Theological differences between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church information
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Catholic–Eastern Orthodox relations
Overview
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Schisms
Acacian schism (484–519)
Photian schism (863–867)
Great Schism (1054–)
Reasons for the Great Schism
Papal supremacy (differing views)
Ecclesiastical differences
Filioque (differing views)
Theological differences
Further division motives
Massacre of the Latins (1182)
Sack of Constantinople (1204)
Pratulin Martyrs (1874)
Medieval reunification attempts
Council of Bari (1098)
Second Council of Lyon (1274)
Council of Florence (1438–1445)
Bull of Union with the Greeks
Modern ecumenic relations
Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration (1965)
Balamand declaration (1993)
Dominus Iesus (2000)
Ravenna Document (2007)
Havana Declaration (2016)
Pope John Paul II's relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Catholic liturgy
Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
Papal primacy
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The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have been in a state of official schism from one another since the East–West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and language differences, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches.
The main theological differences with the Catholic Church are the papal primacy[1][2][3] and the filioque clause.[1][2] In spirituality, the tenability of neo-Palamism's essence-energy distinction and of the experiential vision of God as attained in theoria and theosis are actively debated.
Although the 21st century saw a growth of anti-western sentiments with the rise of neo-Palamism, "the future of East–West rapprochement appears to be overcoming the modern polemics of neo-scholasticism and neo-Palamism".[4] Since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has generally taken the approach that the schism is primarily ecclesiological in nature, that the doctrinal teachings of the Eastern Orthodox churches are generally sound, and that "the vision of the full communion to be sought is that of unity in legitimate diversity"[5] as before the division.[6]
^ abLarchet 2006, p. 188.
^ abWCCFO 1979.
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^Michael J. Christensen, Jeffery A. Wittung (editors), Partakers of the Divine Nature (Associated University Presses 2007 ISBN 0-8386-4111-3), p. 244
^"Ut Unum Sint (25 May 1995) | John Paul II". w2.vatican.va. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
^Orientale lumen, 18 Archived December 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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