tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post4114629887722012309..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: The FilioqueLee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-90359378114600113412007-05-30T10:51:00.000-04:002007-05-30T10:51:00.000-04:00Awesome.So (at least some of) the Latins have been...Awesome.<BR/><BR/>So (at least some of) the Latins have been saying this for seven hundred years. I know some "Greeks" that have come to the same conclusion, that neither side is heretical on this point. Unfortunately most of them don't seem to have received the message. Neither do most of them seem to have actually read Scotus much.<BR/><BR/>On a side note, I've been reading Meyendorff and he points out how popular St Thomas was among certain 14th and 15th century Byzantines. <I>Contra Gentiles</I> was used as an anti-Islam manual. But he doesn't mention them reading Bonaventure or Scotus or anyone else. Dangerous! In fact it seems that first-hand familiarity with Latin theology was only just starting to emerge by the time of the fall of Constantinople, at which point the Eastern Church calcified almost completely and no further progress was made.Michael Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11191322302191384384noreply@blogger.com