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Are Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism the same? The word Filioque if Latin for and from the Son. (The word, by the way, is usually pronounced, "Fili-o-kway.") Several centuries before the Great Schism some parts of the Western Church inserted this word into the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed, in the section dealing with the Holy Spirit, thus teaching that the Holy Spirit proceeds both from the Father and from the Son. The Pope of Rome at first refused to approve an official addition of the Filioque, though it was tolerated in some areas formally under his jurisdiction. Pope...

Fragment from the Discourse.1 I see in all three essentials-substance, genus, name. We speak of man, servant, curator (curatorem),-man, by reason of substance; servant, by reason of genus or condition; curator, by reason of denomination. We speak also of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: these, however, are not names which have only supervened at some after period, but they are subsistences. Again, the denomination of man is not in actual fact a denomination, but a substance common to men, and is the denomination proper to all men. Moreover, names are such as these,-Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob: these, I say, are...