Theological Dispute of East and West

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Pages: 120-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/KPLX5068

Abstract:

Unity of Church belongs to the very essence of Christianity, revealing the existential fact of the dynamic transformation of man, which can hardly be placed into an institutionalised dialogue. According to that matter we should not forget the fact that without the obvious discord of ontology in the East and the West, the readiness and openness for dialogue must exist because today’s divide between Christianity does not represent a mere theoretic misunderstanding, instead it represents sin, not as an answer to the Fathers call, into a dialogue of love and truth. Into ecumenist movement, the dialogue of love must not be deprived of the dialogue of the truth, instead having in mind the symbiotic unity of love and truth, should be observed as an existential synthesis of the dialogue relation of love in truth and truth in love, meaning a real confronting with all the problems which separate the Church of the East and the West.

Keywords:

George Florovsky, Filioque, Unity of the Church, ecumenical movement, Great Schism, the Church of the east, truth, Western Church

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