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What caused ancient Christianity to split into the Roman Catholic Church and Greek Orthodox Church?
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∙ 13y ago
In a nutshell ,the Greek churches were led from Constantinople,the seat of the newer Eastern Roman Empire and the western chuches from Rome. In time their cultures
diverged more and more in language, ritual and theological nuance. There is a long
wearisome history of various insults and political rivalry,ecclesiatical and not as well
as doctrinal and scriptural dispute.
This has often grieved thinkers on both sides mindful of the shared tradition.
As late as 1439 in Council in Florence the churches reunited only to resplit shorly
afterward.
The state of aggrieved separation persists.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 7y agoStarting with Francis of Assi in the early 12th century, some priests and monks began questioning some of the practices of the RC Church. Girolamo Savonarola in the 1400s really brought some unchristian practices and abuses of power into the light. The actual split came when Luther (a Roman Priest) nailed he 95 theses to the wall of the church (this along with the translation of the scriptures into the vernacular tongues caused a firestorm of questioning and debate and a lot of anathemes)
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