02 — The Deep Roots

The schism grew from soil centuries in the making: the loss of a common language, the divergence of rite, discipline, and canon law, the escalation of the Roman see’s claims on forged foundations and Gregorian ideology, and the Frankish politicization of the Filioque from the Libri Carolini to its Roman adoption around 1014. This section supplies the causes that Sections 03–05 see erupting.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

Contents

File Description
language-rite-and-law.md The Greek–Latin linguistic drift (Augustine’s and Gregory the Great’s weak Greek; ekporeusis vs processio); the divergence of rite and discipline — Kolbaba’s lists, the azymes, Quinisext’s corrections of Rome; and the two canonical grammars of primacy
papal-claims-and-the-frankish-factor.md The escalation of the papal claims — Petrine exegesis, the Pseudo-Isidorian forgeries, Dictatus Papae and the Gregorian reform; and the Filioque’s Carolingian politicization — Toledo, the Libri Carolini, Aachen 809, Leo III’s silver shields, Rome’s adoption c. 1014

Reading Order

Read language-rite-and-law.md first for the cultural soil, then papal-claims-and-the-frankish-factor.md for the two forces — papal ideology and the interpolated Creed — that made estrangement into schism.

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