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Finally, the person who refuses submission to the Roman Pontiff, whom Vatican I defined as having a universal primacy of authority over the whole Church, is at least a material schismatic. It was thus common in the past to speak of the schismatic Orthodox Churches who broke with Rome in 1054.
Aug 30, 2022 · There are also many books, including Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Father Andrew Stephen Damick, that can help you learn more about the differences between Orthodoxy and Western Christianity. Ultimately, the best way to make an informed decision is to commit to visiting an Orthodox parish near you to experience the services and speak to the ...
There is indeed a difference ,sadly. The Eastern believe in two wills of the incarnated Son, while the Oriental believe in one will, and that (if you are asking me) is greatly a reason for schism, that means that either the Oriental have the "Fully Human" definition wrong, or that Eastern got it wrong ,and for either cases there must be someone who is wrong and someone who is right!
That's a huge difference. Building on that, western Christianity is very Augustinian when Orthodoxy is not. On both counts Orthodoxy just has a different shared history, a different sense of what to prioritize as "the tradition." To get more critical, I dislike how Orthodoxy in general refuses to admit that anything Protestant can be good.
Christianity began to flourish in the Roman Empire just as the Western Empire was declining and power was shifting to the Eastern Capital of Byzantium. The result was an ever growing linguistic, cultural, and political divide between the Pontiff of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople (nee Byzantium) and those churches who respectively ...
We should point out that there is a difference in terminology between St. Paul and the Fathers. What St. Paul calls the nous is the same as what the Fathers call dianoia. When the Apostle Paul says, "I will pray with the spirit,"[1] he means what the Fathers mean when they say, "I will pray with the nous."
We know that the Son's hypostatic properties are those unique to Him. So "being begotten from the Father" also means "manifesting the Holy Spirit" and "becoming incarnate as Jesus Christ", and the Son is second in the divine taxis. And likewise, for the Holy Spirit, "proceeding from the Father" also means "resting upon the Son" and "being ...
