The Dispute: Specifics

History | Marriage and the Family | Philosophy and Doctrinal Development | Baptism and Rebaptism | Clerical Celibacy | Purgatory | The Balamand Report | Filioque clause | The Pope and Church Authority | Other

Baptism and Rebaptism

Baptism and the Reception of Converts. Introduction and more than 20 links to authors in favor of rebaptisim of those who convert to Orthodoxy (Orthodox Christian Information Center).

Baptism and "Sacramental Economy": An Agreed Statement of The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, June 1993. Also here.

Clerical Celibacy

"Celibacy of the Clergy" by Herbert Thurston (Catholic Encyclopedia).

Filioque clause

"Filioque" A. J. Maas (Catholic Encyclopedia).

On the Question of the Filioque by John Meyendorff, from 1981 book The Orthodox Church.

Web Archive: "Filioque/And the Son": a page dedicated to the "dialog of love" between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Catholic point-of-view from "That All May Be One!" Ut Unum Sint!.

"One Single Source" by loannis Zizioulas Metropolitan of Pergamon (Orthodox). ("East and West can easily continue dialogue also as regards the Filioque question providing there is full acceptance of the doctrine of tradition on the monarchia of the Father..")

A Catholic view of the filioque clause by Joseph Gallegos from the Corunum Apologetic Website, "dedicated to the defense of Catholic doctrines within Patristic thought."

"Filioque and Other Issues Between Catholics and the Orthodox" by Fr. Hal Stockert. "There is no significant separating difference between Catholics and Orthodox any longer on the Filioque." (Catholic Information Network)

The Father as the Source of the Whole Trinity: The Procession of the Holy Spirit in Greek and Latin Traditions by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Catholic). A contribution to the filioque issue.

Catholic Answers on adding the filioque clause.

Catholic Answers handles the question again, this time with a list of quotations from the fathers.

Web Archive: "How can we show, from Scripture, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son as well as the Father?" Also from Catholic Answers.

Web Archive: St Maximus the Confessor on the "filioque." Orthodox theologian mediating between east and west (=PG 91, 136.)

Brief exchange between Fr. Mateo and a Catholic who visited an eastern rite church and was confused by lack of the filioque and the "omission" of the phrase "he died" from the Nicene Creed. Demonstrates the sort of layers of confusion surrounding many of these issues

History

"The Council of Florence" by L. Van der Essen (Catholic Encyclopedia). A somewhat outdated, and therefore biased account.

Web Archive: Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities by David Armstrong.

"St. Mark of Ephesus and the False Union of Florence" by Archimandrite Amvrossy Pogodin (Orthodox Christian Information Center).

Web Archive: The Schismatic and Heretical Tendencies of Eastern Christianity Before 1054 by David Armstrong.

Marriage and the Family

Web Archive: Divorce: Early Church vs. Eastern Orthodoxy By Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Published in Eglise et Theologie, 1970.

Web Archive: Contraception: Early Church vs. Eastern Orthodoxy by William Klimon.

Web Archive: Dialogue on Contraception by Dave Armstrong.

Philosophy and Doctrinal Development

Orthodoxy and the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Theotokos--Unique to the modern Roman Church or ancient Eastern tradition? by Dave Brown.

Purgatory

Cleansed After Death: The Eastern Orthodox Don't Believe In Purgatory... Do They? A Catholic review of Orthodox belief.

The Balamand Report, (see also "Orthodox Opposition to Ecumenism")

Web Archive: "The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches: Taking Steps to Overcome Division Controversy Over the Balamand Report" Orthodox author writes "The Balamand Document is a step in the right direction."

Reply to above: "Balamand Explained": First Betrayal, Now Deception by Bishop Auxentios of Photiki (Orthodox Christian Information Center). Published in Orthodox Tradition, 1997.

The Pope and Church Authority

"Papal Infallibility Becomes Dogma" By Michael Whelton, from The Christian Activist (Orthodox), 1995.

"Papacy Debate: A Debate between Joe Gallegos (Catholic layman) and Pedro Vega (Orthodox layman) On the Papacy and the ancient Church" (Corunum/Catholic Answers)

Web Archive: "Is it true that the Greek Orthodox Church believes in infallibility, but not in the Catholic sense?" Courtesy Catholic Answers (short).

Web Archive: "Papal infallibility can't be true because Pope Zozimus pronounced Pelagius to be orthodox and later reversed himself. What do you have to say to that?" (Catholic Answers).

Web Archive: "Indefectibility and the Anti-Ecumenical Orthodox Claim to Exclusive Ecclesiological Preeminence" by David Armstrong.

A Debate between a Catholic and an Orthodox Layman on "The Papacy and the Ancient Church." Courtesy Corunum Apologetic Website. The author, Joseph Gallegos, has a number of other documents on the same theme.

"Infallibility" by P. J. Toner (Catholic Encyclopedia).

Web Archive: The Tendency Towards Caesaropapism in the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Orthodoxy passages collected by David Armstrong.

Web Archive: The All-Pervasiveness of Caesaro-Papism from Lectures on Certain Difficulties Felt By Anglicans by Cardinal Newman.

The Pope and the Ecumenical Councils. Sources brought together by Antoine Valentim to show that "the Pope was often referred to or described there in ways that seem to correspond with the present Catholic view of the Pope rather than with that of the Orthodox, Anglicans, etc." Valentim's Ecclesia Triumphans has some other links on the Pope.

Web Archive: The Eastern Church Defends Petrine Primacy and the Papacy! quotes assembled by Antoine Valentim.

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