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Archive for the ‘Filioque’ Category

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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