Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions

Year 1989
Type Book
Genre church history
Tradition Eastern Orthodox
Original language English

For For students and serious readers of church history from Chalcedon to the Sixth Council; a substantial textbook, not light reading.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher: 5 of 5 essential
Difficulty: 4 of 5 hard

A history of the Church from 450 to 680: the councils, the Christological schisms, and the empire's struggle to hold Christians together.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 2 of 5
Scriptural 1 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 4 of 5
Historical 5 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The second volume of St Vladimir's Seminary Press's series The Church in History, published in 1989 (402 pages) and in French by Cerf in 1992 as Unité de l'Empire et divisions des chrétiens. It covers the expansion of Christianity in East and West in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries and the debates over the identity of Christ that the ecumenical councils settled in their decrees but that left Christendom divided. Its stated aim is a fairer balance between Eastern and Western perspectives than church-history textbooks usually give. It was his last large book published in his lifetime.

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Catalog IDW.1500VV.7

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