Childhood and education Augustine at the School of Souk Ahras,Thagaste" by Benozzo GozzoliAugustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria) in Roman Africa. His mother, ...
According to Orthodox theology, the purpose of the Christian life is to attain theosis, the mystical union of mankind with God. This union is understood as both collective and individual. St. Athanasi ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also referred to as the Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy, identifies itself as the present-day continuation of the theolog ...
Modern Orthodox theological scholarship is split, according to William La Due, between a group of scholars that hold to a "strict traditionalism going back to Photius" and other scholars "not so adama ...
Widespread use of the Filioque in the West led to controversy with envoys of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine V at a synod held at Gentilly in 767. The use of Filioque was defended by Saint Paulinus ...
There are two separate issues in the Filioque controversy: the orthodoxy of the doctrine itself and the legitimacy of inserting the phrase into the Nicene Creed. Although the debate over the orthodoxy ...
Patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church have shown a willingness to work with successive Popes of the Catholic Church in joint ecumenical efforts. A Joint Theological Commission meets regularly to i ...
The primary causes of the schism were disputes over conflicting claims of jurisdiction, in particular over papal authority—Pope Leo IX claimed he held authority over the four Eastern patriarchs— and ...
The schism between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean Christians resulted from a variety of political, cultural and theological factors which transpired over centuries. Historians regard the mutual ...
The first recorded objection by a representative of Eastern Christianity against the Western belief that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son occurred when Patriarch Paul II of Constan ...
There are two separate issues in the Filioque controversy: the orthodoxy of the doctrine itself and the legitimacy of inserting the phrase into the Nicene Creed. Although the debate over the orthodoxy ...
Statue of St. Paul in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran by Pierre-?tienne Monnot.Of the 27 books in the New Testament, 14 have been attributed to Paul; 7 of these are widely considered authentic a ...
The main source for information about Paul's life is the material found in his epistles and in the book of Acts. However, these epistles contain little information about Paul's past. The book of Acts ...
In Christian theism (to be accurate "Classical theism"), God is simple, not composite, not made up of thing upon thing. Thomas Morris notes that divine simplicity can mean any or all of three differen ...
Hilary was born at Poitiers either at the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 4th century A.D.. His parents were pagans of distinction. He received a good education, including what had even then become ...
