Patriarch 1052 – c. 1056

Peter III of Antioch

Worth knowing

Patriarch of Antioch from 1052.
In 1054 he wrote to Cerularius that most Latin customs were not worth dividing the church over, and that only the Filioque was a serious matter.
He was the one leader in the crisis who tried to keep the two sides talking.

In Scholar’s Dream, Peter III of Antioch has one book

Letters of Peter IIIPeter III of Antioch, Letters to Cerularius and to Dominic of Venice (1054)EcclesiologySpirituality

Peter III of Antioch’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Peter III of Antioch that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“They are our brothers… although their rusticity and stupidity often make them behave indecently. We must not expect from these barbarians the same perfect manners as we find among our civilized people.”
Peter III of Antioch, as translated in Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church (1907), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move They Are Our Brothers

EcclesiologyArgument · power 72 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe least sentimental defence of unity ever written. He does not say they are admirable. He says they are family, which is a harder thing to get out of.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 1)

“Consider what would certainly happen if that great first and Apostolic See be divided from our holy Churches—wickedness would spread everywhere, and the whole world would be upset, the kingdoms of all the earth would be shaken, everywhere would be much woe, everywhere tears.”
Peter III of Antioch to Michael Cerularius, as translated in Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church (1907), from Will, Acta et Scripta (1861). Public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Everywhere Tears

EcclesiologyArgument · power 85 · 100% accurate

In the gameNot an argument. A patriarch on his knees to another patriarch, telling him exactly what it will cost, eleven months before it costs it.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 40)

Strong against

×2.5The Bull of 1054a book · why?

Somebody did beg them. It is in the correspondence, and it changed nothing.

×2.5The Synodal Edicta book · why?

His own brother patriarch, on his knees, telling him the price. He read this letter and filed it.

Words Peter III of Antioch’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As some of your own poets have said.”
Acts 17:28 (WEB) — Paul at the Areopagus, quoting the Athenians’ own poets back to them.

How it works in the game: the move Affirm

Status

In the gamePick the part of the opponent’s case that is true and affirm it. That point can no longer be used against you, and the opponent’s Defend falls sharply. It deals no damage. Affirm something false and you have only agreed with an error.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 10)

“Because we know that the sacred mixture of fermented bread is used and lawfully observed by the most holy and Orthodox Fathers of the Eastern Churches, we faithfully approve of both customs, and confirm both with a spiritual explanation.”
Dominic, patriarch of Venice, to Peter of Antioch, as translated in Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church (1907), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Both Customs

EcclesiologyArgument · power 78 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe answer that was on the table the entire time: leavened and unleavened are both lawful, both holy, and neither is worth a church.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 22)

Strong against

×4The Synodal Edicta book · why?

Both breads, both lawful, both holy — and the whole charge sheet loses its first and loudest item.

×2The Bull of 1054a book · why?

The reasonable answer was already written down, by a Latin, and nobody read it out.

“If, then, our offering of Azyme bread is not the Body of Christ, we are all of us cut off from the source of life.”
Dominic of Venice to Peter of Antioch, as translated in Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church (1907), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move The Source of Life

ChristologyArgument · power 80 · 100% accurate

In the gameFollows the accusation to its end and asks whether anyone really means it. If our bread is not his body, the whole West has been eating nothing for a thousand years.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 26)

Strong against

×2.5The Synodal Edicta book · why?

Follow the accusation all the way down and it swallows the West entire. He did not want that and could not say so.

“…we deplore and denounce the schism as a sin and disgrace of both churches.”
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church IV §70 (1885), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move A Sin of Both

HistoryArgument · power 86 · 100% accurate

In the gameRefuses the question of who started it. A Reformed historian looked at eight hundred years of this and declined to hand either side the win.

Learned byLetters of Peter III (Lv 34)

Who else was alive

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