The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy

By Aristeides Papadakis, John Meyendorff,

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This text explores the history of the Eastern Church, spreading from Byzantium to the Orthodox Churches of the Balkans and Russia. It also examines the native Eastern Churches of Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia and Georgia, and in the process exposes the many factors which contributed to the Christian disunity in…

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1 author picked The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The separation of Christianity into a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox branch is a topic that conventionally has not received extensive treatment in Western scholarship.

The history of the relationship between these two branches of Christianity is also conventionally narrated from within Western lenses.

In this regard, this book is an invaluable corrective: It describes four critical and formative centuries of religious history from within the viewpoint of Orthodox Christianity.

It is an authoritative, indispensable study for understanding historical events (such as the Crusades and the Great Schism) from a perspective quite different from conventional Western histories of Christianity.

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