Description
From St Photios in the ninth century to St Mark of Ephesus in the fifteenth, the Fathers of the middle and late Byzantine periods dedicated a great deal of their theological output to the issue of the Filioque--the Latin doctrine (rejected by the Orthodox Church) that the Holy Spirit proceeds "also from the Son." This course examines this facet of the Orthodox patristic tradition, from the early Fathers through the Council of Florence, with special attention to the events surrounding the Council of 879, the anti-Latin polemics surrounding the Council of Lyons in 1274, and the hesychast theology that developed in the wake of St Gregory Palamas.