioque, Links, Orthodox Ecumenism, Polemicism, Quotes, Reunion, Rome, Saints, Schism, Theology, dogma on October 30, 2009 | 97 Comments »

From my favorite Orthodox blog, Prof. Peter Gilbert’s De Unione Ecclesiarum –
I finally have some good news to report. Today I received an e-mail from the Managing Editor of the journal Communio, informing me that the Summer 2009 issue is now, at last, in print, and that they have decided to feature my article on [...]

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A Tractarian perspective

Posted in Anglican, Church History, Communio in sacris, Ecclesiology, Filioque, Polemicism, Primacy, Reunion, Rome, Sacraments, Schism on August 24, 2009 | 61 Comments »

On the Present Apparent Conflict Between “Orthodoxy” and “Catholicism
From Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the “Orthodox” or “Eastern-Catholic” Communion (1853), by William Palmer, M.A., Fellow of St. Mary Magdalene College, Oxford, and Deacon.
As there is one God and Father, one Lord Jesus Christ, one Holy Ghost, and one Baptism, so also there is One Body [...]

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Pistevo eis ena Theon

Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, Filioque, Links, News, Orthodox Ecumenism, Rome, Theology, dogma on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Listen to Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recite the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 together in Greek (thanks to Fr Z).

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When theology becomes ideology

Posted in Church History, East/West, Fathers, Filioque, Orthodox Ecumenism, Polemicism, Quotes, Schism, Theology on June 29, 2008 | 39 Comments »

… [T]he reading of history that you have taken on from Joseph Farrell, that I think constitutes an ideology, in fact resembles, theoretically and rhetorically, the ideology of those who gave fuel to the Bosnian war. It presents a discourse wherein the West is conceived to have fallen from divine grace, and the chief villain [...]

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Filioquextravaganza

Posted in East/West, Fathers, Filioque, Links, Theology, dogma on June 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »

(Apologies for the cheesy title.)
Recently on some of my favorite blogs, there have been some excellent rebuttals to Orthodox contentions about the Filioque clause and the Procession of the Holy Spirit.
First, Sacramentum Vitae’s Dr Michael Liccione (a veteran of irenic, scholarly, substantive online Catholic-Orthodox debate) has added a new installment to an ever-growing series of posts [...]

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