Different temperament and intellectual disposition

February 18th, 2010 by admin

The symbolic rendezvous for the breakup betwixt the Eastern Church (Constantinople) and the Western Church (Rome) is 1054. Different temperament and intellectual disposition between contemporary theologians like Tertullian of Carthage and Clement of Alexandria were traits that eventually described the thoughts of 2 distinct merely complementary religious cultures. The Eastern Church sharply disagreed when the Western Church innovated into the Nicene Creed the doctrine that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the Father only ? the traditionalistic view of the early Church Fathers ? however from the Father and the Son (Latin: filoque). When the Roman Realm divided into two zones, Latin speaking Rome began to claim superiority completed Greek-speaking Constantinople; disputes arose finished church restrictions and find, for instance in Illyricum and Bulgaria. Rivalry produced in Slavic regions betwixt Latin missionaries from the west and Byzantine from the east who regarded the territory to be orthodox. Islam also strained relations. New matters which ignited the friction related to worship and church discipline, for instance married clergy (Orthodox) versus celibacy (Roman Catholic) and regulations of fasting Church history . Tensions become a schism in 1054 when the uncompromising patriarch of Constantinople, Cerularius, and envoys of the uncompromising Pope Leo IX communicated each another. Nothing acct of separation was well though of at this period. Crusades, religious wars by Christians to rescue the Holy Land sealed the schism. The Fourth Crusade (1204) was diverted to attack and plunder Constantinople during which Orthodox Christians were murdered, and churches and icons desecrated. The Holy Land was not won. Islam was not permanently checked. The insolent act of popes in establishing Latin patriarchates in the east intensified the conflict.

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