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Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century

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In many ways, the Byzantine Empire had as important an impact on the development of first millennia Christianity as did the Roman papacy. The writings of Roman and Byzantine scholars of the 9th Century are the subject of seminal academic research to this very day. Case in point: "Inventing Latin heretics: Byzantines And The Filioque In The Ninth Century" by Tia M. Kolbaba (Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rutgers University) which has as its focus the introduction of 'heresiology', defining terms, summarizing an extensive secondary scholarship, and descriptively analyzing the history of Byzantine anti-heretical texts down to the ninth century. Of special note are the three chapters dedicated to examining in detail the transmission, form, and contents of the three anti-Filoque texts attributed to Photos, as well as selected texts exemplifying what nine-century Byzantines wrote about Latin 'errors'. "Inventing Latin Heretics" is a fascinating body of seminal scholarship and a welcome, highly recommended addition to academic library Byzantine Studies and First Millennium Christian History reference collections, as well as supplemental studies reading lists.