Crisis in Byzantium: The Filioque Controversy in the Patriarchate of Gregory II of Cyprus (1283-1289)

by Aristeides Papadakis

Book Overview

The Filioque (and the Son) controversy, about the words of the creed - that the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father (and the Son) led to the final split between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Of the early attempts to heal the schism between the Byzantine and Western churches, none is as famous as the Council of Lyons, 1274. Less familiar is the Byzantine reaction that followed in the patriachate of Gregory of Cyprus, when the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881411760
• ISBN13: 9780881411768
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.