Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, has been for a thousand years denounced by the Western Church as an arch-heretic and arch-schismatic of the Church and at the same time venerated in the East as a saint, scholar and a model churchman. Dr Dvornik reviews the whole history, reconsiders all the arguments, reconstitutes the facts, re-examines all the witnesses and comes to the conclusion that in the Photian case the Churchmen, Canonists and historians of the West were mistaken, that Photius was indeed a great churchman. In the second part of his book Dr Dvornik examines the reasons for this miscarriage of justice.
| ISBN: | 9780521077705 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 1970 |
| Author: | Francis Dvornik |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 504 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge University Press Library Editions |
| Genres: |
Religion: general |