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LESSON 25 BYZANTINE EMPIRE: FROM LEO THE ISAUREAN TO THE EAST WEST SCHISM

LESSON 25 BYZANTINE EMPIRE: FROM LEO THE ISAUREAN TO THE EAST WEST SCHISM. I. Political and Military History 717-1054. Leo the Isaurian (717-741). Constantine V (741-775). Sought to reform church: iconoclast controversy. Defended territories against Arab Muslims Greek Fire.

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LESSON 25 BYZANTINE EMPIRE: FROM LEO THE ISAUREAN TO THE EAST WEST SCHISM

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  1. LESSON 25 BYZANTINE EMPIRE: FROM LEO THE ISAUREAN TO THE EAST WEST SCHISM

  2. I. Political and Military History 717-1054 Leo the Isaurian (717-741) Constantine V (741-775) Sought to reform church: iconoclast controversy Defended territories against Arab Muslims Greek Fire Lost Ravenna in Italy to the Franks 775-802 Suffered under Empress Irene 820-867 Amorian Dynasty Successful against Arab Muslims Fought off invading Russians Led Bulgers to confess the Orthodox faith in 860

  3. 867-1054 Macedonian Dynasty Basel I (867-886) “Golden Age” Basel II (976-1025) “During the long reign of Basil II the Byzantine Empire became the greatest power in the entire Christian and Muslim world” Dr. Nick Needham

  4. II. Eastern Worship BUILDING • No pews • No musical instruments • icons COMMUNION SERVICE Cense the icons antiphonal “Where perfect sweetness dwells has Cosmas gone: But his sweet songs to cheer the Church live on” Essentially the same form/type of worship practiced today!

  5. III. The Iconoclastic Controversy (726-843) “two dimensional pictures or drawings”

  6. Muslims opposed icons; Islam was God’s judgment on icon • worshipping Byzantium! 2. ‘I am Emperor and Priest” ICONOCLASTS ICON BREAKERS ICONODULES ICON VENERATORS ICONOPHILES ICON LOVERS Constantine V Council of Constantinople (754) Leo IV (775-780) Empress Irene (780-802) 2nd Nicea (787) 7th Ecumenical Council Empress Theodora (842) “The Triumph of Orthodoxy”

  7. THEOLOGY OF ICONS 1. Do they violate the 2nd Commandment? Iconoclasts-Yes Cross, not crucifix Wine and bread

  8. Iconodules-NO! 2nd Commandment forbids making images of a false God, but not of Christ who is the true God “When I worship the icon of God, I am not worshipping the nature of the wood And the colors (God Forbid!); but, holding to the non-living portrait of Christ I intend through it to hold and worship Christ himself” Leonitus of Neapolis (d. 650) Absolute worship latria Secondary veneration of the icon proskunesis 2nd Council of Nicea, 867 • Does the fact that the Son of God became a man enable us to portray • Him as a man?

  9. 3. What was the practice of the Early Church? “There is not a single unambiguous text that mandated icon veneration in the first three centuries” Dr. Calhoun 4. What was best for the uneducated people who could not read?” “What the written word is to those who can read, the icon is to the illiterate; what speech is to the ear, the icon is to the eye” John of Damascus SUMMARY: Mostly Eastern Church issue

  10. IV. PHOTIUS AND THE FILIOQUE CONTROVERSY Photius (820-895) Teach that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son “filioque” Latin “and the Son” “Treatise on the Mystagogia of the Holy Spirit”

  11. V. Byzantine Monasteries and Simeon the Theologian VI. Byzantine missionary activity Morovia Bulgaria Romania

  12. VII. Great East West Schism 1. Great rivalry between Rome and Constantinople 2. Great differences in practice 3. Major theological differences 4. Final events precipitating the schism WESTERN CATHOLIC CHURCH EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

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