SEPARATION OF THE WEST (R.C.) AND THE EAST (E.O.)

SEPARATION OF THE WEST (R.C.) AND THE EAST (E.O.)

 

1. Debate on the use of Image: The final debate on Christology (259-260)

* The case of the early church (259)

* The clash between "iconoclasts" (West) and "iconodules" (East) (260)

* The result and later influence (260-1)

 

 

2. The Separation of the West and the East (Eastern Orthodox Church)

* The Eastern Christianity after Chalcedon and Arab conquest (262)

* The new direction of the Christian expansion to the North-Eastern Europe (the Slaves) (263-4)

* Mission to Russia (264)

* "Filioque" (and from the Son) controversy (264-5)

* The final schism in 1054 (265)

# The History of the Divisions(?) of the Churches

ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH

(From Jerusalem to The Council of Nicea)

The church of Roman Empire The Church of the East [451]

(Europe) (Asia)

Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodoxy [1054] Nestorians Monophysites

(Western Europe) (Eastern Europe) (Persia) (Syria)

Roman Catholic Church The Protestants [16th Century] almost disappeared

(South-Western Europe) (North-Western Europe)

Lutheran Reformed Anglican Anabaptists Return from the West

Various denominations