The Photian Schism: History and Legend

Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, has been for a thousand years denounced by the Western Church as an arch-heretic and arch-schismatic of the Church and at the same time venerated in the East as a saint, scholar and a model churchman. Dr Dvornik reviews the whole history, reconsiders all the arguments, reconstitutes the facts, re-examines all the witnesses and comes to the conclusion that in the Photian case the Churchmen, Canonists and historians of the West were mistaken, that Photius was indeed a great churchman. In the second part of his book Dr Dvornik examines the reasons for this miscarriage of justice.

Author: Francis Dvornik, Dvornik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/18/2008
Pages: 524
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780521101769

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