Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D. (The Church in History)

Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D. (The Church in History) by Meyendorff, John. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780881410556.

This volume--the second in a planned series of six--attempts to achieve a more balanced approach. Filling the needs of students, but also of a wider readership, it describes the expansion of Christianity in the East and the West in the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries--from Ireland and 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.