Beards, azymes, and purgatory : the other issues that divided East and West /

"Although the Filioque and the papacy are usually regarded as the questions that have caused the schism between Christian East and West, there were other issues (like the use of azymes, or unleavened bread, for the mass) that have greater claim to be the source of the division. For example, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siecienski, A. Edward (Anthony Edward) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in historical theology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I Beards :
  • 1. Beards in the biblical and patristic tradition
  • 2. Beards in the east-west polemic
  • II Azymes :
  • 3. Bread and leaven in the biblical and patristic tradition
  • 4. The azyme debate : the eleventh and twelfth centuries
  • 5. The azyme debate : the Fourth Crusade to the modern era
  • III Purgatory :
  • 6. Purgatory in the biblical and patristic tradition
  • 7. Purgatory in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • 8. Purgatory from Ferrara-Florence to modern times.