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Filioque
Filioque (Lat., ‘and the Son’). The dogmatic formula expressing the Double Procession of the Holy Spirit added by the W. Church to the Nicene Creed immediately after the words ‘the Holy Ghost…who proceedeth from the Father’. It is first met with as an interpolation at the Third Council of Toledo (589). From c.800, when the Creed began to be generally chanted in the Eucharist throughout the Frankish Empire, the words became widely familiar. It has been the chief ground of attack by the E. Church on the W. Modern Anglican theologians have often been disposed to agree to dropping the Filioque from the Creed. See DOUBLE PROCESSION.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Filioque.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Filioque.html |
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Filioque
Filioque (Lat., ‘and the Son’), the formula in the W. form of the Nicene Creed which expressed the ‘double procession’ (i.e. from both Father and Son) of the Holy Spirit. Since the time of Photius, a strong opponent, the filioque has been a central point of controversy between E. and W. Churches. The Orthodox point to the original creed omitting it, and to the need for a single ‘fount of divinity’ (pēgē theotētos, viz. the Father) within the Godhead.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Filioque.html JOHN BOWKER. "Filioque." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Filioque.html |
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Filioque
Filioque the word inserted in the Western version of the Nicene Creed to assert the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son as well as from the Father, which is not admitted by the Eastern Church. It was one of the central issues in the Great Schism of 1054.
Filioque is Latin, literally ‘and from the Son’. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Filioque." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Filioque." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Filioque.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Filioque." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Filioque.html |
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