The Great Schism is the first major split in the Christian Church between the Greek Eastern side of the Church and Roman Western side of the Church. This Split came from a combination of many events such as the Filioque controversy, the split of the Roman Empire, Communion bread controversy,and ending with the excommunication of Cerularius. This split led to great changes in the Church, politics, and society with its effects still being present today. The Great Schism had a variety of events leading up to it. One of them is the Filioque controversy. The Filioque controversy is a complication between the two Churches on which the Holy Spirit derives from. The West believes that the Holy Spirit derives from both God and the Son while the East …show more content…
They were no longer able to communicate with each other efficiently because the West speaks Latin and the East speaks Greek (Source 1). This distinction between each side made the East question why they should be ruled by someone so far away that they do not even share the same culture which also led to the split. Additionally, a controversy that caused the split of the Western and Eastern Church is the Communion bread controversy. The West believed that unleavened bread should be used for Communion while the East believed that they should not use unleavened bread and just use regular bread (Source 2). This is very important to the split because this is a disagreement on the most important part of the faith. It is hard for a religion to be united when the most important part has disagreements. All these events added up and resulted in Pope Leo III from the West and Michael Cerularius from the East excommunicating each other which solidified the split. The main effect of the Great Schism is the Church being split and never becoming …show more content…
One reason the Great Schism was inevitable is because the fall of the Western Roman Empire made these two heads of the Church very distant from each other (Source 3). The distance between them made it impossible for them to talk to each other efficiently and the difference in language made it even more difficult. If they cannot communicate well and do not have the means to travel to each other in a timely manner they cannot easily settle controversies and correct writing that have most likely been translated differently. Also the distance from each other made the East question why they are following someone so far away from them. It was also inevitable because the Church was still relatively young at the time and are still making changes and interpreting the text that can spark controversies which, like stated before, are very hard to solve because of their distance. Finally, the Great Schism was inevitable because the controversies in the were left out standing for hundreds of years (Source 4). When doctrines are not united for hundreds of years they start to treat each other as strangers and with unkindness like Humbert and Cerularius (Source 4). With them being this distant in doctrine with no turning back because they cannot communicate well, there is no other compromise but splitting
Consequently, his Ninety-Five Theses sparked the Protestant Reformation, which challenged the church monarchy and helped split Christianity in two: Catholic and Protestant. As a result, a domino effect, which surpassed religion, led to change within European polities that facilitated a “divided Christian Europe” (Lecture 7, January
The councils in 300’s and 400’s defined many of the beliefs we still recite today in Creed. Many of these councils were called to address heresies being pronounced by the Arians and Donatists and others. What was surprising to me as I read these chapters is there were splits in the church almost since the very beginning. I had always felt like I had heard the Church was one till the great schism in the 1000’s between the Western and Eastern Church. It starts well before that time and looks to begin at the Council of Chalcedon in
The Council of Trent was the turning point for the Catholic Church. The Church was able to change because when the church changed the Catholic people were more expanding towards other countries in overseas . However, there wasn’t too much of a change because all the people who belonged to the Catholic Church did not change the point of view of how they look upon God. Examples such as how the Bread and Wine will mean that God will stay with you and be with you on your side. Martin Luther was and is still an important person for the people in Italy and Germany.
Christian in Western Europe were divided into Protestant and Roman Catholic. The Protestant and Catholics fought each other for nearly 40 years. Thousands were killed because of religious beliefs. The pilgrims were known as Separatist, or the pilgrims are Protestant, they want to separate from the Church of England.
Some people thought it was an amazing idea but the majority thought it was the end of the world. Both of the sides were very strong about there own opinion. One side believed that God had made Catholicism for a reason and it should stay there. The other side believed that God gave them a chance to restart and that if he didn’t then the idea would have never been proposed. This caused a lot of tension.
Theological discussions that divided the two traditions of Christianity were discussed and sufficient agreement was made that they were both able to sign a decree of union on July 6, 1439. This Council’s agreement showed ecumenism at the top of the two religious traditions, but was often opposed by those at various levels of power below. Ultimately, in 1453, the Ottoman Turks overran Constantinople, and the re-unification between East and West did not take place and the two religious groups remain separated today. The Council of Constanopil The 15th century had numerous significant reformations in the Catholic Church.
After the Fall of the Roman Empire in 476 it was divided into a western and an eastern Empire. The eastern Empire which is also known as the Byzantine Empire, lived on as it was wealthier and better in trade. According to Rietbergen (2006, p.114), Church and State were very closely combined in the Byzantine Empire, which is the first difference of Religion in the two new European Regions. During the Roman Empire Christianity was given higher attention and became one of the leading religions in Europe. However, one must know that Christendom already differed in Latin Christianity, which is west orientated, and Orthodox Christendom, which mostly appears in the East.
When Diocletian split the empire it was a monumentally mistake. He divided the empire based on language with the western side speaking Latin and the East side speaking Greek. When Diocletian Died a civil war broke out because there was so much unrest inside the country. Social Problems were a factor people lost confidence in the Roman Empire. People just let the Fall of Rome just happen they did not care.
Another significant similarity in the spread and development of these beliefs is that both faiths would experience a split that would change history forever. In 1054, a combination of political tension, theological differences, and leadership disputes between Rome and Constantinople caused what become known as the “Great Schism”. The Great Schism created two separate churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These two churches remained under a state of excommunication from 1054 until 1965 when the leaders of the two churches finally agreed to meet and resume dialogue after
Emperor Constantine I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, legalizing Christian worship in 313, which ended centuries of religious oppression and spread Christianity throughout Europe. Eventually, as the separate cultures began to develop, religious leaders from the Byzantine Empire and Rome refused to accept small differences in each other’s practices of Christianity; which led to the East-West Schism of the Roman Empire in 1054. Two distinct versions of Christianity emerged: Eastern Orthodoxy in the east and Roman Catholicism in the west. While the pope leads the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church has no single leader. Eastern Orthodoxy rejects the idea that all people inherit sins from the first humans who
Not only did the tension between the Catholics and the Anglicans increase, it caused new groups to develop such as Baptism, Presbyterianism, and
There were 3 major branches of early Christianity that contained different perspectives with theology and traditions; these branches were Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Protestantism. The Protestant Reformation, also known as the 'religious revolution', occurred during the 16th century in the Western Church. The schism in the Western Christianity was given the heads up by a great leader, Martin Luther (1483-1546), and eventually carried on by John Calvin and other European reformers. The initial goal was to begin reforming any beliefs and practices within the Roman Catholic Church. Teachers and missionaries were sent on a mission aimed at teachings that needed more clarification because their followers were not being guided
Main Causes of the Reformation There are many reasons why the Reformation occurred and what the main causes were. Many priests were illiterate and did not teach the same values to people that were contained in the Bible. Indulgences were widely disputed because some religious figures deemed them arbitrary and to others it seemed ridiculous that you could pay money and be absolved of sin. Additionally, many people became more skeptical of the church after several popes turned out to be incorrect on matters of faith.
The general principle that governed to replace the authority of the pope was on the formation of representative church council, while representative parliament in order to replace the power of the king. The decree of Constance which is consider as the most revolutionary document in history in which it lead up to the effort to replace the Roman ideals of authority. The great schism that split the west and east church together serve as an opportunity for the liberal churchmen to assert the theory of limited monarchy as the best in both the church and state. When general welfare was at stake the resistance to pope and king are justifiably; which is based on the utilitarian doctrine. Further more, the pope can be depose if he did not obey the law of nature or become incompetent to the position in which the temporal ruler can call the church council to depose the
D uring the Mediaeval Period, spanning from the 5th to the 15th Century, the Church was extremely influential, both politically and socially. Following the Great Schism (c.1054), Eastern and Western Christianity began to develop separately. In the West, multiple monastic orders formed, as well as Universities teaching theology (McGrath, 2016, p.22). The discovery of Aristotelian philosophy challenged the established Augustinian Neo-Platonism and was not always favoured (McEnhill and Newlands, 2004, p.16). Scholasticism was the theological method used in this period, which emphasised rational justification and logical presentation of beliefs (Mews, 2010, p.1132-1133).