"A detailed and critical survey of a complex subject....A bold thesis." -- The Spectator One often hears that, in Christian antiquity the Pope came to prominence in the West as a unifying force, but that he was in the East honored only as "first among equals," without being accorded any sort of primacy of authority. S. Herbert Scott argues that the history is not nearly so clean as that. In this book, he probes the historical record, sifting the controversies...