FEDO Marian - Acta Patristica, volume 9, issue 19/2018
HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND POST BYZANTINE PERIOD OF THE CONSTANTINOPLE CHURCH
/HISTÓRIA BYZANCIE A POSTBYZANTSKÉ OBDOBIE KONŠTANTÍNOPOLSKEJ CIRKVI/
Marian FEDO
student, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Presov in Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, marian.fedo@smail.unipo.sk, 00421517724729
Abstract
History as a source of mankind's errors. History of the Roman Empire before Edict of Milan. Byzantium as the continuator of antique wealth and roman statehood with a Christian background. Renowned emperors of Byzant Empire and their positive political reforms. Breakdown of the term 'cesaropapism.' The fall of Constantinople and the future of its patriarchate. 1453 AD as the threshold of eras. The conception of byzantology in West during modern history. Byzantine ideals and their application in future.
Keywords
Church, Byzant Empire, patriarchate, history
SUMMARY
Byzantium for the world that it received after the fall of Carihrad was highly valued. Because Byzantium is not just a history, it is not just a culture, but it is, above all, a divine link in this world. This link was spread to the west by Greek thinkers, scholars, philosophers, theologians and priests. They stood at the birth of the beginning humanism. They brought with them the Greek wisdom, for centuries, protected and guarded by the gates of Carihrada. The Western world has been given the opportunity to become acquainted with this wisdom and spirituality. Interest in the study of the Greek language and eastern fathers or Greek philosophers has increased. At that time it was of great value to study at the University of Constantinople. This university could also be recognized by scholars in Bologna, Florence, Venice and other Italian cities, where the Greeks were the most. Spiritual instruction that follows, which is, of course, a sense of life, so that a man from all evil takes lessons so that his soul never falls into the pride of spiritual death. What, unfortunately, happened to this magnificent empire.
(Language: slovak)