A. Edward Siecienski - The Papacy and the Orthodox (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

OXFORD STUDIES IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

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Richard A. Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary

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Irena Backus, Universit de Genve

Robert C. Gregg, Stanford University

George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame

Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University

Gerhard Sauter, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn

Susan E. Schreiner, University of Chicago

John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame

Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke University

Robert L. Wilken, University of Virginia

THE DEATH OF SCRIPTURE AND THE RISE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES

Michael C. Legaspi

THE FILIOQUE

History of a Doctrinal Controversy

A. Edward Siecienski

ARE YOU ALONE WISE?

Debates about Certainty in the Early Modern Church

Susan E. Schreiner

EMPIRE OF SOULS

Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth

Stefania Tutino

MARTIN BUCERS DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION

Reformation Theology and Early Modern Irenicism

Brian Lugioyo

CHRISTIAN GRACE AND PAGAN VIRTUE

The Theological Foundation of Ambroses Ethics

J. Warren Smith

KARLSTADT AND THE ORIGINS OF THE EUCHARISTIC CONTROVERSY

A Study in the Circulation of Ideas

Amy Nelson Burnett

READING AUGUSTINE IN THE REFORMATION

The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 15001620

Arnoud S. Q. Visser

SHAPERS OF ENGLISH CALVINISM, 16601714

Variety, Persistence, and Transformation

Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.

THE BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION OF WILLIAM OF ALTON

Timothy Bellamah, OP

MIRACLES AND THE PROTESTANT IMAGINATION

The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany

Philip M. Soergel

THE REFORMATION OF SUFFERING

Pastoral Theology and Lay Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany

Ronald K. Rittgers

CHRIST MEETS ME EVERYWHERE

Augustines Early Figurative Exegesis

Michael Cameron

MYSTERY UNVEILED

The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England

Paul C. H. Lim

GOING DUTCH IN THE MODERN AGE

Abraham Kuypers Struggle for a Free Church in the Netherlands

John Halsey Wood Jr.

CALVINS COMPANY OF PASTORS

Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 15361609

Scott M. Manetsch

THE SOTERIOLOGY OF JAMES USSHER

The Act and Object of Saving Faith

Richard Snoddy

HARTFORD PURITANISM

Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God

Baird Tipson

AUGUSTINE, THE TRINITY, AND THE CHURCH

A Reading of the Anti-Donatist Sermons

Adam Ployd

AUGUSTINES EARLY THEOLOGY OF IMAGE

A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology

Gerald Boersma

PATRON SAINT AND PROPHET

Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations

Phillip N. Haberkern

JOHN OWEN AND ENGLISH PURITANISM

Experiences of Defeat

Crawford Gribben

MORALITY AFTER CALVIN

Theodore Bezas Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics

Kirk M. Summers

THE PAPACY AND THE ORTHODOX

Sources and History of a Debate

A. Edward Siecienski

A. EDWARD SIECIENSKI

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Names: Siecienski, A. Edward (Anthony Edward), author.

Title: The Papacy and the Orthodox : sources and history of a debate /A. Edward Siecienski.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016033943 (print) | LCCN 2016038301 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190245252 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190245269 (updf) | ISBN 9780190245276 (oso) | ISBN 9780190650926 ( epub)

Subjects: LCSH: PapacyHistory. | PopesPrimacy. | Catholic ChurchHistory. | Catholic ChurchRelationsOrthodox Eastern Church. | Orthodox Eastern ChurchRelationsCatholic Church. | Peter, the Apostle, Saint.

Classification: LCC BX1805 .S56 2017 (print) | LCC BX1805 (ebook) | DDC 262/.1309dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033943

Christians of all denominations responded to the popes request, and studies of the papacy, both historical and theological, proliferated exponentially. Symposia were held throughout the world, often sponsored by various agencies of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, asking what role the pope might play in a future, undivided Church. National and international theological dialogues with a number of churches were refocused to address the issues of authority and primacy, with particular emphasis on the petrine ministry (i.e., the unique ministry allegedly granted to Peter and presently exercised by his successor, the Bishop of Rome). Their achievements, although still far from having solved the so-called problem of the papacy, have been substantial.

Yet however significant these theological advances have been, perhaps far more groundbreaking are the developments that have occurred on the level of praxis. Since the time of the recently canonized John XXIII (195863), the world has increasingly come to recognize the Pope of Rome as a figure whose importance transcends the institutional boundaries of the Roman Catholic Church. In the age of the 24-hour news cycle the pope has become an ever-present figure, often pictured meeting with world leaders or speaking out on moral/social/economic issues. At the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005, the unprecedented number of political and religious leaders who came to Rome to offer their respects testified to the unique role the late pontiff had played in both the spiritual and secular spheres.

For non-Catholic Christians, whose descriptions of the pope were once dominated by such terms as anti-Christ, brothel-keeper, and child of perdition,

Nowhere was this change of dynamic more evident than among the Orthodox, whose problems with the papacy pre-date the Protestant Reformation by several centuries. The historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athengoras on the Mount of Olives in 1964, the first such meeting in over five hundred years, signaled a new beginning in relations between the two sister churches. The dialogue of love that began in the 1960s soon matured into a theological dialogue that has thus far demonstrated a level of consensus undreamed of only a few decades ago. Although technically still in a state of schism, one could go so far as to argue that relations between Rome and Constantinople are now better than they were a millennium ago, when then two churches were still in full Eucharistic communion. Still fresh in ones memory are the images of Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartholomew lifting their clasped hands on the balcony of the Phanar, and Pope Franciss bowed head as he received a kiss from his brother Andrew during the 2014 papal visit to Constantinople.