books.google.ca - For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the New Rome,or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper rifts, characterized by a long history of conflicts,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Byzantine_theology.html?id=GoVeDXMvY-8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareByzantine theology