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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,...

theology of the procession outside of their polemical battle with the West, placing the Western Church in the unusual (but ultimately rewarding) position of having to engage in a genuine dialogue with Eastern trinitarian thought. Among the hundreds of figures involved in the filioque debates throughout the centuries, Maximus the Confessor enjoys a privileged position. His Letter to Marinus, written in 645 or 646, is the earliest witness to the East’s knowledge of, and hostility
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