Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681–1071

by Andrew Louth

Publisher:

St Vladimir’s Seminary Press

, 2007

Overview

This volume gives an account of the Church in the period from the end of the Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 681 to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Although “Greek East” and “Latin West” are becoming distinct entities during this expanse of time, the author treats them in parallel, observing the points at which their destinies coincide or conflict and noting developments within the whole of the Church rather than striving simply, or even primarily, to explain the eventual schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Covering events both unique to each part (the Iconoclastic controversy in the East and the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the West) and common to each part (monastic reform, renaissance, and mission) the author skillfully portrays two Christian civilizations that share much in common yet become increasingly incomprehensible to one another. Despite curious synchronisms between East and West, the author demonstrates how two paths diverged from a once common route, and how eventually Byzantine Orthodoxy defined the Greek East over against the Latin West in theological, religious, cultural, and political terms.

Product Details

• Title: Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681–1071
• Author: Andrew Louth
• Series: The Church in History
• Volume: III
• Publisher: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church history › Middle Ages, 600-1500; Schism › Eastern and Western Church
• ISBNs: 9780881413205, 0881413208, 9780881412680, 0881412686
• Resource ID: LLS:GRKEASTLATWEST
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:54:25Z

About Andrew Louth

Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University, England, and visiting professor of Eastern Orthodox theology at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), in the Faculty of Theology, the Free University, Amsterdam. He is also a priest of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate), serving the parish in Durham. His recent publications include Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West, AD 681-1071, Maximus the Confessor and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.