FLorence

[photi]

ANybody know where on the net I might be able to find some good Orthodox stuff on the false council of Florence? I am trying to get alot of info together for a friend. '
Thanks!!
Photi

[OrthodoxyOrDeath]

This is an amazing book...if my memory serves me correctly, much of it is based on the account given by the Patriarch's own aid, and other unique sources.

http://www.sjkp.org/

History of the Council of Florence
Ivan Ostroumoff, trans. Basil Popoff
Sound dull? Some 600 years ago, an attempt was made to create a "false union" between the Orthodox Church and the papacy... a union based not on Truth but on political expediency, not upon freely chosen oneness in Faith, but upon political (and somewhat inhuman) pressure. Its result? The obvious sanctity of a few, the tragic human weakness of many displayed, the apostasy of too many -- and a demonstration of the people of God as the guardians of the Faith, even in spite of the unfortunate gullibility of some of their shepherds.
Item# 2451. (DC: R) Paperbound. $8.00. Quantity:

[Aristokles]

Thanks for that link, OOD.
I would definitely add to my reading list on this topic:

Byzantine East & Latin West: Two Worlds of Christiandom in Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deno John Geanakoplos, Harper & Row, 1966. Out of print but several dozen copies come up on an "Out of Print" search at Barnes and Noble's website.

Demetri

[Justin Kissel]

The book The Pillars of Orthodoxy by Holy Apostles Convent also have some good information on this (and other) subjects.