The other day I mentioned (to all of the participants in the "'Ecumenical' Councils" thread in this section of the forum) that I would be trying to post a list of suggested reading for research into East-West relations, including readings which offer suggestions for approaching reunion and/or doctrinal discussion. This is that list. It focuses on the relationship between the Catholic and Chalcedonian Orthodox churches, although some of the works may touch on issues having to do specifically with Eastern Catholicism and/or non-Chalcedonian Orthodoxy. The list is by no means definitive, so feel free to add your own suggestions. The works that appear before the dashed line ("-----") are works that I have read either all or part of and can therefore vouch for. The works after the dashed line are works that I have not read at all; rather, they have either been suggested to me, or seemed like they might be interesting and relevant based on their title or subject matter. Michael Fahey's Ecumenism: A Bibliographical Overview was a source for many of the later sources. Enjoy!
Diversity and Communion by Yves Congar
Papal Primacy: From Its Origins to the Present by Klaus Schatz
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian's Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy by Olivier Clement
The Primacy of Peter by John Meyendorff, et al.
Byzantium and the Roman Primacy by Francis Dvornik
We Are All Schismatics by Elias Zoghby
Crisis in Byzantium: The Filioque Controversy in the Patriarchate of Gregory II of Cyprus by Aristeides Papadakis
The Ecumenical Councils by Francis Dvornik
The Council of Florence by Joseph Gill
Church Union: Rome and Byzantium by Joseph Gill
"Which Councils are Ecumenical?" by Francis Dvornik (in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies)
Photius and the Carolingians by Richard Haugh
Orthodox and Catholic Sister Churches: East is West and West is East by Michael Fahey
The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas by A. N. Williams
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom by David Bradshaw
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Church, Ecumenism and Politics: New Essays in Ecclesiology by Joseph Ratzinger
"Rome and the Churches of the East after the Removal of the Ban of Excommunication of 1054" by Joseph Ratzinger (in Principles of Catholic Theology: Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology)
East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence by Henry Chadwick
Catholic Theology in Dialogue by Gustave Weigel
They Are in Earnest: Christian Unity in the Statements of Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II by Edward Yarnold
The Eastern Churches and Catholic Unity by Maximos Sayegh, ed.
The Unity of the Churches of God by Polycarp Sherwood
Broken, Yet Never Sundered: Orthodox Witness and the Ecumenical Movement by Gregory Wichenbach
Rome and Constantinople: Essays in the Dialogue of Love by Robert Barringer
Trinitarian Theology East and West: St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Gregory Palamas by Michael Fahey and John Meyendorff
The Papacy in Transition by Patrick Granfield
The Limits of the Papacy: Authority and Autonomy in the Church by Patrick Granfield
Why We Need the Pope: The Necessity and Limits of Papal Primacy by Karl-Heinz Ohlig
The Bishop of Rome by Jean-Marie Tillard
God bless,
Jason
