Christian Tradition: a History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2 The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700)

Name: Christian Tradition: a History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2 The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700)
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ISBN: 9780226653723

ISBN-10: 0226653722

ISBN-13: 9780226653723

Edition: 1974

Authors: Jaroslav Pelikan

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The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combined to isolate the two cultures from each other. Except for such episodes as the schism between East and West or the Crusades, the development of non-Western Christendom has been largely ignored by church historians. InThe Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Jaroslav Pelikan explains the divisions between Eastern and Western Christendom, and identifies and describes the development of the distinctive forms taken by Christian doctrine in its Greek, Syriac, and early Slavic expression. "It is a…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1974
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/1974
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 358
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Leon Horsten is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK.



Preface Primary Sources Ex Oriente Lux



The Authority of the Fathers


The Changeless Truth of Salvation


The Norms of Traditional Doctrine The Councils and Their Achievements Knowing the Unknowable



Union and Division in Christ Duality of Hypostases One Incarnate Nature of God the Logos Actions and Wills in Unison Christ the Universal Man



Images of the Invisible Images Graven and Ungraven Images as Idols Images as Icons


The Melody of Theology



The Challenge of the Latin Church


The Orthodoxy of Old Rome


The Foundation of Apostolic Polity


The Theological Origins of the Schism


The Filioque



The Vindication of Trinitarian Monotheism Trinity and Shema Evil and the God of Love


The One God—And His Prophet


The God of the Philosophers



The Last Flowering of Byzantine Orthodoxy


The Mystic as New Theologian


The Final Break with Western Doctrine


The Definition of Eastern Particularity


The Heir Apparent


Selected Secondary Works


Index: Biblical


Index: General