Serious question and not a gotcha, since I obviously have no history in this...How do you see possible that denigrating the monarchy of the Father could lead to a penchant for splitting into denominations, as happened in the West?
“How do you see possible that denigrating the monarchy of the Father could lead to a penchant for splitting into denominations, as happened in the West?”
If the filioque is heresy, then the innovative dogmatizing of it could mean “anything goes”. The creation of dogma should be limited at best. Let me give you an example. The Latin Church has for all intents and purposes made it dogma that the use of artificial birth control near the ultimate “mortal” sin. We see evidence of that everyday here on FR. And yet Roman Catholics violate that rule to a level at least equal to that of Protestants. The Roman Catholic “Laos tou Theou”, People of God, have never accepted that “dogma”. Despite that, it continues to be taught, complete with dire threats, which has lead people not towards God, but away from Him. “Do this or you will go to hell”. This makes it easy to take the next steps into “anything goes” YOPIOS and your own “church”. Around here, for the past 20 years or so, little protestant type churches have been springing up all over town, this in a town which had, aside from the Lutherans (whom we always looked at as sort of German Orthodox!), maybe 8 protestants in it when I was a kid! These congregations are all full of ex Latins and more than half of the Latin parishes here have closed during the same 20 years.
People refuse to live by a “rule” they or their forebears had no say about. Remember, in the East, the Laos tou Theou are the guardians of The Faith, not the hierarchs! Unless we give our Great Axios, no dogma! That hasn’t been true in the West since before the Great Schism and the results a plain to see.