But why the great schism of 1054? Rome departed from the "faith once delivered to the saints" after the addition of the filioque in the Nicene creed. The Pope, in this context, was the first "Protestant".
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Great question
I would contend that the Filioque was NOT a corruption but a clarification. The papacy was not the first rebellion but the safeguard against future ones.
The Schism of 1054 was tragic of course, but from what I can see it was rooted in cultural, political, and linguistic divides, not a fundamental departure from the “faith once delivered to the saints”