Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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St. Maximus the Confessor's Letter to Marinus is a somewhat popular prooftext used by Roman Catholic Apologists in which they attempt to argue that St. Maximus was a filioquist. This video explains in detail why such an argument is untenable.

Sources used
Edward Siecenski: The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Ivan Ostromoff and Basil Popoff: The History of the Council of Florence

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Bad Filioque Arguments youtu.be/BjOZGaOwNuk
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