Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions (HARDCOVER)

Filling the needs of students, but also od a widerreadership, it describes the expansion of Christianity in the East and West in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries from Ireland to the Indian Ocean and from Germany to Nubia. It exposes the tensions which arose between the inevitable cultural pluralism and the needs of church unity an issue which stands at the center of modern ecclesiological concerns. It discusses the debates on the identity of Christ, formally solved by the decrees of the great ecumenical councils, but which left Christendom divided. It defines the poblems rased by the arbitrainess of Eastern Roman emperors and by the graduak development of Roman primacy.