all right next book that we're going to analyze in our series is the excellent book

by john myendorf father mindorf was a premier orthodox theologian and

Byzantine student Byzantinist of the 20th century and in this, you're going to hear mostly the stuff that you hear me say.

So we're not going to be speculating.

We're really just going to be repeating and giving the arguments that many of the Orthodox

theologians of the 20th century have laid out.

We've covered Lossky's books.

We've covered a lot of different texts that are pretty much premier examples of orthodoxy.

And this is one of the best that I've found.

In fact, there's a lot of things that make this in ways even better than Loski, not to detract from mystical theology or image and likeness, which we've

done talks on or dogmatic theology. But there's a lot of history that comes up in this text

that makes it a perfect blend of church history and Orthodox theology. And again, a lot of the

critiques of originism, the critiques of absolute and simplicity, the critiques of originism the critiques of absolutely in my simplicity

the critiques of um latin theology papalism all the things that you hear me say come up in this book

so this is going to be a brief kind of overview of the book for 10 15 20 minutes and then if you

want the full analysis you'll have to subscribe to Jay's analysis in the

links below. But really he begins the text by talking about the distinction between East and West

and that really the Byzantine spirit is what characterizes Orthodox Christianity. And the

Latin tradition goes in a different route, especially

when we get to the Frankish period. So that's really the beginning of the rift. There's obviously

theological predecessors to the rift to the split in the Latin theology, in the Augustinian theology

that leads to Thomism and so forth down the road.

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