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)
A new division
ReplyDelete-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