By J. M. Hussey
This e-book describes the position of the medieval Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an essential component of its coverage it was once (as in western Christianity) heavily associated with many points of lifestyle either reputable and in a different way. It used to be a formative interval for Orthodoxy. It needed to face doctrinal difficulties and heresies; even as it skilled the continuity and deepening of its liturgical lifestyles. whereas protecting speedy to the traditions of the fathers and the councils, it observed sure advancements in doctrine and liturgy as additionally in administration.
half I discusses the landmarks in ecclesiastical affairs in the Empire in addition to the inventive effect exercised at the Slavs and the expanding contacts with westerners really after 1204. half II provides a quick account of the constitution of the medieval Orthodox Church, its officers and association, and the spirituality of laity, priests, and clergy.
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Further, an important Christological Problem in Early Middle Ages 27 series of canons (especially 3, 6, 13) laid down rulings on clerical marriage which were at variance with the proclaimed (but at that time not always practised) Roman usage. Another canon to which Rome took exception was a statement on the position of Constantinople in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. 'Renewing the rulings of the 150 Fathers assembled in the Godguarded and imperial city32 and those of the 630 who met at Chalcedon33 we decree that the see of Constantinople shall have equal privileges to the see of Old Rome and shall enjoy equal esteem in ecclesiastical matters and shall be second after it (can.
377-87; Hefele, III (i), 497 ff. 24 Challenge and Response in Historical Framework Christ, our true God, is one of the Trinity, we state that he has two natures shining forth in his one hypostasis. In this, throughout the whole course of his incarnate life, he made manifest his sufferings and miracles, not simply in appearance but in reality. The difference of the natures is recognised in one and the same hypostasis because each nature wills and works what is proper to it in communion with the other.
757; Hefele, III (i), 421. Christological Problem in Early Middle Ages 19 excommunicated by Theodore. Theodore had also written a letter of protest to Patriarch Paul which is no longer extant, but is known from Paul's reply, in which he defended 'a single will of our Lord, in order not to ascribe to the one Person a conflict or a difference of wills, so as not to be forced to admit two willers'17 whereupon Paul was deposed by Theodore. ls Though in the form of an imperial edict, Paul was most probably behind this.
