The East-West Schism
The legates were housed in the imperial palace, but the patriarch ignored them, refusing even to see them. Continue reading The East-West Schism
The legates were housed in the imperial palace, but the patriarch ignored them, refusing even to see them. Continue reading The East-West Schism
Early Christianity developed several centers of gravity. The first was Rome, home of Catholic Christianity (and from it, Protestantism). Another came to be Constantinople, the source of the Eastern or Orthodox branches of the church. Constantinople was born in 324 … Continue reading The New Rome
The family eventually named their ghost “Old Jeffrey.” Continue reading Old Jeffrey
Pierre Viret was born to a devout middle-class Roman Catholic family in Orbe, a small town now in Switzerland. Viret studied as a scholar in his hometown school and then attended the University of Paris, where he was converted to the Reformed faith. He returned to … Continue reading “The Smile of the Reformation”