Essay - The Great Schism Between the East and West Political Premises...

The Great Schism between the East and West

Political premises that led to religious schism ***** Orthodox Church and Catholic ***** originate in the 4th century when Roman Empire was divided on eastern ***** Empire and Western Roman Empire. The origins go to the events of 313 when roman emperor C*****stantine decided to move the capital to the city named to his honor- Constantinople. This decision caused that the head of the church had to move to Constantinople as well. As a result the struggle for power between bishops started and it later ***** to the spl***** and schism of two churches.

Emperor Constantine also organized a Christian council, whose work resulted in ***** formulation ***** the Nicerine creed ***** defined the role of ***** Holly trinity: Son, father ***** ***** ghost. This creed became the main *****oretical and dogmatic distinction between two churches and background for long-time arguments.

***** creed ***** developed the postulate, which *****n laid into the *****oretical and ideological foundation of Orthodox church: ''I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from ***** Son." By the year ***** 800 the western archbishops had changed the postulate having added: "***** proceeds from the fa*****r ***** the son." As a result *****ern Church accused western in the violation the doctrine that opened a space for further arguments and disagreements. Another premise for misunderst*****ing ***** Petrine Doctrine, considered to absolute in the west, but resisted ***** the east. Besides those two *****, *****re existed a lot of other minor conflicts which included ***** practices and executions of religious rituals. Among them are: priestly beards (observed by ***** priests), monkish tonsures, celibacy of priesthood, Episcopal control over confirmation sacrament.

As most of modern historians admit the great schism between ***** ***** was simple struggle over the power, dominance, centralization and ***** for religious persons. The dominance of ***** Orthodox Church in eastern Europe remained in the 11th century, and was mainly resulted by ***** strong state of Byzantine which didn't collapse after the partition of ***** Empire, while Western roman Empire (with capital in Rome) collapse later into small states and suffered a lot from Barbarian invasion. Inherited from emperor Constantine, the state power and the church reformed and re***** into ***** system which is known as caesaropapism. First it was considered that archbishops of Rome, *****, Antioch and Alexandria had nearly the equal right, but of course Rome archbishop was in advantage. But already during the pontificate years of Leo I, Roman bishops had demand for a greater power and influence. Later historical events had shown that the difference in the views of Constantinople and Rome began to grow rapidly ***** later attacks ***** barbarian tribes and ***** rise of Muslim religion in the Near east.

The contradictions ***** the accepting of the original creed started in ***** 6th ***** in Spain, with endemic Arian heresy. Arians stated ***** second and first ***** of Holly trinity were not equal, and that why they