The Huffington Ecumenical Institute

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to a lecture

East and West:  Cultural Dissonance and the Great Schism of 1054


By Professor Margaret Trenchard Smith

 
(History Dept. LMU)

 Before 1054 A.D. Christianity was ONE Apostolic Church. In that year the Christian world split into the Eastern Church (Orthodoxy) and the Western Church (Catholics). 

 
When Patriarch and Pope excommunicated one another in the year 1054, neither could have anticipated a permanent severance of relations.  The Church had withstood schisms before in its long history, each of which had been resolved.  The year 1054 is chiefly of symbolic importance, since the Great Schism of the Christian Church was the culmination of a process rather than a single event.  Cultural dissonance—religious, political and linguistic—that had originated in Late Antiquity from the East/West division of the Roman Empire, underlay the schism.  Shared memories strengthen identity.  Disparate memories weaken it.

 

            This lecture will examine how memory (and oblivion)

          contributed to cultural dissonance among Christians and

           the sundering of the Church.

 

Thursday, April 23, 2009

7:15 p.m.


Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000– Ahmanson Auditorium

1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045

 

Free and Open to the Public

 
For more information call: (310) 338-1917 or (310) 338-4463