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Among the issues that continue to divide the Catholic Church from the Orthodox Church―the two largest Christian bodies in the world, together comprising well over a billion faithful―the question of the papacy is widely acknowledged to be the most significant stumbling block to their unification. For nearly forty years, commentators, theologians, and hierarchs, from popes and patriarchs to ordinary believers of both churches, have acknowledged the problems posed by the papacy. In Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity , Adam A. J. DeVille offers the first comprehensive examination of the papacy from an Orthodox perspective that also seeks to find a way beyond this impasse, toward full Orthodox-Catholic unity. He first surveys the major postwar Orthodox and Catholic theological perspectives on the Roman papacy and on patriarchates, enumerating Orthodox problems with the papacy and reviewing how Orthodox patriarchates function and are structured. In response to Pope John Paul II’s 1995 request for a dialogue on Christian unity, set forth in the encyclical letter Ut Unum Sint , DeVille proposes a new model for the exercise of papal prima

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Author

Adam A. J. DeVille

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780268077730

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography