does the christian church in the east and church in the west still have a bad relationship?

Question

doing course work on the crusades and a cold war developed between the 2 after this, do you know if this is still the case and why? also what are the major differences between these church's, any help very much apreciated.

Answer 1

Wasn't aware the homeys had an East Coast West Coast thing going on!

Answer 2

The Catholic west and the Orthodox east have made great progress in unification one day. It started with the Pope meeting with the Patriarch of Constantinople after Vatican II. Talks are on the way. Much progress made. There are very few differences, mainly that the west is led by the Pope, the east by Patriarchs. Liturgy varies but both are solemn and holy. Saints are shared by both faiths. Difference is Catholics believe Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father and the Son. Orthodox say Spirit is from the Father alone. Catholics believe Mary rose to heaven. Orthodox say she is still sleeping. But Orthodox highly honor Mary as well in art and liturgy. One day let us pray that the east and west will be one again. By the way, during the Crusades, both sides were united. Only later were the holy sites separated and split up by the different churches.

Answer 3

There is a gradual coming together, the present Pope went to see officials from Eastern Orthodox Church, also they participated at the last popes funeral. One major difference is the definition of the Trinity. The Orthodox Church split around 10th.ct. because they believed Jesus, the second person of the trinity was subject to God the father. The West believes the three persons all share the same Godhead, and are co-equal

Answer 4

At that time the Catholic church was rather into attempting to insist on its authority, and that was rather resented. Also one of the crusades almost wrecked the remnant Byzantine empire. The christians in the West had lot of worldly ideas in their understanding of religion and were acting out of them rather than according to Jesus' teachings. So the Orthodox church still feels a bit sore I am sure, but Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox get on much better nowadays.
As for Copts, Armenians, Assyrians churches ... they may feel somewhat envious of the easy time Western christians have had. They have to put up with usually low-grade persecution for centuries. The crusades made things much worse for them, as the crusaders were bloodthirsty worldly men for the most part. Thank God for the Reformation I say, at least Western christian people are basing their christian beliefs on the bible now, not mixtures of worldly ideas and christian ones. The Catholics have straightened themselves out a lot.

Answer 5

Being a citizen, there's a lot of difference. We Eastern Christians mostly are 3rd world countries. But being a Christian, We Believe in One the same God. Hope Christians from the west show the love to East in many aspects and areas.

Answer 6

PLato summed it up. Doctrinal differences over the character and relationship of Jesus with God are fundamental to how people live out their beliefs in practice.
The whole period you are studying is awash with groups of believers from gnostics to ascetics whom the Roman episcopoi try to bring into some kind of harmonic order - often with tragic results.
The main differences were essentially cultural. The East and West were not that far apart up til the Nicean council meeting. It's only later that small differences arose, seemingly incidental things like customary expressions of faith, the way to worship, administrative methods, formal dress. Deepseated cultural practices and inherited influences eventually got blown out of all proportion and split the Christian church assunder. It is the kind of small mindednes that causes Christians even today to complain about how 'others' worship God.
You might approach this from the point of view that prevailed at the time, which was to do with the influence of the Roman culture upon the organisation of the church. The idea of a pecking order of priests and partriarchs all submissive to a Christian Emperor sitting on a Roman throne did not do much for the image of a Byzantium, and over time it became an issue to do with the loyalty and allegiance of their citizens as tax payers to the Byzantine coffers who were very conscious of a line management of their flock being too closely traced back to Rome through euphemistically named ecumenical councils. (Equivalent in many respects to the line management of social order in the postmodern world through Institutes and Councils traceable to the overarching political and economic infuence of American corporations)
I would major on the theory that the split was a cultural one, of preserving essential lines of communication between church, state and public in Constantinople without the surruptitious and sometimes meddlesome interference from 'foreign' powers via clergy loyal to Rome.

Answer 7

PopeJohn Paul 2 made moves to try toget both sides together.

Answer 8

The cold war was U.S. vs U.S.S.R. ... neither were involved with the crusades...