Orthodox and Roman Catholic Relations From the Fourth Crusade to the Hesychastic Controversy

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2001
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 239
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 1.5 cm
ISBN: 0‒911165‒49‒5

   
by Archbishop Chrysostomos

“The seven lectures that appear in this book were delivered[...]in a course entitled, ‘Orthodox and Roman Catholic Contacts and Theological Exchanges During the Middle Ages.’ The course content was, as the lectures themselves and the book title indicate, limited to the period between the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and the Hesychastic Controversy, which sparked a dispute that raged from the 1330s well into that century, major texts pertinent to the debate having been written as late as the 1370s. These lectures[...]were not delivered as a detailed history of this period; rather, my intention in each of them was to blend a general overview of historical events with an examination of the theological trends and thinking that affected these events and which these events, in turn, obviously influenced.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

Introduction
Lecture I
   The Historical Study of Orthodox Theology: Some Basic Guidelines
Lecture II
   The Byzantine East and the Roman Catholic West at the Dawning of the Thirteenth Century
Lecture III
   Evaluating the Fourth Crusade: the Social, Political, and Theological Drifting-Away of Orthodox Byzantium from Papal Europe
Lecture IV
   The Byzantine Empire under the Latin Yoke: 1204-1261
Lecture V
   The Restoration of the Byzantine Empire and the Councils of Lyons (1274) and Blachernae (1285)
Lecture VI
   Byzantium from the Reign of Andronicos II to the Hesychastic Controversy
Lecture VII
   An Overview of the Hesychastic Controversy
Index