Papal Primacy and the Innovations of the Roman Catholic Church

by Apostolos Makrakis

Overview

This work by the Greek author Apostolos Makrakis is a look at the the reply of Constantinople to the Ecyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in the year 1994 concerning the union of the churches. This reply of the Eastern Orthodox Church assumed, as a basis to the right faith, the doctrines revealed in the pages of the New Testament and the Canons of the Seven Ecumenical Councils. Makrakis suggests that union is only possible if certain changes by Rome after the 1054 AD schism would be reversed, such as:

1) The Filioque addition to the Nicene Creed
2) The substitution of affusion (sprinkling) for baptism by triple immersion
3) The substitution of unleavened wafers for leavened bread
4) Exclusion of the laity from partaking in the wine for Holy Communion
5) The doctrine of Purgatory
6) The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God
7) The claim of Papal supremacy and Infallibility as the Vicar of Christ on the Earth

Each of these changes since the Great Schism of 1054 AD are evaluated in detail through an examination of the scriptures, the Canons of the Church and testimonies of the early Church Fathers.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160932583
Publisher:	Eastern Light Publishing, LLC.
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Apostolos Makrakis (1831-1905) was a charasmatic Greek lay theologian, preacher, ethicist, philosopher and writer who was a leader of the "awakening movement" in post-revolutionary Greece, and arguably one of the most important religious personalities of the 19th century. He was an extremely prolific writer whose works were translated widely outside of Greece. He founded the School of the Logos in Athens in September 1876 and was the Professor of philosophy and the philosophical sciences at the school. Makrakis was a patriotic visionary whose vigorous religious movement became a popular phenomenon that shook the religious and national establishment of his time. While his Christian message found strong support among the masses, his ideas were not well received by the religious establishment and even today still remains a polarizing figure within Eastern Orthodoxy.