von Zoernikav's On the Procession of the Holy Spirit From the Father Alone

[haralampopoulosjc]

I happened to stumble upon this on SCRIBD. Hopefully Fr. Joseph or Bishop Enoch can take a look at it to make sure it's legit:

[haralampopoulosjc]

I was reviewing the book recently and have concluded that it is a legitimate translation. I matched certain passages to the official releases from the Zoernikav project which matched word-for-word. The only problem is that there are numerous typos throughout the document with letters frequently missing from words which doesn't make it impossible to read, but a bit tedious. I might post a corrected version at some point.

[haralampopoulosjc]

Within the book, Zoernikav asserts that the filioque clause in the Creed only began to appear at the end of the eighth century with just a few individuals reciting it, while the vast majority of Latin Christians rejected the addition. Theodulf of Orleans (c. 750-821), seems to have been the first to defend the innovation in writing, and was opposed in this view by Charlemagne, Pope Leo III and Paulinus of Aquilea.

The next time, that the controversy figures in a major way in history was during the Photian schism, by which time that innovation had become widespread as attested to by Pope John VIII. Major proponents of the innovation during this time included Pope Nicholas I, Hincmar of Reims, Odo of Beauvais, Aeneas of Paris and Ratramnus of Corbie. At the same time there were still Western theologians who opposed the innovation including Alcuin of York and Rabbanus Maurus, not to mention Pope John VIII who condemned the filioque along with his legates and the Eastern bishops at the Eighth Ecumenical Council (879-880).

In the tenth century, Pope Sergius III and his successors also supported the filioque clause, although at the time they were not in communion with Constantinople due to the papacy's support for the fourth marriage of Emperor Leo the Wise of Byzantium. This would lead to Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople (c. 1001-1019) removing Pope Sergius III's name from the diptychs of Constantinople almost a century later. It was the same Patriarch Sergius II who broke communion with the papacy in 1014 when the Creed was recited with the filioque in Rome for the first time.