Orthodoxy and Catholicism: A Comparison

by Dave Armstrong

Dedication
Introduction

1. The Basic Differences Summarized
2. A Response to Orthodox Critiques of Catholic Ecclesiological Preeminence
3. Theological Opinions on the Papacy Prior to 1054 in Both Eastern and Western Christianity
4. Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities
5. The Tendency Towards Caesaropapism in the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Orthodoxy
6. Development of Doctrine in Orthodoxy and Catholicism: Different in Essence?
7. Do St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Other Catholic Thinkers Adopt an Unbiblical Rationalism" Leading to a "Remote" or "Impersonal" God?
8. Orthodoxy, Apologetics, and Ecumenism
9. Is Orthodoxy Immune From Dissent, Modernism, and Scandal?
10. Orthodox Compromise on Divorce
11. Orthodox Sanctioning of Contraception

Appendix
1. St. Leo the Great on the Office of the Papacy Appendix
2. Orthodox Anti-Catholicism Appendix
3. The Filioque and the Eastern Church Fathers

Genres: Catholic, Theology, Church History

232 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 2007

About the author

I was received into the Catholic Church in 1991 (was evangelical); conversion story in the book Surprised by Truth (1994). Articles: The Catholic Answer, This Rock, Envoy, & The Coming Home Journal. Many nationally syndicated Catholic radio appearances including Catholic Answers Live; Faith and Family Live. My website, Biblical Evidence for Catholicism, was online from March 1997 to March 2007. My blog began in February 2004 & contains more than 2500 papers (including more than 50 separate web pages and 570+ dialogues). Sophia Institute Press has published four of my 23 books: A Biblical Defense of Catholicism (2003), The Catholic Verses (2004), The One-Minute Apologist (2007), and Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (2009). I am co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for The New Catholic Answer Bible (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), & editor for The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes Quips and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton (Saint Benedict Press / TAN Books: 2009).

Happily married to Judy since October 1984: three sons & a daughter.

Reviews

[Rebekah Vineyard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mr. Armstrong is very passionate but can come off slightly argumentative in the first part of the book. The inclusion of responses by Fr. Deacon Daniel G Dozier is to his credit and I think extremely balancing. I much enjoyed the Eastern Catholic perspective and agree that the Eastern Catholics are of particular importance in the future of any further talk of unity. May we all continue to quietly ignore our schism in practice of love and respect for one another as we yet work towards the end of any schism at all.

[Razvan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good staring point for comparison of these two major christian religions, but somehow very subjective (catholic point of view).

[David Burns]

there is a revised edition available through lulu. this edition contains insightful commentary from two Eastern Catholics. a nice balance to Mr. Armstrong