by Timothy Flanders | Aug 28, 2021 | Greek schism, Reference
Holy Father (How God saved a soul from the Greek Schism) I Left Eastern Orthodoxy for the Church Led by Pope Francis, and I Don’t Regret It The Filioque: Again and Again on Bended Knee Palamas and Aquinas: the Metaphysical Wordwebs of the Athenians Ten Lessons for the...
by Timothy Flanders | Oct 10, 2020 | Greek schism
Two views: David Bradshaw and W. N. Williams By Timothy S. Flanders The Epistemology of Language and the Pentecostal Church In the year of our Lord 565, the emperor (St.) Justinian died. This man is loved by Chalcedonian Orthodox for his imperial piety, hated by Latin...
by Timothy Flanders | Apr 4, 2020 | Greek schism
BRETHREN IN CHRIST: To Sedes and polemical Eastern Orthodox [1] – your manner of disputing on the internet follows this general pattern: 1. You have not sufficiently studied the subject under dispute. Ex: Sedes, you have never read Torquemada or Cajetan on the...
by Timothy Flanders | Sep 25, 2019 | Greek schism
The following theses are an elaboration on our first theses on this subject, attempting to explain, from a history of doctrine perspective, the reason for the Greek schism. 1. Every tradition of doctrine within Sacred Tradition has its Fathers. The Assyrians have the...
by Timothy Flanders | Jul 5, 2019 | Greek schism
When the Nicene Creed was translated into Latin, a total of three interpolations were inserted into the text. Deum de Deo. The Greek text has φῶς ἐκ φωτός, Θεὸν ἀληθινὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ “Light from Light, True God from True God.” But the Latin inserts the...
by Timothy Flanders | Jun 18, 2019 | Greek schism
The Latin Church, centered at Rome, gradually lost Greek due to historical reasons. However, the Greek and Latin Fathers were always understood to be of equal authority. We see this in St. Thomas, whose Catena Aurea quotes freely from all Fathers Greek and Latin....
by Timothy Flanders | Jun 11, 2019 | Greek schism
One Peter Five has been gracious enough to publish my short apologia against the Greek Schism. I will have a follow up essay which will be longer to expand on many of the issues presented here. In Christ, Timothy S....
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | Greek schism
The Council of Florence is a nebulous thing. It took place at the climax of two historical epochs—the western struggle through schism and civil war and the eastern struggle through civil war and Turkish invasions. The divisions that these epochs led to—the western...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. Since 1964 and before, the near-longest division in the history of the Church—between the Chalcedonian Orthodox and the Miaphysites, dated from c. 500—has had promising developments. These...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
This post was originally published here where the original comments are retained. It was written in 2012 when I was Eastern Orthodox, but before I had come to the conclusion that I was in schism (and there are other views expressed I may no longer hold). For an...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
The Procession of the All-Holy Spirit – Again and Again on Bended Knee If any man studies the Greek schism, it is inevitable that the wearying question of the Filioque will need to be addressed. I always dread this, not because of its divisive nature per se, but...
