Excerpts from
“The Orthodox Church
in the Byzantine Empire”
By J. M. Hussey
Clarendon Press Oxford
Preface
Introduction.
Part I. Challenge and Response within the Historical Framework.
I 1. The Christological Problem in the Early Middle Ages.
1. The seventh-century watershed in the Byzantine Empire
2. The theological background to seventh-century monotheletism.
3. Monenergism and monotheletism against a background of imperial crisis.
4. The Quinisextum council (691-692) 30
II. The Iconoclast Controversy 726-843.
1. The North Syrian rulers: the first phase 726-787. The background to the eighth-century crisis.
The opening conflict under Leo III.
2. The first restoration of the icons. The Empress Irene and the council of Nicaea (787).
Conflicting currents 787-843.
Irene and Constantine VI.
Nicephorus I, Michael I, and the Patriarch Nicephorus (802-813).
3. The second phase of iconoclasm.
4. The restoration of orthodoxy in 843: the Synodicon.
5. The significance of the controversy over icons.
