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The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy is the first complete history of the Filioque written in English in more than a century. Beginning with the biblical texts and ending with recent agreements on the place and meaning of the Filioque, this book traces the history of the doctrine and the controversy that has surrounded it. From the Greek and Latin fathers, the ninth-century debates,...

The significance of this gesture was not lost on the Orthodox themselves, causing some to speculate that perhaps this was a sign of Rome’s willingness to adhere to the recommendations of the 1979 Klingenthal Memorandum, which had urged that “the original form of the third article of the Creed, without the filioque, should everywhere be recognized as the normative one and restored.”5 While this view might have been overly optimistic, Rome was, in fact, already moving toward a reexamination of the
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