Friday, November 7, 2008

MC 4: A new division

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  1. A new division
    -Chalcedon’s decrees became imperial law
    -This offended Eastern Churches who cherished Cyril’s one-nature incarnate Christ (These dissidents were called Monophysites)
    -Anti-Chalcedonianism soon dominated Egypt and they spoke out in Coptic
    -Chalcedonian minority were called “the emperors men”
    -Zeno’s throne was threatened
    -He issued Henoticon: condemned Nestorius and Eutyches, sanctioned Cyril’s anathemas in addition to Creeds of 325 and 381 and put a curse on contrary doctrine. It was official orthodoxy from 484-518.
    -Then the Pope excommunicated Zeno and Acacius (patriarch of Constantinople)
    -This was called the ‘Acacian Schism’ between the Greek and Latin Churches
    -The Persian Church became Nestorian after the Henoticon
    -Division continued, politics and order were intertwined in the east, especially with the pressure from the Arab world (Much more to read on Dowley 186)

    -BV

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