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During a time when city clergy were subject to much critism for their high life style, John was determined to reform his clergy at Constantinople. These effort met with resistence and limited success. He was not an important theologian, but an excellent preacher. He rejected the contemporary trend for allegory, instead speaking plainly and applying Bible passages and lessons to everyday life.
During a time when city clergy were subject to much critism for their high life style, John was determined to reform his clergy at Constantinople. These efforts met with resistence and limited success. He was not an important theologian, but an excellent preacher. He rejected the contemporary trend for allegory, instead speaking plainly and applying Bible passages and lessons to everyday life.
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His banishments demonstrated that secular powers dominated the eastern church at this period in history. It also demonstrated the rivalry between Contantinople to displace Alexandria as the preminant eastern see. This mutual hostility would eventually lead to much suffering for the church and the empire. Meanwhile in the west, Rome had been unquestioned from the fourth century onwards. An interesting point to note in the wider development of the papacy, is the fact that Innocent's protests had availed nothing: demonstrating the lack of influence the bishops of Rome held in the east at this time.
His banishments demonstrated that secular powers dominated the eastern church at this period in history. It also demonstrated the rivalry between Contantinople and Alexandria, both wanting to be recognised as the preminant eastern see. This mutual hostility would eventually lead to much suffering for the church and the Eastern Empire. Meanwhile in the west, Rome's primacy had been unquestioned from the fourth century onwards. An interesting point to note in the wider development of the papacy, is the fact that Innocent's protests had availed nothing: demonstrating the lack of influence the bishops of Rome held in the east at this time.
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