Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory
The Other Issues that Divided East and West
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 January 2023
- ISBN 9780190065065
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 240x165x29 mm
- Weight 712 g
- Language English 272
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Short description:
In Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory A. Edward Siecienski argues that seemingly minor issues--the beardlessness of the Latin clergy, the Western use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist, and the doctrine of Purgatory--played a significant role in the schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of theology, from a dispute over the Nicene Creed to the question of the authority of the Pope. But while these issues are cited as the most important reasons for the split, they were not necessarily the issues that caused it. In Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory A. Edward Siecienski argues that other, seemingly minor issues also played a significant role in the schism.
Although rarely included in modern-day ecumenical dialogues, for centuries these "other issues"--the beardlessness of the Latin clergy, the Western use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist, and the doctrine of Purgatory--were among the most frequently cited reasons for the dispute between East and West. Disagreements about bread, beards, and the state of souls after death may not, at first, appear to be church-dividing issues, but they are the nevertheless among the reasons why the church today is divided. This was a schism over azymes long before it was a schism over the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, and the beardlessness of the Latin clergy was cited as a reason for breaking communion with the Latin Church prior to all the subsequent arguments about the wording of the Nicene Creed. To understand the schism between East and West, Siecienski contends, we must grasp not only the reasons it remains, but also the reasons it began.
Having published monographs on the Filioque and the Papacy, the most famous issues that divided East and West, Edward Siecienski now displays his mastery of the biblical, patristic, medieval, and modern literature on a trilogy of other issues that bitterly opposed medieval Greeks and Latins. Taking a broad chronological approach, yet with exceptional sensitivity to nuance, Siecienski offers a major contribution to Christian history that even the most obstinate will find ecumenically moving.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I - Beards
Chapter 1: Beards in the Biblical and Patristic Tradition
Chapter 2: Beards in the East-West Polemic
Part II - Azymes
Chapter 3: Bread and Leaven in the Biblical and Patristic Tradition
Chapter 4: The Azyme Debate: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Chapter 5: The Azyme Debate: The Fourth Crusade to the Modern Era
Part III - Purgatory
Chapter 6: Purgatory in the Biblical and Patristic Tradition
Chapter 7: Purgatory in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Chapter 8: Purgatory from Ferrara-Florence to Modern Times
