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Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory - The Other Issues that Divided East and West (Hardcover)
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Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory - The Other Issues that Divided East and West (Hardcover)
Series: OXFORD STU IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY SERIES
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The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a
thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of
theology, from a dispute over the Nicene Creed to the question of
the authority of the Pope. But while these issues are cited as the
most important reasons for the split, they were not necessarily the
issues that caused it. In Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory A. Edward
Siecienski argues that other, seemingly minor issues also played a
significant role in the schism. Although rarely included in
modern-day ecumenical dialogues, for centuries these "other
issues"-the beardlessness of the Latin clergy, the Western use of
unleavened bread in the Eucharist, and the doctrine of
Purgatory-were among the most frequently cited reasons for the
dispute between East and West. Disagreements about bread, beards,
and the state of souls after death may not, at first, appear to be
church-dividing issues, but they are the nevertheless among the
reasons why the church today is divided. This was a schism over
azymes long before it was a schism over the primacy of the Bishop
of Rome, and the beardlessness of the Latin clergy was cited as a
reason for breaking communion with the Latin Church prior to all
the subsequent arguments about the wording of the Nicene Creed. To
understand the schism between East and West, Siecienski contends,
we must grasp not only the reasons it remains, but also the reasons
it began.
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