His Broken Body Understanding and Healing the Schism Between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

includes index and biblioraphy

His Broken Body ..............32 Why this Book.......................34 Seeking the Spirit of Truth in Love .............35 1. Common grounds and Differences ...........39 The creed..........39 Real reasons, real differences ..................40 St. Vincent`s Principle..........41 Now I know only in Part ...........43 But what does your Church really Teach ..........44 Apostolic Tradition ...........48 Apostolic Succession ...............52 Beyond Apostolic Tradition ............54 Major and Minor Differences ...........55 2. Ecclesiology .........58 What is the Church .............58 Unity in the Catholic Church ..........70 The Structure of the Catholic Church ................77 Unity in the Universal Church ...............102 Schisms: Past and Present .........124 3. Historical Perspective..................140 Growth and unity in the early church ............140 Early Tensions .............147 Nicea- A new Era for Christianity .......162 The Arian Crisis and Roman Orthodoxy...........164 Councils and Schisms .............167 Summary: Unity and primacy Before 1054 The Great Schism of 1054 Papal Primacy after 1054.............219 Doomed Attenpts at Reunion ............225 Uniatism ..........229 Vatican I ................236 4. Theological Perspective............241 Understanding the Roman Catholic Perspective..........241 Understanding the eastern orthodox perspective........255 The mind of the Fathers ..........274 The Issue of Papal Infallibility ............307 5. Others Obstacles ............317 Theological Directions ............317 The Filioque controversy............321 Apparitions and Private revelations ..............344 Purgatory and Indulgences ..............346 Clerical Celibacy ..........360 The reality of Divorce .........381 The birth control issue ............390 The immaculate Conception ..............399 The New Mass.........410 Orthodox fragmentation ................412 6. Hopes and Challenges ............416 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch athenagoras ............416 The Vision of Pope John Paul II ..........417 The Melkite Proposal .............418 LPugnacious converts ................419 7. A vision for Unity ................424 What is our Model ...............424 Needing each Other ..........425 Return to sardica ..............429