His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism Between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

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Euclid University Press, 2007 - Religion - 448 pages
A comprehensive, objective, scholarly and yet easy-to-read presentation of the differences, both historical, theological and liturgical between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The ideal complement (or even antidote) to such books as Upon this Rock; Jesus, Peter and the Keys; Two Paths; The Primacy of Peter; etc. Discusses Peter's Primacy and Succession, Ecclesiology, Infallibility, the Filioque, Celibacy, etc.
 

Contents

NOTE________________________________________________21
22
TERMINOLOGY______________________________________26
29
Seeking the spirit of truth in love
35
St Vincents principle
41
Apostolic Tradition
48
Beyond Apostolic Tradition
54
UNITY IN THE LOCAL CATHOLIC CHURCH
70
THE STRUCTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
77
A different ecclesiology
258
Apostolic Tradition?
259
The Rocks of Matthew 16
262
Peter and the Keys
265
Primacy in the New Testament
269
A word about Peter and John
274
Apostolic Succession Apostolic College
275
THE MIND OF THE FATHERS 276
276

UNITY IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH 102
102
CAN HIS BODY BE BROKEN? 121
121
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ___________
140
EARLY TENSIONS147
147
NICEA A NEW ERA FOR CHRISTIANITY162
162
UNITY AND PRIMACY BEFORE 1054205
205
THE GREAT SCHISM OF 1054214
214
DOOMED ATTEMPTS AT REUNION226
226
VATICAN I237
237
THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE _________
242
Resources
244
Peter as Chief Steward
245
Simon becomes Peter the Rock
247
Other key Petrine texts
249
Peters Successors in Roman Catholic ecclesiology
250
Romes primacy in the early Church
252
Eastern recognitions of Romes Primacy
253
The weight of Romes testimony
254
Summary
256
UNDERSTANDING THE EASTERN ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE257 1 Resources
257
Ignatius of Antioch c 110
278
Irenaeus of Lyons c 120
279
Origen c 250
280
Tertullian c 220
282
Cyprian of Carthage 258
284
Athanasius of Alexandria 373 and the Church of Rome
287
Hilary of Poitiers 367
292
Gregory of Nyssa c 386
294
Gregory of Nazianzus 389
295
THE ISSUE OF PAPALINFALLIBILITY 310
310
OTHER OBSTACLES ____________________
320
APPARITIONS AND PRIVATE REVELATIONS 347
347
CLERICAL CELIBACY364
364
THE REALITY OF DIVORCE386
386
THE NEW MASS415
415
THE VISION OF POPE JOHN PAUL II422
422
A VISION FOR UNITY_________________
428
CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES _______________
435
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