On the Procession of the Holy Spirit from the sources of Revelation, and according to the dissenting Easterners($34.67Value)

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At the heart of the Great Schism between East and West lies a single Latin word: Filioque — "and from the Son." For over a millennium, the question of whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son , or from the Father alone , has divided Catholic and Orthodox Christianity. In this monumental work, the renowned French patristics scholar Fr. Martin Jugie, A.A., delivers the most exhaustive theological and historical defense of the Catholic Filioque doctrine ever assembled in a single volume. Drawing on Sacred Scripture, the Greek and Latin Church Fathers, ecumenical councils, liturgical texts, and centuries of polemical controversy, Jugie builds a meticulous, chapter-by-chapter case for the double procession of the Holy Spirit. He engages with the full sweep of Eastern theological tradition — from the Cappadocian Fathers and John of Damascus to Photius, Gregory Palamas, and modern Russian theologians — treating their objections with both scholarly rigor and pastoral charity. Covering the origins of the Filioque controversy in the Carolingian era, the pivotal role of Photius in crystallizing the Eastern rejection, the reunion councils of Lyon and Florence, and the ecumenical dialogues of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this work is as much a definitive history of one of Christianity's greatest divisions as it is a theological treatise. A closing chapter even examines the doctrine of the Holy Spirit among the Nestorians and Monophysites, rounding out a truly comprehensive panorama of Christian tradition. Now made accessible to English readers for the first time through this AI translation from the original Latin, this work by Jugie is essential reading for theologians, historians, and any Christian seriously seeking to understand — or bridge — the ancient divide between Rome and the east.