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After Nine Hundred Years $4-50 t AFTER NINE HUNDRED YEARS Yves Cougar, O.P. The traditional date of the beginning of the Oriental Schism is 1054, wheri the Papal Legate placed on the altar of Santa Sophia the Bull of Excommuni- cation of Michael Cerularius, the Pa- triarch of Constantinople. In this book, Fr, Congar shows that the seeds of this formal break were sown many cen- turies before when the creation of By- zantium as a Second Rome, the Crown- ing of Charlemagne as Roman Emperor, and the knife-thrust of Islam divided East and West politically. Further, in the course of the centuries, East and West had developed each its own cul- tural and intellectual milieu: divergent ways of thinking, a vastly different un- derstanding of the nature of The Church and an ever growing distrust and dis- dain. The painful experience of the Crusades further aggravated the wound- ed feelings of the East, so that there 1 grew up an "Estrangement* a com- plex of suspicion, distrust and separa- tism between the two parts of Christen- dom. It is in the acceptance of this Estrangement that Fr. Congar finds the essence of the Schism. The first steps toward the reconciliation so ardently desired by Pope John XXIII in the Ecu- menical Council he has announced must be taken in humble charity and continued on backfldp 3 1148 00458293? MAI JUN 2 3 193 270*3 C74af 66-11902 Congar After nine hundred years ' ' 1 ;'*' ? 'i . -.;,*'!!<!:' AFTER NINE HUNDRED YEARS >?D !. BY THE SAME AUTHOR Divided Christendom: A Catholic Study of the Problem of Reunion, 1939 Christ, Our Lady and the Church 1957 Lay People in the Church, 1957 AFTER NINE HUNDRED YEARS THE BACKGROUND OF THE SCHISM BETWEEN THE EASTERN AND WESTERN CHURCHES YVES CONGAR, O.P. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK A Translation of ans as of Neuf cents apres, originally published part et Les 1054-1954, L'figlise tglises EDITIONS DE CHEVETOGNE, BELGIUM. NIHIL OBSTAT IMPRIMATUR C. D. Francis Cardinal John A. Goodwine, J. Spdlman York Censor Librorum Archbishop of New Sept. 26, are declarations that a book or The Nihil obstat and Imprimatur official pamphlet or moral error. No is contained therein that is free from doctrinal implication Nihil obstat and with the contents those who have granted the Imprimatur agree or statements opinions expressed. \ 1959 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Card Number: Library of Congress Catalog 59-15643 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE CENTURIES-OLD ESTRANGEMENT OF THE EAST- ERN AND WESTERN CHURCHES I II. POLITICAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ES- TRANGEMENT 7 III. CULTURAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ES- TRANGEMENT 29 IV. ECCLESIOLOGICAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ESTRANGEMENT 59 V. CONCLUSION: THE LESSONS OF HISTORY 75 Notes 9i MteinS UilTf to-.Uo - -^^ "tfKM 6611902 V PREFACE On January 25, 1959, His Holiness Pope John XXIII, still in the opening months of his pontificate, made known to the world his intention of convoking an Ecumenical Council which would be "an invitation to the separated Christian Communities to find unity." It seemed to us that it would be an excellent preparation for the reconciliation of Eastern and Western Christians, if we were to assist in making available in an English translation the masterly study of Father Yves Congar, O.P., first pub- lished in 1954. We were fortunate in receiving the enthusias- tic approval of Father Congar for the project and he has been kind enough to supplement his original text with con- siderable new material and to bring up to date the already abundant bibliography and copious notes of the first edition. The year 1954 marked the ninth centenary of the excom- munication pronounced by the legates of the Holy See against Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, a date which for long has been accepted as that of the break between Rome and Byzantium. As a result of his long and profound studies of the relations of East and West from the earliest days of Christianity, Father Congar has seen, and with luminous cul- exposes clarity, the many political, vn and influences which tural, ecclesiological have tended, long before 1054, to bring about an estrangement between the Oriental and the Western Churches. Even after that mem- orable date, he shows us the numerous occasions when a lack of mutual understanding, resulting from deeply-rooted psychological prejudices, closed men's minds and, unfortun- serious breaches of ately, caused charity. Ignorance and disdain lasting for centuries, inevitably brought it about that each went its own way, oblivious and unaware of the other. It is in the acceptance of this estrangement that Father Congar finds the real Oriental Schism. Separation was growing in the minds and hearts of men before it took place in the pages the the of History. If, under guidance of Holy Spirit, a reconciliation is to take place, it will surely begin and grow under the warming rays of Divine Charity and men will learn to understand, to respect and to love one another, each for what they are. Through the collaboration of the staff of Fordham Univ- ersity Press and that of the Russian Center of Fordham University, the original work, which in French is so rich and suggestive in the conciseness of its thought, has been carefully translated into English. Paul Mailleux, S.J. VIII Graeci, qui nobiscum sunt et noliscum non sunt, junctifide, pace divisi. St. Bernard of Clairvaux De Considerations, III.i. IX in the text to Figures refer notes beginning on page pi. CHAPTER ONE THE CENTURIES-OLD ESTRANGEMENT OF THE EASTERN AND WESTERN CHURCHES The year 1054 is indeed a memorable date in the history of the Church. However, this date is more a symbolic than an historical one, such as are the dates of October 31, 1517, or July 14, 1789, from which we are accustomed to date "the beginning of the Reformation," or "the beginning of the French Revolution," respectively. The following pages will once again illustrate the thesis, rather generally acccepted 1 today, that July, 1054, cannot be put down as marking the beginning of the "Oriental Schism." These pages do not pretend to bring any new information to the historian fa- miliar with the events called to mind: he will more likely be inclined to correct and complete what is but a rough sketch revealing the limitations of the non-specialist. Only a certain number of facts and significant references have been marshalled here for the purpose of suggesting to theologians and churchmen some thoughts on the nature of the "Oriental schism." If our rough outline is accurate, those two words can with justification be placed within quotation marks. Not that the words do not express something very real: historically, canonically and theologically, the Oriental schism, unfortunately, is a fact. It can be defined according to the AFTER NINE HUNDRED YEARS canonical and doctrinal criteria of the Catholic Church, cri- teria which, needless to say, we accept unequivocally. Those as the criteria are simple: they may be summed up union with the Apostolic See of Rome on the basis of a recognition of its primacy as coining from Christ and the Apostles. In the light of these, we can determine quite accurately when and where schism has occurred. The separation may likewise be attributed to any one of the local churches with the ex- ception of the Church of Rome, for she, while being also a local church, is something else too: as a local church which she has an belongs to the union of the Universal Church, autonomous and decisive value. Legitimate authority can act wrongly: yet one may not separate oneself from it and the final wrong lies always on the side of those who cause separation. chur- When a dispute concerns a church or an ensemble of ches and not merely an individual or individuals, when what is at stake is an historical situation which involves the complex than individual 2 the reality of collective rather responsibility, problem becomes far more complicated. We would speak of the schism of Photius, the schism of Cerularius, and many others without the use of quotation marks; not so with the "Oriental schism." The latter cannot be put in the same category with the former: it presents an original problem with elements and values involving other considerations, the most important of which we shall try to suggest in the follow- ing pages. That this is so, is borne out by the fact that the break-up had begun before Photius and Cerularius, that it was not completed after the latter's time and was not concluded all at once, or even in a consistent manner, in the various Eastern THE ESTRANGEMENT churches. To present it as a declaration of war to which a can or as a state date be assigned, of hostility inaugurated by a single and definable act even though followed by tem- porary but complete and satisfactory reconciliations would be a fiction to which the facts do not correspond. As has often been said before, there were numerous breaches between Rome and Constantinople or another portion of the East, before Michael Cerularius and even before Photius him- 3 self. According to Marxist dictum, quantity, carried to a certain degree, modifies the category and becomes qual- ity. One cannot consider 217 years of separation in 506 years of history without realizing that this does not mean normal union simply interrupted by accidents. On the other hand, the instances of union are so numerous between the year 1054 and the Council of Florence, that it is even less correct to speak of total separation merely punctuated by some happy accidents, or by exceptions.
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