History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.

Two eminent bishops took the lead in the advocacy of a more spiritual and evangelical type of religion. In this they differed fr ...

Claudius, bishop of Turin (814–839), was a native of Spain, but spent three years as chaplain at the court of Louis the Pious an ...

But the all-powerful influence of the popes, the sensuous tendency and credulity of the age, the ignorance of the clergy, and th ...

hearts of men. But it figures very largely in history, and has occasioned, deepened, and perpetuated the greatest schism in Chri ...

On this passage the Nicene fathers based their doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit,^571 as his personal property or ch ...

The Nicene Creed, in its original form of 325, closes abruptly with the article: "And [we believe] into the Holy Spirit.^578 I ...

first inserted the clause Filioque in the Latin version of the Nicene Creed.^581 Other Spanish synods of Toledo did the same.^58 ...

The Greek church, however, took little or no notice of this innovation till about one hundred and fifty years later, when Photiu ...

the Son (this was the doctrine of Cyril of Alexandria and John of Damascus); the Latins approach the Greeks by the admission tha ...

by the comparison of the Father with the root, the Son with the stem, the Spirit with the fruit, and such analogies as the sun, ...

and against the teaching of the East by churches (in Spain and France) which had nothing to do with the original production. Thi ...

(second ed. 1853), II. 193–305; Nitzsch: Dogmengesch. I. 325 sqq.; and Hefele: Conciliengeschichte (revised ed. 1877) III. 121–3 ...

the believer will be entirely absorbed in the divine will, which amounts almost to a pantheistic absorption of the human persona ...

The theological contest was carried on chiefly in the Eastern church which had the necessary learning and speculative talent; bu ...

energy" (miva qeandrikh; ejnevrgeia).^610 Sergius secured the consent of Pope Honorius (625–638), who was afterwards condemned f ...

In the year 648 the Emperor Constans II. (642–668) tried in vain to restore peace by means of a new edict called Typos or Type, ...

East and the West. He stood on good or neutral terms with Pope Vitalian (6 57–672), who maintained a prudent silence on the disp ...

§ 113. The Heresy of Honorius. J. von Döllinger (Old Cath.): Papstfabeln des Mittelalters. München, 1863. The same translated by ...

will showed many modes of operation and activity.^624 The first letter was decidedly heretical, the second was certainly not ort ...

Honorius was condemned by the sixth oecumenical Council as "the former pope of Old Rome," who with the help of the old serpent ...