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The Medieval Church · c. 885

The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit

Photius of Constantinople · c. 815–c. 893

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What it is

A sustained argument that the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, and that the Latin addition to the creed is both unauthorised and incoherent.

Why it lasted

The definitive Eastern case against the filioque, and a permanent fixture of every subsequent East–West negotiation.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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