After Nine Hundred Years
The Background of the Schism Between the Eastern and Western Churches

Yves Congar (Author)

9780823218578

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 1998

150 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.213 kg

The traditional date of the beginning of the Oriental Schism is 1054. Congar shows that the seeds of this break were sown centuries before when the creation of Byzantium, the Crowning of Charlemagne as Roman Emperor, and emergence of Islam divided East and West politically.