Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Procession of the Holy Spirit in the New
Testament
Chapter 2: The Greek Fathers
Chapter 3: The Latin West
Chapter 4: Maximus the Confessor
Chapter 5: The Filioque from the Seventh to the Eleventh
Century
Chapter 6: The Filioque from the Eleventh Century to the Thirteenth
Century
Chapter 7: The Council of Lyons to the Eve of Ferrara-Florence
Chapter 8: The Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39)
Chapter 9: From Florence to the Modern Era
Chapter 10: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Bibliography
A. Edward Siecienski is Associate Professor of Religion and Pappas Professor of Byzantine Culture and Religion at Stockton University.
"The tragic schism between Eastern Orthodoxy and Western
Christianity has for more than a millennium centered on the
doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit within the Trinity,
whether the Spirit proceeds from the Father, or from the Father and
the Son (Filioque), and in particular on the Western addition of
the phrase Filioque to the creed. It is a long and tangled
controversy which is traced in all its twists and turns with
admirable
clarity by Edward Siecienski in this fine book. Siecienski explores
the past and looks to the future. One of his more astonishing
revelations is that it is one of the earliest attempts at an
irenical approach to the
question-by the seventh-century monk and theologian, St Maximus the
Confessor-that holds out the best hopes in the present for a final
resolution of this controversy."
--Andrew Louth, Author of Greek East and Latin West: the Church ad
681-1071
"At last we have the history of the Filioque controversy from
beginning to end, free of confessional bias, engaging with both the
theology and the historical context. An admirable presentation of
the blend of Trinitarian theology, ecclesiastical rivalry, and
historical events that sustained (and sometimes still sustain) the
controversy, Siecienski's book should be required reading for
interested historians, theologians, and ecumenists. I have
wanted
this book for a long time and am thrilled to have it on my desk at
last."
--Tia Kolbaba, Author of Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and
the Filioque in the Ninth Century
"Siecienski excavates the intricacies of the Filioque controversy
with magisterial ability in this excellent study. He is equally
adept in telling us why the argument arose, and why it still
matters. This is a book that is bound to become an authoritative
classic on the subject."
--John A. McGuckin, Author of The Orthodox Church: Its History and
Spiritual Culture
"This is a hugely accessible, up-to-date survey of the field free
of the fog of polemic and bias."--Aristeides Papadakis, University
of Maryland-Baltimore County
"He writes gracefully and is remarkably free of the bias that
plagues most of the literature devoted to the filioque. We are in
his debt."--IRober M. Haddad, Smith College
"...I heartily recommend this volume to anyone who has been touched
by the issues surrounding the filioque, which in truth should be
all Christians."--Nick Norelli
"...the work will likely established itself as the best English
introduction to the topic."--John T. Slotemaker
"Beacause of th eclarity and brevity of its methodology and textual
analysis, The Filioque is destined to become a classic on the
subject for decades to come."--Bradley Nassif, Church History
"Edward Siecienski has written a valuable history of the doctrinal
controversy of the filioque, the Western addition to the Creed of
Constantinople I (381) meaning that the Holy Spirit proceeds from
the Father and the Son. Siecienski says that his book "is, first
and foremost, a theological work" (vii). He gives not merely a
review of the evidence from one of the longest and most complicated
disputes in Christian history, but an explicit
theological interpretation that will illuminate and challenge a
spectrum of interested readers."--The Thomist
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